Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Focusing on playing time; ignoring the larger issues. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/a-players-... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 22/12/2025All turnovers are not created equally. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-turnov... 011
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 19/12/2025brianmccormick.substack.com/p/via-negati... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025This (originally from 2011) may be one of the funnier paragraphs I have written, as several years later, Rico Hines did exactly that, taking over from the nameless coach and re-branding decades-old pickup games as Rico's Runs. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/staring-as... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Feedback. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-purpos... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 13/12/2025brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-basket... 022
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 08/12/2025brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-basket... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 30/11/2025brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-season... 020
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 29/11/2025brianmccormick.substack.com/p/moves-and-... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Flashing lights do not train decision making: brianmccormick.substack.com/p/flashing-l... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Using the Four Factors to re-consider skill development: brianmccormick.substack.com/p/skill-deve... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Lessons from Superman: flow and skill development brianmccormick.substack.com/p/flow-learn... Excerpt from Free Play: A Decade of Writings on Youth Sports - www.amazon.com/Free-Play-De... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025The environment affects development and performance. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-enviro... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Elite/pro/experienced players require more than repetitions to improve. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/angel-rees... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Using visualization in the locker room to prepare for a game. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/visualizat... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 16/11/2025"Small ball" is skill ball. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/supersizin... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Feedback: As little as possible, as much as necessary. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-art-of... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Talent ID and play: brianmccormick.substack.com/p/via-negati... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 12/11/2025What really drives the improvement? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/shooting-d... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Philosophy determines drills, not a drill book. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/philosophy... NADA: The Antifragile Defense: www.amazon.com/NADA-Antifra... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 08/11/2025The true value of most private basketball trainers: brianmccormick.substack.com/p/staring-as... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 07/11/2025The endgame. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/teaching-t... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Midrange madness: brianmccormick.substack.com/p/practicing... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Play and talent identification. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/via-negati... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Is perfectionism good or bad? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/mindsets-a... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 31/10/2025brianmccormick.substack.com/p/flow-learn... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Doing drills and practicing without defenders is not automatically fundamentals and skill development. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/distinguis... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Shooting development is multifactorial and now always what it seems. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/shooting-d... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Drills have a purpose when they have a purpose. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/in-defense... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Coaching and generalizability: brianmccormick.substack.com/p/generaliza... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Why do we do drills? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-purpos... The highlights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QniN... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Players want to be challenged; they don't want to be bored. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/players-se... 110
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Trying to find objective data to filter the noise and subjectivity of the eye test. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/practice-d... 020
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 14/10/2025We hear so much about European development and AAU basketball ruining basketball development in the United States. However, the examples often cherrypick the best examples from Europe to compare with the worst from the USA. There are other examples. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-realit... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 13/10/2025What is the purpose of our feedback? What is our goal?https://brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-purpose-of-feedback 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 12/10/2025What type of leagues, environments, and systems best promote development? What is most important for young players? for late teens? for near professionals? Is it the same throughout the age and skill ranges? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/learning-f... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Learning from video games brianmccormick.substack.com/p/learning-f... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Individual workouts and skill development. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/individual... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 08/10/2025"How can I get a coaching job?" I'm asked frequently. Beats me, but here is my memory of how I was hired for every coaching job I have had. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/my-coachin... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Narratives driving our coaching. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/moving-bey... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 05/10/2025We spend so much time scouting players for the NBA draft & recruiting players for college, but how big is the actual difference between players beyond the can't miss players like Flagg? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-nba-dr... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Every coach has some experience, but is that experience generalizable to a new team? A new level? A different gender? Every research studies a topic in a narrow population. Is the study generalizable to a larger population? More complex environment? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/generaliza... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Social media obscured our ideas of skill development. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/angel-rees... 010
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 02/10/2025What is guiding our decisions? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-mile-t... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Principles, not plays. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/teaching-t... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Small-ball was never about size, but skill. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/supersizin... 011
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The European take over is greatly exaggerated. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/challengin... 000
Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Warmup effects: brianmccormick.substack.com/p/physiologi... 010
