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In today's episode, TJ and Sam discuss how coaches can build a system around defining

player roles with Tyler

Koston, director of PGC Plus and player development for PGC basketball. As we know,

providing clarity for our players isn't straightforward. Here how you can create your own objective

system for evaluating and assigning roles on your team that also inspires and motivates your athletes.

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find a camp at pgcbasketball.com. All right, coaches, we got a really interesting and not just interesting, but I think impactful topic to talk about today.

You know, when it comes down to winning basketball games, I think this is one of the most underrated topics is role identification, getting players into their roles.

And, you know, not only is it underappreciated, undervalued,

it's not an easy thing. It's really an art more than it is a science sometime. And I think you want to put some science to it. But as we all know, you know, there's a lot of times we feel different ways about different players and roles continue to change and they ebb and flow. But we've got to figure out how to best do this. So as always, we've got Sam Allen. We also have Tyler

Koston. and they ebb and flow. But we've got to figure out how to best do this. So as always, we've got Sam Allen.

We also have Tyler Koston with us today.

And we're going to talk through role identification.

And Tyler, I'm going to go to you first as I know that you brought up the idea of this topic

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