Welcome to the hardwood hustle powered by PGC basketball. We believe in the value of a coach. We're here to educate, empower, and encourage you to lead like never before. This week, we're starting a two-part series about how to run better programs and grow the game of basketball. Referees, coaches, players, and parents all factor into our basketball experience.

Our next two episodes will help you understand these four roles, especially when it comes to

creating the right competitive environment for the good of your program and players.

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Teach like you've never taught before and develop players in a way that you've never

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and you're going to get the opportunity to get on court and actually practice these things.

If you want to take your coaching to the next level,

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All right, welcome to the hardwood hustle, Sam.

I think we're going to attack a really important issue today.

You know, in the game of basketball, there's a lot going on.

And what we do know for sure is that it's not clean and it's not running as good as it possibly can from multiple angles.

And so we're going to do a two-part series here.

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