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This week, Sam and TJ discuss what to do when the plan isn't working and how to make the right adjustments at the right time for your team.

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Welcome to the hardwood hustle. Sam and I today.

We're going to talk about what happens when the plan is no longer good. And so you come into, it could be a game plan, could be a season plan. But this is honestly, I really love this topic because this is coaching. You know, I've been doing this for 25 years and I've had a whole

bunch of plans. Some have gone good. Some have gone bad, but usually never go exactly as you

plan. And I remember we were doing an episode, you know, a couple years back and you're like,

oh, you know, TJ, you lost your post player. It changed the way you're going to play.

And I thought to myself, you know, we've lost our best post player changed the way you're going to play and i thought to

myself you know we've lost our best post player through the last four years like why am i getting

caught off guard that why is this a surprise you know so many things uh you go into like playing in a

season you do it in an air condition room um same thing with you know planning for a game plan the other

team's planning to and it just doesn't go how you expected. And so coaches are going to have to adjust. You're going to have to change. You're going to have to evolve. I mean, and I could go on and on, Sam, like with the landscape of sports these days. And people are like, well, how do you change your game plan? I think you have to almost change it every single year. Like I'll just talk college for a second. Then I want you to talk about, you know, youth, middle school and high school. But like, they were talking about giving Jukos not counting anymore. The big talk right now is the NCAA, they think, is about to add a fifth year of eligibility to everybody. Leonard Hamilton is getting sued by five of his players for $250,000 in the NAL money that wasn't being paid. Jim Laronaga just stepped away from the game. Jay Wright walked away. You know, Tony Bennett, like, go on and on because those things are changing so fast, the NIL and going through. You're watching the college football right now and everyone's

talking about we're still playing and everybody's recruiting our players you know Boise State and people

like that's like it and you know what I was just having this conversation is like well how do you

adjust I'm like you know what you just have to stay fluid because three months from now something

else is going to change right like something's going to be different.

I don't know what it is, but we live in a world where, I mean, things are changing rapidly.

And this happens to coaches. Things change rapidly. All of a sudden, injury happens. All of a sudden,

the suspension happens. There's so many things that happen. So the actual skill of being able to adapt is really important

in coaches yeah we've talked about that before tj the the the fat acronym flexible adaptable

teachable with players but also with coaches and you know you and i think both the experience

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