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This week, TJ and Sam jump into the topic of player development and the four steps you need to take to ensure your players are improving for next season.

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Welcome back to the hardwood hustle.

Sam and I today, and we're going to talk player development.

And oftentimes when we talk player development, we take different angles.

Today's angle, we're going to take a little bit about really being specific about growing players.

What are you doing?

And I'm going to start off with a Nick Saving quote here.

Obviously, he was great at developing players. He said, when people, when people are process oriented and they

define, this is what I want and this is what I need to do. And then they have the discipline to execute

it. That's when you get a talented player, it becomes a great player. And so, Sam, we've all been in this situation where we've had a not very good player that we needed to become a role player, where we had a really good player that we wanted to become a great player, or even in our own coaching development, where it's like, hey, listen, this is where I'm at and this is what I need to do to be able to grow.

We're going to take the angle specifically of player development today, but I'll read it again.

When people are process-oriented and they define, this is what I want and this is what I need to do.

And they have the discipline to execute it.

That's when you get a talented player who becomes a great player.

And I think one of the most frustrating things in any endeavor when you're leading other people

is like a lack of commitment to become better because we can't always change our talent level,

but we can always level up our talent level.

And the goal should always be to take an average player to a good player, a good player, to a great player, a not so good player to an average player. We're just trying to level up people all the time. Because we know the better our players get, the better our X's and O's get. And so many times coaches spend an inordinate amount of time on the X's and O's, the systems

of strategies, all the things they need to think that they win a game. But they sell out the

opportunity to actually make better players during the process. And I think you have to really

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