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Episode 619 - Why Most Practices Don’t Transfer to Games

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4.6606 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If you want to maximize your practice time you have to focus on both the what and the how. In this episode, TJ and Sam share the 3 most important aspects of your practice plan to ensure you're not spinning your wheels. Show Notes: • Talking about “Practice" • Where you're spending the most time • What is your team's identity? • How many things can you work on in practice? • Discipline = Freedom in practice • After Action Report on your coaching • More sound bites less monologues • Cultu...

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0:00.0

You're listening to The Hardwood Hustle powered by PGC coaching.

0:08.6

If you want to maximize your practice time, you have to focus on both the what and the how.

0:13.3

In this episode, T.J. and Sam cover the important aspects of your practice plan to maximize

0:17.3

your competitive advantage. Let's get started.

0:21.7

Welcome back to the Harwood Hustle.

0:23.8

TJ and Sam here with you today.

0:25.9

And we're going to talk about practice and why most practices don't transfer to games.

0:32.7

TJ, we just did a webinar and we had a lot of good feedback on it and people seemed to really get a lot from

0:40.1

it. So we thought we would take some of what we shared in that webinar and bring it here to

0:44.1

our Harwood Hustle community. And so that's the title of this is why most practices don't

0:49.7

transfer to games. We want to give you three really core values or ways to approach practice so that you

0:57.0

can run better practices as a coach. DJ, any opening thoughts?

1:02.3

Yeah, you know, I think the webinar just stoked a lot of thoughts for me. It makes you kind of

1:06.6

stop and evaluate, you know, like, am I running good practices? Because you spend most of your time

1:13.4

with your team running practices and you want to make sure that what you're doing is actually

1:18.5

translating to what you're trying to get done, which is show up in games. And it can be overwhelming.

1:25.7

I was just going through my preseason notes of all the things we need to

1:28.4

teach, work on, you know, how do you organize that? How do you put it into the right place? It can be

1:32.4

super overwhelming, you know, to get all the right stuff done in practice because there's so much

1:38.7

to get done and where you spend your time, basically where you put your money. You know, that's where

1:43.1

I think my team needs to be good

1:44.6

and you know spending time figuring that out is super important yeah tj i think you bring up a great

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