coachsteviebball

23/09/2026

A 74–44 win for NSCG today. 🏀

When you face a less-experienced team, the challenge isn’t simply to win. It’s to maintain your standards and use the game to continue developing your players.

We wanted to compete against our own identity:

🔥 Play with pace
📐 Maintain our spacing
🗣️ Communicate consistently
🎯 Create high-quality shots
🧠 Give players meaningful decisions
🔄 Explore new roles and line-ups

Ten players contributed to the scoring, with different players taking on greater responsibility throughout the game.

Respect to Telford for continuing to compete until the final buzzer.

Winning matters—but development matters more. The next game will expose what you chose not to practise today.

CollegeBasketball DevelopingPlayers

20/09/2026

How does a smaller basketball programme compete against one with greater resources?

You don’t try to out-resource them.
You try to out-prepare them.

From our scout, we identified a conceptual offence built around principles and advantages—not just set plays.

Our game plan focused on:

🏀 Mixing aggressive and passive screen coverages
🏀 Long closeouts to shooters
🏀 Closing gaps and loading help against drivers
🏀 Maintaining physicality throughout the game
🏀 Rebounding collectively with key rebounders missing
🏀 Using our triggers to create a big advantage
🏀 Turning SLOB and BLOB situations into quality shots

Smaller programmes must win the margins through preparation, adaptability, discipline and clarity.

Resources help—but being prepared gives you a chance.

Save this for your next scout. 📋

BasketballOffence NBLBasketball CoachStevie

13/09/2026

After the final whistle, we returned to the changing room, where our head coach reviewed the positives and the areas we needed to improve.

Previously, I would manually count free throws made and attempted, player points, fouls and quarter scores. This provided an initial picture of our performance to share with the head coach and players before reviewing the game footage.

Integrating AI into the LBC programme has made that process much quicker. A photograph of the scoresheet allows AI agents to produce a structured summary within minutes, ready for checking and interpretation.

Once verified, those figures can support our head coach’s observations during the debrief, helping us identify specific improvements while the experience is still fresh in the players’ minds.

For me, the value is practical: giving our coaching staff timely information and creating more space for meaningful conversations with players. The video analysis then adds the detail behind the numbers.

Less time counting. More time coaching.

12/09/2026

My first game coaching against BCB opposition—but the opportunity was bigger than me.

Joining Liverpool Basketball Club has already opened new doors for players who had never competed against a BCB team before. They experienced the level, got a taste of professional basketball and saw the standards required to keep progressing.

What impressed me most was their response. They competed, learned and bought into our team philosophy.

Thank you to Nottingham Hoods for hosting us, and to Head Coach Des Williams and our team manager for everything they do behind the scenes.

The experience has made me even more fired up for the season ahead.

This is only the beginning. 🏀

03/09/2026

The basket is only the end of the possession. I’m more interested in what created it. 🧠🏀

With Liverpool, I’ve been using game film to break down assisted scores, spacing, transition and the actions that create advantages — then turning those clips into clear coaching points, practice ideas and better decisions on the court.

For me, video analysis isn’t about watching film for the sake of it.

It’s about creating a simple pathway:
Film → Insight → Practice → Performance

That’s the part of coaching I love — finding the detail, simplifying it and helping players see the game more clearly.

23/08/2026

Basketball coaching is changing—and this is how I’m using AI, game statistics and video analysis to make better coaching decisions. 🏀📊

After analysing our last two games, I created a system that turns the evidence into:

✅ Player-efficiency rankings
✅ Offensive, defensive and three-point rotations
✅ Game-day minutes plans
✅ Individual player-development reports
✅ Game-based practice priorities
✅ Organised video clips for every player

This isn’t AI replacing the coach.

It’s technology organising the evidence—while coaching experience, context and judgement make the final decision.

My aim is to spend less time searching through spreadsheets, notes and video—and more time developing players and helping the team improve.

Would you use something like this in your programme? Let me know which feature would help you most. 👇

Save this and send it to a coach who is interested in basketball analytics, video analysis or player development.

30/07/2026

I used to think great coaching meant talking more.

Then another coach said something I'll never forget:
"You don't actually coach them."

At first, it frustrated me.

Because what they saw was very different to what I was trying to achieve.

No constant whistles. No stopping every mistake. No endless technical demonstrations.

Instead, I was designing environments where players had to perceive, decide and solve problems for themselves.

To an outsider, it can look like chaos.
But beneath that chaos is intentional design.

Since changing my approach in 2016, I've still seen players develop, teams improve, and we've gone on to win leagues, tournaments and championships.

I've learned that coaching expertise isn't measured by how much you speak.

It's measured by what your players can do when you say nothing.

Curious to hear your thoughts...

What does great coaching look like to you? 👇

23/07/2026