The Play Practice Basketball Formula

Coach BJ introduces the 6 P's of coaching to the Portsmouth Recreation coaches clinic Play > Practice Pace of practice Platform drills Principle-based offense Precision instructions Positive feedback We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore yea...

Here is all we have to offer your 7th-10th grade player packed into a 12-week course called the Confidence Formula!  We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore year) Fill out our Confidence Scorecard to get started! More about us at www.playpracticebaske...

Listen to an overview of our 3 fall programs, why exploration is important, and what the SOCK colors mean for this age group!  We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore year) Fill out our Confidence Scorecard to get started! More about us at www.playpra...

Listen to Coach BJ break down The Confidence Puzzle, published in 2021, about our philosophy of training and the common obstacles and misperceptions parents face every day on the journey to high school basketball!  We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophom...

Here are 8 questions we ask every client before moving forward to work with them on the court! What is your motivation for seeking training?  What has your player's basketball experience been like so far? What is their biggest basketball aspiration? What is the next level they are striving toward? What is the biggest gap you see between where they are now and that next level? What is the bigg...

4 different aspects are covered here: The Definition of Success The problem with most measurement in basketball The Points Per Shot Value Shot Selection Priority List We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore year) Fill out our Confidence Scorecard to g...

Most people think of a dynamic ball handler "creating shots off the dribble" as the only way to create shots.  We work on shot creation in 3 categories  before the catch,  after the catch, and  off the dribble  And our main focus is on screening this week, but again counter to where most people's focus is on ball screening, we focus on screens away from the ball with 4 action/ react...

I was once a "garbage man" - cleaning up my teammate's misses by getting rebounds and putbacks. This is how I now help the "Bigs" learn to be useful, agile, and crafty around the basket! We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore...

Ever seen your player freeze up like they don't know what to do? Here is our take on how we help players learn to make decisions based on game context by pre-loading situational skills so they can play faster without hesitation and keep the attack going!  We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team...

How deep is deep?  For most players even a foot or two behind the high school 3 point arc can get uncomfortable. We work to expand both their mentality and standard for their definition of "deep", and give them the tools to improve efficiency by optimizing for power before precision! We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6%...

Listen to our approach to finishing around the rim, the thought process, strategy, and progression we have found most useful for helping players expand their universe of options, including: 2-Step layups Moves & countermoves The "Light Switch" approach to decision-making The Zero Step Building skill options "downstream from decisions" Finishing through contact Check out our...

Ball handling is touted as an essential skill, but is practiced mostly in a stationary isolated environment.  We work on effective ball handling - the kind to get past a defender and score  - by focusing players attention on just 2 things:   changing speed, and  changing direction That is how they can become unguardable! We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE th...

How to stop, as simple as it sounds, is the foundation of most basketball footwork. Whether your player is catching a pass to shoot, driving from a catch, handling the ball, or finishing at the rim, stop and go footwork is where the "sneakers meet the court" and where all of your player's athleticism and skill gets traction! We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high sch...

Hear 3X3 professional player Devin Gilligan tell his story about the journey from NH to playing pro in Japan, why he decided to stick with 3X3 instead of pursuing 5v5 pro leagues, and his big vision for 3X3 in NH.  Interested in playing 3X3? Visit 3X3Portsmouth.com We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS...

How we help players focus in practice, get better faster with feedback, and set priorities that are measurable! We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore year) Fill out our Confidence Scorecard to get started! More about us at www.playpracticebasketball...

Do these 3 things, and your player will be successful 80% of the time as an on-ball defender! We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore year) Fill out our Confidence Scorecard to get started! More about us at www.playpracticebasketball.com or @playpract...

What is the Discovery process, and why do we spend SO LONG diagnosing before we get down to work? We have proven the method with a 94.6% success rate over 3 years. If you start with us before 9th grade, you will make your high school team as a freshman - 95% guaranteed! We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make the...

Here is a sample of our actual course content that our players go through during the Confidence Formula 2.0 curriculum!  We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore year) Fill out our Confidence Scorecard to get started! More about us at www.playpracticeb...

Listen to Coach BJ describe an overview of our most popular program - The Confidence Formula - version 2.0, launching this March 2024! We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore year) Fill out our Confidence Scorecard to get started! More about us at www...

Listen as Brian talks about his family's experience at Play Practice. Their family has multiple kids who have gone through a number of different programs offered at Play Practice and this is the in depth response to how it has transformed their games as well as things off the court.  We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of o...

Listen as Coach BJ Mumford breaks down his journey and process over the years, involving a series of epiphanies and lessons from his mentors, for how he created The Sniper 2.0 shooting system. We help 7th-grade basketball players perform at a high school level BEFORE their freshman tryouts! (94.6% of our players make their HS team - if they start working with us before sophomore year) Fill out our...

Is it playable?  Is it game relevant?  Is what we are asking this player to do something they will actually have a chance to do more than once in a basketball game?  If not, we're probably wasting their time and our own time.  Unfortunately, most programs and most team coaches get the 80/20 rule backward - they spend a lot of their time working on incredibly complex, irrelevant skills for the...

Every player has their thing where they have been doing it a certain way for a long time, and changing it feels terrible!  Shots don't go in, and nothing feels right. Nothing works. They're not achieving success for a little while.  That's where persistence shows up! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Welcome t...

I firmly believe that by meeting the player where they're at and focusing on helping them learn, instead of focusing on what we can teach them, we are going to go farther and achieve more together.  By taking the personal mentorship approach, we're really trying to become their sidekick. We're not coming in as the overbearing, dominant coach, authority figure that's going to te...

Patience started as a personality trait for me - a mentality I've always had. I've always been very patient and willing to go through a lot of stuff that would frustrate most people enough to make them quit. The patience factor for players is essential and even healing in some ways. When players start beating themselves up when they're working with me on the court, I'm not sayi...