A strong season starts with an intentional preseason, and this week Sam and TJ lay out the framework for getting it right. The most critical areas of coaching aren’t mastered in silos — every workout, every meal, every interaction is a chance to sharpen your culture for success. They share how to develop leaders, improve your player development, and why you have to start every season from zero every season.
Show notes
- Five pillars, not five buckets
- Where leadership starts
- Mentoring 2-3 players
- Why it matters
- Giving players space to lead
- Weekly check-ins and honest feedback
- Match player development to strategy
- The LeBron and Reddick example
- Growth-oriented far from games
- Mission-oriented close to games
- Build a team habits document
- Don’t chase the shiny thing
- Defense is player development too
- Culture is measured by interactions
- Gratitude, standards, and the McDonald’s test
- Set standards you’ll fight for
- Start every season from zero
- Create ownership in your values
- Adversity reveals where culture really is
- The “old crap” meeting explained
- Build better people, better culture
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