What do you do for consequences in practice?

Chris - What about making the losing team run in practice? With youth, it makes each scrimmage or small sided game way more competitive and intense. If there's no consequence to losing a game/drill, the kids don't compete nearly as hard.

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We do one “humiliation” push up at the foot of the winner or a burpee. This was the first time in 34 years I did not run our guys as consequences. I needed to figure out a better way to teach if I was not getting the results. Letting go of my coaching ego was a start to CLA.

Agree 100%. This is one of the biggest challenges we have in youth sports - developing GRIT without using punishment. (Sure, Phil Martelli has never made his teams run lines in thirty+ years, but he’s also been coaching D1 athletes - players that are going to be cutthroat)…

So what alternatives do you know that can teach them how to get better at basketball after failing?

Thanks for the questions coach, can you outline what you mean by failing? Mistakes are necessary for learning. So probably need to distinguish the difference between technical and tactical mistakes vs. behavioral issues. What are they failing at?

Losers run the 1-min sprint test: 10 x 84’. And One player must get the min or they do again. ABC Always be competitive. Lose a game. Sprint test. Basketball is a running sport! I agree running doesn’t make them better. Competitive running makes them better #alwaysbecompeting