Hey, enjoy this little excerpt from the previous hours. I hope it makes you all smile and gives you some ideas to be more intentional with your cues, especially on defense. Look forward to talking LockLeft, everybody, on live training this week. What are some common defensive coachisms you hear that make you smile?

I wanted to share this excerpt from our SAVI Basketball live training. Some really good nuggets in here for you to teach the RDS offense more effectively. I would invite you. If you aren't currently running the RDS offense, you can get the course here, or better yet, come and join us for a month in the SAVI Basketball community, and jump on these live calls and get all our courses. The best way to learn any SAVI system is with us so we can help you install it specific to your team and your situation. Stay SAVI.

Hey — this is an advanced tune-up that continues to improve the speed of the shot and sequence, as most players need their hands to move faster than their hips. Master ROCKERS first. Chain Breakers is Step 2. The problem: There's a strong neurological chain between the hands and the hips. Speed up the hands, the hips follow. That chain is why so many players look rushed on their shot — they're not rushed, they're chained. The goal: Get the hands up before the hips lift. Ball in the shot pocket before the feet land. The progression: 1. Together (Rockers) — dribble hand + step foot land at the same time. Still chained. 2. Hop into position — hop off the left foot, hands and feet arrive together on the catch. 3. Chain Breakers — hands in the pocket before the feet touch the ground. Hop higher. Speed the hands up. Hands lead. Feet follow. Shot fires out of it. To make the SAVI Shooting System available to every athlete, we've included the full system — Rockers, Chain Breakers, and the complete shooting sequence — inside our Training by SAVI community for just $13/month. Send this link to your players and parents: https://www.skool.com/training-savi/plans Limited-time price — have them join for one month and work the system before the season starts. @Mike Carlson leads the community and personally mentors the players. You teach share system. Mike coaches the reps. Players do the work. Let's break some chains this week.

Hey coaches — If I could pick one shooting tune-up for every player to do daily — without actually diagnosing their shot — it would be ROCKERS. It's the best way for a player to develop their handprint + footprint and to build the sequence of their shot. Sequence equals power. Why ROCKERS instead of one-handed form shooting But most shooting problems in your gym aren't a hand problem — they're a sequence problem. Feet, hips, chest, hand — in the wrong order at the wrong speed. Fix the sequence, and you fix the power. Fix the power, and you fix the arc, the range, and the consistency — all at once. ROCKERS drills the whole sequence. What ROCKERS builds - Handprint — where the ball sits, how it releases, the finish - Footprint — feet-to-shot connection, base, alignment - Sequence — the order and timing that produces effortless power Watch it, install it, and use it as your pre-practice standard. The coaching leverage (the part I want you to hold onto) If you can understand how to teach this, you can help the majority of your players fix the majority of their problems. That's rare. Most tune-ups are player-specific and require diagnosis. ROCKERS doesn't. Every player benefits from it — and it improves the highest-leverage part of the shot without you having to individually break down 12 different shooters. How to use it - Drop it into pre-practice — replace one-handed form shooting for every player past the beginner stage - Every player, every day. 5-10 minutes is enough. - Reps compound. Two weeks in, you'll see it in games. The bottom line You don't need to diagnose every player's shot to make them shoot better tomorrow. Teach them ROCKERS. Run it daily. Get out of their way. Sequence equals power. 🎯 Want your players to go all-in on their shot? If you want your players to go through the full 28-Day Shooting Challenge — where I guarantee their shot improves — sign them up for one month of Basketball Training by SAVI

@Mike Carlson is joining SAVI as our Director of Player Development. This is huge. As you know, we're committed to revolutionizing the way the game is taught and played. A NEW way to teach players how to see, think and play the game! The SAVI way. Here's why this matters. 20 years ago, players didn't have instant access to their own film. They had to trust what a coach told them. Now it's different. Film study is the most revolutionary tool in coaching and player development today — and most coaches and most players are not yet using it well or using it enough. We're going to change that. Want to develop IQ? Film. Want to learn reads? Film.Want to improve your shot? Film. Want to score more points? Film.Want more playing time? Film. Larry Bird said it best: "Film don't lie." Mike has been living this for the last six years — and the results, the pro players he's working with have produced! This is why I asked him to lead Player Development at SAVI. A NEW way to teach players how to see, think and play the game! The SAVI way. In his own words, here's the journey. The Mike Carlson Basketball Journey - in his own words I was never recruited. Didn't score 1,000 points in high school. Cut as a freshman from Division 3 Hope College. Walked on at Truman State (D2), redshirted, and earned a scholarship during the redshirt year. Then a coaching change happened, and the new coach told me to find a new school. Through tears at the thought of losing my scholarship, I told coach to put me through workouts and I'd show him what I could do. A week later, coach apologized and said he wanted me on the team. Three years later we won 21 games (we'd only won 7 when I redshirted), and I was named a Division 2 All-American (2014). I played the next ten years professionally. Won 2 championships (2017, 2022), and helped the clubs I played for exceed their goals — wins, playoff appearances, and one Final Four (2023). The single proudest moment of my career was hitting a game-winning three in my first game in the ACB (Spain's top league). There's a lot of meaning behind that shot — a story for another day.