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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 5351519, member: 6620"] Thx for posting. Here's the gist of Alex Sarama's approach: Constraints-Led Approach or CLA. (from the ESPN Story) "CLA is a training methodology that emphasizes adaptability, improvisation and decision-making rather than predetermined movement patterns and drills. For example, (Alex) Sarama will rarely run the same drill twice, instead using small-sided games with different constraints -- like rule tweaks, scoring changes or time limits -- to force players to make decisions under pressure. "From my experience so far, the players absolutely love it, because it's such a nice changeup from what they've always done in their NBA careers," Sarama explained. "It's so much more engaging, and when you never know what you might do at practice one day as opposed to doing the same six NBA drills, which every team does every shoot around, every practice. But just coming in and knowing that there's going to be something more creative. I just think it really resonates." [/QUOTE]