The TCP Podcast

Mar 09 2024
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This podcast takes a deep dive into all things performance and basketball: movement quality, skill acquisition, psychology, nutrition, life, basketball IQ and much more. Hosted by Tyler Clark, the TCP podcast brings science-based information and real-life application to help improve all-aspects of performance and basketball. Join us and get started on your journey to becoming a better person, coach, athlete and basketball player. 

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Alex Sarama (@transformingbasketball) talks ecological dynamics, practice design, rate limiters and much more!

Mar 09 2024 52 mins  
Alex is a phenomenal coach and a pioneer in this space, he's an advocate for progressing and evolving the current state of development and basketball coaching as well as the overall approach to things like: performance training, front office work, athletic training, etcThe traditional/dominant approach is outdated, and as Alex mentions in the episode - you wouldn't expect

Jack Pyzynski (@jackpyzynski) pt. 2

Feb 28 2024 52 mins  
Enjoy the rest of Jack and I's conversation!

Jack Pyzynski (@jackpyzynski) pt 1. brings us through struggles in covid to winning a national championship, playing NCAA D2 and what really matters in life outside of basketball

Feb 21 2024 50 mins  
Jack is a great human & basketball player, he and I talk about his journey from being under recruited, having his freshman year taken away by covid, winning a national championship the next year and then back to back conference championships along with all the struggles and hardship in between After SMCC Jack takes us through his experience at Franklin Pierce which a NCAA Divis

What Is Skill & Constraints Explained

Nov 15 2023 27 mins  
This week I touch on what exactly skill is, and how it differs from things like technique, as well as what exactly constraints are and how we can use/apply themThere's an important distinction that I think needs to be more known and that's the difference between a games-approach and the constraints-led approach, while you'll see a lot of crossover between the two the

Trevor Ragan (@learnerlab) talks zoo tiger vs jungle tiger, the importance of representation, growth mindset and feedback

Oct 25 2023 54 mins  
Trevor does an amazing job breaking down, what can be pretty dense, science about learning. In the weeds, talking to the researchers about their work and applying it constantly to his own work and then creating content and making it super consumable for anyone listening Trevor and talk about a metaphor he coined "zoo tiger vs jungle tiger", what that means to him and how

Drake Berberet (@strength2.speed) talks all things force plates, asymmetries, food spots in maine and much more!

Sep 20 2023 45 mins  
Drake is true professional and currently working with one of the best force plate companies in the world (Hawkin Dynamics). Drake and I talk about force plates, interpreting data, applying the information you get from the technology, using that data to address things like asymmetries, things like how to recognize if an athlete is "cheating" a test and much moreI think the

NBA Performance Coach Erik Huddleston (@eph.24) talks NBA schedule, game-day lifts, addressing asymmetries and much more

Sep 13 2023 96 mins  
Erik Huddleston is the assistant performance coach for the Indiana Pacers, Erik is a true professional and has equipped himself with so much knowledge & experience prior to entering the NBA. That education & experience presents itself during this conversation.Erik and I discuss a lot of great topics: how to structure an NBA teams season for performance training, game-day li

Alex Sarama (@alexsarama) talks contemporary skill acquisition, practice design, the role of a coach and much more

Sep 06 2023 60 mins  
We're back!! Our first guest since the hiatus us Alex Sarama, Alex is a basketball coach from the UK. He's extremely good at what he does, he's immersed himself in the literature of skill acquisition and ecological dynamics in order to develop basketball players and ultimately change the way we as an industry look at developing basketball playersAlex is a delight to

Better Practice Design: How to Optimize Team Practices

Jun 07 2023 26 mins  
This week I talk about how to design better practices and how to optimize those practices. I discuss some important mindset shifts, important concepts and much more in order to accomplish the goal of designing better practicesFollow me on socials:IG - https://www.instagram.com/tc.performance_/

3 Biggest Takeaways from Coaching in College

May 10 2023 32 mins  
The past two seasons with SMCC have been beyond rewarding: 2 YSCC Conference championships (back-to-back), first ever USCAA Division 2 National Championship in program history, multiple All Conference and All American players. I was lucky to be apart of all of it, and I was able to learn a lot from it as well.My takeaways:1. Trust & Buy-in = Everything2. Film is so important3.