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29/06/2023

🏀Congrats to Hoop Dreams Fam Ryan Kriener for inking ✍🏻his deal in Japan 🇯🇵

✍️2023-24シーズン契約のご報告

滋賀レイクスは ライアン・クリーナー 選手（前愛媛オレンジバイキングス）と2023-24シーズンの契約合意（新規）に至りましたことをご報告いたします。

📝ライアン・クリーナー
RYAN KRIENER

背番号：4
ポジション：PF
身長/体重：208cm/118kg
生年月日：1998年4月24日　
出身地：アメリカ合衆国

【経歴】
Iowa University（NCAAⅠ）
2020-21 Leuven Bears（ベルギー）
2021-23 愛媛オレンジバイキングス（B2）
∟2022-23 B2個人得点8位（16.1PTS）、リバウンド8位（9.4REB）ブロック10位（0.8BLK）

【コメント】
I am so excited to join the shiga Lakes, and help fight for B1 promotion!
My wife and I are excited to get to know the great area and meet the fans as well. Let’s make this year a fun one!

滋賀レイクスに加入することがとても楽しみです！B1昇格のために戦うことができることを光栄に思います。
妻と共に素晴らしい地域を知り、ブースターの皆さんともお会いできることを楽しみにしています。
来季は楽しい一年にしましょう！
#滋賀レイクス

05/06/2023

Welcome Ryan Kriener to the Hoop Dreams fam as we help him with his offseason training following his second pro season in Japan 🇯🇵

21/05/2023

New blog post on blocked and variable practice in basketball training

Dr. Jamie Davis, PT, DPT, CSCS Before we dive into the basketball specific material, I want to discuss a few different overarching topics that will help you have a deeper understanding of the baske…

20/02/2023

🏀𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠🏀

▪️This figure from Freedman et al 2015 does a simplified, but good job of organizing what occurs in the tendon with too little loading, too much loading or “the right amount” of loading

▪️When dealing with tendon pain or preventing it, it is a multi-factorial process in why someone may experience symptoms; not enough loading and the tendon is underprepared for physical tasks or even just activities of daily living

▪️Too much loading, and/or not enough recovery, can also lead to degradation of the tendon & symptoms

▪️Determining what is “the right amount” of loading isn’t easy, but having a graded progression in loading the tendon is essential as well as a graded increase in sport/physical activity volume

🔺For the achilles tendon a step wise progression would include a calf raise progression, hopping progression, jumping progression and then sport-related progressions (all will be covered in later posts)

🔺This step wise progression allows us to ensure we are loading the tendon sufficiently with each level in order to be prepared for whatever sporting task the individual chooses

29/01/2023

🏀𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐉𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬🏀

▪️Basketball is a sport with a high level of lateral change of direction, with some research suggesting bball players spend 31% of a live game shuffling laterally

▪️This article aimed to assess the within & btwn session reliability of the lateral countermovement jump (LCMJ) test and to also examine if the LCMJ can stratify between fast and slow lateral shuffling performance

▪️Participants in the LCMJ/Shuffling portion of the study included 107 professional and 33 collegiate basketball players

▪️The LCMJ is performed by jumping off a single leg as hard as they could, lateral to medial, without crossing their lead leg behind the drive leg and landing on two feet

▪️They compared LCMJ data with a lateral shuffling test, the 5-5 shuffle. This is performed by shuffling out 5m and back 5m as quickly as they could and they made 2 attempts in each direction

▪️The only variable that differentiated slow and fast shufflers was relative lateral force (lateral force/mass) and this had a moderate effect size

🔺If you do not have access to triaxial force force plates then the authors suggest potentially just adding exercises that target lateral force production into a program (assisted and resisted lateral bounds, lateral sled drags, lateral lunges) as lateral bound distance alone potentially may not be sensitive enough in this population

🔺It still may be useful to track LCMJ distance, distance relative to height or distance relative to limb length to see trends over time and have a metric that tracks LCMJ performance

17/11/2022

Client highlights from Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦

22/09/2022

Congrats to my client Marty for signing a contract in Bosnia 🇧🇦

Posted • Marty Hill drugo je pojačanje našeg kluba za novu sezonu! 🙌🏻🏀

Welcome to Radnički Marty! 🤝🏽🏀

18/09/2022

🏀𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥: 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧🏀

▪️This progression for dribbling starts static and progresses to more movement and then integrating other skills

▪️It starts off with dribbling in place which can typically be integrated into a rehab process pretty early on; this can be used in place of basic weight shifting exercises

▪️Then it progresses to dribbling down and back which can be utilized as an early change of direction activity

▪️Then we start to get into dribble drives, connecting dribbling activities into driving/attacking the hoop and from there We add in cuts prior to getting the ball and finally can add in a reactive component such as calling out a specific direction, dribble move or finish at the rim

10/09/2022

🏀𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥: 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧🏀

▪️This progression for shooting/driving increases the amount of impact and force an athlete encounters

▪️It starts off with a form shoot which may be put in a rehab plan early on since it is a stationary drill without any jumping

▪️Then it progresses to a catch and shoot so now the athlete is actually getting off the ground; this can start with a catch & shoot in the same spot and transition to multiple spots so they are shooting off the move and then to the third progression of dribble pull ups

▪️After that we can get into driving-type drills; a good place to start can be a mikan drill where the athlete is attacking the hoop with just a little side to side movement

▪️Finally, we can progress to 1 on 0 drives with progressive intensity where the athlete explodes up to the hoop after making a dribble move

07/09/2022

🏀𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥:𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧🏀

▪️Here is an example of a graded return to contact drills for basketball

▪️Initially start with some controlled drills against a “dummy” defender to get the athlete used to having a defender on them, then we gradually ramp up the intensity and demands progressing from 1 on 1 drills to half court and then full court runs

03/09/2022

🏀𝐀𝐂𝐋 𝐑𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐛: 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬🏀

▪️Return to running following ACL reconstruction is a major milestone; having criteria to guide decision making when an athlete should return to running is important

📋One study investigated return to running decision making following ACLr and found the median return to running time to be 12 weeks with 99% using time-based criteria, 15% using strength criteria, 10% using clinical criteria and 7% using performance-based criteria to determine readiness to return to running

💭To me, this indicates a lack of informed decision making & critical thinking to determine readiness to return running; clinicians are mainly using time after surgery to just say “well, it’s been 12 weeks, you’re good to run” without having data to guide that decision

▪️Time: There is nothing magical about 12 weeks post-op ACLr for an athlete to start running, but it should still be considered as more time means more healing, typically return to running post-ACLr will be between 12-15 weeks, but can vary with athletes based on testing

▪️Objective Criteria: While there are many criteria you could use, in general we want to assess pain, swelling, ROM, quad/hamstring strength, general lower body strength and some low level hopping/plyos

🔺From the article, they recommend initiating the return to running around the 8-16th week along with the following criteria:
•pain 70% of the uninvolved side
•Single leg hop test >70% of the uninvolved side

🔺There are other ways you can assess readiness to return to running which could include hip abd strength testing, single leg bridges, single leg squats, step up/down tests, single leg calf raise capacity, exposure to loaded movements (squats, deads, split squats etc) and exposure to low magnitude plyos (hops, skips)

✔️Ultimately, a clinician should have an objective checklist to guide the decision making to return to running vs blindly following an outdated protocol that’s based solely on time