One Small Rule That Immediately Expands Basketball IQ gerard_hillier has some suggestions to build 🏀 IQ faster. Examples include: same player can’t start the action two times in a row. The same ball handler can’t initiate back-to-back possessions. Players have to rotate positions. We alternate sides of the floor. Post players spend time on the perimeter. Perimeter players work inside. We also manipulate the size of the playing space to force new problems and new solutions. Why does this matter? Because good coaching is not just about running drills. It’s about designing learning. If players always operate in the same role, from the same spot, on the same side, they don’t have to adapt. And if they don’t have to adapt, they don’t grow. When you intentionally change starting positions, decision-making roles, and spatial demands, you create the kind of variability that improves perception, problem-solving, and transfer to real games. Players stop memorizing actions and start understa...