The long line of kids photo is fools gold. Every trainer chasing the biggest group, the busiest session, the best “look how many kids I coach” photo for the gram. I get it, it looks impressive. But large groups don’t work, and development suffers over time. 15 years coaching and mentoring young athletes across QLD taught me that the hard way. I used to run it big, 6 academy locations a week, 30+ kids a day, before Hornets even existed. Thousands of kids came through. Somewhere along the way I moved away from all that, and toward long-term development of smaller, dedicated groups. I pride myself on spotting talent early, but the real skill has been evolving my systems to motivate kids to work hard over years, not weeks. I have seen so many of the kids i have worked with go on to play at every level of junior and senior basketball. Kids have played Representative, State, National, College and Professional levels of Basketball. Most people have no understanding of the amount of succe...