Happy New Year,

Quick question.

What are you up to in basketball right now, and what’s your New Year’s resolution inside the season?

Hit reply with 3 lines:

1. Your role (player, coach, parent), level, and where you are based
2. Your one target for the next 6 weeks
3. The one thing that keeps getting in the way

I read every reply. I will respond.

What we are working on at Ubuntu Basketball in the second half of the 2025–2026 season

ProLab

Day sessions built for real transfer.

Small groups.

Game-speed constraints.

Every session gets recorded, and you receive the footage within 24 hours so you can review, clip, and learn faster.

Zero Seconds Film Lab

Film that turns into decisions.

Decisions that turn into a practice plan.

You stop watching film like entertainment and start watching it like a coach who wants change by next game.

Advantage Chain Indexing (ACI)

This is becoming a major focus for us now.

It is a simple way to connect three things:

Film tags.

Decision quality.

Practice constraints.

We use it to see where possessions are won or lost, then train the exact moments that keep repeating.

Two quick moments that shaped how we teach this

A warm-up detail:

Players were asked to touch the midline after each layup.

Some stopped just short.

Some hovered a foot over the line.

We paused everything.

Not to punish anyone.

To make one point clear.

Trust is built in the small agreements, not the big speeches.

A film-room pattern:

A player kept “making the right play,” but always a beat late.

Great intention, late action.

We put a simple time rule on advantage catches.

The next session looked messy at first.

Then the player started arriving earlier, seeing earlier, shooting earlier.

The game did not slow down.

Their decisions did.

Three free seats left

If you want one of the last 3 free seats, when you sign up to Zero Seconds Film Lab use the code: UILENSTEDE

I will send the sign-up details. First come, first served.

If you reply with your 3 lines above, I will also send you one ACI-focused question you can use in your next game film session, even if you never buy anything from us.

Talk soon,

Ermay Duran

Ubuntu Basketball