Full Curriculum
SCI Basketball
Integrated Performance
10 modules. 51 lessons. About 9 hours of video instruction. Learn one performance system for men’s and women’s basketball, connecting rehabilitation, physical development, and skill integration across healthy development, return to competition, and sustained performance.
The system behind the course
The SCI Performance Matrix
Three domains run at the same time. Each basketball action carries its own training emphasis, so one player can sit in several columns in the same week. The same grid works for a player returning from injury and a healthy player in the offseason.
| Domain | Develop | Connect | Sustain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical/Rehabilitation | Establish health constraints and develop or restore the capacities the athlete needs. | Expose tissues to basketball positions, speeds, and angles while symptoms and response stay predictable. | Track response across practices and games and adjust load when tolerance changes. |
| Physical Development | Build force and braking capacity with a clear dose and progression. | Express those qualities in stops, cuts, takeoffs, and closeouts at rising speed. | Hold the qualities through the competitive week with dose matched to court demand. |
| Skill Integration | Keep the ball in the athlete’s hands with the tasks clinical permissions allow. | Add reads, defenders, and contact so skill and movement are solved together. | Perform the full role in practice and games, then review what held up. |
Exposure controls. Every prescription progresses through intensity, volume, and complexity, adjusted independently. Contact is recorded on its own line because it changes both physical load and decision demand.
51 lessons and approximately 9 hours 15 minutes of video, plus an applied exercise at the end of every module.
Course Modules
Outcome: Run one athlete plan from the clinic to the court.
- Success is the player holding their role. Every department’s work gets judged against that standard.
- Follow one injured guard through three departments and find the duplicated work and the decisions nobody owned.
- Plan backward from the next practice or game the player has to handle, using whatever work is available today.
- Every session names an objective, an owner, and a review trigger. This is the vocabulary the rest of the course runs on.
Apply it: Identify one gap between the athlete’s current preparation and the next basketball exposure.
Outcome: Plan concurrent work for injured and healthy players with one domain-by-emphasis matrix.
- Meet the player we follow through this module. Medical/Rehabilitation, Physical Development, and Skill Integration run at the same time for that player, each inside its own scope and under clear medical authority.
- Develop builds a quality. Connect puts it inside basketball actions. Sustain holds it across the player’s role. These are training emphases, not stages, and reaching one is not automatic permission to progress.
- Our player sits in Sustain for shooting and Develop for single-leg braking in the same week. Then compare an ACL return with a healthy offseason guard on the same grid.
- Intensity is how demanding the task is. Volume is how much of it the athlete does. Complexity is the information, choice, and opposition it carries. Each control can move on its own.
Apply it: Complete the matrix for a player whose different actions carry different emphases.
Outcome: Turn the player’s role into a written session prescription.
- Position labels hide a lot. Map what this player actually does on offense and defense, at this level, before the next exposure.
- First steps, stops, cuts, takeoffs, landings, closeouts, and lateral recovery, described by approach speed, angle, and how often they repeat.
- One great sprint tells you little. Work-to-rest patterns and recovery between actions set the conditioning target.
- Ball, teammates, opponents, spacing, and time pressure all shape the movement. Choose what a task needs without turning every dial at once.
- Two worked examples from the men’s and women’s game: a guard’s drive and stop, and a frontcourt player’s rebound and second jump.
- Write a session the whole staff can read: objective, permissions, exposure controls, and the response that triggers a review. Contact gets its own line because it changes both load and decisions.
Apply it: Build a role → actions → demands → gaps → training → exposure → review map, then write one session from it.
Outcome: Make clinical limits visible and keep everything else moving.
- Healing biology sets the floor. Criteria tell you whether the athlete can use the time that has passed; they do not shorten it.
- Compare what the athlete tolerates now with what the next exposure asks for, then let symptoms, function, and recovery set tomorrow’s dose.
- Read symptoms against the condition, the task, and the next-day response. Know when to modify, hold, stop, or send the athlete for reassessment.
- A restricted knee does not restrict the whole athlete. Build an integrated week that respects the limit and avoids needless detraining.
Apply it: Write a permitted-work plan with clear response and reassessment criteria.
Outcome: Build physical qualities the player can use on the floor.
- Maximal force, rapid force, repeated force, and task tolerance are different targets. Pick them from the player’s role and current gaps.
- Isometric, eccentric, concentric, high-velocity, and elastic work are tools chosen by objective. They often run together, and no single contraction-type sequence fits every athlete.
- Build blocks with a clear objective, dose, and progression. Use velocity feedback when you have it and program well when you don’t.
- Deceleration is one of the defining demands in basketball. Train approach speed, braking, angle, and reacceleration with a named task in mind.
- Dose jumps, elastic work, and conditioning with tomorrow’s court session in view. Repetition quality comes before volume.
- Two worked examples from the men’s and women’s game: braking strength into the closeout, and force production into finishing at the rim. The same logic holds in rehab and in the offseason.
Apply it: Build a physical-development block and name where each quality will show up on court.
Outcome: Prescribe basketball skill with the same precision as a strength program.
- Skill work starts as soon as clinical permissions allow. Leaving it to the end of rehab hands back a player whose body is ready and whose game is not.
- Keep the information that matters. Use task, environment, and athlete constraints to shape the problem the player has to solve.
- Footwork, shooting, driving, stopping, and finishing, progressed through approach speed, reads, opposition, and contact.
- Closeouts, lateral recovery, containment, and rebounding. Raise the information and interaction demands while protecting the physical objective.
- 1-on-0, guided opposition, small-sided games, and live play are options to choose from, not stages to march through. The athlete’s response picks the next task.
Apply it: Create one offensive and one defensive task card with exposure controls and progression criteria.
Outcome: Combine measurement, movement strategy, and context to answer a named decision.
- Name the question before you collect the data. If no result would change what you do next, skip the test.
- Jump and landing outputs, force-time features, and the strategy behind them. Standardized protocols and individual history replace universal clearance cutoffs.
- What torque and limb comparisons can tell you, and what a symmetrical result can hide about basketball readiness.
- Jump, hop, acceleration, change-of-direction, and repeated-effort tests chosen for a specific question. A phone camera and basic timing tools go further than most staffs expect.
- Two athletes can post the same number with different strategies. Compare planned tasks with reactive and ball-involved ones, and keep established measures separate from exploratory observation.
- Reliability, measurement error, meaningful change, and individual baselines. When findings conflict, no single metric clears an athlete or predicts an individual injury.
Apply it: Build a test-to-decision map with the tools you have in your setting.
Outcome: Use exposure and response to guide practice, competition re-entry, and ongoing performance.
- Court minutes alone say little. Record intensity, volume, complexity, and contact, and compare what was planned with what actually happened.
- Session RPE, external load, symptoms, recovery, and jump measures read against the athlete’s own baseline. Data quality decides how much weight a number gets.
- Four separate decisions. Medical clearance is one input, preparation for the specific exposure is another, and decision authority stays with the designated clinician.
- Controlled practice, full practice, scrimmage, minutes, and rotation role. Plan around back-to-backs, travel, and recovery, and remove restrictions in steps.
- Watch a dashboard trend change tomorrow’s prescription for a healthy in-season player and for an athlete just back from injury. Balance development against availability and set the next day’s dose.
- Tell coaches and the athlete what is known, what is still uncertain, and what the athlete is prepared to do next. Document restrictions and who owns the follow-up.
Apply it: Build next week’s exposure plan with the decision, owner, and review date documented.
Outcome: Apply the full system to a women’s basketball player after ACL reconstruction and a men’s basketball player with adductor-related groin pain.
- Meet a guard after ACL reconstruction, define her target role, and map clinical permissions and available training across all three domains.
- Strength, conditioning, and permitted skill work running together, with different actions sitting in different columns of the matrix.
- Testing, movement analysis, court observation, and her monitoring trend feed a named next decision, and the exposure controls move with the response.
- Practice, first games, recovery, and the review after return. Watch how staff communication and athlete input change the plan.
- Meet a forward with groin pain and start with the clinical entity. Adductor-related groin pain is managed differently from hip, inguinal, or pubic sources, and the adductor loading and cutting plan follows from that distinction.
- Symptoms fluctuate and the timeline is less predictable. Use monitoring and clear criteria to modify participation without defaulting to full removal from basketball.
Apply it: Compare how one framework produces two different prescriptions.
Outcome: Produce and defend a complete integrated plan for your setting.
- Turn role demands and current gaps into the matrix and one training week, with permissions, owners, and review dates named.
- Complete the physical and court prescriptions and link every assessment to the decision it is meant to inform.
- Adapt the system to a team, a clinic, or private practice, including the setting where one practitioner holds every role.
- Build a full plan for a returning or healthy offseason player, compare it with a worked example, then revise when new response data comes in.
Apply it: Complete the capstone with a role map, matrix, training week, test decisions, court plan, and review triggers.
Included Applied Resource Packs
- SCI force plate interpretation guide
- Strength and isokinetic interpretation reference
- Court progression and exposure task cards
- SCI matrix, weekly programming, and capstone templates
- Sample athlete readiness dashboard and decision log
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