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00:00 Start, Sub, Sit: Building a Growth System
03:18 The 6-to-1 Feedback Approach
07:01 How Quickly Should Players Face Failure?
10:01 Perfect Process Over Perfect Results
13:35 Role Highlighting vs. Role Definition
16:54 Finding Each Player’s Outlier Skill
17:18 Start, Sub, Sit: Defensive Phases
20:52 Building a Tagging Up System
23:44 Physicality, Communication & “Car Crashes”
25:48 Sending Everything Left
28:04 Taking Away the First Seven Seconds
Justin Downer joins Slappin’ Glass for a Start, Sub, Sit conversation on building growth systems, creating productive adversity, developing bench players, defensive phases, Tagging Up, and physical switching.
Downer explains why he views the coaching staff as the opponent early in the season, how his practices intentionally create failure, and why his teaching progression moves directly from Teach → Drill → Compete.
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