Why we're calling this a recovery week

We went 1-2 this weekend.

Won one comfortably. Lost two. One of them by 48 points. Our scoring went 25, 17, 13, 6 across four quarters. Every quarter worse than the one before.

There's a version of coaching where you come in Monday with a full breakdown, diagrams, pressure. And sometimes that's right.

This isn't one of those weeks.

We have no games this weekend. Two games left in the season, April 25th and 26th. What we need right now isn't more reps. It's reset.

Talking it through. That's what this week is for.

What a real recovery week looks like

Recovery in basketball usually means your body. Ice baths, rest, sleep. That stuff matters, and we're doing it.

But the part people skip is the mental side. If you watched our third quarter against Haslev, 13 points and then 6 in the fourth, that wasn't a fitness problem. That was a mental wall. We hit it and we had nothing to pull us through.

So this week, that's what we're working on. Not by talking about it endlessly. By building the habits that make you mentally tougher before the moment arrives. Not during it.

"When it gets hard in the 4th quarter, what do you fall back on?"

We're also going back to individual work this week. Full team sessions are great for systems and chemistry. They're not always great for the thing a specific player actually needs to fix. This week we create space for that.

What we saw this weekend

The win against Hillerød told us what we can look like. Anton put up 37. The whole team competed for 40 minutes straight. That's the version of us that shows up when things click.

Johan was quietly consistent across all three games. 8, 14, 15 points. That's a player you can build around. Deyan had 28 in game one. Ajus went 12/19 from the free throw line. Real basketball IQ.

But the Haslev game showed the gap. When their pressure came and we couldn't score, we had nothing to fall back on mentally. That's not a talent issue. It's a habits issue. And habits can be built.

Why free value matters to us as a club

I started writing these posts because I think there's a real gap in youth basketball in Copenhagen. There's a lot of coaching happening. There's not a lot of sharing.

What does a recovery week actually look like? How do you talk to young players after a bad loss without killing their confidence? How do you keep a squad motivated in April when the season is almost over?

These are real questions. We don't have all the answers. We're figuring it out every week, and I'd rather write it down than keep it inside the gym.

Two games left. Apr 25 at Peder Lykke Skolen, Apr 26 at Virum Gymnasium. We're going to be ready.

See you on the other side.