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Know the Plays

Turn the coach's whiteboard into reps.

Know the Plays takes the video of your coach drawing up a play and turns it into something your kid can watch, get quizzed on, and run. One play at a time, until the whole playbook is known cold.

Try a playWhy a dad built this

Free to try, with nothing to sign up for. Video import is working with our first club, and opens to everyone when accounts arrive this season.

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Cross screen. 4 steps into the lane and sets a cross screen for 5. 5 rubs the defender off the screen and cuts along the baseline to the left block.

Share the videos. We build the plays.

Upload the coach's videos from the group chat or share a YouTube link, and each one becomes an interactive play on a real court. No video? Draw it on the digital whiteboard.

Before: the group chat
After: Know the Plays
  • Before: A pile of videos, many with no name
  • After: Share a video, and it comes back as a named play on a real court
  • Before: Plays shown only at practice never get a video
  • After: Draw those on the digital whiteboard, step by step
  • Before: All you can do is watch
  • After: Watch it, get quizzed on it, and run it
  • Before: Join the chat late, and you never see them
  • After: One link holds every play, for every family, whenever they join
  • Before: When a play changes, the old video stays in the chat
  • After: When a play changes, everyone gets the new version

From the coach's video to reps on any phone, tablet, or computer.

  1. 1

    The coach draws it.

    The videos the coach already shares in the team group chat or on YouTube: the play drawn on a whiteboard or on paper, and talked through.

  2. 2

    It becomes a play.

    Every cut, screen, and pass lands on a real court, in order, with the coach's own words for each step.

  3. 3

    Check it with the coach.

    Go through it together once. Anything that's off gets fixed before your kid drills it.

  4. 4

    Your kid drills it.

    Watch it, get quizzed on it, run it. Again on another day, until it's known cold.

Watch it. Get quizzed. Run it.

Three ways through every play, in the order a player learns it.

Watch

The play moves on a real court. Step through it and read what every player does, and why.

Quiz me

One player goes missing. Drag them to where they belong. It's scored in feet, so close counts and lost is obvious.

Run the Play

Your kid has the ball. Throw the passes the play calls for, take the looks the coach named, and shoot when it's open.

Why a dad built this.

My son was the newest kid on his travel team, and the playbook kept growing. Players who'd been there a year still didn't know all of it. He wanted to know everything he needed to know, as fast as possible, so he could focus on playing ball. He wants to become a pro player, and I promised him I'd give him every resource I can to help him get there.

It's a setup most basketball parents know. You get added to the team group chat, and the coach shares a stack of videos, sometimes a whole YouTube channel: the coach at a whiteboard, drawing up each play and talking it through. They're good videos. But all you can do is watch them. You can't tap a player to see where they go, you can't quiz yourself, and they only show the one version the coach drew, not everything that could happen once the defense reacts.

I know how to build software, so I built the fix. I took the coach's videos and turned every play, and every way it could go from there, into something my son could watch, get quizzed on, and run. Next, his coach and I go through every play together. My son is already learning the book, one play at a time.

That's Know the Plays. It started as one dad's fix for one kid. It's built so yours can do the same.

Tom, founder and dad

Known cold means three good days.

A play turns known cold when your kid scores 80% or better on its quiz on three different days. Not one lucky run the night before. Three days apart, the way memory works.

Your kid sees where every play stands and what to drill next. So do you.

Progress stays on this device for now. With accounts, it follows your kid to every phone, tablet, and computer.

Your playbook

An example season

  • 4Known cold
  • 2Learning
  • 3New

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One price per player.

Every team they play on, and every play. Watch, Quiz me, Run the Play, video import, and progress you can see. Brothers and sisters are half price, and parents are always free.

Monthly

$12.99a month, per player

Cancel anytime. Good for one season or a tryout push.

Yearly

Save $56 a year
$99a year, per player

Covers fall, winter, spring, and summer ball.

Team plan

$49 per player, per year

The coach or the club pays, and every family on the roster joins free. Clubs with five or more teams pay $39 per player.

For coaches and clubs

A family's first week is free, no card needed. It starts the day your first play is ready.

Checkout opens with accounts this season. Until then, the demo playbook is free. Try a play

Questions parents ask.