Player Development · Sydney · All Levels of the Game

Full Court
Coaching.

The gap between a good player and a great professional is not talent. It is identity, discipline, and the daily investment most players never get structured support around.
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Full Court Coaching · Sydney · Players, Teams and Coaches
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Who We Serve

Built for every level
of the game.

Full Court Coaching is designed for emerging talent, semi-professionals, and elite players as well as the coaches, teams, and organisations who develop them. The pillars work at every level because the fundamentals of human performance are universal.

Emerging Talent
Junior and Representative Players
Under 14, 16, and 18 athletes at club and state level building the habits and identity that will define their career long before it begins.
Junior and state representative players
Athletes building elite professional habits early
Players developing identity and purpose on and off the court
Semi-Professional
NBL1 and Pathway Athletes
Players competing at the highest semi-professional level in Australia who understand that professionalism and mindset are what open the next door.
NBL1 players with professional ambitions
Athletes transitioning between pathways
Players ready to invest in the full picture
Professional and Elite
NBL Players and Beyond
Professional players who want the leadership capability, professional identity, and life architecture to match their on-court ability and sustain it across a long career.
NBL and internationally contracted players
Players stepping into team leadership roles
High performers seeking a complete edge
The Five-Pillar Framework

A complete system.
Built on evidence.

Every Full Court Coaching engagement is built across five pillars grounded in sport psychology, motivation science and behavioural research. They work as a reinforcing system where each pillar compounds the others.

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Pillar One
Mindset and Identity
What you believe about yourself shapes every decision you make on and off the court. This pillar draws on growth mindset research, self-efficacy theory, and self-authoring frameworks to build the psychological foundation for consistent high performance, especially under pressure and adversity.
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Pillar Two
Goal Setting
The engine of directed development. Using process, performance, and outcome goals in the right hierarchy from seasonal vision down to daily operating behaviours. Built around identity-first goal setting so athletes become the person who achieves the goal, not just someone chasing it.
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Pillar Three
Habits and Discipline
Elite performance is built daily, not on game day. This pillar uses deliberate practice research, habit formation science, and the compound effect to build the daily systems that separate professionals from players. Environment design, keystone habits, and accountability structures are the tools.
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Pillar Four
Connection and Accountability
Individual talent is limited without team cohesion. This pillar builds psychological safety, trust, transformational leadership, and structured accountability systems. Athletes learn to be accountable for their behaviours. Coaches learn to build cultures where standards are owned by the group, not imposed from the top.
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Pillar Five
Community Impact and Purpose
Purpose sustains what talent alone cannot. This pillar connects players to a legacy beyond statistics, their role as leaders, mentors, and contributors in their community. Purpose gives athletes a reason to keep committing when form, selection and results are out of their control.
How It Works

Season-long development.
Real outcomes.

Every engagement begins with alignment across the player, coach, and organisation and builds across the full season with structured checkpoints, reviews, and renewal.

Phase 01 · Preseason
Discovery and Alignment
Collaborative sessions with the player, coaching staff, and club to align on goals, identify development priorities, and design a personalised program framework.
Phase 02 · Regular Season
Weekly Coaching and Daily Systems
Weekly 1:1 coaching sessions anchored to the five pillars. Daily habit systems, goal check-ins, and milestone tracking keep development active between sessions.
Phase 03 · Finals and Peak
Performance Under Pressure
Intensified focus on mindset, leadership under load, and team impact during the highest-stakes moments of the season. This is where the work compounds.
Phase 04 · Off-Season
Review, Reset, Renew
Full season debrief with player and club. Growth assessed across all five pillars. Next season goals set and a clear renewal pathway into the year ahead.
Work With Us

Players, coaches, teams
and organisations.

Full Court Coaching offers structured programs for individuals and tailored partnerships for clubs and organisations ready to build a genuine high-performance culture.

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Individual Players
1:1 Player Development Program
A season-long individual coaching engagement built across the five pillars. Personalised to your goals, your team context, and the professional you are working to become. Weekly sessions, daily systems, monthly milestones.
Weekly 1:1 coaching sessions
Personalised goal and habit system
Monthly milestone reviews
Season debrief and renewal pathway
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Coaches and Staff
Coach Development Workshops
This is the missing piece at every level of the game. Full Court Coaching works with coaches to build the personal development frameworks, communication tools, and leadership systems that transform their impact on players, not just their technical knowledge.
Facilitation and delivery skills
Goal setting and accountability frameworks
Culture and leadership workshops
Integrating personal development into daily training
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Teams and Clubs
Club Culture and Team Programs
For clubs ready to build something real. A shared language, collective accountability, and a culture where high performance is the standard rather than the exception. Season-long partnership with the whole organisation.
Pre-season team workshops
Shared values and accountability systems
Mid-season culture check-ins
Team service and purpose projects
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Associations and Organisations
Organisational Strategy and Design
For associations and leagues ready to build a holistic development framework across their programs. Strategy, coach development, and scalable systems that bring elite-level development to every club in their network.
Framework design and implementation
Coach development certification pathways
Program evaluation and measurement
Strategic consulting and facilitation
In Their Own Words

What the game's
best already know.

Talent opens doors. Professionalism, detail, and identity are what keep you there. The players who sustain excellence have always understood this.

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“The one thing that separates great players from good players is their detail. They take pride in watching film, watching what they eat, and making sure they’re in the best shape of their life. Just to get that edge.”
Jalen Brunson
NBA All-Star · New York Knicks
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“Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.”
Julius Erving
NBA Hall of Famer
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“You are responsible for how people remember you, or don’t. So don’t take it lightly.”
Kobe Bryant
5× NBA Champion
About
Full Court Coaching
Extensive basketball career
State and national level player
SEABL with NW Tasmania Thunder
High level performance exposure at domestic, national and international levels
12 years in human development and career transformation
Based in Sydney

A career in basketball
and human development.

Cohan McDermott has had an extensive basketball career, playing at state and national level, spending time in the SEABL with NW Tasmania Thunder, and being exposed to high level performance environments at domestic, national and international levels. Alongside that, he has spent twelve years in professional human development, working with people through career transformation and identity change. Full Court Coaching brings those two backgrounds together.

“I don’t work with players to make them better at basketball. I work with them to make them better professionals, which makes everything else, including basketball, better.”

Cohan McDermott, Founder

What Full Court Coaching offers is not a generic development program. It is a structured, evidence-based, season-long partnership built around the specific goals, habits, and professional identity of every individual we work with. The five pillars apply at every level of the game because the fundamentals of human performance are universal. What changes is the context, the pace, and the application, and that is where the coaching relationship does its real work.

Get in Touch

Ready to go
Full Court?

Full Court Coaching works with a deliberately small number of players, coaches, and clubs each season to protect the quality of every engagement. Spots are limited and filled by direct conversation.

Email
fullcourtcoaching.au@gmail.com
Based in
Sydney, Australia
Serving
Players, Coaches, Teams and Organisations