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Are you serious?!?!?! You don't think dropping 20+ pounds (forgive me I'm American lol) will help?! Man, dropping I noticed a difference dropping 7lbs and maintaining the same strength levels.

Also, how often are you training specifically for basketball or quickness? If you aren't a 'natural' athlete or player then you'll need to work on those almost as often as lifting. Just my observations from watching other players for years.

It's dangerous getting stuck in the pattern of training for a sport or activity by not actually doing said activity. Yes you're improving your strength but when will you every actually be happy with your progress strength wise? Then if you add experiences like you've just had, your will to become better without actually playing becomes even stronger so you end up spending more time away from the game. I've fallen into this trap myself and the truth of the matter is the guys who play ball more often will always be better ball players than the guys who spend more time in the gym.

Training
FS 1x117.5, 1x125, 1x130, 1x132.5 (PR)
BS 2x6x122.5, 3x127.5B, 6x122.5B
BP 8x83.5 (PR)
SST (5 mins)

FS notes:
I'm a dickhead and my recovery was shit etc etc, esp the basketball i played yesterday which usually WRECKS me badly for lifting. So i wasn't prepared for today by any means. But. I destoyed it! Made z big form breakthrough today which spared me from having a shit workout. I'm a better squatter after this workout than I was before it. Isn't that amazing? I had to stop myself at 132.5kg and say save it for backsquats, otherwise I was gonna put 135kg on the bar and try it with a belt, but decided against it because I don't need to use that weapon out of my armory just yet, my FS should be at least 140kg before I think about messing around with a belt.

Form change is basically to do with knees. They go in at the start of the concentric, and then OUT as I go past the sticking point. This is new for me, it's the antidote to the squatmorning sickness I so desperately needed to cure.

BS notes:
The form breakthrough from FS carried over nicely to BS as well. Seems everything has come together for me technique wise now. From shoes to form to patience with gains, i'm ready to make some decent progress now. I will be ambitious and add 2.5kg all the way up to  3x6x127.5kg on friday. The following week maybe i'll switch to 2kg jumps but for now i'm feeling good about 2.5kgs.

FS2 notes:
Omitted higher rep fs sets today. I dont wanna dig too big a recovery hole lest I can't get out for wednesdays workout. I'll do it then though if i feel good.

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upper to come later tonight.might edit in a bit about the form breakthru as well just for record keeping sake.

SST notes:
I just went and shot around, dribbled, nothing special, but each time i'll def do a little bit more. Over weeks and months it will become something significant but for the moment doing anything at all is better than not, so that's the working justification and motivation. My knees didn't feel like I could do max effort jumping so I didn't push it, when my body feels good i'll do 5 SVJ and 5 RVJ, and that's it, just enough to get some improvement but not too much to hurt intefere with achieving lifting goals.

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Re W1D1 restart.
I know i seem to restart every week lol but this time it's srs. It's week 1 of eating properly, going low fat mode, october will be a perfect diet AND training month. I'll keep carbs medium to high as I see fit, obviously too many will hurt fat burning but too little will kill performance so i'll err on the side of conservative. That means 100-150g, nothing crazy.  also dont worry im not going zero fat or anything, i eat a lot of fish oil (~10g day) and i'll have 3 whole eggs daily, and a bit of olive oil to cook my chicken and veges in but that's about it, no pizzas or fatty foods, no fast food at all, etc.

Nice!!!

Coges is 100% correct in his statements. The guy working solely in his game will destroy the guy just lifting and shooting once in awhile thats why its important to find a middle ground. I usually shoot around after every lifting session as a cool down and have 1-2 serious skill training sessions a week. As the season gets closer I'll ramp up the skill sessions. That is what works for me but I have always been a very natural basketball player so you may need more volume to maintain your skill or increase it.

Nice squat! I'm going to go ahead and put that on the rankings list just to give you (and others) a bit of motivation.

Absolutely.  Game strength is different than weight room strength just like squat strength doesn't automatically make you fly. Both require you to practice the movement. You can be an ox with dumbbells and still get ripped going to the hole if your strength hasn't translated to game situations.  Conversely I know a 5'7" 145lb point guard that you CANNOT take the ball away from when he goes to the hoop, he wraps it up and just takes the contact.  Its hilarious to watch bigger guys getting frustrated that they can't take the ball away from some 'stick arm' guy but he has functional game strength from playing all the time.

So get out there and play, best way to improve is by playing guys better than you.

Form change is basically to do with knees. They go in at the start of the concentric, and then OUT as I go past the sticking point. This is new for me, it's the antidote to the squatmorning sickness I so desperately needed to cure.

you are using too much weight if you had to grind the knees to get the rep. uneven stress on the knee is not healthy specially when supporting near-max weight.