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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Basketball - Be Hard to Play Against

"What does Coach want from me?" Be easy to play with, hard to play against. What does that mean to you as a coach or as a player?

A former coach in another community talked about the Melrose teams of 2000-2010. He said, "you have five girls on the court always running. It's hard to compete with that."

Simplify. Traffic in specifics. 

1) Basketball is a game of creating and preventing advantage.

  • Make spacing great.
  • Mental mistakes have to be near zero.

2) Basketball is a game of cutting and passing.

  • Without urgent cutting, offense fails. 
  • Passes have to be on-time and on-target. 

3) Basketball is a game of separation and finishing.

  • Maximize separation at the time of the catch.
  • Shooting percentage sums shot selection and skill.

4) Basketball is a game of playing harder for longer.

  • Condition within drills to increase efficiency.
  • Fatigued players have less resilience. 

5) Basketball is a game of competitive character.

  • Study Bilas's "Toughness." Compete by playing so hard your coach has to take you out. 
  • Get on the floor. Set clean, hard screens.

6) Basketball is a game of creating and denying easy shots.

  • Better passing creates easier shots. 
  • Live ball turnovers create easier shots. 
  • Loading to the ball and covering 1.5 reduce easy shots. 

7) Basketball is a game of possessions and possession.

  • Get more possessions through rebounding and steals.
  • Reduce poor possessions by reducing turnovers. 

8) "Basketball is sharing." - Phil Jackson

  • Communication engages teammates. 
  • Unselfish shooting informs sharing. 

Teach the Four Factors (EFG%, turnovers, rebounding, attack the rim)

Lagniappe. Find leaders to help achieve top ten percent status. 

Lagniappe 2. Win in space and in certain areas.  

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