Watch and share film every day. It's vital to the process of "do more of what works and less of what doesn't."
Teach players to see spacing (making and shrinking it), action away from the ball, and how good teams play hard and use hard to defend actions.
1. Create separation. Handoff, rescreen, drive and "draw 2" and find a shooter who has leaked out.
2. "Movement kills defenses." Phoenix fills the corner and gets "one more" passing.
3. Simple works. Young players need to learn this. The Suns have a mismatch in the paint. Hauser is anticipating the high ball screen and a simple "screen rejection" creates space for an open three.
4. Get 'easy' baskets. Hauser's range and shooting ability creates "gravity." Defense helps up and Hauser gets an easy assist.
5. Success is subtlety. White works hard to get the ball and has positional advantage. He uses his body to ward off the defender and has a versatile finish keeping the ball away from the rim protection.
6. "Position is everything." Scheierman adds value by tracking rebounds. Second chance points come with higher shooting percentage. Also, some have advised that having a rebounder at the free throw line is worth three rebounds a game.
7. Urgent cutting creates separation and a layup.
8. Separation is craft. Hauser gets a "mini-flare screen" from Queta and White finds him.
9. Variation of the same theme but Scheierman slips from the off-ball screen and gets rewarded.
10. Effort by Vucevic with hard running pins the defender which opens up the open three. There's no "stat" for "created gravity" but that's a hustle assist for Vucevic, part of a 30-11 third quarter run.
Two minutes of film study can teach young players a lot.
Lagniappe. Beautiful action. It's not "Zoom" but it creates an easy hoop.
Coaches - what are you calling this action? pic.twitter.com/4xROMZwi35
— Tristan Winkelman (@tristan_wink) February 24, 2026
