Enjoying cooking doesn't mean easy reproduction of another's gourmet recipe. The viral "Feta Pasta" is as good as it gets. But you have to like feta.
Basketball is about creating advantage (offense) and taking it away (defense). Which begs us to examine Quin Snyder's "Advantage System" which he began over four years ago. Remember, we don't have to adopt an entire system. Choose what works for our players.
Here's the original Zach Lowe breakdown with ample video. "Utah's players need a head start --an advantage." Snyder's system runs so that whenever a player catches the ball, he has one. If your premium is speed, then you probably don't emphasize ball screens, handoffs, and off-ball screens. But if you're more plodding with shooters, you do.
Before reading, think about how to create advantage via personnel, system, and physical and mental training.
Coach Daniel examines the Jazz offense.
1. Spacing is always vital and NBA spacing usually is exemplary.
2. NBA fans know that filled corners are expected, flattening the defense.
3. The Jazz take advantage of cuts from the corners.
4. Gobert creates mismatches with screens and has a high shooting percentage and elite rebounding rate.
5. The Jazz are efficient in the pick-and-roll using a variety of usual actions including Spain action (screen the roller).
Don't take my word for it. Among high volume (possessions) rollers, Gobert has a high points/possession 1.38 and is in the top 10 by percentile. (Data from NBA.com)
Coach Nick did his own breakdown of the early origins of the Snyder system.
There was plenty to like including the old Spurs (Daly Pistons first) "Loop", horns actions, double stagger screens on the helpside, and even homage to the ancient Celtics high post split.
We can't duplicate their system and shouldn't try. Our edge might depend on personnel. If we have a threat of the corner cut, then that might hold the defender allowing paint touches and drives. If we have a strong roller, that might invite drop coverage, opening up foul line jumpers. If we have excellent passing bigs, then maybe we get inside-outside actions for perimeter shots. It's not about a one-size-fits-all approach.
Lagniappe. Slappin' Glass shares high level actions to create separation.
Lagniappe 2. Quin Snyder Ice Cream Pie. You might forget the wing ball screen into reversal and roll, but you won't forget Quin's cuisine.
Can a transformational approach outperform a traditional one? It can't be an excuse for underachievement.
Transformational approaches are long-term. Winning becomes the byproduct. Long-distance runner Deena Kastor set a plethora of Master's records, using a different personal culture. Her ten tips:
Live a Quality, Purposeful Life
Live with an Attitude of Gratitude
Practice Positivity and Purposefulness
See Challenges as Opportunities
Focus on Your Passion
Live with Continuous Improvement
Be Excited about Life
Get Enough Rest
Turn Nervousness into Excitement
Take Things One Step at a Time
Some remind me of Weisinger and Pawliw-Fry in Performing Under Pressure and their "COTE of Arms" - confidence, optimism, tenacity, and enthusiasm. They emphasize excitement over nerves and breaking bigger tasks down into pieces.
The podcast hosts discuss results-oriented process versus great, fun, and memorable experiences. "Let's create a place where everyone wants to be."
After a state tournament, fans gave the underdogs feedback about freedom and enjoyment as their lower rated team reached the finals. Culture accelerates progress.
"Our objective is to win, but that's not our purpose." Winning became the byproduct of having great culture.
As an exercise, they ask each player about their favorite and least favorite teammate (ever) and the adjectives and behaviors that made it so. "When you feel confident and energized, how do you play?" Being a great teammate helps others achieve more. "How we treat others...impacts the quality of our play."
Lagniappe. It takes more than great culture to win. It takes talent, teamwork, good decisions, and execution. One effect of that is quality shots.
"ROB" shots are in range, open, and balanced. Is this a "great" open shot? It missed. Last night the Celtics were 14-35 (40%) and the Hawks 10-30 (33%). Making or missing 3s (at extremes) define outcome.
Lagniappe 2. From Dave Smart via BBallImmersion - Teams need to compete and fight right to the end (take advantage of a team that is ahead and starting to feel comfortable with their lead) – concept of being competitors and NOT feeling sorry for themselves.
Lagniappe 3. NBA teams take advantage of the short roll.
The short roll creates a four-on-three which pressures the defense.
We guess which athletes care enough about their athletic identity to sacrifice what less committed participants will not.
"While athletes may experience specific sacrifices such as pain and injury, there are some sacrifices that appear to be shared between these different groups: sacrificing family activities; sacrificing social activities not related to sport; sacrificing school/professional activities and; having a strong sense of belonging to an exclusive and privileged group."
Academics partially predict commitment. Brad Stevens remarked, "In 11 years, never had a player in the program that worked his tail off on the defensive end that wasn’t a great teammate/student."
In high school, I played on two summer baseball teams, a summer basketball league, and summer soccer workouts. And during the day, I worked as a playground supervisor at the park with the town's best outdoor basketball court. I never considered it sacrifice, as selfishness about athletics came into play. My adult children gave me a t-shirt once, "the older I get, the better I was."
The best players and the best teams willingly do the hard things. There are prices to pay for some (arthritis, chronic pain, CTE, etc.). Athletes seldom mention sacrifice and regret together.
Drill. Superman. "Development is an everyday job."
Nature or nurture? I believe rebounding entails both. Don't leave points on the floor because of inefficiency.
Set Play. Execute hard to defend actions... pick-and-roll, hard front and back cuts, screen-the-screener (including Flex action), screen-the-roller (Spain action), staggered screens, "get" action.
"Great offense is multiple actions." Basketball is a game of separation.
Steph Curry sets a cross-screen and gets a downscreen.
Lagniappe. More hard things. I've seen more high school basketball this year because of live streaming. Teams lost practice time because of quarantines and COVID-19 infections (our high school girls had at least four infections and three shutdowns). What are the biggest issues?
Shot selection. Somewhere between a third and forty percent of threes are airballs. Stop. TAKE BETTER SHOTS. Bad shots come from low skill, poor decisions, and ego.
Turnovers. You can't commit twenty-five turnovers a game and hope to win. It's a mixture of both poor decisions and poor execution. "TAKE CARE OF THE BALL." Elite notes from Zak Boisvert.
Poor passing...leads to both turnovers and poor shots. PASS BETTER.
It boils down to "possession and possessions." Do the hard things. Get more possessions and stop wasting possessions."
Author Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code) says "the difference between good writers and bad writers is that good writers know when they're bad."
Brown is a prisoner of process, writing from 4 A.M. to 11 A.M. in a distraction-free space...no phone, no email, no Internet. Playwright David Mamet wrote, "A man distracted is a man defeated."
He describes "setting the table," leaving off one day's work by starting the next chapter the previous day. I started today's piece yesterday before leaving for work.
The blank page challenges every author. I think of set plays like some writers see the blank page. It's opportunity to steal, to edit, to throw junk in the rubbish.
Don't settle on offense. Attack. Too many teams content themselves with getting the ball in play. Challenge the defense continuously.
Some of my best ideas come in the shower while listening to MasterClass via a bluetooth speaker. Multiple actions. Cross-screens (small to big) create mismatches against switching.
Put your best big on the opposite block during a SLOB.
Space your '3' on the helpside wing.
Locate your '2' on the ballside block and your '1' at the elbow.
Use zipper action to inbound the ball to '2'.
Bring the inbounder in to screen for the '2' while '1' screens across for the '5'.
Pass from 2 to 5 on the block after the switch.
Lagniappe. 1-4 Low inbounds plays (below) from Basketball Immersion.
Below would be a great "short clock" action.
In the Celtics-Hawks game, this BOB began with a 1-4 low set leading to a Tatum fallaway off of a screen. They used to run this with IT4.
Lagniappe 2. Mindfulness connects us without ourselves. It's for sensitive people, like LeBron, Kobe, KAT, Phil Jackson, and Olympic champions. Jon Kabat-Zinn shares. Paying attention, on purpose, in the present, non-judgmentally (Lesson 2). Mindfulness helps us to awareness. "Awareness is a human superpower." Mindfulness helps us 'come to terms' with things as they are.
As coaches, we build relationships, with the game, fellow coaches, and players.
Take one mindful breath today and then build on that.
"An artist that's really committed to their work, they get better (with age)." - Jeff Koons
Being different doesn't make us right or wrong in matters of taste. Every day gives us a chance to grow, whatever our age. Find the buttons to push to motivate ourselves and our players.
The pandemic is both danger and opportunity. Become a learning machine. Let's review some tools available to us.
Find a mentor. "Mentoring is the only shortcut to excellence." In his MasterClass, Usher discussed learning from his mentor's mentors. He learned not only from Michael Jackson but from James Brown. Rick Pitino has a Personal Board of Directors to share input.
Be a mentor. Share knowledge and experience of what went well or poorly. Ask "what if?" Be willing to drop a "truth bomb" on our mentee.
Read. Read basketball, history, psychology, literature, poetry. Discovery doesn't obligate us to use the new information. File it away for review. Basketball is about space and time.
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heav'n in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour." - Blake
Write. Write about basketball or another domain. Write truth or fiction. Write a thank you note, a few lines to a former player, a note to your younger self. Writing every day teaches me how much I don't know.
Build your teaching skills. Skim Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov.
Create a teaching film and clip library. Google Drive is a great storehouse.
Watch film. Services like Coaching U offer great teaching video but the Internet (e.g. YouTube) hosts an abundance of free video from FIBA and the Cross Canada Coaches Clinic among others.
Expand your coaching source library. Build your Drill Book, Practice Plans, adding new and editing outdated material.
Edit your play library including base offenses, set plays, ATOs, SLOBs, BOBs, and Game Winners.
Go nuclear. What's your best 5 package - best ATO, SLOB, BOB, Man play, Zone play? Even better, have your best five of each.
"Say YES." When someone asks for help, carpe diem.
Think. Ask ourselves, "is coaching making me a better person" and "is coaching helping make my students better?"
Give it our best. "Make the big time where you are."
Lagniappe. Frank Martin shares his insights into the youth sports culture and dysfunction. It's worth the few minutes.
As a high school junior, I did a lot of chicken chasing. The chicken was named Frank, who was FAST. That prepared me for containing the ball as a senior when I had a bigger role.
So you want to be the starting point guard. What skills help point guard wannabes?
Become the coach on the floor.
Energize your team every day.
Take care of the basketball.
"Learn the game."
Get everyone involved.
Be a willing passer.
Lead. Make plays, not excuses. Model excellence.
1. Warm up properly with the Jay Wright/Villanova "Get 50." It bugs me to see kids walk into practice and start jacking up 3s. "We make our habits and our habits make us."
2. Extend your range via a catch-and-shoot three. Create separation for side dribble threes like Joe Harris.
3. "See the game." Sue Bird shows how to use "paint touch and ball reversal" as she relocates for a three-pointer. Relocation, relocation, relocation.
4. Become acquainted with Celtics 32 (diagram below, 17 shots, 32 point maximum).
Combine multiple distances and time (two minutes) in search of your "personal best." Again, a partner is necessary. Pitino quarters (168 point maximum) is the Herculean version with seven radians, three levels (distances), and four quarters (84 shots).
5. Handle Messiah.
Develop functional (working) moves to right and left. Continuation dribble moves include speed dribble, hesitation (hesi), in-and-out dribble. Reversal moves include crossover (on the shoetops), between the legs, behind-the-back, and spins.
Develop combination moves like hesitation into crossover and vice versa.
Have a back dribble crossover to avoid dribbling into traps.
Some players "make a living" with one dominant move, like a killer hesitation move.
This video is long but outstanding.
Better with defense and higher intensity...
Cut with purpose and urgently.
Lagniappe. Coaching thoughts from Dave Smart via Basketball Immersion.
Don’t try to be a basketball genius, keep your plan simple, focus on execution.
Read and be “book smart” but remember to apply knowledge and be “street smart.”
***If it doesn't work or we can't teach it, move on.
What made the top teams you faced so good? "Mature simplicity" of Don Meyer...
The best teams are detail-oriented, on the same page. They make it clear early how they intend to win and their plan to wear you down. In crunch time, they make the right reads and execute. Poorer teams lack the direction, skill, or will to compete. It takes precious little time to identify the hunter and the prey.
1) Movement. "Movement kills defenses." We played a team that executed pass and cut offense well. If we overplayed, they cut back door or screened. If we played off, they set up cuts and front cut with quickness. They passed unselfishly and accurately, on time and on target. Our defense wasn't excellent but their offense made us look worse.
2) Ball pressure, ball containment. We played a youth eighth grade team a decade ago on a Saturday morning. They got up on our girls without fouling. Their defensive attack mentality allowed no "dead man's defense" (six feet under). They made us work for everything. They made it a long morning for us.
3) Talk. Communication activates teammates. Talk intimidates.
4) Make the simple plays. Coach Ed Beattie's Winnecunnet High School won five consecutive New Hampshire championships and schooled our league champions in a Christmas tournament. There was no trickery. They spaced, cut, and raced the lanes in transition. Pick-and-rolls, pass and cut, pass and screen away are hard to defend when players cut urgently.
New Hampshire allowed year round coaching. They finished each practice with each player making two consecutive free throws as a team (i.e. 22 consecutive free throws). At one point, I heard they had graduated nine high school All-Americans. They were a machine.
5) The best teams don't beat themselves. They value the ball and waste fewer possessions. They understand Pete Carril's wisdom, "the quality of the shot relates to the quality of the pass." Poor teams take poorer shots, don't pass well, and make bad decisions leading to turnovers.
A vast divide lies between know that and know how. Excellence in coaching, commitment, competitive players, repetitions, and time are hard targets. Remember the success equation - ACHIEVEMENT = SKILL x TIME.
Lagniappe. Research literally means re-search. Naismith didn't invent the game yesterday. In 1942, Clair Bee authored Man-to-Man Defense and Attack. In Chapter 3, he wrote, "The use of the screen-switch, therefore, became important and defensive confusion was avoided by switching on all screening plays, whether inside or outside." Coaches didn't invent switch everything and positionless basketball yesterday.
Lagniappe 2. Smart on Success, Sustainability, Simplicity. (repost of complete notes here)
"We ran four things." Sustainability follows player development. (I can help players improve, but the few elite players separate themselves.)
Lagniappe 3. FastModel ramps up their YouTube presence with a Gonzaga BOB from a 4 low set. 4 low sets offer numerous possibilities, sometimes the least expected of which is an open opposite corner 3.
Lagniappe 4. What's more productive, making your first stringers 10 percent better or your reserves 40 percent better? Seth Godin gives examples of the power of laggards. If NBA starters scored 80 points and reserves 30 points per game, increasing the former 10 percent adds 8 points. But increasing the latter adds 12.
Forty years in medicine is a long time. I've practiced in "The President's Hospital" (Bethesda Naval Hospital), an LPH (Amphibious Missile Destroyer), small clinics, and a community hospital. I've ridden in the President's helicopter (Reagan's had jelly beans) and an ambulance screaming to Mass General. I'm no hero.
Dispensing advice to young people during a physical examination, I never know what they hear or take away. I'll share key points.
Youth is a blessing. Taking care of your body doesn't guarantee good health of immortality. But self-abuse is likely to prevent it.
Mental health problems arise, sometimes after disappointment. If you develop depression, get help. Don't seek a permanent solution (suicide) to a temporary problem.
A lot of people benefit from smoking - tobacco farmers and the entire industry employs millions. The person who never benefits is the smoker! It's a killer habit.
Ben Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth an ounce of cure." Get at least seven hours of sleep (preferably eight). To guys, about one of forty thousand guys gets testicular cancer. The other 39,999 don't. Check once a month to make sure there's nothing there except for the original equipment (I've diagnosed testicular cancer in young men in the office twice, both on Friday afternoons. Both survived.).
Don't take energy drinks (I'm not talking Gatorade). They are sometimes "gateway drugs" to alcoholism and stimulants.
If you are sexually active, you don't want unexpected parenthood or sexually-transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS. Love might not be forever, but herpes is. Barrier methods (like condoms) are better than nothing.
If you get stopped by the police, don't ask why. Be deferential and play the odds that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. The officer is the one with the badge and the gun. They don't need your attitude.
Do you know where you want to be in five or ten years? If you don't that's okay, but if you do, what are you doing today to get there?
"If you need help or have a question, LET ME KNOW."
Lagniappe. Dumacity...the act or condition of being a dumbass.
Avoid "DUMACITY" the extremes of self-destruction. Hundreds of young people have died from taking selfies. I suggest that you go to the link.
Programs, coaches, and players become radioactive. Figuratively, radioactivity is not the property of the beholder but the view of observers. Radioactivity isn't full on cancellation, but close.
Radioactivity means real or imagined contamination through association with the radioactive party.
Tell me more. In December 1977, a brawl, the origins of which are disputed, resulted in Kermit Washington punching Rudy Tomjanovich, resulting in serious injury, fine, and suspension. Following a trade to Boston, Washington resumed his career, playing parts of five additional seasons. Washington's greatest NBA damage was reputation.
The paradigm of radioactivity is Colin Kaepernick, whose protests against racism, seeking social justice, effectively ended his career. Kaepernick is no dummy, scoring 38 on the NFL's Wonderlic Test (Tom Brady scored 33). He received an undisclosed settlement from the National Football League and practically, its acceptance of the need for support of the social justice movement.
Many Americans will never agree (there are more dislikes than likes to Goodell's mea culpa).
Numerous NHL players have been suspended for violence but only one became permanently radioactive, Billy Coutu, suspended for life in 1927 for violence against officials. I recently spoke with an NHL scouting director who agreed that skill has become a greater priority as well as players having greater respect for each other (avoiding "cheap shots").
Radioactivity dissipates at different rates. "Some isotopes decay in hours or even minutes, but others decay very slowly. Strontium-90 and cesium-137 have half-lives of about 30 years (half the radioactivity will decay in 30 years). Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years." The same applies to people and organizations. For some, redemption occurs quickly, for others never.
Radioactivity extends past reality. In Hoosiers, Hickory (Milan, IN) Coach Norman Dale was radioactive after punching a player as a college coach. Return to coaching offered a chance, not a guarantee, of redemption.
Radioactivity doesn't only follow violence. In late 2017, Louisville fired Coach Rick Pitino for cause, over two years later adjudicated to a resignation without liability. The NCAA vacated a Louisville national title. Radioactive "decay" brought Pitino back as Iona coach in March 2020.
The character Geiger counter-defying culture wasn't unique to Pitino at Louisville. Bobby Petrino's well-chronicled scandals came to Louisville as well. Louisville paid him both to come and to go.
A program's legacy success sometimes provides radioactivity going forward. The shadow of John Wooden made search for his successor reminiscent of the search for the next Bobby Fischer.
How do we prevent radioactive leaks?
Euroleague Championship coach Etorre Messina reminds us, "A manager's biggest achievement? Getting his team to follow the rules without having to force them."Character matters. Kermit Washington's punch is only part of legacy. He serves a lengthy sentence for embezzlement.
Nick Saban emphasizes to players that they represent the university and the football program. In Monte Burke's unauthorized biography, Saban, he uses a colorful example suggesting that the only way he could be unfaithful to 'Miss Terry' would be with Hillary Clinton, someone with more to lose than he did if an affair was revealed.
Former Patriots assistant Mike Lombardi maintained contacts with SEC sororities to score the inside scoop on Patriot draft prospects. If the sisters squealed on you, you fell off the Pats' draft board.
The scene from the film Draft Day with the quarterback lying about the playbook also came directly out of the Belichick camp.
The bottom line remains, "the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior."
Lagniappe. Pitino comes back for a reason. He can coach!
Energy is finite. Coaches help define energy levels. Author James Clear asks, "Does this activity fill me with energy or drain me of energy?"
1. The coach and point guards must bring energy every day. This is non-negotiable.
2. Reject what Jon Gordon calls (in The Energy Bus) "energy vampires."
3. Attitude creates energy. Try it. Enter a room smiling, chatting people up and energy rises. Conversely, we lower the energy level intentionally by asking people to tone it down.
4. In Above the Line, former Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer discusses "crossing the red line" to enter the field. When players cross the line, they 'agree' to readiness, engagement, and expectations of meeting a high standard of performance.
5. "Fired up, ready to go." Understand how to work a room, because "one voice can change a room." It's not about politics; it's about getting people excited.
Lagniappe. Raise the energy level. Shaka Smart knew how.
Lagniappe 2. Energize your writing.
Use stronger verbs. "She ran" becomes "she sprinted."
Eliminate adverbs. "She moved quickly" becomes "she hastened."
Reduce the passive voice. "She was sitting on the bench," becomes "she seethed after Coach Jones pulled her."
Use an energy quote. Tommy Lasorda remarked, "There are three kinds of people...people who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who wonder what's happening."
Lagniappe 4. Use music to find the right 'activation' level.
In "Performing Under Pressure" Weisinger and Pawliw-Fry inform the relationship between state of arousal and performance. Many athletes use music to raise their arousal levels pre-game.
Basketball Friday examines concepts, a drill, and a set play. Install a defense that works for you. No "best" system exists. Score a steal today.
What considerations belong?
Who are your defenders (size, athleticism, basketball IQ)?
What can you teach?
Can your players cope with more freedom or do they need more structure?
How to measure effectiveness?
When to change?
Do what you do well.
Limit what opponents do well.
What if? (E.g. coping with foul trouble, injury, etc.)
Regardless of your system, technique beats tactics. Players will need to learn perimeter and post defense, defending closeouts and pick-and-roll, and to finish possessions with rebounding and 'safe' conversion to offense.
With my last middle school group, we mostly played man-to-man defense. I wanted to add run-and-jump principles for an alternative full court press. We never showed an aptitude for it.
I adhere to Kevin Eastman's philosophy, "do it better, do it harder, change personnel, and #$%& it ain't working" (*change tactics).
We changed from all man to a triangle and two late in the season because that covered our inability to stop dribble penetration. The guards limited open three pointers and had "protection" from shot blockers on the back line.
"Know your NOs." - Kevin Eastman
No penetration (drives/passes)
No middle
No uncontested shots (challenge shots without fouling, e.g. a jump shot)
No second shots
No transition baskets (how many to the glass, who?)
Develop your system. Almost fifty years ago we played multiple defenses en route to a 21-4 season and a Division 1 sectional championship. In retrospect, it was likely a combination of UNC and UCLA philosophies. We lost four games by a total of seven points.
Terminology. We used the first digit to describe the defense and the second the extension of the defense.
First digit
10-20s Tight Man
30-40s 1-2-2
50-60s 1-3-1
70s 2-1-2
80s 2-2-1
Second digit
1 = 1/4 court
2 = 1/2 court
3 = 3/4 court
4 = full court
Base defenses
11 - Tight man (half court defense; denial on dead dribble)
51 - 1-3-1
71 - 2-1-2
81 - sagging man (fall back from 83)
Pressing defenses
14 - full court man
83 - 2-2-1 UCLA 3/4 court trap allowing the first pass in
54 - "Diamond" 1-2-1-1 full court trap
Red - full court man, run-and-jump. When trailing, we often but not exclusively ran the run-and-jump defense. I sometimes call it "trap and switch" to help players see the defense. 83 fell back to 81, sagging man.
Drill. I prefer to show drills that we actually use. Here's an Auriemma combo drill into rebounding battle drill.
Set Play. Coach Obradovic draws up a master stroke. T- CDR (triangle, cross-screen, down-screen, roll).
Learn across domains is one of my core beliefs. An article, song lyrics, or even a phrase may trigger a question or search for understanding.
MasterClass, Jeff Koons
"Basketball is life." Extrapolate life from art and art from life.
One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank, by Jeff Koons, 1985
What do you see? Let our imagination run. Artist Jeff Koons said, "In this show, I wanted to talk about the act of survival using a material...that underscored the impossibility of maintaining balance between life and death but still having the desire to go for it in life."
Another article said the piece, "would articulate an uncanny balance between aspirational dreams and existential reality by neither floating to its top nor sinking to its bottom, but hovering perpetually in an ‘ultimate’ state of equilibrium at its centre."
Koons' philosophy is to "practice ACCEPTANCE, remove JUDGMENT," reminding us of Walt Whitman's quote, "Be curious not judgmental, most recently expressed in the Ted Lasso series.
"Best Coach"
Every piece won't have existential implications. This shows the centerpiece of my tiny collection of appreciation art. Art adds meaning to our lives. We could see the piece representing execution, gravity holding us earthbound, or a "rock head" coach! Thanks to Natalie.
At its finest, basketball is art, grace and power. It's extra oxygen in the room.
Aspire to beautiful basketball.
Lagniappe. A coherent presentation on breaking the 1-2-2. The weakness is in the middle and the presenter suggests how to get there (e.g. screening or flashing).
Lagniappe 2. A tip from Coach Dave Smart.
(Image from Dave Smart via Chris Oliver, @BBallImmersion)
