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of Wisdom Roy
Williams tell his players if they are a slasher or a screener on a post feed.
Slashers cut to the basket opposite the post turn, screener go screen someone.
Dave
Odom teaches his players to post up on the line of the ball to the basket.
Jay Wright likes to practice Base OB, Side OB, Endline OB, with specific situations
based on clock ( 0-3 seconds, 4-7 seconds). Can run their regular stuff in 8 seconds
or more.
Dick
Bennett says seven things that will make you lose: Reaching on defence, silence,
low hands, over helping by the bigs, help stand - don't recover, late to help/trap,
lack of floor burns.
University
of Oregon coach Ernie Kent conducts exit interveiws at the end of each season
to give him a clear idea of where his program is at.
To
test his three-point shooters, Purdue head coach Gene Keady will set up a drill
with one ball, one passer, and a shooter. The shooter is trying to make one hundred
threes in ten minutes.
Joe
Wootten teaches his players to foul by going for the ball; they just might get
the steal.
Don
Meyer lists four problem areas for young coaches: #1 - Transition Defense
#2 - Zone Offense #3 - Press Offense #4 - Rebounding-ALL COACHES
When
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to take them away from their home base.
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Fixing
What's Wrong with Shooting by
Tom Nordland - Shooting Coach You
don't have to watch too many high school, college or pro games to realize that
shooting percentages are steadily plummeting from year to year. Missing easy jump
shots is so common that it's not considered out of the ordinary anymore. Teams
often shoot only 30 to 40 percent from the field for a game and that includes
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Play
of the Week King This
continuity set is from New Zealand Junior Tall Ferns who competed in FIBA Oceania
qualification games for the Junior World Championships in Adelaide in early August
2008. I
actually got this play originally in 2005 from Leonard King who was a mentor for
me on a tour to Australia. After the tour I then ran this play with my U16 Canterbury
team, two of which played for the New Zealand Junior Tall Blacks at the Adelaide
tournament. More
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Thoughts From Pete
Carril
This
is an excerpt from the book "The Smart Take From The Strong" by Pete Carril. Here
is a portion from the final section entitled "Twenty-Five Little Things to Remember."
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Peer
Evaluation Test
This
is another test I received from one of my players who is heading over to the US
to play Div 3 college basketball in New York. His new coach sent him a summer
workout program and I lukily received a copy. I thought this was a great idea
to help with the end of year reveiw and to get an idea of how the players perceive
each other and themselves.
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Eastmans Six Keys To a Quality Skill Development Program
1.
Practice at a rate equal to or faster than that which will occur in a game. 2.
Understand it is a process to improve. Conditioning, Effective Practice, Improvement
3.
Eliminate Workout Killers: Fatigue & Boredom 4.
Have a written workout plan 5.
Work on three areas every day " conditioning " dribbling " shooting 6.
The theory of two Two minutes to show you Two weeks to be comfortable Two
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