The Official Newsletter of Just Hoops by Shoot-A-Way
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A Winner Knows...
Drills of the Month - Tom Izzo
Urban Meyer Ohio Coaches Association Clinic
Articles of the Month
Trainer Article of the Month - Growing through Successes & Setbacks
Play of the Month - Stack 41 Flare
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"Player's think: play me & I will show you. Coaches think: show me & I'll play you."
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Shaka Smart
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- How fragile success is
- What really matters (and what doesn't)
- What to do next
- The difference between confidence & cockiness
- That he needs help to reach the top
- Who should get the ball
- The time, score & situation
- How to make his teammates better
- That short cuts are fool's gold
- That toughness is a state of mind
- How to handle success
- To spread the wealth
- That both ends matter
- What the team needs him to do
- How his actions impact his teammates
- The difference between the process & the result
- The value of sacrifice
- Why coaches are so critical
- How to respond to adversity
- That complacency is the seed of underachievement
- That WE is stronger than me
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Tom Izzo -
Shoot-A-Way Drills
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Drive & Kick, Swing, Swing
- 1st = Shot
- 2nd = Shot Fake / Drive & Kick
- vs Defender = "Swing" depending on the closeout
- "Be prepared on the drive to keep our spacing."
Ball-Screen & Pop
- Shoulder to Shoulder - "Leave no room."
- No drop dribble - "Cover more ground."
- Move all over the court = Different angles + different spots on the floor
Corner Wing Jumpers
- 4 players working on Offense & Defense
- Footwork of the Shooter
- Fade's & Fill-Ups
- Inside Foot Pivot
- Cover Ground
- Good passes by the passer
- In-front of the shooter
- Defender = has to closeout & cut-out
Wing Curls & Fades
- Reading screens is the key to basketball
- "Great pass = Great shot."
- "Poor pass = Poor shot."
- Flare = "Sell it" on the screen
- Cover distance = no small steps
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"We use the Gun in our practices, pre-practices & our guys use it when there are no coaches around."
-Tom Izzo
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Urban Meyer - Ohio
High School Football Coaches Association Clinic
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- The one common denominator for coaching staffs of successful programs is: Alignment with the head coach
Recruiting
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- 1st – Competitive Spirit
- Recruit height, weight, bench and vertical (these are all measurable). The Immeasurable – will he do everything in his power to win
- See how he performs in big time games (competitive spirit) – In order to perform in a big game you have to be a “real guy.”
- 2nd – Character – “Does he have the self-discipline of self-respect to take care of himself?”
- 3rd – Toughness – Is he relentless? Does he go both ways? “The kid that takes the extra step.” Is the extra step out of bounds or to lower his shoulder and pick up 2 more yards?
- 4th – Can he run – does he play fast on the field?
- Have to push your players in the off-season (bear crawls at 5 am to figure out if they have a genuine love for the game – you can’t wait until October 26th against Penn State).
Teaching 101
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- The objective of a teacher is to get the student to retain information, use the information as skill and increase production because of the information and skill.
- Clear objective – must be very clear of what you are asking
- Clean – use every teaching tool that is available (film)
- Concise – broken down to the smallest detail and get to the point
- Direct Teaching – To the point (“what is it”)
- When hiring/evaluating his assistants – can he teach? I don’t care what he looks like, that he says all of the right things – the film will tell the story
- When teaching – ask the kid “what did I just say?” If he can’t repeat back to you then you just taught yourself (wasting a lot of time). You served as a presenter and not a teacher – the player not retaining the information is the presenters fault
Competitive Excellence-
- Competitive Excellence is this: “At the end of the day, when that number is called to go make that play, are you ready? Are you ready to make that play? And it is not because you are wearing that secret t-shirt from your sophomore year of high school. We have to eliminate the thought of “good luck – superstitions – very common in athletics. If you get your team and your coaching staff aligned together, then the core is so strong (you will be able to come together)
- The Core is so Strong. The alignment is so Strong = We all believe in the same things.
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JJ Redick, the NBA's Most Meticulous Player
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- He has built a high-level career out of this mind-numbing preparation.
- But in explaining his success, Redick cited the monotony of his daily routine. He has an insatiable desire for structure. He finds joy in the mundane.
- "By having a routine, by having habits that I can fall back on, it’s my way of enacting control. It’s the only thing I can control.”
- Consider his off-season, when he trains six days a week but reserves his most meticulous workout for Sunday. On that day, he forces himself to make 342 shots — no more, no less.
- “It goes back to having control and putting things in place that put me at ease,” Redick said. “If you don’t have those mechanisms, then you don’t have that foundation — that solid place that you can always go back to if you’re struggling.”
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An Open Letter About Female Coaches
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Pau Gasol
- One, she was an accomplished player — with an elite point guard’s mind for the game. And two, she has been a successful assistant for arguably the greatest coach in the game.
- She noticed a small detail out of the corner of her eye — and then instantly located both the problem and the solution. And not only that, but we were also able to communicate with each other in such a way that we got the result that we needed.
- Pop’s only standard for doing anything is whether it’ll help us in just one way … and it isn’t getting good PR. It’s getting W’s. And getting those W’s The Spurs Way.
- As we’re making all of these amazing strides in society, in terms of increasing our social awareness, and making efforts toward ideas like diversity and equality, and just sort of creating this more inclusive world … somehow sports should be an exception.
- It’s this idea, for some people, that sports should almost be this haven, where it’s O.K. to be closed-minded — like a bubble for all of our worst ignorance. And that as athletes, if we have any problems with the way things are, we should (as the saying goes) “stick to sports.”
- But I just think it’s this beautiful thing, you know, to see the NBA begin to reflect the larger world. Because it’s such a big world, isn’t it? And I think any time you can expand your horizons, toward something new and meaningful … it can only make you a better person.
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TRAINER ARTICLE OF THE MONTH
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Coach Nathan Edick -"Growing through Successes & Setbacks"
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Coach Nathan Edick sits down with Coach Adams to discuss lessons he has learned from his mentors on leadership, the process & what goes into winning. Coach Edick is a firm believer in daily deposits & focusing on effort rather than outcome.
Edick has collegiate coaching experience at the NCAA Division I, II & III levels. He was an understudy to coaching mentors throughout his coaching stops at the University of Tulsa, Virginia Commonwealth University, UVa-Wise & the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
Edick graduated from Otterbein University where he was the recipient of the Ohio Athletic Conference Clyde Lamb Award during his senior season. In his freshman season at Marietta College, he was #1 in the NCAA in three-point shooting after connecting on 54.8% of his three-point attempts.
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JULY 2018 VOL. 9
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