The Official Newsletter of Just Hoops by Shoot-A-Way
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Essential Coaching Skills - Eric Musselman
Drills of the Month - Jim Boeheim
Don't Get Caught Up In The Things That Don't Matter - Jocko Willink
Articles of the Month
Trainer Article of the Month - Just Hoops Highlights: Loyola-Chicago Hammer Action
Play of the Month - Gonzaga Floppy Circle Hit
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Essential Coaching Skills
-Eric Musselman
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- Teaching the game
- Developing player/coach relationship
- Selling your system
- Motivating
- Organizing
- Being positive
- Maintaining high energy
- Being in good physical condition
- Showing intensity
- Having an extreme will to win
- Understanding the rules of the game
- Communicating
- Having a strong work ethic
- Evaluating talent
- Managing ego
- Garnering respect
- Finding a mentor
- Dealing with the media
- Staying consistent
- Mastering the X's & O's
- Brainstorming
- Selecting & improving staff
- Preparing for games & practices
- Handling late-game situations
- Handling a loss
- Creating a winning environment
- Being creative
- Defining roles
- Managing chemistry
- Relating to players
- Setting goals
- Remaining dedicated
- Generating ideas
- Solving problems
- Grasping opportunities
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Jim Boeheim -
Shoot-A-Way Drills
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3 Spot Rapid Fire Shooting Drill
- Emphasize working on getting your shot off quickly
- Repetition - it's about movement
- Get as many shots up in a short period of time
Challenge Shooting
- Reading closeout & working on putting the ball on the floor if necessary
- Defensive player can come from different angles - forcing player to go either way
- Working on being able to make the shot when they run you off your spot
Penetrate & Kick Back
- Working on downhill drive & throwing kick back pass
Penetrate & Re-Locate
- Consecutive drive & kicks
- Working on being a threat after you pass & getting your feet set behind the 3 point line
Pick & Pop
- Slot Ball-screen working on coming off the screen & throwing back to the pop
Penetrate & Post Pop
- Straight line drive with post player popping out from the block to the short corner
- Can have player extend to 3 point line on pop if that is a part of their skill set
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"The Gun, something our players use everyday in practice. You can use it on your own or have a coach with you. But it's a way for you to get up a lot of shots & work on your arc, timing & do it quickly without a lot of help."
-Syracuse Head Coach
Jim Boeheim
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Jocko Willink - Don't Get Caught Up In Things That Don't Matter
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Jocko Willink is a decorated retired Navy SEAL officer, author of the book "
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win"
, and co-founder of Echelon Front, where he is a leadership instructor, speaker, and executive coach. Jocko spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams, starting as an enlisted SEAL and rising through the ranks to become a SEAL officer.
- As leaders, I see people getting caught up in little things all of the time that will not affect the outcome unless they let it.
- It could be a personality rub, an ego uprising, should we do it this way or that way?
- Leadership Capital - invest your energy into what matters.
- Leaders must learn how to differentiate between what matters and what doesn't matter.
- In order to do this you must be able to detach & step back.
- "The better you get, the less things matter."
- "The better you get, the more the more important things matter."
- Keith Douglas - "To be sentimental or emotional now is dangerous to oneself & to others.
- You can't let your emotions distract you.
- "To trust anyone or to admit any hope of a better world is criminally foolish. As foolish as it is to stop working for it."
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Hut-hut-hike: Jim Boylen and Bulls players are trying to toughen up
By: K.C. Johnson
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- “I’m going to play my competitors and my tough guys,” Boylen said.
- “Toughness is a conscious decision to play with force, to have great will, to play with physicality within the rules,” Boylen said. “We’re not illegal or cheap. Within the rules, set solid screens. Fight for loose balls. Fight over screens. Toughness is important.
- “There’s a mental toughness that we have to get too. Handle in-game adversity better. You make one mistake and do you dwell on it or move on and win the next possession? Younger players can hang their heads. That’s what we talk about to try to get better.”
- Boylen even differentiated between offensive and defensive toughness. He cited making a hard cut when tired, battling to get open on the wing for a ball reversal and setting a hard screen as offensive examples. Defensively, it’s fighting over screens or defending the post or finishing the defense with a rebound in traffic.
- Boylen has talked about forming a foundation. Toughness is a primary building block.
- “I like tough guys,” Boylen said. “Within that, I also have to develop my young guys. But people should know my heart and what I’m trying to do. We’re trying to put discipline in our post offense. We’re making people guard in the post so we can set our defense getting back. Maybe someday we’ll be a running team and a 125-points-a-game team. Right now, we’re focused on getting tougher and doing the basics better.”
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Why UB men's basketball relies on junior college players
By:
Jason Wolf
- “At this level where we are right now, being able to get in the top 25, I think we just have to find the best players that have a high character that fit with our culture right now, wherever they may come from, transfers, JUCOs, high school, prep school, whatever it is.”
- “But if we don’t find high school guys that we think are good enough to compete in this program right away, then we’re not going to take them.
- “To me, it makes a lot of sense,” said Jerry Meyer, the veteran director of basketball scouting for recruiting website 247Sports. “Junior college players, you’re just going to find a more mature guy who has already played college ball in a not-so-glamorous situation. And they’re typically tougher, more mature, more willing to grind, more willing to work, so I think they can really have a positive impact on a team.”
- The trade-off is you often get a player with only two years of college eligibility remaining.
- Once his grades were in order – JUCO players who were academic nonqualifiers out of high school need to earn an associate’s degree and have a 2.5 transferable GPA to make the jump to Division I – he ended up choosing UB over an offer from Texas Tech.
- “From a recruiting standpoint, good luck replacing Jeremy Harris with a high school kid. Or replacing C.J. Massinburg with a high school kid,” Hodgson said.
- You find me three high school kids that can replace (seniors) Jeremy Harris, Nick Perkins and C.J. Massinburg and I’ll show you three kids going to the ACC, you know what I mean?”
- “There’s a stigma, ‘Oh, he went to JUCO, he’s not a good guy or a good player or a good person,’ ” Forbes said. “I think that’s totally wrong. There’s all kinds of success stories out there in junior college. There’s failures at every level, from prep school to AAU to high schools to foreign kids.
- “There’s bad guys in JUCOs, there’s bad guys in prep schools, there’s bad guys in high schools,” Meyer said. “Do your due diligence. Find out, just because he went to JUCO, that should not be like a scarlet letter.”
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TRAINER ARTICLE OF THE MONTH
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Loyola Chicago - Hammer Action
Late game situation & need a 3? This is a great half-court set used by Loyola-Chicago in the NCAA Tournament. Hammer action can be initiated with a ball-screen or a post feed. Make sure your passer gets below the level of the defense & the deepest player. Allow your player to make a jump pass if they need to get below the baseline to create a passing lane. Hammer action is effective because back-side defenders are susceptible to screens in help position plus they can lose sight of their player as they ball-watch.
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Gonzaga - Floppy Circle Hit
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DECEMBER 2018 VOL. 14
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