The Official Newsletter of Just Hoops by Shoot-A-Way
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Program Organization - Buzz Williams
Drills of the Month - Bob McKillop
Kobe Bryant visits Nick Saban at Alabama Training Days
Articles of the Month
Trainer Article of the Month - Just Hoops Highlights: MSU Transition Offense
Play of the Month - Marquette - Double Blur
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Program Organization
-Buzz Williams, Virginia Tech
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- Everything in his program is organized in categories of 4
- Core Values for the program:
- Get back in transition - no easy baskets
- Keep the ball out of the paint - no layups
- Defend without fouling - great ball pressure
- Paint touches - great shots - throw aheads
- Comes up with 4 core values before every game (dependent on the upcoming game)
- Will not openly discuss an opponent 3-5 days before the game and will never prepare his team for more than the next game.
- Has a pregame routine that he follows strictly, starting 2 days before the game.
- This creates a rhythm with what they do with their team.
- 2 days before the game
- Go over the 4 best things the opponent does offensively
- 1 day before
- Review those 4 plays, then add 2 plays and 1 under OB play
- Day of the game (shootaround)
- Review those 7 plays, then add 2 under OB plays
- Wants to tell the team things that resonate with players - especially when it comes to scouting personnel
- Give 4 things about every player in the scouting report
- Scout tape correlates with whatever is written in the scouting report
- Assistants chart important stats 8 games ahead of VT's games against an opponent
- They chart 4 stats during games
- ATO's (success after time outs; offensively/defensively)
- Paint touches
- 4 min games
- FT's (want to make more than the opponent attempts)
- After games, they will show 4 good offensive clips, 4 bad offensive clips, 4 good/bad defensive clips, and coach Williams gets 1 bonus clip (usually relating to culture or toughness)
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Bob McKillop -
Shoot-A-Way Drills
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Drive & Kick + 1-more
- Combines passing, shooting, dribbling and catching.
- All in 1 drill. Doing it at game speed, imagining defenders are on you, all of the situations that occur in our motion offense.
- "Catch the ball in a down position."
- Constantly looking to throw that next pass. Want to create & take advantage of closeouts.
- 4 players, middle penetration from the wing. Drive & kick with 1-more to the corner.
- Ball-side corner working on coming off a pindown for 3.
Actions & Movements within Motion Offense
- Cut screen
- "A cut is just as important as a screen."
- Basket cut into dribble hand-off
- Make sure you are catching the ball down with your guns loaded
Game Speed Transition Shooting
- Early part of secondary break
- Corner pitch ahead with fill-in to wing
- "Throw it to the pocket. Talk to each other. Catch it down. Finish your shot."
Screening & Spacing Shooting
- Wide Pindown with fade screen into 1-more
- "Always want separation after the screen."
- "The game is a war for space.You attack space with your cut, with your screen and then you separate."
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"What the Gun teaches us is I think a very vital part of our team shooting drills. Imagination. It gives you an opportunity to use the particular skills you are going to use to get your players shots. It demands that you prepare & finish. The 2 most vital ingredients of shooting."
-Davidson Head Coach
Bob McKillop
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Kobe Bryant visits Nick Saban at Alabama Training Days
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1). Edit your life – What is most important to you? Things will become clearer very quickly.
2). If you want to be at a excellent level; you have to be excellent all of the time. It’s a way of life.
3). The Process – loving the daily grind and putting the puzzle together. The successes and setbacks are all a part of the journey.
4). Everybody wants to be the beast but not everybody wants to do what the beasts do.
5). With patience you have to be impatient but you can’t get frustrated. Ask yourself: “why am I not playing and what can I do differently?”
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Stay Positive: Charli Turner Thorne pushes Sun Devil Women's Basketball team to success on and off the court
By: Niki D'Andrea
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- It’s the start of a Sun Devil Women’s Basketball practice on the court at Wells Fargo Arena on a recent weekday afternoon, and sitting in upper-level seats, we can’t distinguish longtime head coach Charli Turner Thorne from her players.
- Part of our difficulty is that she’s doing some of the drills and exercises along with them, including push-ups.
- Now in her 22nd season coaching the ASU women’s basketball team, Turner Thorne, 52, is the winningest Sun Devil coach since the team was established, with a record of 343-208.
- She’s done all this by being a “pusher” – someone who drives herself, her coaching staff and her players to always try to take it to the next level.
- “So I can get the game plan ready, I’ll keep watching and watching,” Turner Thorne says. “Just so it’s like I own that team, like I know everything. We’re never really surprised and all my coaches at ASU pride ourselves on being really prepared… it’s incredibly meticulous. We’re going to outwork you. We’re gonna know how to beat you.”
- She says some of the hallmarks of a great coach are “knowing how to read people, how to motivate them and inspire them, how to relate to them – all are important things. And then just being a teacher.”
- Positivity is important, Turner Thorne says, “Because toughness is important. And the essence of toughness is being able to stay positive when things aren’t going your way, being able to stay positive and get the job done. As soon as you go sideways, as soon as you go negative, the energy changes and the focus changes and you’re not going to play as well.”
- “Championship culture is just being incredibly positive and incredibly relentless – relentless hard work and being a selfless team.”
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How the managing partner of a multi-billion-dollar private equity firm became a college basketball coach in Virginia
By:
Ed Miller
- He was a partner at the biggest law firm in Houston who married into one of the city’s most prominent old oil-money families, yet lived in the inner city.
- As a younger man, his God was achievement, he said, his success measured by job and title. So he walked away from a small-college coaching job because of the low pay, yes, but also because he couldn’t bear the thought of waking up one day as a middle-aged coach who hadn’t advanced out of the small-time.
- Aldrich used the hook of basketball to lure in at-risk kids who might have the talent to play in college but not the grades or direction. They were required to come four days a week after school, and complete 30 minutes of reading comprehension and 30 minutes of math before practice.
- A local foodbank served dinner. Aldrich gave devotional talks.
- He made one more call, to Chad Warner, a friend who had recently left coaching to work in business development.
- “I asked him if he was happy he left,” Aldrich said. “He said, ‘No, I’ve been trying to get back in since a week after I left.’ ”
- In his second year at UMBC, he took over recruiting and “program-building”, trying to establish a culture and way of doing things. While he developed metrics for recruiting and other areas, his biggest impact was personal, Odom said.
- Austin did his own due diligence. Among the calls he made was to UMBC athletic director Tim Hall, who called Alrdrich a “hidden gem” and advised him to grab him before someone else did.
- “He said not to be fearful because he was an unusual candidate,” Austin said. “Unconventional is not a bad thing sometimes, if someone has great leadership qualities."
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TRAINER ARTICLE OF THE MONTH
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Michigan State - Transition Offense
Every player's 1st 3 steps will dictate how fast you can play in transition. It takes all 5 players to do their job. Clearly define which side of the floor your in-bounder will "race it out" & dictate the outlet spot for the PG.The 1st post must rim run down the mid-line to stretch the back-line of the defense. Wings must sprint wide to the deep corners. PG's get your momentum up the court & be ready for a pitch ahead. Always remember that "the pass moves quicker than the dribble."
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FEBRUARY 2019 VOL. 16
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