The Official Newsletter of Just Hoops by Shoot-A-Way
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Some Things I Think Are Over-Done - Del Harris
Drills of the Month - Phil Martelli
Where Does Changing Team Culture Start - Cori Close, UCLA Women's Basketball
Articles of the Month
Trainer Article of the Month - Just Hoops Highlights: Defending Screen-the-Screener
Play of the Month - Milwaukee Bucks SLOB- Box Double
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Some Things I Think Are Over-Done
-Del Harris, Texas Legends
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Offensively
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Things to do less of:
- I do not recommend pick & rolls on the late clock. They are too easy to switch & you do not have time on the late clock to take advantage of the mismatches adequately. (Therefore we have an automatic to switch all pick & rolls the last 5 seconds of the shot/game clock).
- In addition, they can be trapped easily on the late clock and again, the time pressure becomes an issue in beating it.
- I do not recommend pick & rolls as game winner plays for the same reasons above.
- If you have a good player, getting him 1 on 1 is superior to setting a pick & roll for him and bringing that extra defender.
- If your key man is not a 1-1 player, then have some sets where he gets lots of picks off the ball (think Ray Allen, Reggie Miller).
Things to do more of:
- High wing curls wide turnouts that put the defender in a bind to know whether to go over or under the pick. Best if the picker can pop back and make shots. Must be a big & a small to prevent switching.
- Use multiple pick & rolls in your offense. The first one is usually covered fairly well by the good teams, but they are not ready for the second and third ones. But to do this, you must have more than one player who can handle the ball on the pick & roll.
- The first pick on the pick & roll in a multiple system can be a fraud to set up the second one. Know your personnel.
Defensively
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Some things I think are over-done:
- Too much "shrinking the defense."
- Dropping in too far from the strong side top when the ball is on the wing, or even the low post in most cases, makes too easy of a pass for a catch and shoot by a player from whom the defense dropped off. The pass is too short to make a good recovery for a good player.
- Over-committing physically or visually on the weak side.It is problematic to drop in so far from the weak side that you put your defender's in closeout situations so often.
- It puts the offensive player in an advantageous situation because the biggest problem with the closeout is that it is the defensive move that players have the most difficulty executing, regardless of how much the coach drills it.
- Closeouts all the good penetrator a shot or a quick pass option as he draws the defense to him.
2.Stunting too far from your man to another player. Too
many players go so far as to practically be able to
touch the man they stunt to.
- This does not bother the good players that you stunt to in the first place.
- The bigger issue is that it puts the stunter into a situation whereby he has to closeout on his man from a significant distance.
- The crazier thing is that the player is stunting to a lesser player or else he would fully rotate to him and then he is closing out to the better player he stunted from.
3.Consider your terminology and teaching on
closeouts. We have become so accustomed to saying
"closeout hard and high" that no one questions it.
- Perhaps closing out to contain and challenge is better in today's game.
- Know the personnel. Against a shooter only type, the hard and high makes sense. But not against a versatile player who can penetrate well.
- It is a formula for blow-bys with a really good player.
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Phil Martelli -
Shoot-A-Way Drills
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Fill & Fade Shooting Drill
- 1 passer & 2 shooters (can add more shooters if needed) - timed competition
- Start in opposite corners
- 1st = Fill to wing
- 2nd = Fade to corner
- Shooters = "catch clean, shoot clean."
Curl & Fade Shooting Drill
- Big Curl for jumper (Tight Curl for lay-up) - From Corner to Middle/Elbow
- Fade - Fromm Wing to Corner
- Can make continuous
- Shooters = As you are coming to the ball show your hands
- "The next shot is the most important shot."
- Have the passer use their imagination to complete passes over top & around the defense on target
Penetrate & Pitch with Extra Shot
- Passer at top with shooters on both wings (alternate sides on wing entry)
- Penetrate middle for a paint touch & kick out
- Passer at the top of the key gets a catch & shoot on the 2nd pass
- Shooters communicate on your cut (fade or fill)
- Increase energy & level of talk from your players
Pick & Pop
- Wing Ball-Screen working on the throwback to the screener on the pop
- Can add Slip (sprint to corner)
- The passer is pivotal in getting your shooter in rhythm
- Make sure your players are taking shots in games that they have shown you they can consistently make.
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"Coaches use your imagination. Do you see extra guys in lines? 9 kids on one end getting this many shots in a brief period of time. Gold man, gold."
-Saint Joseph's Head Coach
Phil Martelli
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Cori Close, UCLA Women's Basketball - Where Does Changing Team Culture Start?
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Cori Close was named the Michael Price Family UCLA Women’s Head Basketball Coach on April 21, 2011, and is currently 150-86 (.636) overall. She posted her 100th victory in a 95-47 win over Southern (Nov. 18). Close was named the 2018 United States Marine Corps/WBCA NCAA Division I Region 5 Coach of the Year for the second time in her career.
- Where does changing team culture start?
- It starts with the leader.
- Clear vision & expectations
- The core values, whats the burden that UCLA basketball needs to solve, what are we going to be about?
2.Model what I want to see
- Analyze your own life. "Hold up a mirror & ask: where am I not living that out?"
3.Patience & persistence
- "If you want it to be deep it is going to take longer."
- "If you want it to be sustained & have habits of excellence its going to have to be done over, and over and over again.
- Mission = Elite basketball program that teaches, mentors & equips young women for life after UCLA.
- Uncommon & Beyond
- Core Values - interwoven into everything they do.
- Year 5 saw players taking ownership & taught down
- "You can't give away what you don't have."
- Fill that cup up so much & invest in it so it pours over into the team.
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Michigan basketball assistant Luke Yaklich not above rearranging the furniture to teach his defense
By: Andrew Kahn
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- Yaklich had something in common with Beilein: both had once been high school coaches and taught social studies.
- "I really stuck to that adage, 'Be where your feet are."
- Yaklich's philosophy boils down to forcing the opponent into difficult 2-point shots.
- These Wolverines have been drilled to "contest every shot with every fiber of their being," as Yaklich, 42, says. To do that, another Yaklich motto -- he likes mottos -- comes into play: "What gets measured gets done."
- With the aid of the team's student managers, Michigan charts every possession in practice as well as games. Defensively, that includes the rate at which Michigan contests shot attempts.
- Michigan's goal is to contest 75 percent of shots. "When we're between 80 and 90 we're pretty damn good," Yaklich said.
- Asked if there's a non-negotiable physical trait for a good defender, Yaklich mentions something that might not be a physical trait at all: grit.
- "That grit part is that intestinal fortitude that 'I'm here and I'm going to win my matchup.'"
- Dumb fouls, as Yaklich puts it, are not tolerated. Same for a lack of effort. “If you stop in the middle of a play for any reason, you’re going to visit the top of Crisler.”
- Like careless turnovers on offense, the Wolverines run their arena’s stairs for committing such mistakes in practice.
- Communication is taught, encouraged, and enforced. Basketball coaches are fond of telling their players to talk on defense. Too many players don't know what to say.
- "If you don't teach the language to your players and then break that down into small, incremental segments -- 'This situation, this is what you say' -- and don't reinforce and teach that language in the moment, it's hard to say 'talk.'"
- No matter the opponent, Michigan prioritizes transition and ball-screen defense. Being solid in transition forces teams to score against a set defense as often as possible. As for ball screens, their prevalence in the modern game makes the ability to defend them essential.
- "Part of defense is really simplifying things so your guys know what to do," Yaklich said.
- In any given game, he wants his players focusing on two or three specific things that fall under one of the more general areas of emphasis.
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At NC State, 'if you don't play hard, somebody else is going to get your minutes'
By:
Joe Giglio
- If you’re not early, you’re late. And if you’re late for anything — practice, film study, class, workouts — you’re not going to start for N.C. State coach Kevin Keatts.
- “Accountability is part of our culture.”
- “I’m focused on our guys doing the right thing on and off the court,” Keatts said.
- “I want to build for the future. I think it’s important that everybody in our program understands that accountability is one of the major things.”
- “As we grew as a team, and as the regime changed, I feel like that was something that was a major point of emphasis is playing hard and playing hard all the time,” Dorn said.
- “If you don’t play hard, somebody else is going to get your minutes,” Keatts said.
- It’s a concept, in an alleged “me first” era of college basketball, that the Wolfpack players have come to appreciate.
- “We know that we can play ourselves to exhaustion,” said Beverly.
- That’s exactly the mentality Keatts wants. Pour it all out and then let the next guy get in and do the same.
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TRAINER ARTICLE OF THE MONTH
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Michigan Wolverines - How to Defend Screen-the-Screener
Screen-the-Screener is a multiple screening action set that can put the defense at a disadvantage. Use the "shark" concept to take the defensive player guarding the least threatening player (opposite wing) to defend the down-screen. This allows you to "hold-in" on the cross-screen to take away the threat on the block. The "shark" will then attach to the cutter on the down-screen to arrive on the catch. Ball pressure is at a premium in this coverage to eliminate the wing to wing skip pass.
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Milwaukee Bucks - SLOB - Box Double
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JANUARY 2019 VOL. 15
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