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Being available is temporary. The passing window moves with the drive.
In this week’s Practice Lab, Drew Dunlop explores how players move together to stay available, occupy help defenders, and adjust as the picture changes.
“Move With the Drive. Stay Available to the Ball.”
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Good offenses create gray areas.
Great defenses learn to live in them.
🧠 Ross Hodge on modern defensive decision making.
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A screen without contact. Which side do you call? When do you switch? Where’s the support?
This week: the 3 Flat Nail Screen and how a player simply standing at the nail can create coverage confusion and open downhill attacks.
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☕️ Sunday Mornin' Newsletter
⚰️ The Nail Screen
🏀 Stealing a Quick Two
🎧 Ross Hodge and Adaptable Defenses
🧪 The Practice Lab
and more!
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“Some of your worst passers tend to be your worst decision makers.”
Ross Hodge on developing passers by fixing what happens before the pass. Attacking the right gap, stopping under control, and avoiding decisions that require great passes.
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In Tomorrow's latest Sunday Mornin' Newsletter...
😵💫 Creating Coverage Confusion: The Nail Screen
🥷 Stealing an Easy Two
🎧 Ross Hodge on Defensive Adaptability
📚 Interesting Reads
and more!
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An offense where “Everybody Eats.”
Kyle Bossier’s SoCal Coaches Summit clinic explores the “Beautiful Game” and building an offense around the experience you want your players to have.
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@Mike_Jagacki - incredible detail, defensively genius
@reidouse - development all-round really great stuff
@SlappinGlass - high level basketball Xs and Os
@TweetsbyCoachP - Recrutiting, his spaces are great connecting events
@Coach__Strick - shares a lot of game tactics, decision making and practice content
@BillyClapperBCB - particularly on YouTube shares a bunch of good development workouts, season long shot breakdowns for pros.
@seemikedunn - elite shooting coach
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Is every catch isn’t a 0.5 decision? A hard closeout may call for an immediate attack. A short one may call for a hold, a jab, and a chance to let the defense shift.
Our Roundtable discussion asked how we can help players recognize the difference.
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🚨 New Podcast Alert!
Ross Hodge joins us tomorrow on Defensive Adaptability, Solving Offensive Problems, and Attacking Zones | West Virginia
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Script your subs before you script your plays.
Matt Majkrzak’s Coaches Summit clinic explores how planned rotations take emotion out of substitutions, build consistent lineup groups, and shape practice.
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“The game is gonna give you feedback.”
Our seven biggest takeaways from UC Davis Head Coach Jim Les on daily urgency, trust before truth, Princeton reads, offensive adaptability, and earning the right to become complex defensively.
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“You don’t need to be different everywhere.”
ETSU head coach Brooks Savage on adapting the offense to his roster, building identity through standards, and keeping practice focused on what decides games.
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“Work on footwork” sounds clear until you ask: footwork for what situation? Where’s the defender? Where’s the help? How much space and time?
This week in The Practice Lab, Drew Dunlop helped us get more specific about the problem before designing the work.
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ETSU HC Brooks Savage on:
📋 Simplifying the practice plan
🏀 Why fundamentals can be the separator
🧱 Building standards before style
🔥 How to “mess the game up” when trailing
A lot of really useful coaching in this one.
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Same amount of practice time. Same number of practices.
Where’s the potential edge?
Connect your Ready Up to how you play: spacing, shot priorities, offensive and defensive principles.
Those opening minutes become another opportunity to reinforce your system.
The first 10 minutes of practice can start training the reads players will face later.
This week’s newsletter looks at Drew Dunlop’s Ready Up and how to build those decisions into the opening of practice.
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The first 10 minutes of practice can start training the reads players will face later.
This week’s newsletter looks at Drew Dunlop’s Ready Up and how to build those decisions into the opening of practice.
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☕️ Sunday Mornin' Newsletter
🧠 Putting Decisions in the Warm Up
🎧 Brooks Savage's Offensive Evolution
🏀 Playing off the Drag Screen
and more!
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“If it can’t fit on that top left quadrant, it’s too much.”
ETSU HC Brooks Savage on simplifying the practice plan, narrowing the priorities, and getting more reps at what actually matters.
📋 Less on the sheet.
🏀 More time playing.
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