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FIBA Clinic with San Antonio Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich. Great talk on building a program or team from the ground up. Coach Popovich gives a 33:00 clinic on the basic, core philosophies and fundamentals that make the San Antonio Spurs a perennial contender.
Mention the word pivoting to many players and some coaches and they’re apt to give you a blank stare or look like they have a stick in their eye. When was the last time you saw a player practicing pivoting on his own or heard a coach lecture on pivoting […]
In watching a lot basketball at the high school, collegiate and NBA levels, I’m always reminded that the best coached teams and players at all three levels are fundamentally grounded in the same basic way: Each player who catches and “faces up”-“fights” to square to the basket-no matter how great […]
Basketball Coach Deslea Wrathall talks pressure defense in this 30 minute clinic.
FIBA Clinic with drills for guards and basketball fundamentals by Coach Igor Kokoskov. Video has many drills that can be added to your practices and workouts.
In yesterday’s article on shell defense and in a previous Hoop Coach article, “On Ball Defense”, we have discussed the foundation for today’s topic of help and recover. The premises of those two articles were: the more a defender can stay between his man and the basket, the better; the […]