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If you have read a number of Hoop Coach articles over the last year or so, you may have noticed that we’re into referencing non X and O type information that we’ve read in various sources like Sports Illustrated, ESPN, The Magazine and the NY Times. The rationale, of course, is that if personnel…
Since we’ve been contributing articles to Hoop Coach, perhaps the most popular was the checklist of player bad body language. Many coaches turned it around for their players to read likely thinking that it’s valuable for players to hear from someone other than themselves what they have been advocating. With that in mind, today’s thoughts…
Continuing in our series of floor space and time, today we’ll discuss simple concepts and fundamentals that really are at the heart of how good players and good teams acquire space in effective offenses. Granted, none are revolutionary in and of themselves but, when lumped together, they should serve as reminders to coaches at all…
The Wall Street Journal ran an article, “The Elusive Riddle of Team Chemistry”, by Jared Diamond that all coaches would be wise to read. Although the article is MLB based, there is perhaps even greater reason for basketball coaches to familiarize themselves with the content because our sport is founded to a very large degree…
It sounds simple: A guard brings the ball the down the court and passes the ball to a teammate to start the offense. Of course, that can and does happen. But a lot of the time it doesn’t for a myriad of reasons including defensive pressure and denial, lackadaisical passer and/or receiver, simple timing between…
Advanced basketball analytics have driven NBA teams to put a premium on three point attempts per game and, in doing so, teams have essentially doubled the amount of made three pointers per game over the 10 last seasons. While you have players like Steph Curry knocking down long 3’s with only a sliver of space…