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Bill Cartwright has arguably the strangest free throw form in the history of the world. I grew up a staunch Detroit Pistons Fan so I suppose I could be bias. According to Basketball Reference Bill Cartwright shot 77% for his career from the line. That astounds me. Question of Read More
As you prepare for the season, many of you will run the same basic basketball offense system as you did this past season. Some of you will be looking to add some wrinkles and then others will be in the market for a total remake. In the last two cases, Read More
My recent article Increase Your Competitive Edge: Reduce Fouls and Turnovers correlated the number of successful 2014-2015 NCAA teams who had both low turnover and fouls per game rates. Today, I want to discuss the correlation of low team fouls and both low team blocks and steals. The NCAA doesn’t track Read More
The first few years running the summer basketball camp at the high school where I coach were very stressful for me. I sweated little things that, come to find out, the campers, parents and student coaches couldn’t care less about. Going into my 9th year running the camp I can honestly say that Read More
A few articles ago, one of the discussions centered around the dearth of modern day big men who are skilled and/or interested in acquiring skills in the low post. Even many young bigs (or their parents or handlers) bristle if you even think of playing them anywhere below the free Read More
Coaches have been charting OER (Offensive Efficiency Rating) and DER (Defensive Efficiency Rating) since at least the early 1970’s. And really, it’s not a big deal, in and of itself because it’s only dividing the number of points scored-OER (or given up -for DER) by the number of possessions. So, Read More