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The Golden St. Warriors’ re-shaping of the NBA necessitates a discussion on the concept of what we call “playing positions”. The Warriors literally played most of the last half of the championship series against the Cavs with two small forwards (Harrison Barnes and Draymond Green) and 5 guards (Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala, Shaun…
We recently asked coaches to reflect on whether or not their playing rotation might bury players on the bench. Sometimes this is a conscious decision with no apologies and at other times coaches can inadvertently create the very same scenario. In retrospect, one of the biggest mistakes I made as young coach was always having…
Players line up like the image on the left. 5 passes to 6 then sprints at 2 to close out 6 passes to 1 then sprints at 3 to close out 1 passes to 2 then sprints at 4 to close out As the ball moves on the perimeter defenders get to their proper help…
Some years ago, some friends and I were discussing other coaches’ programs- like we all do. A certain coach’s name was brought up whose identity will be withheld because the point of this article isn’t about trashing a person for coaching basketball poorly; rather it’s about what that coach represented for the purposes of this…
Unless one is the recipient of 8 TV timeouts, sometimes as long as 2.5 minutes each- plus one’s normal allotment, coaches can find themselves pressed for time to effectively relay all the thoughts they’d like in many timeouts. And yet, many timeouts can go awry when coaches go off on unplanned or unnecessary tangents. …
Most of us were fairly sure of how we assessed our team and our opponents before the onslaught of analytics or advanced stats. If nothing else, the numbers trend has likely convinced a lot of us that maybe sometimes we make up our minds on certain things and then a look at the numbers tells…