Would You Rather Score or Have a Good Possession? Obviously, the answer is both but realistically if you have 70 possessions in a game, for instance, you’ll never score on all of them.  Even scoring on half of them is acceptable very often.  But while it’s impossible to score on all your possessions, in theory…
Yesterday I watched Coach Tom Izzo’s Michigan St. Spartans practice and even though they were basically reviewing all their offense and defense in preparation for an exhibition game against Northern Michigan, the program’s hallmark of toughness was still very evident. In retrospect, if you had told me 20 years ago, after serving a 12 year…
Educate your athletes on the importance of training In-Season; they have to “buy in.” Program low volume rep schemes. High volume training can possibly lead to excessive soreness. Utilize moderate to moderately heavy intensities (weight/load). Lighter intensities will not lead to the same motor unit recruitment as moderate to moderately heavy loads will and ultimately…
Man set with a back screen, lob action for the point guard and screen & roll for a wing and the 4 man. Â If timed properly, all of the help defense should be moving away from the screen and roll to give the ball handler optimum spacing. Play can be run continuously as players end…
Finding the balance between the amount of time we allocate to individual player development versus the time we allocate to actually getting our teams ready to play is no simple task. As usual, there is a spectrum and at one end you have the coach who just works on team and game preparation and pretty…
I watched John Beilein’s Michigan team practice the other day and besides all the really good basketball and coaching that I witnessed, my over-riding takeaway from that practice, as well as all Michigan viewings, is the uniqueness of the Beilein system. It’s been well documented over the years that Coach Beilein never has been an…
