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In the recent Sports Illustrated NBA Preview Issue, there is a feature article on the Thunder’s guard, Russell Westbrook. What follows are several Westbrook quotes. In the context of article, they are somewhat more impactful but alone, they require little explanation. When asked why he never transferred to a more high-powered high school program, he…
In a recent conversation with a coaching colleague, we were sharing some offensive ideas when he said something that made me pause. Basically, he said that a number of teams that he sees on a regular basis are so intent on executing a play that they lose focus that the idea is to get a…
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…
A condensed, eleven minute training session video of a basketball player training to make the jump to the professional ranks. There are plenty of individual skill drills you can steal and add to your own training sessions.
When you listen to our football coaching brothers talking about “sudden change”, some of them make it sound like some revolutionary thing happens on the football field, when in reality all that occurs is a turnover and a change of possession. Basketball coaches usually don’t use the term sudden change because we change possessions so…
This coming Thursday, June 25, the NBA will hold its annual Draft Day. Most of us know that the current draft consists of two rounds of 30 picks. That’s a far cry from the 10 rounds from 1974 to 1985 and the 7 rounds from ’85 to ’89-not to mention the 1960 and 1968 Drafts…