Duke University Competitive Shooting Drills
Ex-Duke University Associate Head Coach and current Northwestern Head Coach Chris Collins walks you through some competitive shooting drills.
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Fred Hoiberg SPEED Drill
Great transition offense drill from former Iowa State and current Chicago Bulls Head Coach Fred Hoiberg. Works on full court layups, conditioning and outlet passes.
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Does Your Playing Rotation Bury Players?
I just finished reading John Feinstein’s WHERE NOBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME, which deals with baseball’s AAA minor league life. A quote by a Durham Bulls’ player about his then manager, Charlie Montoyo, (now a coach on the Tampa Bay Rays staff) really had an impact on me as it applies to coaching at many levels….
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NBA’s Plus/Minus Rating System
If you have ever checked out an NBA box score on ESPN.com, for example, you’ve likely noticed at the far right just before PTS, a column that reads “+/-“. If you did notice it and bothered to mull it over, it didn’t take you long to deduce that the number attributed to each player in…
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Does Your Program Have Pillars?
Mention Bo Ryan and you automatically think swing offense and solid half-court man defense; then mention Dean Smith and you think full court pressure and primary/secondary fast breaks. These two examples were purposely chosen because, for the most part, they would be regarded as system opposites. While the X and O components of these two…
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Hubie Brown Practice Blocks
I took these notes about practice blocks from a video with two time NBA coach of the year and a current television analyst Hubie Brown. Sidenote: The NBA Coach of the Year awards came 26 years a part. Practice Lengths – to save legs for end of the year tournaments practices are shortened at pre-determined dates. November and…
