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When any magazine or newspaper publishes its upcoming season preview for either pro or college basketball or football teams, there is often a feature wherein a coaching opponent or scout will give their take on a team other than their own. And, often in these sections, an opponent’s coach or Read More
No matter how many times you’ve been at either end of a score and no matter if you have the ball or don’t, there are inevitably a few possessions down the stretch of a game where afterwards you say, “that’s where the game was decided”. Even though someone will say Read More
I might have mentioned in past articles how often I’ve discovered coaching nuggets over the years reading Sports Illustrated articles-very often on non-basketball topics and most of them by surprise in articles that are anything but technical in nature. Most of these nuggets come in the form of observations by Read More
If you’re like me, you have great intentions to organize all your thoughts in one place with an ongoing process and then let it slip away at various times. Everyone likely keeps various files and/or master lists of offensive sets and plays, defenses, practice drills, inbound plays, philosophical concepts, scouting Read More
Obviously, there are as many different effective ways to scout an opponent, as there are effective coaches. Coaching philosophies, systems, personalities and styles can vary immensely. So, rather than dwell a great deal on the particulars of a report (personnel, sets, plays, defenses, presses, etc.), we’ll spend most of our Read More
Football coaches have long analyzed their team’s offensive and defensive efficiencies inside the red zones. The thinking is simple, “We got inside the 20; we better damn well score.” Teams have special red zone plays and red zone practice time. And well they should; the effort to move the ball Read More