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Ep 380 What Can a Rugby Coach Teach Your Basketball Team? ( Part 1)
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Coach Bill welcomes Nate Dalena, CEO of Rugby NorCal and an eleven year youth coach, for a conversation that shows how much basketball and rugby share. James Naismith actually drew on rugby when he invented basketball, and Nate argues that both games are really about evasion: moving defenders where you want them and attacking the space you create. His ball carriers are taught to attack the “branches,” a defender’s arms and shoulders, not the center of the body, which is exactly what a good driver does on the court.
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