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Strategies to Develop Defensive Awareness in Players · A Quick Timeout

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_01: Really excited to have Coach Mike Jigaki back on the show for part two.
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  SPEAKER_01: We actually started this last week talking about designing disruption,
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  SPEAKER_01: specifically with traps,
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  SPEAKER_01: and then excited now to have him back for this second part here,
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  SPEAKER_01: talking a little bit more about developing defensive awareness.
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  And if you're listening to this episode,
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  there's also video that goes along with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll put that down in the description.
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  SPEAKER_01: So be sure to check that out when you get a chance.
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  yeah so i've been releasing polls on twitter you might have
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  seen some of them but
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  every kind of week i put out four polls or so and i ask coaches
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  just to get a feel
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  SPEAKER_02: right i'm not trying to
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  SPEAKER_02: catch anyone out, do some crafty polling.
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  I just want to get a feel for what coaches are struggling with,
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  what they're feeling.
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  And the one thing that surprised me the most is how many
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  coaches are really
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  SPEAKER_02: struggling with defensive awareness for their players.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I'm not saying I don't struggle with it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Every program deals with it at some extent because I think
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  There's a big problem in the defensive awareness of kind of our
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  developmental
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  SPEAKER_02: platform of developing youth basketball.
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  SPEAKER_02: So let me share my screen here just to give you a point of reference.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I did a video recently where I talked about defensive awareness.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you have to think about it from a player's perspective, right?
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  Instead of just getting annoyed or mad at our players when
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  we're working on defense
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  and they're not seeing ball on man and they've missed the
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  cutter and all this
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  SPEAKER_02: stuff.
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  Let's go back to how they consume basketball because mostly
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  everyone who gets into
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  SPEAKER_02: playing basketball started as a fan first,
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  SPEAKER_02: right?
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  And when you start watching basketball as a fan,
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  you're not watching it to get better.
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  SPEAKER_02: You're watching it to enjoy.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's entertainment.
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  SPEAKER_02: And what...
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  SPEAKER_02: how platforms are teaching us to watch it is by just watching the ball.
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  So when a player watches basketball,
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  nine times out of 10 times,
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  this is what it looks like.
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  SPEAKER_02: And if you can't see the screen,
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  I've silhouetted the ball and really blacked out everything
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  else that's happening.
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  SPEAKER_02: All you can see is the ball.
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  SPEAKER_02: And
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  for a player especially who's growing up in this generation how
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  are they consuming
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  the game they're consuming it with highlights where very rarely
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  can you see
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  anything else right all you can see is is the guy on the ball
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  and the dribble move
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  that's happening or they're they're scrolling through tiktok or
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  instagram or
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  youtube shorts and those small vertical uh windows like you you
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  can't see anything
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  SPEAKER_02: right all you can see is the on ball so of course
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  players are being trained to only consume one thing at a time
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  when they're
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  SPEAKER_02: consuming basketball,
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  SPEAKER_02: and that's the ball.
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  SPEAKER_02: And when they do that,
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  SPEAKER_02: unfortunately,
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  SPEAKER_02: I'll let this clip show,
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  SPEAKER_02: when they watch a play,
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  SPEAKER_02: all they're doing is following the ball.
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  SPEAKER_02: And all they're taking in is the ball and maybe the on-ball defender.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's two of the 10 players out there.
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  SPEAKER_02: So they're really missing 80% of the game.
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  SPEAKER_02: So when I show players this clip,
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  SPEAKER_02: and this is one of the best ball movement clips from the finals,
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  SPEAKER_02: the Spurs versus the Heat,
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  SPEAKER_02: the players will watch it and they'll just be like,
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  SPEAKER_02: oh,
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  SPEAKER_02: that was a lot of ball movement.
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  SPEAKER_02: But they don't really know what happened.
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  They might ask what happened to the defense at the end because
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  they don't know why
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  SPEAKER_02: it wasn't there,
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  SPEAKER_02: right?
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  SPEAKER_02: What happened?
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  SPEAKER_02: But when a coach watches this play,
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  SPEAKER_02: hopefully,
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  SPEAKER_02: or maybe a player with great defensive awareness watches this play,
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  they don't watch just the ball,
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  they're watching everything that's happening around it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because the ball is really only gonna tell you so much information,
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  SPEAKER_02: unless it's a strict isolation,
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  SPEAKER_02: or maybe you're watching Luka ISO,
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  SPEAKER_02: maybe that's worth watching,
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  SPEAKER_02: right?
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  SPEAKER_02: But most of the time,
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  everything else happening around the ball is gonna tell you
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  what's happening next.
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  SPEAKER_02: So you can see here,
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  SPEAKER_02: like,
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  SPEAKER_02: this play has a great floppy action,
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  SPEAKER_02: the floppy action flows into a step-up ball screen,
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  SPEAKER_02: we have a down screen happening at the nail,
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  SPEAKER_02: We pop, we hit D out, we have a drive and then a dump off.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's so much that happened outside of just following the ball.
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  And unfortunately for most of our players,
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  they didn't appreciate that play for its true beauty.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so there are studies in soccer,
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  SPEAKER_02: in tennis,
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  SPEAKER_02: maybe tennis isn't a great example,
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  SPEAKER_02: but there are studies definitely in soccer where if you cut the clip,
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  SPEAKER_02: And you ask, even digitally, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: I know we have some transfer debates and stuff like that.
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  But if you just quiz players on how they watch the game and
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  then ask them what's
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  SPEAKER_02: going to happen next,
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  SPEAKER_02: the players who can scan even the digital phase of just watching a clip,
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  SPEAKER_02: the film...
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  that will greatly predict how good those players are right so
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  there's a big
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  difference between elite players average players novice players
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  and how they're
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  watching how they're scanning the game and that relates to how
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  they play it as well
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  SPEAKER_02: and how much eye tracking they're doing in the game as well so
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  There is definitely some evidence scientifically that if we can
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  change how players
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  SPEAKER_02: consume the game,
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  SPEAKER_02: we actually can change how they see it when they're in it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it makes sense that if when every time they watch the game,
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  all they're watching is the ball and then you get them on
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  defense and all they can
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  see is the ball and they lose their man or all they can see is
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  their man and they
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  SPEAKER_02: lose the ball.
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  SPEAKER_02: That makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's all they've ever been.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's the habit they've built from watching the game.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so we need to help our players change how they consume it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we can do that by working with them one-on-one and doing some things.
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  SPEAKER_02: One of the drills,
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  SPEAKER_02: I won't call it a drill,
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  SPEAKER_02: I guess,
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  but one of the exercises that I do with players who are
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  struggling with defensive
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  SPEAKER_02: awareness is this idea of padding.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this is a concept I've stolen from football.
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  SPEAKER_02: The padding basically means play action diagram.
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  SPEAKER_02: You're going to watch this first clip,
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  SPEAKER_02: for example,
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  SPEAKER_02: and you're going to watch it at least five times.
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  SPEAKER_02: And every time you're going to start from the beginning
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  SPEAKER_02: And you're just going to pick one player.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we've picked Tony Parker here, right?
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  And you're going to get your diagram and you're going to slowly
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  track Tony Parker's
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  SPEAKER_02: path throughout this entire play,
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  SPEAKER_02: stopping,
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  SPEAKER_02: starting it.
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  SPEAKER_02: The idea isn't just to get a general idea.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's to be precise.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, where is he crossing this lane line?
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  SPEAKER_02: Where is he going out of bounds?
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  SPEAKER_02: He just stepped out of bounds.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where is he catching the ball on the wing?
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  SPEAKER_02: Is it foul and extended?
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  SPEAKER_02: Is it slightly higher?
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  SPEAKER_02: You're being really precise.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you do this five times each time watching a new player.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, then what happens is the sixth time you watch this clip,
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like you can see everything.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like the matrix, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: You can see every little detail,
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  every shift in positioning from Kawhi slightly lifting up to
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  slightly getting
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  SPEAKER_02: deeper in the corner.
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  SPEAKER_02: You understand it all just by padding the play.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the more you do this, the faster it gets.
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  And I've seen players who I've utilized this technique greatly
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  improve how they see
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  SPEAKER_02: the game and how they play it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's just one example.
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  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't mean you have to take every player and do that, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: That's a special situation.
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  SPEAKER_02: For most of us coaches,
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  the more applicable application is making sure that when we're
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  presenting a scout,
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  when we're showing film of maybe a self scout of ourselves that
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  we're constantly
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  taking the attention off the ball right when we're showing
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  clips and our players
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  are watching the film stop letting them be hijacked by the ball
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  and make sure
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  you're bringing their attention to everything else that's
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  happening because the
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  more we can paint the picture of how important that stuff is
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  the less maybe they'll
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  SPEAKER_02: be inclined to get their attention hijacked by the ball
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's a huge part of how you are presenting your scouts,
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  SPEAKER_02: whether it's self or opponent,
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  SPEAKER_02: can impact how they are seeing the game.
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  Number two,
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  and this is something you brought up in part one,
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  Tony,
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  is pattern recognition.
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  SPEAKER_02: The best defensive players understand the patterns of the game,
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  SPEAKER_02: and as coaches,
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  SPEAKER_02: we know that basketball is largely a pattern-based game.
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  SPEAKER_02: There are patterns that are pretty easy to pick up on,
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  SPEAKER_02: and players need to pick up on these patterns too.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, you can teach them explicitly to our players.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can teach them in film sessions as a whole team.
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  SPEAKER_02: Of course,
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  SPEAKER_02: a lot of players are just going to learn them naturally,
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  but we don't have time to let them naturally live through these
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  experiences enough
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  SPEAKER_02: to learn it.
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  We can hijack that by actually telling them these are the most
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  common patterns in our game.
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  The simplest one I like to paint the picture of first for our
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  players is the pick
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  SPEAKER_02: and roll because this comes so intuitively to them.
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  And it's a simple way of introducing this idea of pattern
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  recognition,
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  the ball screen.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we'll freeze it here, right, at the ball screen.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we'll ask, like, what's going to happen next?
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  SPEAKER_02: What do you think number 22, right, is going to do for the Suns?
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  SPEAKER_02: And it comes naturally for players.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's either going to roll to the basket or pop, probably roll.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is a form of pattern recognition.
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  SPEAKER_02: Anytime there's a ball screen,
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  SPEAKER_02: The screener is usually going to do two things, roll or pop.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's pattern recognition.
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  SPEAKER_02: And if you're a player like maybe Schroeder here who understands that,
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  SPEAKER_02: then you can make a play maybe on this against this offensive action.
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  So if you're a player like Schroeder off the ball and you
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  understand that simple
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  SPEAKER_02: pattern of what a ball screen is going to,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: lead to,
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  SPEAKER_02: well,
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  SPEAKER_02: you can make a play.
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  SPEAKER_02: So let's see Davion Mitchell here.
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  SPEAKER_02: He sees the ball screen being set.
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  SPEAKER_02: Of course he knows the roll or pops going to happen.
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  SPEAKER_02: So on this pop, he can then rotate and go intercepted.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's not because Davion's faster than everyone else on the court.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's because he saw things sooner.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's what pattern recognition gives defensive players.
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  SPEAKER_02: When you know a ball screen happens,
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  SPEAKER_02: Popper a role, you can make a play on it by anticipating.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, here we have a role and we see Avery Bradley from the weak side.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's not that he's faster.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's not that he's some kind of genius, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: He's a great defensive player,
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  but it's also because he knows his role in this coverage and he
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  saw the play
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  SPEAKER_02: developing and he anticipated that role was happening.
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  SPEAKER_02: So then he was able to intercept it.
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  SPEAKER_02: There are obviously a lot more patterns in basketball.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think the simplest is a cross screen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Anytime you see a cross screen,
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  SPEAKER_02: whether it's across the paint or a flex cut on the baseline,
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  SPEAKER_02: what's going to happen nine times out of 10?
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  SPEAKER_02: There's probably going to be a down screen.
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  SPEAKER_02: These are patterns players can start to pick up.
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  SPEAKER_02: They shouldn't always be surprised.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, shoot.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's a down screen now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where'd my guy goes?
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  Anytime there's a cross screen along the baseline,
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  nine times out of 10,
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  right?
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  SPEAKER_02: The offense is setting a down screen that follows it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Flex cut, probably a down screen coming next.
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  SPEAKER_02: So these are simple patterns our players can start to anticipate.
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  SPEAKER_02: Ball reversal, well, maybe there's a stagger screen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Maybe there's a slice stagger.
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  SPEAKER_02: Baseline out of bounds.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_02: based on out of bounds,
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  SPEAKER_02: anytime we go over based on out of bounds,
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  SPEAKER_02: I ask my player,
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  SPEAKER_02: what do you think's coming?
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  SPEAKER_02: Hopefully I've taught them enough, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: They know that probably it's screen the screener, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Or maybe inbound screen for the shooter from the inbounder.
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  The two most common plays in based on out of bounds,
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  still catching defenses off guard.
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  SPEAKER_02: So pattern recognition.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  Helping our players understand the simple patterns of
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  basketball so they don't get
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  SPEAKER_02: caught off guard.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then finally,
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  SPEAKER_02: how do we take this and apply it to the court without our players feeling
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  SPEAKER_02: overwhelmed?
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  Because you can work with a player individually with padding by
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  teaching them these
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  these pattern recognitions and then they can get on the court
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  and still be
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  SPEAKER_02: paralyzed.
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  maybe even more so than they were trying to take in too much
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  because now they're
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  SPEAKER_02: not just focused on the ball or the man.
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  Now they're trying to focus on everything and now they might be
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  losing the ball and
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  SPEAKER_02: the man even more.
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  SPEAKER_02: So how do we build this up?
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  SPEAKER_02: I want to do it very easily so our players don't get overwhelmed.
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  SPEAKER_02: Number one is simple.
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  SPEAKER_02: All you need to do is be aware of your man and the ball.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's step one.
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  SPEAKER_02: And if I was working with a youth team and we are doing a shell drill,
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  SPEAKER_02: that's the first thing I need to focus on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Can you see ball?
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  SPEAKER_02: Can you see man?
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  SPEAKER_02: We would even have the off ball pliers, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Hold up fingers.
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  SPEAKER_02: Every once in a while, that ball's moving.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hold up a four.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hold up a three.
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  Put your hand out and hold up a number and make sure your
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  player who's moving in
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  SPEAKER_02: the shell calls out that number.
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  SPEAKER_02: Same thing with the guy on the ball.
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  SPEAKER_02: Throwing the ball around, get into position.
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  SPEAKER_02: Shell doesn't just have to be positional.
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  SPEAKER_02: We like to think that shell drill is helping our players learn awareness.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's really not.
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  SPEAKER_02: The shell drill is just about learning position.
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  SPEAKER_02: Unless you're adding some constraints like this,
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  Some some adaptions to make it more about awareness and have
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  some accountability to
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  SPEAKER_02: having awareness where they have to call out where their guy is,
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  where they have to call out how many numbers he's holding up or
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  she's holding up.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's just a simple thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: We don't do that with our players.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hopefully we're more advanced.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Instead, when we do a shell drill or any script at half court.
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  of offensive segment versus our defense the offense always has
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  the opportunity to
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  cut when the defense is not paying attention so we might be
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  doing a simple shell
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  drill to learn about you know different x out position you know
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  rotations or
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  coverages but at any moment the offense has the freedom to cut
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  because we want to
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  have some accountability to our players who maybe get stuck
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  ball watching or at a
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  SPEAKER_02: position
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  with their angles and they can't see their man because nothing
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  is more I won't say
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  embarrassing but more accountable than we're going through a
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  shell progression and
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  your guys just ended up in the paint with the ball and you're
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  still on the
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  perimeter guarding no one right so we give that to our players
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  as a freedom and
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  that's just some added accountability to make sure you're
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  seeing ball and man so
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  SPEAKER_02: that's step one
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  step number two is seeing the main action on the floor so even
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  our player off the
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  ball in the corner is responsible for calling out the ball
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  screen at the top of the
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  key we want everyone communicating the action that they see
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  because that shows us
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  that they're aware of what's happening and if they're aware of
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  the main action on
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  SPEAKER_02: the floor
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  SPEAKER_02: then they might be able to rotate if we need them.
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  Like we saw Davion Mitchell or Avery Bradley make those
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  rotations because they were
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  SPEAKER_02: aware of the main action on the floor.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then the last piece,
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  SPEAKER_02: well,
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  SPEAKER_02: maybe not the last piece,
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  but the final piece that is important is knowing where the best
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  personnel is,
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  SPEAKER_02: right?
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  SPEAKER_02: And Draymond Green talks about this all the time.
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  He doesn't pretend to be a savant that picks up all 10 players
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  moving at once,
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  SPEAKER_02: even though he probably does in some sense.
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  But Draymond Green always talks about he always knows where the
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  other team's best players are.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: So especially there is this great play.
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  SPEAKER_02: I should have had it ready.
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  SPEAKER_02: But Draymond Green is rotating out.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's following a cutter.
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  SPEAKER_02: He scram switches with Curry.
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  And then somehow he sees Siakam blow by Jordan Poole and
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  somehow is able to get
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  SPEAKER_02: back into help and block it at the rim.
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  And you think watching that play,
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  oh,
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  my gosh,
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  like Draymond Green came out of nowhere.
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  SPEAKER_02: He has like the sixth sense for the ball.
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  SPEAKER_02: But he actually broke it down in a film session with Doris Burke.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he's saying to her, and Doris is like, how did you see that?
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  SPEAKER_02: That's an amazing play.
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  SPEAKER_02: And his response was simple.
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  SPEAKER_02: Siakam was on Jordan Poole.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's a matchup Siakam's going to win 9 out of 10 times.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's not that...
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  know he was trying to be preoccupied with where everyone was he
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  knew the most
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  dangerous thing on the floor was siakam the other team's best
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  player especially
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  because he was against a matchup that they weren't confident in
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  so that's where his
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  focus was always going to be directed and that's where he knew
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  that the breakdown
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  was probably going to come so now we're adding personnel
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  awareness one of the
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  SPEAKER_02: favorite one of the favorite ways we teach this
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  is in any half court defensive drill we're doing whether it's
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  four on four on four
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  cutthroat or maybe just a half court kind of getting stopped
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  kind of progression
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  we're going to add personnel restrictions so for example we're
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  doing four on four
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  and four cutthroat every team elects a shooter okay just as the
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  simplest example so
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  now that guy's a shooter that guy's a shooter that guy's a
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  shooter on that team
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  As we're playing cutthroat and you need five to seven stops to
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  win the drill,
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  SPEAKER_02: your stops carry over even though when you get off and get back on,
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  SPEAKER_02: et cetera,
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  SPEAKER_02: et cetera.
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  If you don't know the drill,
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  there's a great clinic by Brett Brown about it.
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  SPEAKER_02: But if the shooter,
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  SPEAKER_02: the designated shooter from each team,
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  SPEAKER_02: if they get a catch-and-shoot three and it goes in,
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  SPEAKER_02: your score gets wiped all the way to zero.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the players love,
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  SPEAKER_02: more than anything,
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  yelling zero when another team blows the assignment and loses
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  the key personnel.
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  SPEAKER_02: And what you see,
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  as soon as you add this little personnel tweak to these
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  half-court games or even in
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  SPEAKER_02: live play,
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  SPEAKER_02: if there's enough of an outcome,
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  SPEAKER_02: a consequence to losing a personnel,
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  SPEAKER_02: instantly you see the communication skyrocket.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like now those teams are scrambling, coming on.
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  SPEAKER_02: The first thing they're talking about, where's the shooter?
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's what we want our players to develop that awareness,
• 17:51
  especially in those kind of chaotic situation are identifying
• 17:55
  where's the biggest
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_02: threat and what do we need to take away?
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  SPEAKER_02: Someone needs to get to that shooter.
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  SPEAKER_02: The other personnel we might use is a driver, right?
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  Anytime this player drives into the paint and scores,
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  your team is reset to zero.
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  SPEAKER_02: So now when that driver has the ball,
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  SPEAKER_02: everyone else is on edge,
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  SPEAKER_02: ready to go help because we can't give up a drive to that player.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you can add even a target player.
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  SPEAKER_02: Every team has a target player.
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  SPEAKER_02: If that player even scores, your team gets reset to zero.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's not that we layer in all three of these,
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  SPEAKER_02: all four of these,
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  SPEAKER_02: all five of these to every game,
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  SPEAKER_02: but we're choosing one or two,
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  SPEAKER_02: right?
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  And layering them in and letting our players constantly be
• 18:31
  aware of where these key
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  SPEAKER_02: personnel is.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's awareness.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's how you build it up.
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  Those are some of the linchpin issues that we're seeing when
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  developing awareness
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  SPEAKER_02: from how you consume it,
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  SPEAKER_02: the pattern recognition you need to develop,
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  and then how you layer it in for our players to be successful
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  when we need them
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  SPEAKER_02: most on the court.
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  I would encourage coaches to think about it simply how they
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  think about offense in
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  SPEAKER_01: regards to teaching the players.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think even the idea of perception, decision, and then skill.
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  SPEAKER_01: For too long,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's just been defense,
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  SPEAKER_01: whoever works the hardest,
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  SPEAKER_01: and some technique thrown in there.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in reality,
• 19:12
  I think all of us have watched enough basketball that we know
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  it's the players who
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: are able to see,
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  SPEAKER_01: anticipate the pattern recognition,
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: understanding where players are trying to go,
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  SPEAKER_01: where they're trying to create advantages,
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  SPEAKER_01: how they're trying to create advantages,
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  SPEAKER_01: and then just simply to neutralize those.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you can almost foresee those things,
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  SPEAKER_01: then once you add in effort and technique,
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  SPEAKER_01: that's when it becomes an elite defensive player.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: We've missed that other part of it.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: And we just think a player either has IQ or doesn't have IQ.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in reality,
• 19:48
  teaching them how to see how to force foresee something's going
• 19:52
  to happen and then
• 19:53
  making the right decision at the time of or half a second
• 19:57
  before the offense makes
• 19:59
  that decision then creates a good defensive possession or a
• 20:02
  good defender.
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  Yeah,
• 20:04
  I think there's two giant limiting factors right now in
• 20:07
  defensive development.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_02: We think defense is all effort.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: And so we under teach technique and athleticism and concepts like that.
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  SPEAKER_02: But then to your point, we also think IQ is ingrained or natural.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_02: And it's not.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_02: Instincts can be developed.
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  And we just talked about a couple of ways to even off the court
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  develop those instincts.
• 20:27
  And I think that's the next frontier,
• 20:28
  right,
• 20:29
  is developing off the court as well.
• 20:31
  It's not just about what you do when you're training with the
• 20:34
  limited time you have
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: on the court,
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: but how you continue to develop off the court,
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_02: too,
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_02: and help your players.
• 20:39
  So defense right now,
• 20:40
  I think,
• 20:41
  is really limited by it's all about effort,
• 20:44
  and it's not.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like, effort's important.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_02: It's important on offense, too.
• 20:48
  Like,
• 20:48
  I can't get by my guy one-on-one if I'm not going to try really
• 20:51
  hard,
• 20:51
  right?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_02: But we don't think one-on-one is all about effort.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_02: We wouldn't say offensive one-on-one skills is just effort.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_02: Same thing on defense.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_02: Staying in front isn't just about effort.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's about angles.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: It's about footwork.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's about athleticism.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: So we need to train that.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_02: But to this point, we also need to sharpen and train the IQ as well.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: All of this has been great that you have more and you've alluded to this,
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: that this was just part of a bigger piece.
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  Can you point people in the direction of how to find more about
• 21:20
  this and where they
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: can get in contact with you?
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so there's a couple of ways.
• 21:24
  So you can find the Designing Disruption Clinic on
• 21:28
  LockdownDefense.com and you can
• 21:30
  find a bunch of resources if you want to dive deep into any
• 21:33
  topic really on the
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_02: defensive end.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_02: And for players who want to get more individualized teaching as well,
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_02: You can look up the Lockdown Academy or the Built for Stops program.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: In terms of awareness,
• 21:46
  I just did a 20 plus minute video about this where players
• 21:49
  especially can watch
• 21:51
  that video and hopefully develop the skills we're talking about
• 21:54
  and learn how to
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_02: take ownership of developing their IQ and awareness.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_02: So YouTube is a great tool.
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  SPEAKER_02: especially for players.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_02: You can find that Lockdown Defense on YouTube.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_02: And of course,
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_02: if you have any questions,
• 22:07
  you can always send me an email or send me a tweet or reach out
• 22:10
  to me on Twitter at
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_02: Mike underscore Jagaki or send an email to coach at LockdownDefense.com.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome, coach.
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  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate your time and I'm sure we'll have you back here soon enough.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for having me.