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Here's How to Make Your Basketball Practices More Competitive · A Quick Timeout

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  Today's guest has been the head coach at the University of
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  Northern Colorado since 2020.
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  He's coached multiple pros and already has accumulated the most
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  postseason wins in
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  SPEAKER_01: school history.
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  SPEAKER_01: Coach Steve Smiley.
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  SPEAKER_01: Coach, great to have you on the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coach Miller, thanks for having me on.
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  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate being here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Talking today with Coach Smiley about practice planning area,
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that most coaches are always looking to improve or refine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Coach, I'll start broadly here.
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  SPEAKER_01: The construction of your practices in general, what do those look like?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it starts with just repetition for all coaches.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been lucky that before I even got to this level,
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  SPEAKER_00: I had six years of head coaching at junior college.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so at that level,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: we probably were getting through,
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  SPEAKER_00: let's just say 100 practices a year.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that was, you know, 600 reps before I got to this level.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: working with such great people,
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  SPEAKER_00: obviously the great Don Meyer and then Randy Ray and Jeff Linder.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been pretty lucky to steal from a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when I construct my plans,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've changed a lot,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: through the course of time for us at this division one level,
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  SPEAKER_00: we start early June.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had eight weeks with these guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now it's not all full team practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: You do some skill work and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But now that our teams are so new every year,
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  we are doing some five on five and some big picture stuff
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  earlier than I probably
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  SPEAKER_00: want to,
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  SPEAKER_00: but just trying to get the team going in the summer.
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  And then as it is,
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  so you start with like,
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  okay,
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  what do you want to put in the summer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what are you trying to get to?
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  So the way that I do my stuff is I'd line out all eight weeks
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  in the summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's just start with the summertime.
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  SPEAKER_00: I line out all eight weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: I line out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are we trying to put off in?
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have five families that we want to, you know, eventually install.
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  Do I want to try to get all five families just a little bit
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  installed in the summertime?
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  The first thing before that offensively,
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  we have to install basically our fast break game.
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  SPEAKER_00: We play fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so our secondary and primary breaks.
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  We want to get those in right away,
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  like forget all the plays and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't really care about that stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: But how do we attack any time a shot's missed?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not going to slow down and run a play.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I got to teach our guys that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I think I think so the primary and the secondary breaks,
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  which we call sprint to scores primary and early offense is our
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  secondary break.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next thing,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is the same importance,
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  is we have to teach our guys how to attack pretty much every
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  type of ballstring
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  SPEAKER_00: coverage,
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  SPEAKER_00: right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we don't run every ballstring coverage defensively,
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  SPEAKER_00: but from an offensive perspective,
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  SPEAKER_00: we want to teach them how to attack switches.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hard hedges, laterals, deep drops, ice, all that different stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as I get back to my eight weeks,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of writing in,
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  SPEAKER_00: okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: this week's going to be a little bit of an ice attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: This week's going to be early offense.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I try to put that stuff in on the big picture stuff.
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  And then you look at the defensive stuff,
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  and we could go through at some point.
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  I know I sent you that Excel sheet,
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  which has all of our master drills list.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we talk a ton about that.
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  It's got all the way from our basic defensive breakdown all the
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  way to our five on
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  SPEAKER_00: five compete stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I use that checklist a lot to sprinkle in different things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a fluid document.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I meet with my staff,
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  SPEAKER_00: we look at that,
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  SPEAKER_00: what's relevant,
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  SPEAKER_00: what's not relevant,
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  SPEAKER_00: what do we want to add to that?
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  And so that we were getting in all the different vitamins all
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  the way to the three
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  SPEAKER_00: on threes,
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  SPEAKER_00: the five on fives.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now I'm sprinkling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  And the defensive list,
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  what am I trying to put in,
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  in the summertime in these eight weeks?
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  SPEAKER_00: Cause you can't do it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you're on limited time restrictions, things like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the biggest thing though,
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  SPEAKER_00: is,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't talked about skill work yet,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we're going to,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're going to have two or three skill sections in every practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about a real practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just all big picture, smiley five on Oh five on five.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to do a lot of skill stuff sprinkled in throughout.
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  starting from day one all the way to pretty much day 150 when
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  we get to the league tournament.
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  And so we do all that stuff,
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  and we are going to compete every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's the one thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it might be one-on-one to three-on-three to five-on-five.
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  SPEAKER_00: But one thing that I stole from Coach Linder,
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  SPEAKER_00: who I think is one of the greatest coaches in the country,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I had a chance to work with him for four years here,
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  SPEAKER_00: as you know,
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  on the tail end of his time here before he went to Wyoming is
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  he started really
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  growing the idea of I want as many five on five live
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  possessions as possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I stole that from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: It made total sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you go through the math and say,
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  SPEAKER_00: look,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you can get,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: team A is getting 30 possessions a day on five on five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some teams get less than that, right?
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  Maybe 15 possessions and we're hitting 75 to 100 possessions of
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  five on five a day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you extrapolate that out through the course of the season,
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  SPEAKER_00: how much more big picture stuff you're getting,
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  SPEAKER_00: offense,
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  SPEAKER_00: defense,
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  SPEAKER_00: compete,
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  SPEAKER_00: we do a ton of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think in any practice playing,
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  SPEAKER_00: I know we'll look at one of the ones,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is an early official practice in the fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you look at how much we want to compete on a typical day,
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  that's been the biggest thing is I want to play as much five
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  and five as possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's the biggest way to learn the system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not just saying play open gym, roll the ball out.
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  SPEAKER_00: but in different constraints, different ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's where that practice grid is going to come into.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's the biggest thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I know I'm kind of rambling on,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we want to start with,
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  SPEAKER_00: for me,
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  SPEAKER_00: let's just say it's summertime,
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  SPEAKER_00: eight weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm scribbling on paper.
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  I want to accomplish this,
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  this,
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  this,
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  and this in week one,
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  week two,
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  week three,
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  week four.
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  And then how do you funnel that down and drill that down to
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  some concise practice plans?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how I kind of do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's funny.
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  The question I get a lot is how do I get my players to be more
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  competitive?
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  SPEAKER_01: How do we grow our competitiveness?
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's,
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  SPEAKER_01: I think compete, do it a lot, do it all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're blessed at this level because we have a big staff and we have great
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  SPEAKER_00: technology.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even though we're not the big boys,
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  SPEAKER_00: the power five guys,
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  SPEAKER_00: division one,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm allowed to now have all my staff on the court.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now you got, I think, up to five assistants could be on the court.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we film everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when the practice is done, the film's uploaded.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's where the teaching comes into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't stop practice very much.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not giving coaching clinics out there.
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  We get out there,
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  our guys start to understand our flows and our drills and this
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  and that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's quick teaching points.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the practice moves.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't condition them a lot.
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  I believe that they're going to get conditioned through them
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  just moving in practice.
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  But the competition side of it,
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  we're going to have a winner and loser in everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, and it's going to be quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  Oh,
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  you guys lost,
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  you know,
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  run an 11,
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  you know,
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  run a 22,
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  whatever it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get, let's get on to the next thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there will be time or score competition all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think the challenge,
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  SPEAKER_01: maybe some that aren't at the college level have,
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  SPEAKER_01: which I'm still interested to hear your opinion on this is the idea of,
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  SPEAKER_01: yeah,
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll play a lot of five on five,
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  but my players aren't even skilled enough to be able to do the
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  five on five.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where do you find that balance,
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  especially for the high school coach that does feel like they
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  need to do player
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  SPEAKER_01: development?
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  They don't have the luxury like we do of individual workouts
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  and skill work and
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  SPEAKER_01: that kind of thing,
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  but still making sure that they're competing and getting better
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  individually.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even at our level, we still do a ton of skill work.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've been known for developing players.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've had a really good track record with that.
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  So even at the high school level,
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  for sure,
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  you've got to keep the skill work in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, every day starts with offensive vitamins, defensive vitamins.
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  Before we get really moving with stretching and the different
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  basic stuff we do,
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  SPEAKER_00: that's going to be the first 20,
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  SPEAKER_00: 25 minutes of practice every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we do the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do think even if the high school coach said,
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  SPEAKER_00: hey,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're not at a point in time where we can't compete five and five,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think at some point you're going to have to get through that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're going to have to roll it out there and get them going.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you clean up the mess.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be a mess.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a mess for us, too.
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  I mean,
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  our first two weeks of summer,
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  I look around the staff like,
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  man,
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  we're terrible.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then you kind of just you get through that messy, gross part.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you can start to figure out what you need to work on.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't do,
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  SPEAKER_00: in my opinion,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you don't do some five on five,
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  SPEAKER_00: you don't even know what you need to work on in the big picture.
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  You know,
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  you might have a great skill guy and a,
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  you know,
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  guard perimeter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh, this guy's really good.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's really skilled.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you put him in a five-on-five, he has no idea how to play.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to figure that out quickly, I think.
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  If it's high school,
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  you might have these kids for two weeks that come in from
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  football,
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  right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So, football guys, you might have two weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: To me,
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  SPEAKER_00: like,
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  you need to play a little bit and figure out kind of what's
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  going on early in the
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  SPEAKER_00: progression because you might have games coming up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just not months from now, but weeks from now.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll go ahead and pull this up.
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  The follow-up that I have that coaches always ask because I've
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  had guests on that
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  SPEAKER_01: talk about their vitamins.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are those for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can see like,
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  and that's like my cheat sheet for the defense and rebound side
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  of things,
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  SPEAKER_00: which we try to put a lot of time into it.
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  I think people will say we're kind of more known for our
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  offensive efficiency in
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  SPEAKER_00: this and that,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is great.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we always recruit to offensive talent.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to lie to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got to have talented players.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got to have skilled players.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do think we put a lot of time into our defense.
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  So,
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  like,
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  if you look at that list on your screen,
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  you know,
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  it goes from the vitamins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like,
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  SPEAKER_00: we don't do every vitamin every day,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's kind of like an a la carte menu of me to say,
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  SPEAKER_00: okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: we haven't done charging wall up real quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to get that done or three-minute rebounding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another reason I know this is because,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: we've been showing recruits this,
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  but we've been in the top 30 to 50 of the country in defensive
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  rebounding for the
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  SPEAKER_00: past four years with teams that are not that big or athletic.
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  one of the things that we do a good job of without getting them
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  hurt is like a
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  SPEAKER_00: three minute rebounding,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is a very basic thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's myself and coach Reed on one end while on the other end,
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  SPEAKER_00: coach green and coach cloak,
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  SPEAKER_00: they might be doing charging wall up.
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  SPEAKER_00: They might be doing different stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: They might be doing an offensive vitamin.
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  But it's just a very basic thing that our guys,
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  by the end of the day,
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  they're so sick of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's like,
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  SPEAKER_00: hey,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're going to go three-minute rebounding,
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  SPEAKER_00: which maybe only takes maybe a minute,
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  SPEAKER_00: a half,
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  SPEAKER_00: two minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they do their contest, two hard steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they do their suit.
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  You know,
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  these are all kind of condensed words to fit into the Excel
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  file.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Superman's, they do their check and chase or check and confront.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they do their wedge, and they do what we call the whip.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so –
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't just create a ton of new stuff every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not like we just live on this sheet, but this sheet helps me a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, Oh, wait a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: We haven't done three minute rebounding in six practices.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to get back to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: You look at like to the, to the rights of the Reed series.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  You know,
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  the Reed series,
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  it's kind of like our shell with a little bit more intensity to
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  it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we can flip that into live as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it could be explodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could be exchanges, cutters, DHOs, whatever it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: But just doing some basic stuff early on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we might say, hey, we're going to this.
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  And then when I blow the whistle three times,
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  pop,
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  pop,
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  pop,
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  now we're live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the guys get so bored of all this stale stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: The transition defense.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to hit transition defense every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can see we've got basically nine to ten different options.
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  SPEAKER_00: We could go riverboat.
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  SPEAKER_00: We could go advantage.
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  SPEAKER_00: We could go DYJ rebounding to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of like that middle left.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or we could go 5-0 to blowback.
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  So one thing we could do is we just installed a couple things
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  before practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we put two or three things in our away series.
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  SPEAKER_00: very stale, very slow.
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  SPEAKER_00: We haven't stretched yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just installed a couple of things for three minutes.
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  Well,
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  now we want to get to some live stuff and compete on transition
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  defense.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: Number five, where it says five and O to blowback, right?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'll bring the blue team out and say, okay, let's run a way to flip.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Now we just put it,
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: put it,
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: in,
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: in walking terms before we stretch,
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: but now,
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: Hey,
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: let's go way to flip.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go live, make or miss whatever shot you get out of it.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: That ball has to go through the net.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: And now we're going to go blowback.
• 10:53
  So now those five guys on the baseline,
• 10:54
  they get,
• 10:54
  they rip that ball and then they go.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: So,
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: We try to,
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: and this always changes,
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: we did the Spain break and then we stole the Spain Razorback.
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  Like there's these different ways to attack things and we'll
• 11:06
  steal from everybody.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: But if you look at it,
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 11:09
  we basically have 10 different ideas on transition defense and
• 11:13
  I might only do one
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: of those a day.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: So if I did them all equally,
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: which you probably don't do me equally,
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: but if I did them all equally,
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: if I did riverboat on week one and I went through the whole progression,
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: right?
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: I probably don't get back to riverboat till week three,
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: because there's no more than five practices per week.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: So this is just all the different things,
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: the team rebounding,
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: whether it's wedge or it's DYJ or whatever,
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: we're going to sprinkle these things in within the first 30%,
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: 40% of practice.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: And they are live and they are competitive.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: There's a time, there's a score, there's different ways to do it.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: Lose are going to run.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: And so we'll hit all that stuff.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_00: And if you go,
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: If we stay on that kick, you know, like the flows.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what are these flows?
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: These are not live, like red flows.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of on the go just up a little bit.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: Column 15.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: So flows, like red flow, switch flow, white flow.
• 12:04
  Well,
• 12:05
  our basic ball string coverage last year was red,
• 12:08
  which was like our hard hedge.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: So we created a couple flows,
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: which aren't live,
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: but we really pushed the guys to do them at live pace offensively,
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: where our guys are getting the scripted movements,
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: the rotations,
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: things like that,
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: before we do go live.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll hit flows every now and then.
• 12:22
  Oh,
• 12:22
  now we think we're going to be in a lot more switch mode in
• 12:25
  this game.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: We haven't done it in two weeks.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: Before we just start playing switch live,
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'll do a switch vitamin,
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: and then we'll go switch flow.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: So they're getting these reps in before we go to live.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: So you can just see all that different stuff.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: We do a ton of one-on-one, guard the ball team.
• 12:39
  That is,
• 12:40
  those are all one-on-ones,
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  wallop,
• 12:42
  ride the dribble,
• 12:42
  win the first dribble.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: And you can just see this,
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: again,
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: this is not everything we do,
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: but boy,
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: it gives me a good script,
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  SPEAKER_00: right?
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know,
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: if we haven't hit screening action for a while,
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: kind of on,
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: looks like line 29 on the right side,
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: screening.
• 12:56
  We got a way to go away flare floppy in like two minutes where
• 12:59
  we can hit away flare floppy.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's not live, but our guys are you're guarding drivers.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: So you better shoot the gap.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: Now you're guarding a sniper.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: You better lock and trail.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: So on the defensive side of things,
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: I want to make sure that we never neglect some concept too long.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_00: And this helps me just say, oh, we need to get this thing done here.
• 13:17
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  I never want to give the impression that these small-sided
• 14:11
  games is brand new.
• 14:12
  I know coaches have been playing breakdown drills and
• 14:15
  three-on-three and that kind
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: of thing for decades.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: However, I do think that coaches are using them more.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: I can just see from this sheet,
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: outside of five-on-five,
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: it seems like you're doing a lot of this kind of thing.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: I just wonder, what have you seen?
• 14:31
  in regards to the player's overall development whether that's
• 14:35
  how quick do they
• 14:36
  pick up on concepts transfer anything like that what what are
• 14:39
  some of the tangible
• 14:40
  things benefits of practicing this way yeah well i think if you
• 14:45
  talk about the
• 14:46
  competitive stuff like the smallest the best or the smallest
• 14:49
  small side of game is
• 14:50
  one-on-one right and we always say hey man like you have to
• 14:52
  have some individual
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: responsibility guarding your guy now that would be like
• 14:58
  You know,
• 14:58
  you could guard on the – we'll have three different hoops going
• 15:01
  on one-on-one.
• 15:03
  We might have Coach Green go and win the first dribble where a
• 15:05
  guy's coming at you
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: live with that dribble a lot.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Then you have Coach Reed doing dribble downs,
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: which is like our booty ball or Barkley ball or whatever.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: And we mix these groups up.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then we have another guy doing resistance in the post or,
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: rotating from a tag on a filled ball screen or something like that.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: So you build that.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Then,
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: our small side of games,
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: like our three on threes and three on fours and things like that,
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: most of those are created out of rotations.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like we got to teach our guys how to play out of rotations.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I love those things.
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  And I just do,
• 15:35
  I do believe that the whole part whole is still good,
• 15:38
  right?
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like you got to show them the big picture.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Then you got to break it down.
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  Like I don't want people to get misconstrued that we're just
• 15:42
  playing five on five.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: We're not doing that.
• 15:44
  But as you get through these small side of games and these
• 15:47
  concepts and these
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: little things,
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: I want to get to the five on five quickly.
• 15:51
  Cause I do want to play more possessions than other teams in
• 15:54
  our league are playing.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Cause I think we'll grow quicker.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: I do.
• 15:56
  I think that's the best way is to get these five on five reps
• 15:59
  because ultimately a
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: three on three and a four on four is great,
• 16:02
  but there's three to four of the players on the court that are
• 16:05
  still live human
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: beings that they can be a factor in the equation too.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: And so as you kind of get your,
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: your conceptual stuff down,
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  SPEAKER_00: once you get to the five on five stuff,
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  I think the reason it works for us is we do have the film and
• 16:17
  then we can,
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: we can break the film down on a big picture with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every one of my guys is assigned a position coach.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: And so that they get their film broken down by their position coach.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's how we really grow.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't have as much that I understand where coach said,
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: well,
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: we're just playing five on five.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: I can't teach it that well.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: I do understand that at the younger levels, but,
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: I think with the film, we can tie it together.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's a really great point.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: You talking about like going just from like 3v3 to 5v5.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: I get the sense sometimes like coaches just think,
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: well,
• 16:47
  I'll just do the formula is just tell me what to do without
• 16:50
  observing what your
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: team needs.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: And the reason I say that going from three to three to five on five,
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: you're introducing two more defenders and four more players,
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: which significantly impacts space,
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: decision-making,
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: what they see,
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: everything else goes along with it.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: My question is,
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: do you build a three-on-three to a four-on-four to a five-on-five?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that sheet,
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: because that sheet,
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: I know coaches are going to ask me for,
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: when they look at that sheet,
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: is there like a three-on-three version of four?
• 17:18
  Going back to your one-on-one,
• 17:19
  is there a one-on-one to three-on-three,
• 17:21
  four-on-four?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: I think conceptually, yes.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: I think for us,
• 17:24
  probably one-on-one to three-on-three to five-on-five probably
• 17:27
  is what we mainly,
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: like you'll see on that sheet,
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: there's some four-on-three rotation,
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: overloads,
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: things like that.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think we do a ton of four-on-four.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's mainly
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: one-on-one, and we don't do a lot of two-on-two as well.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's one-on-one to three-on-three to five-on-five is probably,
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: if we were building it that way,
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: offensively,
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: like,
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: we do a lot of stuff out of what we call,
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: like,
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: our sandwich,
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: right,
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: which is,
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: like,
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: top of the key,
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: the wing,
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: and the corner.
• 17:49
  Well,
• 17:49
  when the ball gets sprayed to whoever,
• 17:51
  to the top of that sandwich,
• 17:52
  the top of the key,
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: Then we have certain things we do.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: We might cut the guy through.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: We might get to what we call a razor, which everyone calls a Zoom.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: There's different things we do.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: We might do that three on O, but then we'll play it live three on three.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: So that when we do get to the five on five,
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: they have an idea on both ends of the ball,
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: offense and defense,
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: what to do.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I would say,
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: yeah,
• 18:12
  we build it one on one to three on three to five on five would
• 18:16
  probably be the flow
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: of that.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: Let me bring up this sheet again.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: You have on there the five on five,
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: and you've said this a couple of times already,
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: but this is not roll the ball out and play five on five.
• 18:26
  But I do think that would be interesting for people to hear
• 18:29
  what that looks like.
• 18:31
  And I even see a couple that stuck out to me was like the Elam
• 18:34
  ending and the junk section.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: What kind of constraints,
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: incentives,
• 18:39
  adjustments do you make to turn those into something where I'm
• 18:42
  assuming you're
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: trying to get something specific out of it,
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: not just bawling,
• 18:46
  hoping whatever thing that you worked on or what you want to
• 18:49
  appears in that five
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: on five session?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like line 46, five-on-five compete, and it says grid.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: When we do get to the practice plan, we'll get to the grid.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: There's three things.
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  It says WTP half-court execution,
• 19:02
  WTP half-full,
• 19:03
  WTP half-full-full,
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  right?
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: WTP means win the possession as where it's not twos and threes.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's who did you score?
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  SPEAKER_00: You won the possession.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you get a stop?
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: You won the possession.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we'll do like a WTP grid a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's where I can kind of control a lot of different things.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: What's our ball screen covers?
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: What's this or that?
• 19:21
  So we'll get to that when we look at the practice plan,
• 19:23
  but that means win the possession.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Other ways we do it, though, is like five and five compete.
• 19:27
  So you got number four,
• 19:28
  which is the four-minute war and get to the media.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: We'll build practices out of like scrimmages saying,
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: okay,
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: we're going to play three four-minute wars.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be the end of the first half, four-minute war.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so our person on the scoreboard makes up a fake score.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's 28 to 28, four minutes left.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Now we're creating situations out of that, right?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: Two-for-ones and things like that.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Then like the second one, just get to the media.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: We'll put like 11.59 left in the game.
• 19:54
  right so we got we're already at the under 12 media for us make
• 19:58
  a fake score up and
• 19:59
  then boom once we get to the under eight media when there's a
• 20:01
  foul or a you know a
• 20:02
  dead ball or whatever we kill it but that's what get to the
• 20:05
  media means then we'll
• 20:06
  play the four minute war into the game totally different
• 20:09
  situations it's a great
• 20:10
  way to do it and now it's a lot a lot less hands-on like the
• 20:13
  win the possession
• 20:14
  grid it's very hands-on it's a little choppier you know it's
• 20:17
  half court come back
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: half court come back half court now we're gonna have full
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: But the four-minute war is a lot.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now they're going a little bit with some constraints in terms of time.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: Grab the wall is an old Coach Linder one.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's a great one.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Perfect possession is a brutal one.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's where,
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: like,
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: you have to get,
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: in our world,
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: a full 30 seconds of perfect possession on defense.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: And we got coaches on the baseline, sidelines.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm up top.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: And all we're doing is watching the defense.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: And, like, if one guy doesn't talk, boom, blow the whistle, start over.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: If one guy doesn't get through the screen, blow the whistle.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: If one guy's not, you know, in the proper spacing, blow the whistle.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: If they score, blow the whistle.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: If they get an offensive rebound, blow – if they don't contest a shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, that's a brutal one.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: Offensively, you're just trying to screw up the drill –
• 21:05
  trying to get a good shot,
• 21:06
  trying to get a clean shot,
• 21:07
  trying to get an offensive rebound.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: So it's still dual purpose, but that's a really hard one.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, like seven point game, we stole that from a podcast last year.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: The guys over at Mega Basket in Europe, I stole it from them.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: It is awesome.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so all it is, is it's zero to zero.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're playing live.
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  SPEAKER_00: You score.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: If you score like two points or whatever it is, you're up 2-0.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: But to lock that two points in, you got to get a stop.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: So you're up 2-0.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: The other team comes down.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: They hit a three.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: You go back to zero.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: They go up 3-0.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: But then they got to get a stop to lock that three points in.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's one of the most competitive things we've ever done.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we stole it from somebody else.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you look at all that stuff.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: And like you said,
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: like the Elam endings,
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: and I'm so bad explaining the Elam ending,
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: but we do try to do it.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's like you get to a certain point, then it's locked in after that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I always have my staff help me on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've done that a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: The junk,
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  SPEAKER_00: well,
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  SPEAKER_00: before you get to the junk,
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  SPEAKER_00: the three horns and grab the hat,
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  SPEAKER_00: that's special situations.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: And so we might be in the middle of practice.
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  going through skill work,
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  and then I'll have our person on the scoreboard,
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  and they know it.
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  All of a sudden they go,
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  boop,
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  boop,
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  boop,
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  and they hit the horn three times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both teams run over.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got a hat.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got like seven random situations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Someone draws it out and says,
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  SPEAKER_00: okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's 11 seconds left,
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  SPEAKER_00: blue's up one,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they have the ball,
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  SPEAKER_00: got to get it in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we'll play a quick situation just to keep them stimulated.
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  The junk,
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  though,
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  if you scroll up just a little bit,
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  it's the highlighted stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, free.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: So junk, number three, those are our junk options.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: Diamond, triangle, 2-3, maybe 2-2-1 back to a 2-3 or 1-3-1.
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  We don't run a lot of zone stuff or junky stuff,
• 22:37
  but we have to go against it.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: So we might say, hey, let's put a little junk in there, right?
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: So now we're going against a 1-3-1, and our guys are not ready for it.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, figure it out.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: And so we just throw some stuff in there like that as well,
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  but you can see there's a million different ways that we do
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  five on five and
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: there's,
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: it could be very constricted for me with the,
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: with the grid,
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: which we'll look at.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: Or it can be more like, hey, we're going four-minute wars.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we change the teams up, all the different flows up.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of ways to do it.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: We had a version of perfection that we did.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: We call it pride drill.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I would advise this, but there was a Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_01: We literally did it for about an hour and 15 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it got competitive, got a little heated.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: But it was,
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: again,
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  one of those that really aided in the competitiveness of our
• 23:21
  practice and in our
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: team.
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  And it turned out to be a really good team that year and one
• 23:24
  that competed and won
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  SPEAKER_01: some close games.
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  SPEAKER_01: And
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of those close games come down to special situations.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this was another one where we started practicing special situations.
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  SPEAKER_01: They won this year and spent more time on it than we ever have.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: We won more close games than we ever had before.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so my question to you is how often and how do you
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: outside of what we just have.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe this is it,
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: just what you have up here on the screen,
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: but how often do you practice those special situations?
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: We try to get them in all the time.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: I try to sprinkle them in so much.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it might be a theme like get it in where it's like,
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: okay,
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: three or four different situations on like you're up,
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  SPEAKER_00: you just got to get the ball in and you win.
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  Maybe it's full court,
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  maybe it's in the three-quarter sideline,
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  the front court sideline.
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  SPEAKER_00: It might be, you know, B.O.B.
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  It might be a blob where you just got to get the ball and they
• 24:08
  got to foul you.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: It might be,
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 24:10
  you're down to a really good situation is you're down to and
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  they're shooting a
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  SPEAKER_00: free,
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: they're shooting a free throw.
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  one free throw so you might be down two you might be down three
• 24:20
  right and that
• 24:21
  changes the the complete dynamic what the game is defensively
• 24:24
  does too like if
• 24:25
  we're up three we're gonna foul you know if it's under 10
• 24:29
  seconds left we're gonna
• 24:30
  foul and make them play it out so we try to do situations all
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  the time and we try
• 24:35
  to sprinkle them in early on it's ugly it's gross but we just
• 24:38
  try to we try to you
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: know in so many ways now
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  SPEAKER_00: My opinion,
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: though,
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: is if you make it stale and,
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: hey,
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: we're going to do five situations today,
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: they get bored with it.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because the offense comes over, you've got to explain it.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: The defense is sitting there waiting.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I like doing those wars.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: It could be a two-minute war.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like, hey, there's two minutes left in the game.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's a three-point game.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what happens.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: Because about six things are going to pop up in the last minute.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: Then you can break down the next day and practice,
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: hey,
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: this happened,
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: this happened,
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: this happened for both teams.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so I like sometimes to do it unscripted as well.
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  let me pull up now the other practice yeah this is this is just
• 25:15
  a day's practice
• 25:16
  plan can you kind of talk through this walk through this and
• 25:19
  then i have a couple
• 25:20
  questions regarding it yeah and truth be told i thought this
• 25:23
  was a good one because
• 25:24
  i saw that it had the grid on it and so i didn't even look at
• 25:27
  what this plan is but
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  you can see it's 9 30 so it's september 30 it's our fifth
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  official practice
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  SPEAKER_00: At that point in time,
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: last year,
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: we probably already had 20 or 30 summer practices,
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: 10 to 20 fall workouts.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so now we're, you know, we're further along.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is not like the fifth time we've been together,
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: but it's our fifth official practice where we can go longer.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: Go to the end first, just so I can show the grid.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: And then we'll go back to this thing.
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  And hopefully there's not too much sensitive information,
• 25:52
  but that's perfect right there.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so there's the grid.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: So you can see it.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  this is a bad example in terms of how it's trying to sell us
• 25:59
  because these are
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: actually wars.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: You see how we did this?
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: We did a four-minute war.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: We did a three-minute war, two-minute war.
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  SPEAKER_00: We changed the teams.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: We did a four-minute war.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: So this is actually like a real scrimmage-y practice at the end.
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  I wish I would have sent you one where we could find the grid
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  where it's like
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  SPEAKER_00: half-court execution and then half-full and then half-full.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: Where that would have been shown is in the flow section,
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  SPEAKER_00: the far left,
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: it would have said half-court execution in the orange.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then it was said half full in the gray.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then it was shown half full, full in the blue, if that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can find one later on and send it to you too for your people.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: But the way that we create the grid is we create the action.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: And these are like where our families come into play.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like 50 series, we want to work on that.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: The low series, the away series, the through series.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: And the swing and the end here are kind of lumped in together.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: So the blue team,
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: when they're on offense,
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: they're going on something different than the gold team.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: But it's still out of 50.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's out of, you know, out of low, it's different stuff.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, there's a lot of stuff in this thing.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Then you can see here blue with blues running with gold's running,
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: then the ball screen coverage,
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: right?
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: So the ball screen with the B slash S ball screen,
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: the first section,
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: we were going red,
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: red mode.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: Then we were going switch mode and then we were going white mode.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll change the ball screen coverage as well.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: Now we're covering that.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: And then the double the post stuff, you know, we call those fires.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: First section, no fire.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: Played straight up.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: Second section was fire.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: Then the very last section, no fire.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: And then the press and the junk stuff, right?
• 27:32
  So if we did a free throw,
• 27:33
  we want to press on every free throw for both teams.
• 27:36
  And so you can kind of see all this different stuff that when
• 27:39
  teams come and watch
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: us practice,
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: when coaches come and watch us practice,
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: that's the one thing they always want to talk about.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: It takes a little time to organize, right?
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously before practice, but man, it makes it roll smooth.
• 27:50
  It makes it roll so smooth because we have a blueprint of what
• 27:53
  we want to do.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: We're not just, well, let's do 50.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what do you want to run in 50?
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: What's our ball screen coverage, Coach Smiley?
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's already done.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's like my defensive coach,
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Reed,
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: he's the guy that comes into the huddle and says,
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: hey,
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  SPEAKER_00: here's our ball screen red because he's a defense guy.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Green is our offense guy.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: So if I'm with blue, he's with gold.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: So he's handling the offense with gold.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all have specific roles we're trying to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coach Klopes, our special situations coach.
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  So he handles the press and the junk because that's kind of
• 28:18
  what we consider special situations.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: So it gives us detail as well.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: Perfect example,
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: organization taking the time beforehand,
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: but it's more than just running smoothly once the practice starts.
• 28:31
  I think the clarity allows you to actually switch things and
• 28:34
  the players don't get
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: confused and left behind for sure.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: They love it.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: When I pull the grid out, we're like, oh, the grid's here.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: They start laughing about it, but now it gives them clarity and
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: We get a lot done.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: I would assume that it allows you to keep the pace moving,
• 28:48
  which then allows you to accomplish more and probably also
• 28:51
  keeps the guys engaged
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: longer.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: Now this practice completely sucks for what I try to try to,
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: with a normal practice,
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: because this was more of a scrimmage day.
• 29:00
  I sent you a bad practice,
• 29:01
  but you can still see that,
• 29:03
  you know,
• 29:04
  this would be for us.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: This was probably a Saturday.
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  If I went back to whatever,
• 29:08
  you know,
• 29:08
  September 30th was,
• 29:09
  we probably practiced all week.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then we try to finish our week with scrimmaging.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: So this is actually a bad example, but it's okay.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know,
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: we gave them,
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: this is,
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: this definitely was a Saturday because it's 8.15 in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't practice in the mornings during the week.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: We practice at one o'clock in the afternoon.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: So this was a Saturday to finish the week.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: Give him 10 minutes on the clock,
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: put the music on,
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: put the beats on,
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: get them right,
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: assistance,
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: grab them,
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: whatever it is.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: But let's get a good flow to the practice.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: Then let's stretch.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: Then we did like,
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: offensive VIT's vitamins,
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: perfect passing,
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: 3-0 litho series,
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: went to post perimeter.
• 29:43
  did another vitamin 300 Charlotte series on the left side,
• 29:45
  and then we played.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, this is a bad example.
• 29:48
  Like,
• 29:49
  where's all that defensive stuff that,
• 29:50
  you know,
• 29:50
  I just showed on that spread?
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: None of that's on here because this was scrimmage day.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll send you a better one as well so your people can look at it.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: But the flow of these practices, like –
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is a good example.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: We don't stop.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, it's 10 minutes here, it's five minutes here.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: We use that clock and we keep that thing moving.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: But again, this was more of a scrimmage day.
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  You can see we did the four-minute war,
• 30:11
  a three-minute war,
• 30:12
  a two-minute war.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: Then we did free throws at 925.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then we probably did, if you scroll down just a little further,
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: We changed the teams.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: I got it all color-coded in there as well.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's when we changed the teams up.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Then it's a four-minute war, three-minute war, two-minute war.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, you can kind of see how we did the whole thing.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: But like I said, that's essentially a bad one.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: You could see the teams.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: They got all that organized.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: Blue versus gold round one.
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  And you can see the guy that's highlighted,
• 30:38
  Roddick,
• 30:39
  he was our walk-on redshirt,
• 30:41
  good player.
• 30:42
  But at that point,
• 30:42
  I was,
• 30:43
  hey,
• 30:44
  if no one's gassed,
• 30:45
  you're not going to play in this thing.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: But if someone's gassed, Roddick, you could be blue or gold.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: So we did round one.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: Then we changed the teams, you know, the highlighted red thing.
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  Then we changed the teams round two because I want to have guys
• 30:55
  in different spots.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I wanted DeJure as a point guard, but then as a two guard.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to have Sane as a three, but then Sane as a four.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: So all this is predetermined long before we hit the court.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: I saw at the beginning you have the shots,
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_01: but I was wondering,
• 31:09
  is shooting a standalone skill that you usually do during
• 31:12
  practice to get volume
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: shooting,
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: or is that something outside?
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well,
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: we'll do a lot of shooting during practice,
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_00: more organized than,
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: say,
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: 10 minutes on the clock shots.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's just to kind of loosen up.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_00: But in a normal practice,
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: like I said,
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: I sent you a bad one,
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: but in a normal practice,
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: we'll have probably three sections of post perimeter.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: And so I view perimeters one through four.
• 31:31
  And so the post guys might be the coach Reed and then the
• 31:33
  primers might be all
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: together,
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: or we might split them into two groups.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't show that on this plan.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: Other than at eight 43, you can see that right.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: Eight 43,
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  SPEAKER_00: there was one quick section of post perimeter where we hit swing,
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: swing shooting and Reed was doing his warrior work.
• 31:47
  That will usually pop in three times during practice in either
• 31:51
  five minute or four minute hits.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_01: that's something again that I did differently this year.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_01: It was one of those where for last several years,
• 31:58
  we did like a block of shooting at the end and then changed it
• 32:01
  this year to have
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: like shorter segments.
• 32:03
  And it seemed to almost kind of like break things up,
• 32:06
  give them a little bit of a rest mentally.
• 32:08
  And then we were able to get back to like five on five stuff
• 32:11
  and competing stuff
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_01: and that kind of thing.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's how we do it.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: We try to break it up, quick hits, different concepts.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: It might be swing, swing.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: Now it might be pull shooting.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: Now it might be spot up and movement shooting.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: So different ways to do it, but we believe in just,
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_00: we're going to do skill work all the way through the year.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: if you looked at this,
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  SPEAKER_00: just,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: in this deal,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you start at 815,
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_00: there was about 50 minutes of skill work in that thing.
• 32:31
  For us,
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  we're going to chunk in those,
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  those little post perimeters throughout practice.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I think you're right.
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  Give them a mental break from all this five on five stuff and
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  all this conceptual stuff.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like, Hey, let's get back to the skill stuff for a little bit.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's a good way to segue to a different concept in your practice too.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: I see the free throws on there, the three-minute free throws.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: How do you – the question I always get, how do you practice free throws?
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: Do you practice free throws at your practices?
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: We do.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: We do all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Different ways to do it.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: I stole this one from Don Meyer as well.
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  Forgot about it for a few years,
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  then I started doing it again,
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  and we liked it.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: It can be two in a row or three in a row.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: We have six hoops in our practice gym.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: So when you're on a main –
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if you only have tubes, this won't work.
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  SPEAKER_00: But for us, we got six hoops, two or three guys per hoop max.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Cause we have like 15 guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: And basically on this one,
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: you get,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you make two in a row,
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  SPEAKER_00: as soon as you miss your partner goes.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: But if you make two in a row, you got to scream at the scores table.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: And like, it's kind of a joke or whatever.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: You got to scream cloak.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: Cause that's, it's kind of an honor of him or whatever.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: But it makes them talk and the gym gets really loud, right?
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like we're always trying to get some energy in our gym and get loud.
• 33:36
  But you make two in a row,
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  clope,
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  clope,
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  and then the guy scores it with one,
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  two,
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  three.
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  So with the six hoops combined,
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  if it's a two in a row day,
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  you got to make 75.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we do three in a row.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_00: So if it's a three in a row, same thing.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like you make your first, you miss your second, next guy goes.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: You make your first, make your second, make your third.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: That guy screams clope.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: If it's three in a row, you got to make 40.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: And again, that's in three minutes.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: And so you're getting a ton of reps.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want them to rush their free throws, but they're moving.
• 34:05
  And as it gets down to it,
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  they start to learn like,
• 34:07
  hey,
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  we're running out of time,
• 34:08
  guys.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: Then we take, you know, cut the crap, all the dribbles and stuff.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_00: Just put that thing in your pocket and shoot it, right?
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: Don't just go crazy, but like take the crap out.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, set it, shoot it.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I think there's a benefit to that sometimes.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: Then we'll do like...
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, sometimes we'll do free throws at the end.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: Got to make 8 out of 10 to finish practice.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we do 20 free throw attempts.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: Blues on one end, golds on one end with clap game.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: If you make it, two claps, you miss it, one clap.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's 20 free throws total.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: There's going to be a winner or a loser.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: We do that a lot.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like after we do two or three competitive things with a score,
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: we finish it with 20 free throws with a clap game.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: But you're not getting a ton of reps.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: Free throws are hard because it can stall practice out.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: But we do do it a little bit.
• 34:51
  Is there anything that you are thinking about or just
• 34:54
  considering going forward
• 34:56
  either in how the game is moving or just improving upon what
• 34:59
  you're doing that
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: you're looking to evolve as a coach in?
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: We're always looking to evolve.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's funny looking like the spreadsheet, the Excel sheet.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: There was about six things that we added last year, last summer.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I take a lot of staff input.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: We look for ideas.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: We try to steal stuff.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's so much on, you know, everything.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: This type, you know, podcasts and YouTubes and this and that.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, that one, that mega basket seven-point game,
• 35:24
  which has turned into one of our best competitive games,
• 35:26
  especially early in the season.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: I stole that off the podcast.
• 35:29
  So we certainly don't think that all of our stuff is original
• 35:32
  and that like,
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: Hey,
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: like,
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: well,
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: if it sounds good,
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: let's try it.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: But we do have a framework that that's worked here.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, for real, I've been here eight years going into my ninth year.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't want to reinvent the wheel ever.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: I want to keep going with what I'm comfortable at.
• 35:44
  I want consistency for our guys,
• 35:47
  but then let's sprinkle in some new stuff that,
• 35:49
  you know,
• 35:49
  it's,
• 35:50
  in the old school college days you might have a guy here five
• 35:52
  or six years now you
• 35:53
  might not have him here five or six months because the portal
• 35:55
  but you know
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: When they're there for five years,
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: yeah,
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: you got to make things a little bit,
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: you got to juice things up a little bit and make,
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: you're trying to get to the same end,
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: but like,
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: how do we tweak this a little bit just so they don't get bored?
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: You don't want robots.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why I tell the guys, no robot activity, no robots.
• 36:11
  I know coaches are listening to this and saying,
• 36:13
  I wish you would ask more about the drills.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_01: There's a reason that I'm not doing that.
• 36:17
  And that is because there are three videos on championship
• 36:20
  productions that has
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: specifics of these things.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: Can you talk just a little bit about those videos?
• 36:26
  Yeah,
• 36:26
  and they're all different,
• 36:27
  and they're all different points in time.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_00: The first one was right during COVID.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: It was goofy.
• 36:33
  One is a Zoom,
• 36:34
  and then the most recent one,
• 36:35
  I think it's the open practice.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: There's like the all-access.
• 36:39
  I'm telling you what the titles of all three are,
• 36:41
  but they're all totally different.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: All-access,
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: my favorite drills for practice,
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: and then the most recent one is the open practice,
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: which basically has possessions,
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_01: offense,
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_01: defense,
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_01: skills,
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: drills,
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: and a little bit of everything.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_00: has all that stuff.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, people want to go out there and watch that stuff.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's got,
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: it's,
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_00: it will,
• 36:58
  it will drill you to death and it'll five on five you to death
• 37:01
  in a good way.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: So no,
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: it's all out there,
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: but no,
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: I think for us,
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: we're,
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: we're just really happy to share the game.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, we're, we're like everyone else.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: We're just trying to grow and modify and keep getting better and better.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_01: I will be sure to link those down in the description.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: So you guys can check those videos out.
• 37:15
  That's coach Steve Smiley,
• 37:17
  head men's basketball coach for the Northern Colorado bears
• 37:19
  coach.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome stuff.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much for sharing.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks.