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Conducting Elite Basketball Practices · A Quick Timeout

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Coach Kyle Recklex in her 13th year as the head women's
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basketball coach at the
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SPEAKER_00: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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SPEAKER_00: Prior to her time there in Milwaukee,
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she was the assistant coach for the Badgers and also associate
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head coach for the
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SPEAKER_00: Dayton Flyers.
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And there are coach of the year awards and NCAA tournaments and
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a bunch of other
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SPEAKER_00: player awards along the way there.
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SPEAKER_00: Coach, thanks so much for coming on the podcast today.
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SPEAKER_01: Super excited to be here.
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today we're talking in about an area i think every coach wants
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to continually
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improve on and that's in the effectiveness of our practices
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coach i'll start broad
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SPEAKER_00: but how have practices for you evolved over your time as a head coach
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
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SPEAKER_01: well,
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SPEAKER_01: they've changed so much,
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SPEAKER_01: even just with the,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: types of players now,
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SPEAKER_01: the generational,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: differences,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: you have to really adapt to who you're coaching as well.
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But I think when I started out as a younger head coach,
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my practices were a lot longer.
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SPEAKER_01: The drills spanned a lot longer.
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SPEAKER_01: And I have learned that in order to keep your players' attention,
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SPEAKER_01: because obviously like when you think about this generation,
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SPEAKER_01: their attention spans aren't incredibly long.
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SPEAKER_01: You know,
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they're watching one minute TikTok videos and reels are only a
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certain amount of
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time that you have such this gap that you have to like fill and
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get a lot of
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information in in such a short period of time that I've learned
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to compact my
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drills and try to get as much information in as possible in a
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shorter period of
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SPEAKER_01: time.
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SPEAKER_01: But I have grown just like my players have grown over the years.
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SPEAKER_01: I've grown as well and adapted.
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The structure of practice is something that I've heard a lot of
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coaches talk about
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SPEAKER_00: change,
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SPEAKER_00: just like you kind of alluded to.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how long you go.
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm wondering a little bit more about what you do in that time.
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How do you spend your time and what do you like to spend your
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time primarily doing
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in the practice itself versus maybe like individual workouts or
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small group
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SPEAKER_00: workouts that you guys do?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So, you know, our, we do still do a lot with individuals.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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I think there's a lot of coaches that have kind of shifted
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their focus to more
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SPEAKER_01: team-based stuff,
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SPEAKER_01: but especially in the summer preseason and postseason,
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SPEAKER_01: we like to be individual-based.
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SPEAKER_01: The skill development of our athletes,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: short breakdowns,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: we,
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SPEAKER_01: we run a lot of stuff off of ball screen actions.
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SPEAKER_01: So anytime we can work on,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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hammering home the different reads of a ball screen become very
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important,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: so we're going to
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We're going to put our guards on the wing and they're going to
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rep 30 times coming
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SPEAKER_01: off the ball screen,
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SPEAKER_01: attacking the middle,
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SPEAKER_01: hesitating at what would be the shadow post defender.
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SPEAKER_01: And then,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: taking that blast step to the rim and finishing,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: different finishing moves.
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And then they're going to work 30 times on coming off and
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hitting that mid range pull up.
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And then 30 times on shooting the ball behind the screen and
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then 30 times of the rejection.
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And it's going to be that high level rep before we ever get to
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the read of the ball
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SPEAKER_01: screen action.
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We want them to see kind of this is dummy defense based off of
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this action.
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SPEAKER_01: And now let's see if you can now translate that.
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SPEAKER_01: And here's four things that we worked on.
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Now,
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what is the defense doing so that you can make the read part
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off of that?
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Building those skill sets is just going to make your team that
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much better when you
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SPEAKER_01: get into those live play situations and you can work with your team.
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SPEAKER_01: So we do a lot of specialty offseason with individual stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: And then as we move into team stuff, we like to do short breakdowns.
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You know,
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it's like we'll work one side of the court and work like a
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three person triangle.
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You know,
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most offenses,
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as you know,
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finish in a three person triangle or a two man side.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just the way that the basketball, the game is played out.
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SPEAKER_01: So we try to work that two man action.
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We try to work that triangle action and we'll just play the
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triangle for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, it's just like working the reads off of the three person.
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And then we'll do a build up where we're getting it into live
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and then we'll build
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SPEAKER_01: it into a scrimmage.
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SPEAKER_01: So we try to like really kind of like place parts into it.
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SPEAKER_01: Same thing if it was a rebounding situation, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe we needed to work on rebounding.
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SPEAKER_01: We're going to do a breakdown of the rebounding.
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SPEAKER_01: Then we're going to build it up into a half court team rebounding drill.
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SPEAKER_01: And then the next drill is going to actually be a rebounding scrimmage.
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SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if a lot of people do this,
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SPEAKER_01: but we run scrimmages,
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SPEAKER_01: these short scrimmages based off of the drills that we were just working.
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SPEAKER_01: So if rebounding was the emphasis for the last two drills,
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SPEAKER_01: then the scrimmage is all rebounding based.
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SPEAKER_01: Like you're playing to three defensive rebounds in a row.
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SPEAKER_01: If anybody gets an offensive rebound during that time,
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SPEAKER_01: your score goes back to zero and now your scrimmage keeps going.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's not time-based.
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SPEAKER_01: It's more like, you know, emphasis-based.
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So those are some of the things that we do just like to kind of
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like build up our practices.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm glad you mentioned the ball screen stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: This,
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SPEAKER_00: this doesn't have to be,
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SPEAKER_00: this episode is not about ball screens,
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SPEAKER_00: but I do think that's a great example of a concept that previously,
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and maybe even still from some coaches seems somewhat simple in
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regards to it being
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SPEAKER_00: a two man action.
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SPEAKER_00: And I come off and it's me.
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SPEAKER_00: And, but now we're realizing, Oh wait, that's a three man action.
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SPEAKER_00: And now we're even more realizing, Oh no, that's a five man action.
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SPEAKER_00: When it goes from two to five,
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SPEAKER_00: that's a lot of things for just even your ball handler,
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SPEAKER_00: but the players off the ball as well to process,
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SPEAKER_00: to understand.
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SPEAKER_00: And so my question is about decision making.
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SPEAKER_00: How have you incorporated that skill now?
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SPEAKER_00: Because I think it's something that has always been important.
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SPEAKER_00: I think it's something that coaches,
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SPEAKER_00: most coaches are recognizing now that that is important,
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SPEAKER_00: but I think it's
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being exposed even more because of how sophisticated defenses
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are getting and not
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SPEAKER_00: even necessarily sophisticated,
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SPEAKER_00: but just defenses are changing and adapting to take away ball screens.
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SPEAKER_00: And now we're doing zooms that include anyways,
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you know what I'm saying is decision-making in general and how
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you are constructing
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SPEAKER_00: drills and incorporating that into your practices.
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SPEAKER_00: How has that evolved over time?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's evolved the time, much like you said.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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SPEAKER_01: I,
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SPEAKER_01: I remember when I was playing and even when I was first coaching,
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SPEAKER_01: nobody ever talked about ice of a ball screen.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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it's just like the ice has kind of come in the last probably
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four to five years
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SPEAKER_01: where teams have really kind of adapted to like ice ball screen defense.
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SPEAKER_01: So knowing that there's so many different styles out there,
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SPEAKER_01: switching mans,
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SPEAKER_01: there's Pac-Man,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: getting in the Pac,
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SPEAKER_01: be a Pac-Man defensive team.
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SPEAKER_01: There's hard hedges,
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SPEAKER_01: there's traps,
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SPEAKER_01: there's your guard,
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SPEAKER_01: the way that your guards have to play off of screen actions.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is ball screens and off ball screens.
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I mean,
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it's even when you think of like,
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how many ways are the defendant off ball screen?
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You can chase,
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you can,
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you know,
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shoot,
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you can,
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there's all sorts of things that you can do.
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SPEAKER_01: You can switch it.
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SPEAKER_01: Making those reads becomes important.
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SPEAKER_01: extremely valuable in that decision-making side of things.
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For us,
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again,
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we break it down into the simplest form possible for our
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athletes.
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SPEAKER_01: We're going to put a dummy defender out there.
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We're fortunate at this level to have practice guys that can
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come in and practice
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SPEAKER_01: against us,
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SPEAKER_01: which is really nice.
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SPEAKER_01: If not,
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you have a younger coach out there that's willing to sacrifice
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for the practice and
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SPEAKER_01: get out there and get a workout in.
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SPEAKER_01: Actually, one of my older assistants actually does that.
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SPEAKER_01: She loves jumping into those drills and getting workouts in, but
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SPEAKER_01: And you have them just like,
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SPEAKER_01: hey,
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SPEAKER_01: if we're working on,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: off ball screens,
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SPEAKER_01: we're going to chase.
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SPEAKER_01: We're just going to work on the chase aspect.
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We're going to work on the read of that before we ever get into
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like the reading of the defense.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, now then we're going to work the shoot.
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SPEAKER_01: What's the read off of that?
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SPEAKER_01: How do you get your footwork into your shot?
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SPEAKER_01: How do you make the pass to the post player off of some of these actions?
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And then now we're going to put them in the same situation
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where my defender can like
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SPEAKER_01: Shoot or chase.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we're going to add that third person like you're talking about.
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So a lot of times we build up,
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we do a lot of advantage,
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disadvantage situations.
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So we're going to put the defender already at a disadvantage
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where the offense is
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an added advantage where they're able to like already start the
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drive downhill.
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SPEAKER_01: They're not going to have to beat their defender in this drill, you know?
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Sometimes you can use a coach out there and work it off of a
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handoff situation
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where they have to like curl around the coach automatically
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going to make the
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SPEAKER_01: offense have an advantage situation.
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SPEAKER_01: And now we're going to add that third defender,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: where's that third defender coming from?
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SPEAKER_01: Are they coming from the corner?
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SPEAKER_01: Are they coming from high?
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SPEAKER_01: It all depends on how you normally run your offense.
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SPEAKER_01: And now you're making that read.
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SPEAKER_01: Is this a finish in the lane or is this a two foot,
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SPEAKER_01: get your feet underneath you and make that nice pass outside?
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We really preach the fundamentals of coming to two foot stops
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and getting both feet
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SPEAKER_01: underneath you.
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SPEAKER_01: I think it's extremely important.
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I think a lot of turnovers come when players are coming off of
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one foot or they're
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SPEAKER_01: making jump passes or they're rushed.
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And so we really focus on kind of that pause aspect,
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getting into the lane and pausing.
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SPEAKER_01: And then one thing I think our staff is really great at,
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SPEAKER_01: and this is something I think I didn't do very well as a younger coach,
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SPEAKER_01: is when we do make mistakes,
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SPEAKER_01: especially in drill situations,
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SPEAKER_01: we're going to stop it.
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And instead of yelling at them,
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we're going to put them right back in the exact same situation.
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SPEAKER_01: We're going to show them what the right read was,
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SPEAKER_01: and then we're going to make them replay it from that point.
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SPEAKER_01: So even if we were working on like a five on five offensive set,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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maybe we're working on coming off our ball screen and our point
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guard gets downhill
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SPEAKER_01: and misses the corner person,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: maybe they kick it out,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: kick it out high,
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SPEAKER_01: but the corner person was open.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to put the defense in the exact same scenario.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to have the point guard make the exact same read.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we're going to play it live from there.
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SPEAKER_01: What's going to happen when we make this pass?
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SPEAKER_01: Does she have a shot or is it a one more pass?
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SPEAKER_01: You know, what's the next read off of that?
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And then we're going to play it live from there so that the
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point guard can get the right rep.
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I think that's really important is to put them back in the
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situation so they can
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SPEAKER_01: get the right rep.
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SPEAKER_01: Once we go playing live,
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that's where sometimes we'll have to like wait till the whole
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play goes out,
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SPEAKER_01: stop it,
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SPEAKER_01: and then try to do the reset.
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SPEAKER_01: But I think it's really important to make sure athletes,
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SPEAKER_01: especially now are getting like right reps.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm glad you mentioned kind of that recreating idea.
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That's something that really transformed my players learning
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because I think
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SPEAKER_00: sometimes we stop it after it's over,
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SPEAKER_00: we correct,
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SPEAKER_00: and then we just start it over again.
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Like it's going to recreate itself and sometimes it does and
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sometimes it doesn't.
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and by stopping we go rewind i'll tell the guys to rewind and
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they you know take
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two steps back or whatever by the way when i first started
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doing that they looked
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at me like what are you wanting me to do here but then also the
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the playing off of
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two feet something i found that maybe you can speak to but just
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the ability to kind
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SPEAKER_00: of i play off too that almost slows me down to then allow me
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SPEAKER_00: To see better, which then allows me to decide better.
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Teaching the decision and helping them tie that to your eyes
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and what you see.
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I'm guessing you guys use film in that way as well to kind of
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reinforce that.
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But what are kind of some of the conversations that you have in
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regards to teaching
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the decision making through film and tying that to what happens
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on the practice
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SPEAKER_00: court?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
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SPEAKER_01: well,
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SPEAKER_01: even going before that,
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I think one of the things that has changed a lot over the years
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has been just the
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fact that so many players now are doing individual workouts
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with trainers,
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SPEAKER_01: right?
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It's like we get a lot of these really great high school
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players that come in that
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SPEAKER_01: are super talented,
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SPEAKER_01: but they're doing it one-on-one.
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SPEAKER_01: They don't have somebody that they're passing to.
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SPEAKER_01: Passing has become a lost art in the game.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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it is unbelievable to me how many players come into the college
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setting and cannot
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SPEAKER_01: pass or are very weak players
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SPEAKER_01: weak at making reads and decision making and passing.
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It's because they're literally paying this trainer and they're
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working on their
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SPEAKER_01: individual skill set to be able to score.
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SPEAKER_01: We're losing a little bit of that at the college level.
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SPEAKER_01: And so we spend a lot of time on this.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, film is a huge part of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Usually for us, we do film before practices.
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SPEAKER_01: So our athletes come in, they'll watch a set of film.
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We'll have it broken down based off of like what our three
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emphasis points are for
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SPEAKER_01: practice that day.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe it was, you know, we had too many turnovers yesterday.
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So now we're watching those,
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you know,
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and how were those turnovers coming?
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We're going to show them clips,
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a couple of clips of where they maybe didn't do it right.
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But then we're going to try to find three or four clips where
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they did it,
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SPEAKER_01: where they did do it right.
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Because we want them to not,
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we don't want to train them to always seeing the wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: Like sometimes it's better when you can show them clips.
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SPEAKER_01: And even if it has to be like a clip of a different team,
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SPEAKER_01: hey,
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SPEAKER_01: here's a player doing it correctly.
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SPEAKER_01: So they can see like, this is the read that I want to get to.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the right decision.
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And then we have these three points of emphasis that we always
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try to lay into in practice.
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And now we're going to go and make sure our practice plan is
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coordinated with those
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SPEAKER_01: three things.
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SPEAKER_01: So we're working on drills that if that was one of our things,
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SPEAKER_01: footwork,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: coming into the pass,
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SPEAKER_01: maybe that was something we didn't do well the day before.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a point of emphasis for us in that practice.
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SPEAKER_01: Then we're going to utilize that within our drills.
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Every single drill we're going to be hampering on is our
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footwork right coming into
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SPEAKER_01: this pass,
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SPEAKER_01: you know.
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SPEAKER_01: How are we doing when we're coming off of a screen?
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SPEAKER_01: Is our footwork right coming into the shot?
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SPEAKER_01: And if we don't have the shot, what's the next decision off of that?
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SPEAKER_01: And so our staff does a really,
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really good job of honing into those like kind of points of
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emphasis and making
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SPEAKER_01: sure they stay consistent throughout the practice.
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SPEAKER_00: I like having the three.
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SPEAKER_00: I think that's easy to remember for us and for them.
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Those typically come from the evaluation of the day before and
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maybe a little bit
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SPEAKER_00: of what you're wanting to do that going forward.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
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SPEAKER_01: it could be something,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: that maybe didn't go well the day before,
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or it could be something that we know we're going to need for a
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specific team that
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SPEAKER_01: we're going to play.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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if we're going to be going against a team that's a very high
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level offensive
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SPEAKER_01: rebounding team,
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SPEAKER_01: our emphasis is going to be defense.
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SPEAKER_01: And we're going to make a point of that.
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SPEAKER_01: We actually, at the beginning of practice, we'll stand in a circle.
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We huddle up and then we say the three points of emphasis and
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our team repeats them.
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SPEAKER_01: So I'll say our first point of emphasis is rebounding.
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SPEAKER_01: And then our team will say rebounding.
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Cause again,
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I think,
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and our team repeats us the entire practice actually.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's, it's,
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SPEAKER_01: when I have a new coach come in,
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it's very difficult for them sometimes to like grasp that
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because you have to learn
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SPEAKER_01: when to pause because you'll be in a sentence and you'll say,
13:33
SPEAKER_01: all right,
13:33
SPEAKER_01: we're going to,
13:34
SPEAKER_01: you know,
13:35
SPEAKER_01: right now we're going to focus on,
13:36
SPEAKER_01: you know,
13:36
SPEAKER_01: making sure that we're jamming,
13:39
SPEAKER_01: jamming a rebounder.
13:39
SPEAKER_01: And then they'll say jamming a rebounder.
13:41
SPEAKER_01: So you have to like give that pause before you say your next statement.
13:44
SPEAKER_01: And they get so good at it.
13:46
SPEAKER_01: But what it does is that for one,
13:47
SPEAKER_01: it keeps them focused on the practice,
13:48
SPEAKER_01: but it also makes them have to feel like,
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SPEAKER_01: what is the emphasis of this drill?
13:52
SPEAKER_01: What's the most important thing that we're getting out of this?
13:54
SPEAKER_01: We do those points of emphasis every single day.
13:56
SPEAKER_01: And then we have those same points of emphasis for games.
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SPEAKER_01: So it kind of like translates,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: what are the three things that we need offensively to win this game?
14:04
SPEAKER_01: What are the three things defensively we need to win this game?
14:06
SPEAKER_01: And what are the three things overall?
14:08
SPEAKER_01: If anything, they need to learn on the scout.
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Those are those those are those nine things that I need to make
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sure they understand.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's great.
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I would assume then that those then help you as a staff in
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selecting the games,
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drills and everything that you're putting together for that
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practice plan.
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SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
14:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
14:24
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
14:24
SPEAKER_01: we,
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SPEAKER_01: we as a staff,
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SPEAKER_01: like really do a great job of communicating,
14:28
SPEAKER_01: you know,
14:28
SPEAKER_01: sometimes it's hard when you have an early morning practice,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
14:31
SPEAKER_01: so they try to send me,
14:32
SPEAKER_01: you know,
14:32
SPEAKER_01: thoughts on the practice,
14:33
SPEAKER_01: um,
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SPEAKER_01: on what happened on the practice right after the previous practice,
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SPEAKER_01: they'll send me some notes like,
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SPEAKER_01: Hey,
14:38
SPEAKER_01: I didn't think this went very well.
14:39
SPEAKER_01: We weren't in the gaps very well, or our gaps were too deep.
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SPEAKER_01: So then that helps me when I'm practice planning to say,
14:45
SPEAKER_01: okay,
14:45
SPEAKER_01: we need to make sure we put in a gap drill early in practice.
14:47
SPEAKER_01: Um,
14:48
SPEAKER_01: You know,
14:48
SPEAKER_01: depending on what part of the season we're in,
14:50
SPEAKER_01: we always try to do breakdowns at the start of practice,
14:53
SPEAKER_01: too.
14:54
SPEAKER_01: And I have three assistants, which is really nice.
14:56
SPEAKER_01: Not everybody has that.
14:57
SPEAKER_01: So if you had only two, you could do two ends.
14:59
We try to do it at three different baskets,
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but we'll break the team down into three groups.
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SPEAKER_01: One is always shooting.
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I want my team getting shots up before we actually get into
15:08
live play drills and
15:10
SPEAKER_01: stuff like that.
15:10
SPEAKER_01: So one is always shooting.
15:11
SPEAKER_01: Another one will be something defensive oriented.
15:14
SPEAKER_01: So it could be closeouts.
15:15
SPEAKER_01: It could be sprinting to the gap.
15:18
SPEAKER_01: Could be ball screens.
15:19
SPEAKER_01: Maybe we need to work on our ball screen ice or shadow rotations.
15:23
And then the third basket is going to be what we call a point
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of emphasis basket.
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So that could be something that didn't go well in practice the
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day before.
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SPEAKER_01: And now we're going to like,
15:31
SPEAKER_01: maybe it's those two foot stops,
15:33
SPEAKER_01: you know,
15:33
SPEAKER_01: like we made way too many running passes yesterday.
15:35
SPEAKER_01: We had way too many turnovers.
15:37
SPEAKER_01: We're just going to rep for five minutes.
15:39
You're driving downhill,
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getting two feet under you making the corner pass shot.
15:42
SPEAKER_01: Next person's up, rep, drive, you know, kick.
15:45
SPEAKER_01: So we always have like three stations and it takes 15 minutes.
15:48
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
15:48
15 minutes and you get five minutes of shooting and five
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minutes of a point of
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emphasis that you know is going to happen during practice and
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five minutes of
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SPEAKER_01: something defensively that you know your team is going to need,
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whether it's moving into the next game or something you didn't
16:01
do well the day
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SPEAKER_01: before.
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And that's how we try to start practice,
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especially when we get into season.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love the consistency.
16:08
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they know what's coming.
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SPEAKER_00: Coaches always ask about shooting drills and you mentioned it here.
17:10
SPEAKER_00: So I'll go ahead and ask it now, but what do you like to use?
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It could be during that five minutes or something team shooting
17:16
and maybe even to
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SPEAKER_00: when you incorporate shooting into your practice time,
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SPEAKER_00: aside from the first 15 minutes.
17:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:24
I literally could talk about,
17:26
we could talk about shooting for like two hours.
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I think shooting is,
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it's so important that your players are able to get reps up.
17:33
SPEAKER_01: And,
17:33
SPEAKER_01: you know,
17:34
SPEAKER_01: depending on what level you're at,
17:35
SPEAKER_01: you know,
17:35
SPEAKER_01: at the high school level,
17:37
SPEAKER_01: not a lot of your players are able to get in for those extra time,
17:39
SPEAKER_01: that extra shooting time.
17:40
SPEAKER_01: You know,
17:40
SPEAKER_01: if you're college level,
17:41
you hope your players are getting in to get high level reps up
17:44
because there's just
17:45
SPEAKER_01: when you do a 10 minute drill in practice,
17:47
SPEAKER_01: your top shooters are maybe getting four shots within that drill.
17:51
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
17:51
It's just it's not conducive to how how many shots they really
17:55
need to get.
17:56
So finding ways to add shooting drills in throughout practices
17:59
are really important.
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SPEAKER_01: We have both individual and team based shooting drills.
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SPEAKER_01: As far as like individual ones,
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we like to do what's called the shot buildup just to kind of
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get them warmed up.
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You can like stand right in front of the rim and you're just
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like working the one
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SPEAKER_01: hand,
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SPEAKER_01: the wrist,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: inflection.
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Then you,
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after like 20 seconds,
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you take a step back and now you're adding just guide hand.
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SPEAKER_01: So now you're working with guide hand, take a step back.
18:22
SPEAKER_01: Now you're bending the knees.
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SPEAKER_01: So you're kind of like just building your shot up as you go.
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SPEAKER_01: Next step back is now you're jumping.
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SPEAKER_01: So you're not stepping into your shot.
18:30
SPEAKER_01: You're just bending the knees, jumping, and then finishing through.
18:34
SPEAKER_01: One more step back.
18:34
SPEAKER_01: Now you should be at about 15 feet.
18:36
SPEAKER_01: Now you're working on your shot footwork.
18:38
SPEAKER_01: So now you're stepping into the shot, taking an actual regular shot.
18:41
SPEAKER_01: The next 20 seconds we call bad pass.
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So for 20 seconds,
18:44
your rebounder is kind of like throwing it to you high off of a
18:47
catch.
18:47
SPEAKER_01: You're getting like a scoop.
18:48
So now you're working on getting it into your pocket off of
18:51
your shot footwork.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: One more step back.
18:53
SPEAKER_01: You're working on one dribble pull up.
18:55
SPEAKER_01: And then the last, the last shot, they don't say step back.
18:57
SPEAKER_01: They just say threes like that.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: And then for 20 seconds, you're shooting threes.
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SPEAKER_01: It takes for one person,
19:03
SPEAKER_01: you're talking about three and a half minutes,
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SPEAKER_01: four minutes to get through every one of those positions.
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SPEAKER_01: And the next person goes.
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SPEAKER_01: So in eight minutes,
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SPEAKER_01: if you can split your players up to a basket,
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SPEAKER_01: if you don't have that many baskets,
19:12
you can put two groups at one basket and kind of work kind of
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like diagonally out.
19:16
SPEAKER_01: And that is a great drill just to get you going.
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SPEAKER_01: If we have been missing layups the day before,
19:20
then I'm adding Mike and Zen to start for an extra 20 minutes
19:23
just to kind of get
19:24
SPEAKER_01: them around the rim and finishing.
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SPEAKER_01: some team drills we like to do.
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SPEAKER_01: We're always extremely competitive in our team drills.
19:29
We actually have a philosophy where our goal within practice
19:33
settings and in games
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SPEAKER_01: is to hit 55% from inside,
19:37
SPEAKER_01: like anywhere from like six,
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SPEAKER_01: five to six feet in 55% is our goal.
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SPEAKER_01: And we always will say, is that it's a 55?
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SPEAKER_01: Like we'll yell it.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: Like if somebody hits a tough shot,
19:46
SPEAKER_01: we're like,
19:47
SPEAKER_01: that's a 55,
19:48
SPEAKER_01: you know,
19:48
SPEAKER_01: obviously if you're shooting with no defense,
19:50
SPEAKER_01: you should be like at a hundred.
19:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:51
but um so this is more like you know when defense is around or
19:55
even dummy defense
19:56
SPEAKER_01: we want to be at 55 percent
19:58
SPEAKER_01: When you move back into that mid-range slot, we want to be at 45.
20:00
SPEAKER_01: And then anything outside of threes, you want to be 35 and above.
20:03
SPEAKER_01: So we're charting that.
20:04
SPEAKER_01: So when we work like a three-point shooting drill,
20:07
SPEAKER_01: our team has to like,
20:09
SPEAKER_01: I don't know,
20:09
SPEAKER_01: we call it a repeat when they don't get it right.
20:11
SPEAKER_01: But they have to like check every spot as a team.
20:14
SPEAKER_01: So if you have 10 people shooting,
20:16
SPEAKER_01: then at least for us,
20:17
SPEAKER_01: at least four people have to hit threes.
20:19
SPEAKER_01: Because if three people hit threes, we would be under the 35%.
20:23
So if we're doing like a one more pass drill,
20:25
you know,
20:25
like you got three lines.
20:27
SPEAKER_01: And somebody drives from the corner,
20:29
SPEAKER_01: kicks to the wing,
20:30
SPEAKER_01: one more pass to the top of the key,
20:31
SPEAKER_01: let's say,
20:32
SPEAKER_01: right?
20:33
Every person will rotate to the spot and it's getting,
20:35
we're getting 10 shots up as a team.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's say we have 10 players.
20:38
SPEAKER_01: Then we have to hit four of those 10.
20:39
If we don't,
20:40
then the lead person who's usually a captain will say,
20:42
repeat.
20:42
SPEAKER_01: And we have to repeat that spot.
20:44
SPEAKER_01: And I'll tell you,
20:45
SPEAKER_01: there was this one time we were,
20:46
SPEAKER_01: we were in the WNIT and we were actually playing Drake the next day,
20:50
SPEAKER_01: really good mid-major program on the women's side.
20:53
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, we spent, we could not accomplish this drill.
20:57
SPEAKER_01: We were going around twos and at twos, I think you have to hit over 50%.
21:00
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
21:01
SPEAKER_01: So, I mean, we're trying to, we could not get through this drill.
21:03
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
21:03
it took us 45 minutes of our practice time to get through this
21:07
one drill and it
21:07
SPEAKER_01: never takes that long.
21:08
SPEAKER_01: I mean, usually it takes us like
21:10
eight minutes,
21:10
you know,
21:11
10 minutes to do twos around and then threes coming back 45
21:14
minutes.
21:14
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, we haven't even gotten the scout.
21:16
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, and so I had to cut other things like out of the practice.
21:20
I'm not,
21:20
we shot so bad that day before we came into the game,
21:23
we shot 67%.
21:23
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
21:25
SPEAKER_01: It just like, I don't know, it clicked for him.
21:28
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we shot so many shots.
21:30
SPEAKER_01: It was crazy.
21:31
But we're always trying to like whether it's intercompetitive
21:34
or we split them up
21:35
SPEAKER_01: into groups and team compete.
21:36
SPEAKER_01: I just think it's really important to keep your players competitive.
21:38
And and they need to know you have to reach these goals in
21:42
order to move on to the
21:42
SPEAKER_01: next drill or in order to move on to the next spot.
21:45
SPEAKER_01: Like reach this goal as a team.
21:47
SPEAKER_01: Have a little pride in something.
21:48
SPEAKER_00: That has transformed our shooting.
21:50
And also,
21:51
I think it's added to the competitiveness and the energy of the
21:55
practices.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: Incorporating those,
21:57
SPEAKER_00: I actually,
21:57
SPEAKER_00: towards the,
21:58
SPEAKER_00: I wish I'd been doing this longer,
21:59
but incorporating those throughout practice seemed to give the
22:02
rest of practice a
22:03
SPEAKER_00: boost.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: We used to do them like,
22:05
SPEAKER_00: the last 10, 15 minutes.
22:06
SPEAKER_00: I don't know why I changed it, but just changed it.
22:09
SPEAKER_00: And it's one of those things that accidental.
22:11
SPEAKER_00: And I just mentioned the competitiveness and the energy.
22:14
SPEAKER_00: And I can tell from just talking to you for the last 20 minutes that your
22:17
SPEAKER_00: practices,
22:18
SPEAKER_00: even if I hadn't seen them,
22:19
SPEAKER_00: but I've seen some of them are energetic,
22:21
SPEAKER_00: fast moving,
22:23
and competitive very much i i know that that is connected
22:27
sometimes to the coach
22:29
and that does play a portion of it but i also think that the
22:32
construction of things
22:33
and what you choose uh to use adds to that how do you create a
22:38
competitive
22:39
environment on a season that is it's long especially if you're
22:44
playing into a
22:45
SPEAKER_00: post-season tournament
22:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I think competing is it's the number one thing.
22:50
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
22:50
SPEAKER_01: at the end of the day,
22:51
SPEAKER_01: your players are going to make a thousand mistakes within the games.
22:54
SPEAKER_01: You know,
22:54
SPEAKER_01: your offense isn't going to be run perfect,
22:56
your defense and learning how to like compete and scramble out
23:00
of situations and,
23:01
SPEAKER_01: you know,
23:02
make a play when there really is no play because the game is on
23:05
the line comes
23:06
SPEAKER_01: within practice.
23:07
Like how many times you can get them in those practice settings
23:09
becomes very important.
23:11
Um,
23:11
there's definitely some things that we do,
23:13
um,
23:13
to help with the competitiveness.
23:14
SPEAKER_01: So even if it's our players against the practice guys,
23:17
SPEAKER_01: let's say it's a five on five drill and we're working on offense.
23:20
SPEAKER_01: We always want to score more points than possessions.
23:23
So if we're playing like a 10 possession game,
23:27
um,
23:27
like a 10,
23:28
Hey,
23:28
you have 10 possessions.
23:29
SPEAKER_01: We have 10 possessions.
23:30
Then I'm my managers or our director of ops or even assistant
23:34
coach is standing
23:35
SPEAKER_01: there tallying like this is,
23:36
SPEAKER_01: you know,
23:37
SPEAKER_01: one possession,
23:37
SPEAKER_01: two possessions,
23:38
SPEAKER_01: and then how many points we score.
23:39
So we want to,
23:39
if it's 10 possessions,
23:40
we want to have 11,
23:41
at least 11 points.
23:43
SPEAKER_01: I mean, imagine a normal game.
23:44
SPEAKER_01: Typically you're having,
23:45
SPEAKER_01: you know,
23:45
SPEAKER_01: in that 60 to 70 possession marks,
23:48
SPEAKER_01: you know,
23:48
SPEAKER_01: sometimes 70 to 80,
23:49
SPEAKER_01: if you can learn and practice how to have that.
23:51
SPEAKER_01: So our team can like look up and know,
23:53
SPEAKER_01: hey,
23:53
SPEAKER_01: this is last possession and we're down three or we're down two.
23:58
And so now all of a sudden you're playing it like we have to
24:00
get a shot here.
24:00
SPEAKER_01: We have to make this shot in order to win the drill.
24:03
SPEAKER_01: So we're constantly doing that,
24:05
SPEAKER_01: whether and our players,
24:05
SPEAKER_01: it's always up on the scoreboard so that our players,
24:07
SPEAKER_01: we don't keep score like.
24:09
SPEAKER_01: This team has two and the other team has four.
24:11
It's possessions versus score so that we always can see what
24:14
the what the mark is.
24:15
SPEAKER_01: That's that's huge for us.
24:16
SPEAKER_01: That's a way we compete.
24:17
SPEAKER_01: We also we have what's called Benergy drills.
24:20
SPEAKER_01: So bench energy is a huge thing for us.
24:23
SPEAKER_01: So we call it Benergy.
24:24
SPEAKER_01: the team that has the most energy.
24:26
SPEAKER_01: So if it's a Benergy drill,
24:27
SPEAKER_01: the team that has the most energy,
24:28
which is usually voted on by a coach or by somebody who's
24:31
working at the table.
24:33
Sometimes I'll be like our trainer gets to pick which team had
24:35
the most energy.
24:37
They get like a bonus two points or sometimes I'll say a
24:40
Benergy drill plus five.
24:42
SPEAKER_01: And that means at the end of the drill, you get five points.
24:44
If your team had the most energy during that drill,
24:46
that could be high five,
24:47
like touches.
24:48
We call them touches,
24:49
but,
24:49
or chest,
24:50
we do a lot of,
24:50
our team does a lot of chest bumping.
24:52
SPEAKER_01: It's kind of crazy when you come to our practices.
24:55
SPEAKER_01: You know,
24:55
SPEAKER_01: even just like hard teaching and stuff like that,
24:57
if they're teaching each other or finding times to like regroup
25:00
or something like
25:01
SPEAKER_01: that.
25:01
SPEAKER_01: And then when you get that bonus five,
25:02
SPEAKER_01: so you could conceive it,
25:03
SPEAKER_01: you could like really lose the drill,
25:05
SPEAKER_01: but win it based off of having like an energy check.
25:08
SPEAKER_01: So I try to throw those energy drills out,
25:11
SPEAKER_01: you know,
25:11
SPEAKER_01: at least once a practice,
25:12
SPEAKER_01: sometimes like once every other practice,
25:13
SPEAKER_01: just to kind of keep the energy going.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: Or if you're feeling like your team's in a low energy,
25:17
SPEAKER_01: that's a great time to bring one of those in.
25:19
SPEAKER_01: You can kind of like re-ramp the energy back up.
25:21
SPEAKER_00: Poor practices are inevitable.
25:22
SPEAKER_00: I know we try to minimize them.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: Are there any outside of just saying we're done for the day?
25:28
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you don't do that.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: But outside of just saying we're done for the day,
25:31
SPEAKER_00: if you start to feel something going away that you don't want it to go,
25:35
what's something practical that you do or some ideas that
25:39
coaches can implement to
25:41
SPEAKER_00: kind of swing things back to where they need to get?
25:43
SPEAKER_01: there's two things that really help us.
25:46
SPEAKER_01: One is I really work a lot with our leadership team.
25:49
Instead of calling them captains,
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we call them leadership team because they're our leaders.
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And so I really work with them quite a bit outside of
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basketball practices.
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And one of the things that I allow them to do is to have what's
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called regroups.
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So if they can tell,
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like they always say when I start to get quiet,
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that's a bad sign.
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Like if all of a sudden there's a couple possessions and
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they're not hearing my
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SPEAKER_01: voice,
26:16
SPEAKER_01: that usually means things are not going very well.
26:18
SPEAKER_01: They can read me pretty well.
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SPEAKER_01: Usually our leadership team has been around me for at least a year,
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SPEAKER_01: if not multiple years at this point.
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SPEAKER_01: And so they're allowed to call a regroup.
26:26
SPEAKER_01: And then a regroup is only the team comes together.
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SPEAKER_01: No coaches involved in that.
26:31
SPEAKER_01: So it's training them to
26:34
SPEAKER_01: You know,
26:34
SPEAKER_01: if you're in a game and the situation isn't going well,
26:37
SPEAKER_01: we don't have a billion timeouts that we can call as coaches,
26:40
SPEAKER_01: right?
26:41
SPEAKER_01: Our team has to learn how to respond,
26:43
SPEAKER_01: listen quickly,
26:44
SPEAKER_01: respond,
26:44
SPEAKER_01: and then like react,
26:46
SPEAKER_01: you know,
26:46
SPEAKER_01: like get out of it and do something to change it.
26:49
SPEAKER_01: And so they regroup,
26:50
SPEAKER_01: they all come together,
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SPEAKER_01: they put their arms around each other,
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SPEAKER_01: our coaches come together in a separate huddle,
26:54
SPEAKER_01: and we're just sitting there like acting mad,
26:56
SPEAKER_01: but we're not really,
26:57
SPEAKER_01: it's usually...
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SPEAKER_01: You know,
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SPEAKER_01: and then and then when we come back to practice,
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SPEAKER_01: we see where the change is at,
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SPEAKER_01: like how much better.
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And majority of the time I can tell you when our players come
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out of a regroup,
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SPEAKER_01: the focus is different.
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SPEAKER_01: Usually we go on a scoring run or get a couple stops.
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And that's a good way to like give a little bit of like
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autonomy to your leadership
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SPEAKER_01: team to allow them to have that moment to say,
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SPEAKER_01: hey,
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SPEAKER_01: we got to fix this.
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SPEAKER_01: This isn't good enough.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's not always coming from you.
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The second thing that we do is we always put an emphasis on the
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last like four
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SPEAKER_01: minutes of a drill.
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Or,
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you know,
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if it's a shorter drill,
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it could be the last two minutes of the drill.
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SPEAKER_01: Double points.
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SPEAKER_01: It could be like, you know, like you're ramping up the points.
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Because I think like the hardest thing to do is learn how to
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win at the end of a game,
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right?
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SPEAKER_01: It's like end of the game.
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SPEAKER_01: You played the game and you maybe have had a really bad game,
27:45
SPEAKER_01: but now it's in the last two minutes and you're tied.
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SPEAKER_01: How are you going to find a way to like win it?
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And so we try to make sure our team understands that there's a
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higher level of
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emphasis in those last two minutes and those last four minutes
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than there is at any
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SPEAKER_01: other point in time.
27:58
SPEAKER_01: You have to be sharper.
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SPEAKER_01: Your attention to detail has to be higher.
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SPEAKER_01: And you've got to like really understand like game flow.
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SPEAKER_01: Is this a good shot?
28:06
SPEAKER_01: Is this a bad shot?
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This can't just be like we're playing the drill out because
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there's 10 minutes on
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SPEAKER_01: the clock and there's two minutes left of the 10 minute drill.
28:15
SPEAKER_01: So I'm just going to, you know, jack this three from the corner.
28:17
SPEAKER_01: Like that's not a good shot if there was two minutes left in the game.
28:20
SPEAKER_01: So don't take it just because there's two minutes left in a drill.
28:23
SPEAKER_01: So we try to do double points with that.
28:26
SPEAKER_01: So that's one way we kind of ramp it up.
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And then the last thing I would say is to we do what's called
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the hot hand shooting
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SPEAKER_01: drills,
28:31
SPEAKER_01: like hot hand drills.
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SPEAKER_01: So like if we're playing live play,
28:35
SPEAKER_01: we'll designate like as they're playing,
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SPEAKER_01: let's say our point guard,
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SPEAKER_01: Kami Pepler hits a three.
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SPEAKER_01: She becomes the hot hand for that team.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: Let's make it take it.
28:44
SPEAKER_01: They get the ball back.
28:45
SPEAKER_01: If Cammie hits another three or the next possession,
28:48
SPEAKER_01: or say she gets another basket,
28:49
SPEAKER_01: the next possession,
28:50
SPEAKER_01: her points are worth two.
28:52
SPEAKER_01: So like if she hits another three, then that's a six pointer three.
28:56
SPEAKER_01: It makes the defense have to focus in on locking in on who's hot,
28:59
SPEAKER_01: but it also makes the offense look for the person who's been scoring.
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I think too many times it's kind of like,
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okay,
29:05
well she scored now it's my turn situation.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: And
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And we want them like competing within drills to say,
29:10
okay,
29:11
Kami's got the hot hand.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't mean she has to score.
29:13
SPEAKER_01: Like if she passes it to the post and,
29:15
SPEAKER_01: you know,
29:16
SPEAKER_01: Jory,
29:16
SPEAKER_01: our freshman goes one-on-one and scores a bucket,
29:19
SPEAKER_01: then it's just worth two points,
29:20
SPEAKER_01: you know,
29:21
SPEAKER_01: but now Jory has the hot hand,
29:22
SPEAKER_01: the next possession.
29:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
29:23
SPEAKER_01: So if Jory scores, then her points are worth two.
29:26
SPEAKER_01: Now,
29:26
SPEAKER_01: if she can score three times in a row,
29:28
SPEAKER_01: then it's worth three,
29:28
SPEAKER_01: four times in a row is worth four.
29:30
SPEAKER_01: So you kind of, then our team starts running plays for them.
29:33
SPEAKER_01: Like, Hey, let's get cammy off of a staggered screen.
29:36
SPEAKER_01: Let's run,
29:36
SPEAKER_01: you know,
29:37
SPEAKER_01: horn stagger,
29:37
SPEAKER_01: you know,
29:38
SPEAKER_01: and then they start calling our offenses to try to get our players place.
29:42
SPEAKER_01: So anything you can do within practice to kind of,
29:45
SPEAKER_01: even when the practice isn't maybe going well,
29:47
SPEAKER_01: something you can do to kind of like refocus them,
29:49
SPEAKER_01: bring back the energy and try to
29:51
SPEAKER_01: you know,
29:52
SPEAKER_01: put their attention to something different,
29:53
SPEAKER_01: you know,
29:54
SPEAKER_01: a different detail point,
29:55
SPEAKER_01: you know,
29:55
SPEAKER_01: so then we'll do like a hot hand scoring drill.
29:57
This is why I love that because I think that that kind of thing
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actually helps
30:02
SPEAKER_00: build decision making.
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I have gone away from anything that pits me against my player
30:08
in regards to this is
30:09
the way we're going to do things or especially with something
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as touchy as shot
30:13
SPEAKER_00: selection.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: no, that's a bad shot.
30:15
SPEAKER_00: This is the shot we want instead.
30:17
SPEAKER_00: Talking to them and helping them understand.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: And I think this is one of the areas where analytics has helped.
30:22
I know some people still don't like that,
30:24
but this isn't bad versus good or me right,
30:28
you wrong.
30:29
SPEAKER_00: This is like what's best for our team.
30:31
SPEAKER_00: Even that idea of like, well, she got hers.
30:33
SPEAKER_00: Now it's time for me to get mine.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: No, we're trying to get the highest percentage here.
30:37
SPEAKER_00: Like we're trying to,
30:38
SPEAKER_00: and until that percentage goes away or starts to even out,
30:41
SPEAKER_00: like the best decision
30:44
SPEAKER_00: is for us to keep going with that.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: They start making right decisions.
30:48
And I think they become more intelligent about like how we're
30:50
running the offense.
30:51
And whereas,
30:52
you know,
30:53
old way,
30:53
it's like,
30:54
no,
30:54
how can the coaches manipulate this?
30:55
SPEAKER_00: Let's call another play for this person.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: They're just like pawns out there.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: And then we want them later on in a game to make a play.
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And they're not equipped to make a play because you've been
31:05
roboting joystick
31:06
SPEAKER_00: sticking them the whole time.
31:08
And that that appears what you said that appears no more
31:13
obviously than in the last
31:15
SPEAKER_00: two minutes and in other special situations.
31:18
And coaches are talking to me more about like,
31:21
what do you do in special situations?
31:23
SPEAKER_00: How do you emphasize those?
31:24
Because I think that a lot of times is where it exposes us as
31:28
coaches as to what
31:29
SPEAKER_00: we've been teaching,
31:31
SPEAKER_00: what we've been emphasizing and what are we allowing our team to do?
31:35
SPEAKER_00: And so you mentioned already a couple of the things that you do.
31:38
SPEAKER_00: I think that kind of inadvertently teach special situations.
31:41
Do you do anything else like that to practice those important
31:45
times in a game?
31:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
31:47
SPEAKER_01: So we,
31:47
SPEAKER_01: every practice do a portion of our practice,
31:51
SPEAKER_01: whether it's five minutes,
31:52
SPEAKER_01: if we're running low on practice time.
31:54
SPEAKER_01: And that's the other thing too,
31:55
is everybody in the country that's a coach plans a practice out
31:59
that there's not
32:00
SPEAKER_01: enough time.
32:01
SPEAKER_01: Like you get,
32:02
you've got four drills that you're cutting out at some point
32:05
during your practice
32:06
SPEAKER_01: and you know,
32:06
SPEAKER_01: it's coming.
32:07
SPEAKER_01: Like,
32:07
SPEAKER_01: you know,
32:07
SPEAKER_01: it's like,
32:07
SPEAKER_01: you got the perfect practice plan and you walk in and you're like,
32:09
SPEAKER_01: okay,
32:10
SPEAKER_01: we're,
32:10
SPEAKER_01: we're not getting to this today.
32:11
SPEAKER_01: We're not getting to this today.
32:13
So then I try to make sure that those are things that we get to
32:15
at the very
32:16
SPEAKER_01: beginning of the next practice because rebounding is one for sure.
32:20
I mean,
32:20
rebounding in special situations seem to be like towards the
32:23
end of practice.
32:25
They always seem to get like bumped off to the next day and
32:28
then they're put at the
32:29
SPEAKER_01: end of practice again and then they get bumped off to the next day.
32:31
SPEAKER_01: So if you ever bump something from your practice,
32:34
SPEAKER_01: like if it's a rebounding drill,
32:35
SPEAKER_01: a special situation drill,
32:37
make sure you're doing that towards the beginning of your
32:39
practice the next day so
32:40
SPEAKER_01: it doesn't get bumped again.
32:41
SPEAKER_01: but just as a recommendation that I've learned over the years.
32:45
SPEAKER_01: And so for us,
32:45
SPEAKER_01: for special situations,
32:47
SPEAKER_01: like I think one thing that we try to incorporate is as a coach,
32:51
SPEAKER_01: like you're planning the practice,
32:52
SPEAKER_01: right?
32:53
SPEAKER_01: And,
32:53
SPEAKER_01: and you're putting in the time at the end and you're saying,
32:56
SPEAKER_01: okay,
32:56
SPEAKER_01: we're going to do a special situation of 20 seconds.
32:59
We're down to,
33:00
and so you as a coach know what the situation is going into the
33:03
practice.
33:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
33:05
SPEAKER_01: And I think sometimes that you lose in games,
33:09
SPEAKER_01: like in games,
33:09
SPEAKER_01: you don't get to pick the situation.
33:11
SPEAKER_01: Right.
33:11
SPEAKER_01: You're not sitting there saying,
33:13
SPEAKER_01: OK,
33:13
we're going to put 20 seconds on the clock and we're going to
33:15
be down by one.
33:16
SPEAKER_01: You know,
33:16
SPEAKER_01: it's like you don't know you're blind going into it,
33:19
SPEAKER_01: just like your players are blind going into it.
33:21
SPEAKER_01: So it's great sometimes to work that.
33:23
SPEAKER_01: But it's also great sometimes for you as a coach to be thrown for a loop.
33:27
SPEAKER_01: And so have a designated time for like,
33:30
SPEAKER_01: okay,
33:30
SPEAKER_01: we're going to work on special situations for 10 minutes,
33:32
SPEAKER_01: let's just say.
33:33
SPEAKER_01: And then we created like a deck of cards,
33:36
SPEAKER_01: 52 like playing cards that have different situations on it.
33:40
SPEAKER_01: And then one player will pick the situation.
33:43
SPEAKER_01: She reads the situation out loud.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: The table has the card now.
33:46
SPEAKER_01: So they know...
33:47
SPEAKER_01: Teams have one timeout each or no timeouts,
33:50
SPEAKER_01: you know,
33:50
SPEAKER_01: after this,
33:51
SPEAKER_01: it's five seconds on the clock.
33:53
SPEAKER_01: And,
33:54
SPEAKER_01: you know,
33:54
either you have to get a stop or you have to get a score or
33:56
whatever the situation
33:57
SPEAKER_01: is,
33:57
SPEAKER_01: it's put up on the board.
33:58
SPEAKER_01: And then your 30 seconds of your 30 second timeout starts.
34:02
SPEAKER_01: And now as a coach,
34:03
SPEAKER_01: you're just now hearing the situation and now you've got a,
34:06
SPEAKER_01: what player are you going to run?
34:08
SPEAKER_01: Who are you running it for?
34:09
Sometimes it'll say your best point guard is fouled out on the
34:13
situation card.
34:13
SPEAKER_01: So now you remove your point guard,
34:16
SPEAKER_01: you have to put your backup point guard in,
34:17
SPEAKER_01: which could end up changing the situation.
34:20
And I think that helps us as coaches also prepare for like what
34:23
is coming.
34:24
SPEAKER_01: Cause I think sometimes like,
34:25
SPEAKER_01: it's like you go into the practice and you know,
34:27
I'm going to work on this play today as a special situation and
34:29
this play.
34:30
SPEAKER_01: And I'm not saying that's not good sometimes.
34:31
SPEAKER_01: Cause I think we,
34:32
We do need to make sure they have a variety of like quick hit
34:36
scores for end of the
34:37
game situations that they know that you can go to without
34:40
having a board draw up.
34:42
But I also think sometimes it's good for you as coaches to be a
34:44
little surprised as well.
34:45
SPEAKER_00: We did a combination of it because we did them, I think every day.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: And we won more close games this year than we've ever won before.
34:52
SPEAKER_00: And guys were just kind of prepared.
34:54
SPEAKER_00: They were unfazed by it.
34:56
But the two that really helped was we didn't do the cards,
34:58
but I have heard of the cards.
34:59
SPEAKER_00: Is that something that you just come up with that you just...
35:02
SPEAKER_01: I actually got it when I was,
35:03
SPEAKER_01: when I was an assistant coach,
35:05
I went to a WBCA clinic and somebody had talked about it and
35:09
I've kind of like
35:10
SPEAKER_01: formulated my own,
35:11
SPEAKER_01: my own cards now,
35:13
SPEAKER_01: but they,
35:13
SPEAKER_01: they had sent me theirs and kind of gave me the idea.
35:16
SPEAKER_01: And since then I've always had like the situation playing cards.
35:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love those.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: The other one we did was we call it 76-76,
35:23
SPEAKER_00: and they just play until,
35:24
SPEAKER_00: and the clock doesn't start until they hit 80.
35:28
SPEAKER_00: Oh, nice.
35:28
SPEAKER_00: Once they hit 80, there's two minutes on the clock.
35:31
SPEAKER_00: I like that.
35:31
SPEAKER_00: So you play the final two minutes,
35:33
SPEAKER_00: and if you're doing that,
35:34
SPEAKER_00: I mean,
35:34
SPEAKER_00: two or three times a week,
35:36
SPEAKER_00: to your point,
35:37
SPEAKER_00: every kind of situation appears.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: Right, exactly.
35:40
SPEAKER_00: Right.
35:40
SPEAKER_01: You could be down by four, or you could be, yeah, that's awesome.
35:43
SPEAKER_00: And we'll play that sometimes two or three times in a row.
35:47
SPEAKER_00: you sub in.
35:48
SPEAKER_00: And so that gives you different lineups.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: Like you said,
35:51
SPEAKER_00: if you've got a backup point guard or something like that,
35:53
SPEAKER_00: and it created all kinds of weird things,
35:56
SPEAKER_00: sometimes blowouts,
35:57
SPEAKER_00: sometimes really close games.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it took forever to get to 80.
36:02
SPEAKER_00: So you're just playing your five on five, just regular.
36:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're just scrimmaging, which is okay sometimes too.
36:09
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I'm totally on board with that.
36:11
This is one that I probably should ask this more often because
36:15
I don't think about
36:16
SPEAKER_00: it until I get in season.
36:18
And it is what happens practice wise and what adjustments and
36:22
what kinds of things
36:23
are you thinking about like to do when you are dealing with a
36:27
regular week?
36:28
SPEAKER_00: Do you guys what I didn't look this up?
36:30
SPEAKER_00: When do you guys play your games typically?
36:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so we, our league has transitioned a little bit.
36:37
SPEAKER_01: We're usually Thursday,
36:39
SPEAKER_01: Saturdays,
36:39
SPEAKER_01: but there's now the tendency where you can play Friday,
36:42
SPEAKER_01: Sunday.
36:42
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you can play Wednesday, Saturday.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's really kind of shifted now.
36:46
SPEAKER_01: So our weeks are not like set in stone.
36:50
SPEAKER_01: This is how it looks from start to finish,
36:51
SPEAKER_01: which can get a little hard for the players to get into a good routine.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right.
36:56
SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, it will look different, obviously.
36:59
SPEAKER_00: I know most high school, you know, you're playing Tuesday, Friday.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: We're usually a Tuesday, Saturday.
37:04
But like what does Monday look like compared to Tuesday versus
37:09
if you're playing
37:10
SPEAKER_00: Friday and Saturday,
37:11
SPEAKER_00: that one day in between?
37:12
SPEAKER_00: I think that's the one that we a lot of us.
37:14
SPEAKER_01: We do the one day in between mostly.
37:17
SPEAKER_00: And then the day after.
37:18
So if you're playing Sunday or if the high school coaches are
37:21
playing Tuesday,
37:23
SPEAKER_00: what does Wednesday look like?
37:24
SPEAKER_01: Really for us, it depends to where we're at in the season.
37:27
SPEAKER_01: You know,
37:27
SPEAKER_01: like earlier in the season,
37:29
we're probably practicing a little bit more because we're still
37:32
trying to get –
37:33
SPEAKER_01: you know,
37:34
rep practice reps in also probably depends on how deep you're
37:37
going with your team,
37:38
SPEAKER_01: your roster.
37:39
SPEAKER_01: You know, are you playing this last year?
37:40
SPEAKER_01: We played a consistent eight.
37:42
SPEAKER_01: That's the least amount that I've ever played.
37:45
SPEAKER_01: We just didn't really feel like our ninth and 10th were quite ready yet.
37:49
And we had some red shirts that were kind of like sitting out
37:52
for the year kind of
37:53
SPEAKER_01: would have been in those positions.
37:54
SPEAKER_01: So we went to an eight rotation,
37:56
SPEAKER_01: which was really hard,
37:57
especially when we had a few injuries because then we would be
37:59
down to like seven
37:59
SPEAKER_01: or six occasionally.
38:01
SPEAKER_01: That changed like how we practice,
38:02
SPEAKER_01: but a typical year where we're playing a rotation of nine or 10,
38:06
SPEAKER_01: you know,
38:06
SPEAKER_01: for us,
38:06
SPEAKER_01: like,
38:06
SPEAKER_01: let's say our games are Thursday and Saturday,
38:09
SPEAKER_01: that beginning of the week,
38:11
SPEAKER_01: like on a Monday,
38:12
SPEAKER_01: if it's later in the season,
38:13
SPEAKER_01: we actually probably are taking Sunday and Monday off.
38:16
Or we're coming in Monday and just doing film and shooting and
38:20
keeping it very like
38:21
SPEAKER_01: basic light on the legs.
38:23
Tuesday would then be like a prep day for us and we would start
38:26
the scout,
38:27
SPEAKER_01: but we would want to get up and down the court,
38:29
SPEAKER_01: like really kind of get their legs back underneath them,
38:31
SPEAKER_01: do some scrimmaging,
38:32
SPEAKER_01: some live play actions.
38:34
SPEAKER_01: Um,
38:35
SPEAKER_01: Wednesday,
38:35
we're going to really slow it down and really kind of do a
38:38
little bit more of,
38:39
SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: kind of like breakdown stuff,
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SPEAKER_01: make sure we have everything locked in from our plays,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: do a lot of like high repetition of like plays,
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SPEAKER_01: not versus defense,
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SPEAKER_01: trying to limit people getting injured.
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SPEAKER_01: During the during that day game would be on Thursday,
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Friday would be a recovery like so are especially people who
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played high level
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minutes would be doing like a recovery workout while we're
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scrimmaging the bottom
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SPEAKER_01: people that didn't maybe get as much of a workout in the day before.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we're doing a lot more like just prep stuff,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: making sure that we are going through their plays live,
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SPEAKER_01: but going through it like way less reps.
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SPEAKER_01: So those practices usually run about an hour and 15 game on Saturday.
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SPEAKER_01: And then,
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SPEAKER_01: like I said,
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SPEAKER_01: recovery Sunday,
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SPEAKER_01: Monday,
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SPEAKER_01: or if it's earlier in the season,
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SPEAKER_01: recovery Sunday,
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SPEAKER_01: Monday,
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SPEAKER_01: we're practicing.
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um to kind of get them back going again but it's um it really
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kind of for me
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depends on the time of the year and how deep you're going
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because again rest
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becomes so important especially at the college at the college
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side of things i mean
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we're going our season is so much longer that's why you see so
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many freshmen take a
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huge dip usually in january um february because it's just their
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bodies are not used
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SPEAKER_01: to playing as long as you've been playing
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SPEAKER_01: And I always tell them,
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it's amazing because you played AAU and you played like three
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games in one day.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the great mystery.
39:58
SPEAKER_01: And you're like, I'm so sore.
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SPEAKER_01: My knees hurt.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay.
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I have a feeling that coaches are going to want to see more of
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the kinds of things
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SPEAKER_00: that we talked about.
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And one of the resources that's available out there are the
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championship production videos.
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SPEAKER_00: I think you have two and those have some clips.
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SPEAKER_00: There were even some free clips of some of the drills that you do,
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SPEAKER_00: but you've got a ton of stuff on those.
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Does anything come to mind as far as like what's on there and
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what kinds of things
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that would be good based off of some of the stuff that we
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talked about today?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, we're a high level transition team.
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So some of the drills that we have on there is learning how to
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score fast.
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SPEAKER_01: You know,
40:38
SPEAKER_01: it's just,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: some of the transition layup drills,
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SPEAKER_01: I think become really,
40:42
SPEAKER_01: really important,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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being able to pass to somebody who's going in to score a full
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speed layup.
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It is amazing to me how our team still struggles at making
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those like full court
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passes where somebody might be streaming up and you're having
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to make that pass
40:58
SPEAKER_01: like on connection.
40:59
SPEAKER_01: You know, we're not great.
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SPEAKER_01: We're still not great at connecting on all those passes.
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So we do a lot of drills where it's,
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you know,
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kick ahead,
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passing actions and stuff like that.
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SPEAKER_01: I've put some of those on those championship videos.
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SPEAKER_01: There's some defensive stuff that will put you into scramble situations.
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which i think is really really important um you know it's just
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inevitably you would
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love to play a perfect possession of defense right where it's
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just like everybody
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does everything right the closeout is perfect the pop back is
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perfect the gap
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defense is perfect but something at some point is going to
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break down and so
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SPEAKER_01: finding ways to learn how to scramble as a team
41:34
SPEAKER_01: Um,
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or somebody is going to take a gamble situation and put them
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out of position,
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SPEAKER_01: which is going to put your team in scramble mode.
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So we,
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I tried to include drills within that as well,
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but I'm,
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I'm also an open book.
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SPEAKER_01: So anybody who wants,
41:44
SPEAKER_01: you know,
41:45
SPEAKER_01: anything,
41:46
SPEAKER_01: you know,
41:46
SPEAKER_01: just,
41:46
SPEAKER_01: just hit me up through either social media or,
41:49
SPEAKER_01: or through just email.
41:50
SPEAKER_01: And I love talking hoops.
41:52
SPEAKER_01: So
41:52
SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and give them social media at least.
41:54
SPEAKER_01: Oh gosh.
41:56
SPEAKER_01: Now you're asking.
41:57
SPEAKER_01: I think my Twitter is just my normal, like my name, Kyle Recklitz.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm assuming there's not many of those out there.
42:04
SPEAKER_00: So it's probably pretty easy to find.
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SPEAKER_01: I am actually pretty easy to find.
42:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
42:09
SPEAKER_01: I don't,
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SPEAKER_01: I don't get all creative,
42:11
SPEAKER_01: like,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: winning,
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SPEAKER_01: winning coach,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: Rex,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: I think if you just plug my name and you're probably going to find me.
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I will be sure to link both of those videos down in the
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description and even your
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SPEAKER_00: Twitter account so that they can make sure that they connect with you.
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SPEAKER_00: Coach, the ton of great stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: Loved it.
42:30
SPEAKER_00: And I'll have to get you back on here again to talk about shooting,
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SPEAKER_00: which will apparently be a two-hour episode.
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SPEAKER_01: It will be a two-hour episode.
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SPEAKER_01: Get ready.