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Executing Under Pressure · A Quick Timeout

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SPEAKER_01: Welcome into this month's webinar.
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SPEAKER_01: This month we're with Coach Burton Uro talking coaching under pressure.
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SPEAKER_01: Excited to have him on tonight and talking through some practical suggestions
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SPEAKER_01: that you can use with your team.
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SPEAKER_01: Coach, I'll let you go ahead and take it away.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, thank you for having me on.
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SPEAKER_00: It's an often overlooked part.
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SPEAKER_00: We look at what our defense is for the year,
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SPEAKER_00: what our offense is for the year, but most games are lost by seven points.
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SPEAKER_00: If you look back and let's just say over the last three to five years
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SPEAKER_00: of your coaching and you go through and count how many games were won or lost
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SPEAKER_00: by probably five to seven points, I think it would astound you.
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SPEAKER_00: And the ones that you lose by that amount, those are the ones that stick with you for years.
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SPEAKER_00: And I believe a lot of it is preventable.
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SPEAKER_00: So I just want to go through some things that I think can help you.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe some things that wouldn't appear in most coaching books,
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SPEAKER_00: but things that have allowed me to be I've won seven championships in my lifetime,
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SPEAKER_00: and I've been in 10.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think a big reason why I've been able to have that kind of success is
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SPEAKER_00: the teams have been able to perform under pressure.
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SPEAKER_00: So you can look at that first quote, Tony,
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SPEAKER_00: by Hubie Brown,
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SPEAKER_00: the notoriety of the coach is directly proportional to his team's execution
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SPEAKER_00: under pressure.
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SPEAKER_00: You might look at that and say, I'm not in it for my own notoriety.
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SPEAKER_00: But that's not really what I mean.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not really your reputation as far as something that you're boasting about.
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SPEAKER_00: What I'm talking about there,
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SPEAKER_00: what Hubie Brown's talking about there, is really, do your players trust you?
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SPEAKER_00: They're looking to you in a really stressful situation in most crunch time situations.
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SPEAKER_00: Last five minutes of a game,
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SPEAKER_00: they're looking into your eyes,
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SPEAKER_00: they're looking into your body language, and they're looking at each other.
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SPEAKER_00: And everybody in that huddle Has to absolutely have trust in the coach and know
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SPEAKER_00: that you're prepared.
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SPEAKER_00: Your parents need to know if you want a bunch of people to start chirping and asking
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SPEAKER_00: for your job,
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SPEAKER_00: let a gym full of people and maybe you're on a broadcast,
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SPEAKER_00: let all those people know that you don't have a plan for the last five minutes of
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SPEAKER_00: a game, let's say.
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SPEAKER_00: They can tell when you're panicked,
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SPEAKER_00: your players can tell when you're panicked,
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SPEAKER_00: and then really You may not look at it this way,
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SPEAKER_00: but I think your athletic director and your administration is looking
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SPEAKER_00: at how you handle those type of situations.
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SPEAKER_00: You can lose one every now and then.
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SPEAKER_00: You can lose a couple,
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SPEAKER_00: but your team has to have a plan and your players need to be able to execute.
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SPEAKER_00: And I have had jobs that I've gotten hired for and a big part of what was talked
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SPEAKER_00: about in the hiring process was my team's had a reputation for winning.
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SPEAKER_00: Close games and winning under pressure because most championship games are going
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SPEAKER_00: to be that you're not going to win most championship games by double digits.
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SPEAKER_00: It's going to come down to a handful of possessions.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I think just the mentality of caring about the little things shows up
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SPEAKER_00: because this is a little thing, but you don't tiptoe into championships.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't get into any kind of notoriety by accident.
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SPEAKER_00: You get into it by being intentional with what you do every day.
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SPEAKER_00: And so That's what I want to get into today.
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SPEAKER_00: Not a whole lot of X's and O's, really not any.
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SPEAKER_00: I have those.
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SPEAKER_00: I have them on video.
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SPEAKER_00: Coach Miller has them on diagrams,
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SPEAKER_00: but it's really more about the questions that you need
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SPEAKER_00: to be asking yourself right now while you're preparing.
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SPEAKER_00: You still have plenty of time to prepare for a good season, but October is coming quickly.
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SPEAKER_00: And so if you haven't done these things with your staff and answer these questions
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SPEAKER_00: for yourself,
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SPEAKER_00: I hope something that is said tonight can help you as you prepare for this season.
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SPEAKER_00: First, the five pillars of a successful coach.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you think about what a pillar is,
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SPEAKER_00: a pillar is a necessary part of a foundation of a structure.
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SPEAKER_00: And if a pillar isn't as strong as it could be,
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SPEAKER_00: or it's just flat out not there, the occupants of that structure get killed.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you want Your team to get killed at the end of a game.
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SPEAKER_00: If you want your team to metaphorically die, I would say then ignore these pillars.
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SPEAKER_00: Say that they're not important.
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SPEAKER_00: Say that you need to look for one more X's and O's play.
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SPEAKER_00: But I hope you don't do that.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope you look at these five pillars and examine what you've done in the off season.
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SPEAKER_00: You've asked your players to improve.
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SPEAKER_00: And these are some things that you should be improving on every year as a coach.
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SPEAKER_00: The first one is your I would say that most of you probably teach in the classroom.
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SPEAKER_00: You studied in college.
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SPEAKER_00: You probably have to have in your lesson plan that anything that you teach,
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SPEAKER_00: sometimes you have auditory learners,
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SPEAKER_00: sometimes you have visual learners, sometimes you have kinesthetic learners.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think that as much as possible,
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SPEAKER_00: you need to have a plan in your practice to address those three types of learners.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of them
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SPEAKER_00: Some have more benefit by walking through it.
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SPEAKER_00: Some really need to hear it and do one of those other two things.
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SPEAKER_00: I need to hear it and see it, hear it and go through it.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I think that when you're especially talking about things that need to be done
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SPEAKER_00: during pressure times, you need to get better at doing that.
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SPEAKER_00: And I have a couple of book suggestions for each of these.
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SPEAKER_00: Range by Epstein talks about,
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SPEAKER_00: it's a book about Not being so specialized,
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SPEAKER_00: really in careers in any aspect,
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SPEAKER_00: whether it's sports specialization or whatever,
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SPEAKER_00: but being a little bit more well-rounded.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think the more well-rounded you are,
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SPEAKER_00: particular to your audience, I think the better you're able to teach them.
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SPEAKER_00: And then there's a couple books by Doug LaMove.
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SPEAKER_00: There's,
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SPEAKER_00: I think I've read everything that he's ever published,
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SPEAKER_00: but While his teaching mostly centers around the classroom,
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SPEAKER_00: it is incredibly applicable to what we're talking about here as far
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SPEAKER_00: as growing your teaching skills.
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SPEAKER_00: The first one I went through,
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SPEAKER_00: the first book I went through by him was Practice Perfect and then Teach Like
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SPEAKER_00: a Champion and then Teach Like a Champion 2.0 came out.
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SPEAKER_00: Those would be a good start.
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SPEAKER_00: And then once you get into those,
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SPEAKER_00: he's had more since then that I think would be beneficial for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Your communication skills, which goes along with your teaching skills.
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SPEAKER_00: Communicating for a Change by Andy Stanley.
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SPEAKER_00: He is a pastor and the book was written for really just speakers.
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SPEAKER_00: He has a leadership podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: And so you may not plan on ever being a pastor,
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SPEAKER_00: but the lessons that are taught through that book,
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SPEAKER_00: it's told through a story, a parable.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think that book is the best book I've ever Read on just thinking
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SPEAKER_00: about how people communicate and how they absorb what you're trying to teach.
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SPEAKER_00: I think one of the best things you can do to communicate is to vary how you do it.
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SPEAKER_00: You can do it in a classroom.
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SPEAKER_00: You can do it through a PowerPoint.
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SPEAKER_00: You can do it through your team group chat.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll talk a little bit about it later, but I had a program wide Excel spreadsheet.
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SPEAKER_00: That the coaching staff had access to.
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SPEAKER_00: And I had a couple tabs in that spreadsheet that were just for things that I saw
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SPEAKER_00: on maybe YouTube or different avenues of social media.
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SPEAKER_00: If I saw something that I knew would apply to what we were trying to teach,
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SPEAKER_00: it may be a culture thing,
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SPEAKER_00: it may be a footwork thing,
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SPEAKER_00: but I had tabs for For different aspects of what we were trying to teach
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SPEAKER_00: because some guys really buy into that more than they may buy into
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SPEAKER_00: a classroom conversation.
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SPEAKER_00: I think you need to have one-on-ones.
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SPEAKER_00: One-on-ones don't need to be long and they don't need to be confrontational.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, I wouldn't have a confrontational one-on-one until way later in the school year.
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SPEAKER_00: I would build trust first.
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SPEAKER_00: The one-on-ones that I had as a college coach,
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SPEAKER_00: our rule was that we weren't going to talk about basketball at all.
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SPEAKER_00: I wanted to know what was going on in their life.
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SPEAKER_00: Teaching at a faith-based college,
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SPEAKER_00: I talked about their,
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SPEAKER_00: basically like a stool that you would sit on, a three-legged stool.
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SPEAKER_00: I talked about their spiritual life, their mental life, and their physical life.
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SPEAKER_00: And I tried to approach what my one-on-ones and talking about either one
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SPEAKER_00: of those things or all three of those things and knowing about How much I cared
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SPEAKER_00: about them led them to care about what I was talking about.
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SPEAKER_00: See the quote that I have there under communication skills by Douglas MacArthur,
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SPEAKER_00: never give an order that can be understood,
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SPEAKER_00: but always give orders that cannot be misunderstood.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you think about the pressure of battle and when MacArthur said that,
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SPEAKER_00: I think the same thing can apply to what we're teaching.
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SPEAKER_00: If you really think through What you're trying to say in your timeout
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SPEAKER_00: and maybe even record yourself in timeouts in practice.
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SPEAKER_00: And then even during a game,
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SPEAKER_00: maybe have your manager just use the recording app on the phone
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SPEAKER_00: and record what is said, record how you're saying things.
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SPEAKER_00: I think all of us would be amazed about what we think we're saying
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SPEAKER_00: and communicating versus what is actually being communicated during those times.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I think even your communication skills can be Can be practiced during practice.
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SPEAKER_00: You shouldn't have to wait until a game to refine some of those.
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SPEAKER_00: Quickly move to the others.
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SPEAKER_00: The third is organization.
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SPEAKER_00: One of the best books I've seen for that is a book called Lead Yourself First.
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SPEAKER_00: There's actually two different books by that name, and both of them are good.
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SPEAKER_00: One is by Seth Kendig,
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SPEAKER_00: and I forget the author of the other one, but those are both really good books.
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SPEAKER_00: I think it's really difficult to lead others if you haven't led yourself first,
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SPEAKER_00: and one of the things you can do to lead yourself first is
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SPEAKER_00: to be Be really organized.
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SPEAKER_00: Anytime I have a thought, I put it into my Google Calendar so that I don't forget it.
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SPEAKER_00: I set reminders and that has saved me so many headaches by writing things down,
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SPEAKER_00: not trying to just remember everything in my head,
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SPEAKER_00: but actually having a plan to attack those things.
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SPEAKER_00: I do it often when I'm in bed at night,
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SPEAKER_00: I'll grab my phone off the nightstand and I'll email myself something
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SPEAKER_00: or I'll just put it right on the calendar there.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I talked about the program Excel spreadsheet.
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SPEAKER_00: In there, I would have the drills that we used.
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SPEAKER_00: I would have our schedule,
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SPEAKER_00: our hotel plan,
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SPEAKER_00: our meal plan,
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SPEAKER_00: the sizes of my players,
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SPEAKER_00: because you're going to order several things throughout the season.
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SPEAKER_00: So having all of their sizes,
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SPEAKER_00: having their social media handles, all of their contact information.
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SPEAKER_00: Anything that you can think of can be in one program document in Excel and having
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SPEAKER_00: that level of organization and planning with your coaching staff can really help you
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SPEAKER_00: from forgetting something.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're doing that, particularly in the off season, it can make the season go smoother.
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SPEAKER_00: The fourth pillar is motivation.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not directly a motivation book,
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SPEAKER_00: but Grit by Angela Duckworth is one of the best books I've ever read.
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SPEAKER_00: Intrinsic Motivation lasts much longer than extrinsic motivation,
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SPEAKER_00: and sometimes both are necessary,
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SPEAKER_00: but the quicker you can get your players to be intrinsically motivated
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SPEAKER_00: and not extrinsically motivated, the better they'll be.
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SPEAKER_00: And then Under Pressure.
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SPEAKER_00: Which will lead to my next point.
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SPEAKER_00: What do you like under pressure?
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SPEAKER_00: If you go back and you look at Brad Stevens when he was at Butler and competing
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SPEAKER_00: against Coach K,
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SPEAKER_00: being in two straight championships from a little school like Butler,
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SPEAKER_00: his player shot,
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SPEAKER_00: Gordon Hayward shot it from 65 feet away and it rimmed out and he had a stoic look
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SPEAKER_00: on his face.
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SPEAKER_00: You couldn't tell whether he won or lost.
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SPEAKER_00: Jay Wright,
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SPEAKER_00: soon after that,
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SPEAKER_00: Won his first championship there at Villanova and immediately started walking
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SPEAKER_00: towards the other bench.
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SPEAKER_00: Didn't even smile.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about Coach K and the famous Christian Laettner play to beat Kentucky to go to
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SPEAKER_00: the national championship.
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SPEAKER_00: Coach K got in the huddle and said, we are going to win.
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SPEAKER_00: And then he laid out how they were going to win.
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SPEAKER_00: He immediately instilled belief.
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SPEAKER_00: And so if you think that you're not great at If you're coaching
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SPEAKER_00: under pressure right now or you're not great at one of these five pillars,
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SPEAKER_00: you still have time to make some significant improvements before the season starts.
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SPEAKER_00: So hopefully just those five pillars will help you as you start to prepare.
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SPEAKER_00: Tony, do you have anything you want to ask right now or interject right now
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SPEAKER_00: or do you want me to keep going?
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SPEAKER_01: You're good to keep going.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Game management, just a little, just another tip that I think will help you.
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SPEAKER_00: Three C's of game management is clarity.
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SPEAKER_00: I talked about recording your timeouts.
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SPEAKER_00: You can video or audio recorded or both.
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SPEAKER_00: But right now is the best time and a non-pressure time.
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SPEAKER_00: Make a plan for your pressure situations.
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SPEAKER_00: I think that you can win the timeout battle.
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SPEAKER_00: If both teams have 60 seconds and a timeout,
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SPEAKER_00: but your team takes better advantage of maybe four timeouts a game,
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SPEAKER_00: Then you won the timeout battle.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're getting 54 seconds worth of information in
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SPEAKER_00: and they're getting 54 seconds worth of rest and your opponent's only getting 35,
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SPEAKER_00: I think there's a way to win timeouts by having your players sprint to the huddle,
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SPEAKER_00: by having them organized.
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SPEAKER_00: When I coached,
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SPEAKER_00: I would have right in front of me to my left,
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SPEAKER_00: I would have one,
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SPEAKER_00: two, three, and then to my left, my right, I would have the four and the five.
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SPEAKER_00: And I would have their replacements right behind them so that in the huddle,
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SPEAKER_00: the fans,
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SPEAKER_00: everybody weren't,
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SPEAKER_00: weren't looking into our huddle and all the players were faced towards me looking,
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SPEAKER_00: looking at my eyes and that helped us get organized.
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SPEAKER_00: I told my managers how to hand me water,
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SPEAKER_00: hand the players water, go from behind, tap them on the shoulder.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't want a manager handing a cup right in front of your face
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SPEAKER_00: while you're trying to talk or right over the The top of a whiteboard,
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SPEAKER_00: something like that can be the difference
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SPEAKER_00: between somebody understanding what you're trying to do
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SPEAKER_00: and somebody not knowing what you're supposed to do.
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SPEAKER_00: I think right now,
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SPEAKER_00: if you have the plays that you want to run,
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SPEAKER_00: especially in crunch time situations, go ahead and laminate them.
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SPEAKER_00: I've had multiple times early in my career where I was trying
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SPEAKER_00: to draw something up real fast, especially like in a 30 second timeout.
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SPEAKER_00: And I understood what I was trying to do,
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SPEAKER_00: but if you looked at the whiteboard,
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SPEAKER_00: there's scribbles everywhere,
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SPEAKER_00: or there's X's and O's, or there's a bunch of arrows being drawn.
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SPEAKER_00: And really,
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SPEAKER_00: if you're trying to not put a confused team on the floor,
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SPEAKER_00: I think what you can go ahead and do is have those things laminated.
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SPEAKER_00: I haven't always done that,
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SPEAKER_00: but when I have done that,
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SPEAKER_00: it has come in handy, and I do wish that I had done that more.
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SPEAKER_00: Be consistent to help your players be ready for the game management.
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SPEAKER_00: If you consistently do stuff every day,
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SPEAKER_00: that is going to be much better than the person
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SPEAKER_00: who does some fantastic stuff maybe once or twice a week.
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SPEAKER_00: If you put your players in special situations,
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SPEAKER_00: they're constantly having to think how to react,
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SPEAKER_00: you're asking them the right type of questions in that scenario.
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SPEAKER_00: I think when you're both clear and consistent all the time,
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SPEAKER_00: then that leads to the third C. It leads to competence.
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SPEAKER_00: You and your players only feel confident when you're fully prepared.
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SPEAKER_00: Going into championship games, I would always say there's nothing to be nervous about.
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SPEAKER_00: You've been prepared for this,
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SPEAKER_00: and the only time you should be nervous is if you haven't prepared the way
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SPEAKER_00: that you're supposed to.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's a way to eliminate indecision, eliminate all doubt.
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SPEAKER_00: Give them confidence that they've already been there before by the end of the year.
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SPEAKER_00: Hopefully they've been through that scenario maybe even hundreds of times
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SPEAKER_00: in your practice depending on the scenario.
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SPEAKER_00: I already mentioned it briefly but most games are decided by seven or fewer points
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SPEAKER_00: and if you break that down over the course of the game
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SPEAKER_00: that seven points Usually doesn't just show itself in the last five minutes of
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SPEAKER_00: a game, and that's what we tend to focus on with special situations.
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SPEAKER_00: That seven-point advantage can be gained periodically throughout the game.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I did want to talk about just a couple of those situations going forward.
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SPEAKER_00: Tony and I worked together, we would work on scripting the first three plays of a game.
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SPEAKER_00: Really, we would try to script the first three plays of both halves.
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SPEAKER_00: If you think about what that means,
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SPEAKER_00: if each team is using about 30 seconds of a shot clock,
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SPEAKER_00: you're talking about the first couple of minutes of each half,
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SPEAKER_00: the possessions that you have.
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SPEAKER_00: If you know your opponent, you know them well, you know what you're trying to get to.
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SPEAKER_00: I tried to have, and Tony tried to have three plays that would attack the basket.
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SPEAKER_00: The last thing that an opponent wants to do is get in early foul trouble.
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SPEAKER_00: And the last thing an opponent wants to do the last three possessions of a game is
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SPEAKER_00: to get in late foul trouble.
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SPEAKER_00: So for those situations,
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SPEAKER_00: you're attacking the basket,
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SPEAKER_00: whether it's by using a big or whether it's by maybe a horns play,
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SPEAKER_00: a backdoor play,
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SPEAKER_00: blind pig type formation,
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SPEAKER_00: anything that you can think of that'll get your guards going to the basket.
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SPEAKER_00: I think if you While there's been a lot of changes in the game,
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SPEAKER_00: I think if you establish the lane and you establish around the basket,
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SPEAKER_00: that is still what you need to do.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to have George Mikan or Kareem.
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SPEAKER_00: I think you saw Jalen Brunson do that in last year's finals.
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SPEAKER_00: I think if you get that established early,
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SPEAKER_00: I think the rest of the game is much easier for you if you spend
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SPEAKER_00: the first three minutes trying to attack the basket.
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SPEAKER_00: And along with that, let's say you get the result you want from the first offensive play.
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SPEAKER_00: You go from that right into a full court press and maybe the first couple
19:53
SPEAKER_00: of minutes is the only time you press the entire game.
19:56
SPEAKER_00: I guarantee your opponents don't want to get scored on and then face
19:59
SPEAKER_00: a press right out of the gate.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: You think about going on the road and putting your team in that situation.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: That's not the type of situation you would prefer to have as a coach.
20:11
SPEAKER_00: So make them uncomfortable right from the get-go.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: Let them know that they're in for a fight right from the beginning.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you make it,
20:19
SPEAKER_00: you go into a press that's maybe a 1-2-1-1 and you're trying
20:25
SPEAKER_00: to get just one trap early.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: If you miss it, tell them that they're back into a 2-2-1, three-quarter court press.
20:32
SPEAKER_00: They know who's dropping into what position already.
20:35
SPEAKER_00: You can go ahead off the shot, drop into a 2-2-1 press and accomplish the same thing.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: Maybe don't trap them until they get over a half court and maybe you can steal
20:47
SPEAKER_00: a possession that way.
20:48
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you get fouled on the first play and you go to the free throw line.
20:52
SPEAKER_00: A good thing to do off of a free throw situation is As a 2-2-1 or maybe get back
20:58
SPEAKER_00: and drop into an extended 1-3-1 that makes them make a couple tough passes
21:03
SPEAKER_00: over outstretched arms.
21:05
SPEAKER_00: All of those things put doubt into the other team.
21:09
SPEAKER_00: The opposing coach might have a plan for what to do.
21:13
SPEAKER_00: But he's not on the court.
21:15
SPEAKER_00: Their players have to have a level of confidence and their players have to know what to do.
21:20
SPEAKER_00: And so if you can plan against their players and who you know is going
21:26
SPEAKER_00: to be starting for them,
21:27
SPEAKER_00: especially, I think that's a special situation that's often overlooked.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: I'll say while we're here at the beginning,
21:36
SPEAKER_00: if you know you're going to win the tip,
21:38
SPEAKER_00: I think it's worth having a jump ball play, even though we only have one a game.
21:43
SPEAKER_00: Tony and I did it.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: We had a seven-footer.
21:46
SPEAKER_00: You couldn't slide a thick piece of paper under his feet with his vertical lead,
21:50
SPEAKER_00: but he could still get the tip with his wingspan,
21:54
SPEAKER_00: and we knew a lot that we were going to have a really good chance,
21:59
SPEAKER_00: let's say a 98% chance of winning the tip,
22:02
SPEAKER_00: and so we had tip plays every now and then.
22:05
SPEAKER_00: If you know you're going to lose,
22:06
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22:09
SPEAKER_00: and you know that in most situations you're going to lose,
22:13
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22:17
SPEAKER_00: maybe you immediately drop into a 2-2-1 right there,
22:22
SPEAKER_00: or maybe you're into a 1-3-1 from right there.
22:24
SPEAKER_00: So as soon as it's tipped, you're immediately in a defense that puts them at a disadvantage.
22:31
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22:36
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22:38
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22:43
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22:45
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SPEAKER_01: It's made a difference and it's finding a way to win, not finding an excuse why you can't win.
23:36
SPEAKER_01: And I think
23:55
SPEAKER_00: Giving your team a plan for whatever situation they face is part
23:59
SPEAKER_00: of your responsibility as a coach.
24:01
SPEAKER_00: Next slide, I already did talk about some special situations mastery with establishing the rim.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: Do you practice playing with a lead?
24:10
SPEAKER_00: We would often play six up or eight up with three minutes to go,
24:15
SPEAKER_00: and that's good,
24:17
SPEAKER_00: but I think one of the most Neglected parts of playing with a lead is when you go
24:22
SPEAKER_00: into halftime,
24:23
SPEAKER_00: maybe with a 10 or 12 point lead and you start the second half and it's human nature
24:30
SPEAKER_00: to relax.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: It's human nature not to come out and warm up maybe as well as you did before the game.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: And I've seen on my own teams,
24:39
SPEAKER_00: unfortunately,
24:40
SPEAKER_00: and I've seen in a lot of games that I've gone to,
24:43
SPEAKER_00: Teams immediately lose that lead at the beginning of a second half.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: And that's super deflating when you've worked an entire half to get a 10 or 12 point lead.
24:54
SPEAKER_00: And it's immediately dwindled down to two or maybe even tied at the beginning of a second half.
25:01
SPEAKER_00: And so do you practice playing with a lead that way?
25:05
SPEAKER_00: And then on the reverse side of it,
25:07
SPEAKER_00: with three minutes to go,
25:09
SPEAKER_00: If one team's up eight, obviously the other team is down eight.
25:14
SPEAKER_00: Do you have a protocol for,
25:16
SPEAKER_00: if I were to go in the classroom right now and ask your team without you being
25:21
SPEAKER_00: in there, what kind of shot do you want and who is taking that shot?
25:26
SPEAKER_00: Do you have confidence that one through 12,
25:29
SPEAKER_00: your team would be able to answer uniformly who you want that to be,
25:33
SPEAKER_00: who that's going to be?
25:35
SPEAKER_00: And if it's not uniform and if they don't know that,
25:38
SPEAKER_00: Then I think that's your fault as a coach and you're not doing everything possible
25:42
SPEAKER_00: to help them win.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: There may be a plan B to that.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that person fouls out.
25:48
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that person gets double teamed.
25:50
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a box in one situation.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: But I still think that day in and day out, you have to practice that.
25:58
SPEAKER_00: It's one thing for them to know who should take the shot and what that shot should be.
26:02
SPEAKER_00: It's another thing to practice that.
26:04
SPEAKER_00: Even at the beginning of practice,
26:06
SPEAKER_00: if you need to,
26:07
SPEAKER_00: it doesn't always have to be at the end of practice,
26:09
SPEAKER_00: even though you might be practicing an end of game situation.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: I talked about timeout organization.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: I'll talk about halftime organization just really quickly.
26:18
SPEAKER_00: If you have 10 minutes, you should really have it broken down so everybody knows what to expect.
26:25
SPEAKER_00: Let's just say if it's a 10 minute halftime,
26:28
SPEAKER_00: the first two minutes, the players and coaches are separate.
26:30
SPEAKER_00: The coaches are maybe in a separate room.
26:33
SPEAKER_00: Just reflecting on the stats from the first half for us, we always looked at the four factors.
26:40
SPEAKER_00: So every timeout and every halftime and every postgame evaluation went back to
26:47
SPEAKER_00: the four factors that we believe win or lose games.
26:51
SPEAKER_00: And so it ended up being really quick for us to decide one thing we needed
26:56
SPEAKER_00: to do better offensively, one thing we needed to do better defensively.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: The players had a chance to talk without us being in there.
27:04
SPEAKER_00: We would try to come in.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: We weren't always great at it.
27:07
SPEAKER_00: We would try to come in,
27:09
SPEAKER_00: take three,
27:10
SPEAKER_00: at the most,
27:11
SPEAKER_00: five minutes to communicate what we just talked about,
27:14
SPEAKER_00: answer any questions,
27:16
SPEAKER_00: and then the remainder of halftime,
27:18
SPEAKER_00: getting a good sweat going and preparing for the second half.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: And so I think if you'll notice, most teams, they walk.
27:27
SPEAKER_00: They don't have a plan that that's specific.
27:29
SPEAKER_00: But again, I think Throughout the course of a season, it is possible for you to win halftimes.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: And I firmly believe that if you practice winning halftimes,
27:40
SPEAKER_00: we've even practiced that in practice,
27:42
SPEAKER_00: going into our team room, then breaking back out, getting back.
27:47
SPEAKER_00: I have practiced those, especially with teams that I felt needed every possible advantage.
27:52
SPEAKER_00: We've actually gone through How to practice that during a regular practice time.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: Some crunch time execution.
27:59
SPEAKER_00: Have you taught them how to foul correctly?
28:01
SPEAKER_00: They may know that they need to foul at the end of the game,
28:05
SPEAKER_00: but if they foul with their arms extended,
28:07
SPEAKER_00: if they foul them in midair,
28:10
SPEAKER_00: if they wrap their arms around them,
28:12
SPEAKER_00: all of those things can lead to a more severe consequence
28:16
SPEAKER_00: than what you originally intended.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: For example, Morgan Mouton used to yell purple.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: When it was purple, they tried to steal.
28:26
SPEAKER_00: DeMatha tried to steal the ball from the guy that was dribbling,
28:30
SPEAKER_00: and they would be physical with it.
28:32
SPEAKER_00: I did this a lot,
28:34
SPEAKER_00: especially at the college level,
28:35
SPEAKER_00: and referees just tended not to want to blow the whistle on every little thing.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: There were times where I was having my guys being But the purpose was
28:45
SPEAKER_00: to look like we were going for a steal, but actually try to get the foul.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: And we were able to get a steal and the result that we wanted on the other end,
28:56
SPEAKER_00: just because we were being a little bit more physical and
28:59
SPEAKER_00: a little bit more aggressive with our defense.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: Do your players know how to save the ball out of bounds?
29:05
SPEAKER_00: And I will tell you, even my last year coaching in college, it ultimately is my fault.
29:12
SPEAKER_00: But I had players save the ball underneath the basket we were just defending right
29:19
SPEAKER_00: to the opponent and be able to put it back up for a layup.
29:25
SPEAKER_00: And what that means is that I didn't teach what I was supposed to.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes without even realizing it,
29:32
SPEAKER_00: you make assumptions about what they know and what they are trained on.
29:38
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes those assumptions don't show up in practice.
29:42
SPEAKER_00: They only reveal themselves in the game.
29:44
SPEAKER_00: So if you learn from my mistake, teach them how to save a ball.
29:50
SPEAKER_00: One of the ways that I've done that when I've taught it well is
29:54
SPEAKER_00: the player inbounds that's closest to them,
29:58
SPEAKER_00: call that player's name that's saving it and run towards that.
30:02
SPEAKER_00: And so if that gives you a way to prevent from Next thing.
30:29
SPEAKER_00: Practice Implementation, Purposeful Forgetting.
30:33
SPEAKER_00: I only really learned about this near the end of my career.
30:36
SPEAKER_00: I read about it.
30:37
SPEAKER_00: Doug does talk about this in one of his books, but I didn't really implement it.
30:43
SPEAKER_00: It didn't really dawn on me how I could use that.
30:45
SPEAKER_00: And a coaching mentor of mine,
30:49
SPEAKER_00: Doug Novak, does a really good job with that no matter where he coaches.
30:54
SPEAKER_00: Currently coaching the women's team at Trevecca Nazarene in Nashville.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Introduce something maybe at the beginning of practice.
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SPEAKER_00: Go away from it.
31:03
SPEAKER_00: Go through practice.
31:04
SPEAKER_00: Maybe halfway through practice.
31:05
SPEAKER_00: They're getting ready.
31:07
SPEAKER_00: The next thing that they're going to do is go to a water break.
31:10
SPEAKER_00: They kind of know it.
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SPEAKER_00: You kind of know it.
31:13
SPEAKER_00: Put them back in that situation.
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SPEAKER_00: Film it and see who has recall from the beginning of practice.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not their fault that they can't execute it right the first time that they have
31:25
SPEAKER_00: to recall it but purposeful forgetting helps them realize and it helps you realize
31:32
SPEAKER_00: the aspects that they did forget and if you film it and you make notes
31:36
SPEAKER_00: of it you can see what they forgot when they forgot it and specifically Which person
31:43
SPEAKER_00: in which lineup was the one that forgot that a lot?
31:46
SPEAKER_00: And then I think it would be good to correct that.
31:49
SPEAKER_00: Then at the end of practice,
31:51
SPEAKER_00: maybe in your,
31:52
SPEAKER_00: however you're choosing to work on time and score situations,
31:56
SPEAKER_00: I think introduce that again and see how they do it in pressure.
32:00
SPEAKER_00: So you introduce it without pressure.
32:04
SPEAKER_00: Halfway through practice,
32:05
SPEAKER_00: there's a little bit more pressure and the pressure really is just to try
32:08
SPEAKER_00: to remember what they learned an hour ago.
32:11
SPEAKER_00: Then at the end of practice, it does become more game-like.
32:14
SPEAKER_00: And again,
32:15
SPEAKER_00: they're not going to shine,
32:17
SPEAKER_00: but that is a tried and true method of teaching specific X and O things
32:24
SPEAKER_00: that you want.
32:24
SPEAKER_00: I think free throw mastery.
32:26
SPEAKER_00: The last game I coached in the national tournament in my last year,
32:32
SPEAKER_00: we had a chance to go to a Final Four.
32:35
SPEAKER_00: We faced a team that pressed the entire game and we practiced on it.
32:40
SPEAKER_00: We executed everything well and we missed 15 free throws
32:46
SPEAKER_00: and 15 free throws missed is the reason why I did not end my career in
32:52
SPEAKER_00: the Final Four or maybe in a championship game.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: I honestly believe that if we had won that game that we would have at least been in
33:00
SPEAKER_00: the championship game and it's no consolation,
33:04
SPEAKER_00: but We did work on it in a variety of ways.
33:08
SPEAKER_00: They worked on it by themselves.
33:09
SPEAKER_00: We worked on it in team situations.
33:12
SPEAKER_00: Worked on it in scrimmage situations, whatever.
33:17
SPEAKER_00: For whatever reason, missing 15 free throws by people who normally made them a lot.
33:24
SPEAKER_00: I think ultimately,
33:25
SPEAKER_00: people may argue with me, but ultimately, I do think that comes back to the coach.
33:29
SPEAKER_00: I feel like no matter what, I should have done something better.
33:34
SPEAKER_00: I should have made it easier for them.
33:37
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I shouldn't have even allowed them to have to go to the free throw line that many times.
33:43
SPEAKER_00: But I think you have to have a plan,
33:44
SPEAKER_00: and I do think changing Having a variety of ways in
33:48
SPEAKER_00: which you emphasize free throws is as important as having a variety of ways
33:54
SPEAKER_00: in how you teach people how to do something in the game of basketball.
33:59
SPEAKER_00: Some people do get better just by getting into a groove and spending a lot of time that way.
34:05
SPEAKER_00: Some other people really get better when there's some pressure behind it,
34:09
SPEAKER_00: but I think every player needs to go through Different techniques
34:13
SPEAKER_00: and different practices to become a better in-game free throw shooter.
34:17
SPEAKER_00: The last thing I'll mention, Tony,
34:19
SPEAKER_00: if you want to skip down,
34:21
SPEAKER_00: I can go through some of the other drills later if you want to,
34:26
SPEAKER_00: but fundamentals and night communication.
34:29
SPEAKER_00: So many people,
34:30
SPEAKER_00: and maybe even you tuning into something like this tonight,
34:33
SPEAKER_00: so many people think an X and O Is what is going to be the difference between a win
34:39
SPEAKER_00: or a loss?
34:41
SPEAKER_00: And I can tell you that it's not.
34:43
SPEAKER_00: So let's look at just a couple of things that I was thinking of yesterday.
34:47
SPEAKER_00: What actually matters?
34:49
SPEAKER_00: If your players don't know how to have good footwork and pivot and they're traveling
34:55
SPEAKER_00: or they get themselves into a situation where they only are used
34:58
SPEAKER_00: to using one pivot foot, And they can't use their other pivot foot.
35:03
SPEAKER_00: And then they end up being off balance and maybe they throw a live ball turnover.
35:07
SPEAKER_00: I do think that that's on you as a coach.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: I think that's something that's preventable.
35:12
SPEAKER_00: And I think that's something that you have to work on from the beginning of the season.
35:16
SPEAKER_00: And that's one of those things that you have to be consistent about every day.
35:19
SPEAKER_00: Screening.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: So many things in today's game require some type of screening.
35:24
SPEAKER_00: You may not call a dribble handoff a screen, but that can be.
35:30
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're running fingers.
35:32
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're slicing through.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: There are different things that are termed screening.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: But what I'm talking about here is an actual screen for the guy that's dribbling.
35:42
SPEAKER_00: A screen on the ball.
35:43
SPEAKER_00: A screen on his defender.
35:45
SPEAKER_00: Do they know how to,
35:47
SPEAKER_00: do your players for sure,
35:49
SPEAKER_00: no matter who is in the game,
35:51
SPEAKER_00: do you have confidence as a coach that if a game were today,
35:55
SPEAKER_00: that they would set a screen and that they would not set a foul,
35:58
SPEAKER_00: that they know how to do that?
36:00
SPEAKER_00: Do you have confidence that the player accepting the screen has the timing
36:05
SPEAKER_00: and allows that screen to be set so that they don't cause their teammate to get
36:11
SPEAKER_00: a foul?
36:12
SPEAKER_00: A foul is a turnover,
36:13
SPEAKER_00: and if your players are turning the ball over in crunch time,
36:18
SPEAKER_00: like I said at the very beginning,
36:20
SPEAKER_00: that is going to affect your notoriety as a coach and their level of trust in you.
36:26
SPEAKER_00: Passing,
36:27
SPEAKER_00: we all do passing drills,
36:28
SPEAKER_00: but I think too many passing drills are having the thumbs going down towards
36:33
SPEAKER_00: the court.
36:34
SPEAKER_00: We're looking at technique.
36:36
SPEAKER_00: We saw...
36:38
SPEAKER_00: We saw Larry Bird do that in the 80s, and we think that's what we need to do.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: And I think a passing drill is really only effective if it's under pressure.
36:49
SPEAKER_00: I don't think they learn how to do anything really well.
36:53
SPEAKER_00: They tend to want to speed up against pressure.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: What you want to get them to do is to learn how to fake a pass to make a pass, get low and slow.
37:03
SPEAKER_00: If you think about Boozer and the Duke versus UConn game, He caught it from out of bounds.
37:10
SPEAKER_00: He turned, immediately put the ball on the floor.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: Then he jumped up to make a pass.
37:14
SPEAKER_00: He did several things wrong there.
37:17
SPEAKER_00: He seemed like a really fundamental player all year.
37:21
SPEAKER_00: But when it came to what was going to get them onto the next game,
37:25
SPEAKER_00: they had seven seconds left when he got the ball.
37:28
SPEAKER_00: And he made a mistake that cost them their season.
37:33
SPEAKER_00: And if somebody at that level for Duke is making that mistake,
37:36
SPEAKER_00: I have to feel That that could happen to a player that you and I coach.
37:40
SPEAKER_00: For your blobs and slobs,
37:42
SPEAKER_00: baseline out of bounds,
37:43
SPEAKER_00: sideline out of bounds, do you have your best inbound or inbounding?
37:47
SPEAKER_00: That's often forgotten.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: The play is what gets the attention.
37:51
SPEAKER_00: The mismatch on the court is what gets the attention.
37:54
SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't matter what the mismatch is on the court.
37:59
SPEAKER_00: If you have somebody who doesn't think really clearly and who doesn't have
38:03
SPEAKER_00: a little bit of savvy to them making the inbounds pass,
38:07
SPEAKER_00: do you teach them how to get out and not have their feet on the line?
38:11
SPEAKER_00: I did.
38:12
SPEAKER_00: Do you teach them how to clear the backboard?
38:15
SPEAKER_00: I did.
38:16
SPEAKER_00: If you don't teach them to clear the backboard,
38:18
SPEAKER_00: I have seen multiple games when I was coaching in high school.
38:23
SPEAKER_00: They end up ultimately being lost because a player tries to throw it long
38:27
SPEAKER_00: and it clips the side of the backboard.
38:30
SPEAKER_00: Their player was open all the way down the court for a touchdown pass
38:34
SPEAKER_00: and was ultimately not able to receive it because they couldn't get it in bounds.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: It clipped the backboard.
38:39
SPEAKER_00: So that ends with what I have.
38:43
SPEAKER_00: I'm willing to take any questions or comments from there.
38:47
SPEAKER_01: One thing that I'll Ask in relationship to practicing the special situations.
38:53
SPEAKER_01: And you may want to talk about some of the things that we did,
38:56
SPEAKER_01: whether that's 76-76 or the tournament.
38:59
SPEAKER_01: But in regards to the feedback and helping them learn, how much did you give?
39:05
SPEAKER_01: How much was it that you just let them do it and just kind of went on knowing
39:10
SPEAKER_01: that they'd get more reps doing it?
39:12
SPEAKER_01: Where did you find that balance?
39:14
SPEAKER_00: Well, the special situation tournament, which...
39:17
SPEAKER_00: We could give you the notes too.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: We can go through all of that in a different way.
39:22
SPEAKER_00: And I also have video clips of all of that.
39:25
SPEAKER_00: That's not the secret sauce.
39:28
SPEAKER_00: It is at the beginning of the year from the very first practice,
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SPEAKER_00: give them what we were trying to accomplish.
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SPEAKER_00: I think if you're a concept driven team and you say that you play out of concepts
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SPEAKER_00: and out of a 40 minute game,
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SPEAKER_00: You play 38 minutes out of concepts and they're just reading the situation.
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SPEAKER_00: Then at the end, you're trying to generate a victory simply through X's and O's.
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SPEAKER_00: I think that's confusing to them.
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SPEAKER_00: And I don't think that that's very consistent.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sure there are teams that can do it that way.
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SPEAKER_00: But I would say that they would probably be the minority.
40:08
SPEAKER_00: And so as we're starting to teach, I would have them split up between coaches.
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SPEAKER_00: Each coach has a team and maybe the head coach is just running whatever
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SPEAKER_00: the special situation is.
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SPEAKER_00: And before,
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SPEAKER_00: as we're going through each situation that would eventually be in the tournament,
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SPEAKER_00: we are asking them questions to find out what they know.
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SPEAKER_00: And we are asking them sometimes, what questions should you ask us when you come to a timeout?
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SPEAKER_00: And so what I tried to have happen was in practice and then in turn in games,
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SPEAKER_00: players coming to me asking, how many timeouts do we have left?
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SPEAKER_00: When do you want us to foul?
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SPEAKER_00: Who in those lineup has four fouls?
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SPEAKER_00: Those type of questions make me better as a coach.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're in the habit of Them asking you some questions like that
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SPEAKER_00: in your daily practice, I think that helps.
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SPEAKER_00: I think as you're teaching them how to handle each situation,
41:12
SPEAKER_00: you're teaching them the type of shot that you want, who you want to be shooting.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're teaching them how many seconds you want to be shooting within that,
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SPEAKER_00: the type of defense that you're dropping back into.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: But teaching those type of things early is Before you start putting the pressure on,
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SPEAKER_00: I think is really valuable.
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SPEAKER_00: And so we had a time and score tournament with a bunch of different scenarios
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SPEAKER_00: where they could win.
41:39
SPEAKER_00: There's a set of maybe three.
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SPEAKER_00: There were some sets of five.
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SPEAKER_00: But we would try to do a couple sets throughout practice once they knew what to do.
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SPEAKER_00: One of the quicker ways to do it is 76-76.
41:54
SPEAKER_00: I've done it with different times,
41:56
SPEAKER_00: but the way I like to do it, 76-76, it's tied three minutes on the clock.
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SPEAKER_00: Once a team reaches 80, the clock starts.
42:06
SPEAKER_00: And so you're playing from three minutes there and different scenarios play out throughout that.
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SPEAKER_00: And hopefully through their Time and Score Tournament,
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SPEAKER_00: they've learned how to handle whatever situations come up with them.
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SPEAKER_00: What you're trying to do is get them to be able to handle any situation
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SPEAKER_00: without having to call a timeout.
42:28
SPEAKER_00: I tried to give one timeout per team often.
42:31
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I gave them no timeouts,
42:34
SPEAKER_00: but I want them to know what we want them to do just in case during a game we have
42:40
SPEAKER_00: an advantage.
42:41
SPEAKER_00: I don't want them to automatically Gain possession during a game,
42:45
SPEAKER_00: and then look to the bench to see what we want him to do.
42:48
SPEAKER_00: I want them to be able to get it and attack before the opponent has a chance to set up.
42:55
SPEAKER_00: If us as coaches saw something in a game that we didn't like,
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SPEAKER_00: then we have the ability to call a timeout,
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SPEAKER_00: but I don't want to have to call a timeout to get my team ready.
43:04
SPEAKER_01: I'll ask this next one by telling two stories.
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SPEAKER_01: Your first year,
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SPEAKER_01: make it to the national championship game,
43:11
SPEAKER_01: down by one point with less than eight seconds left.
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SPEAKER_01: Point guard dribbled up the floor and you called a timeout to set up a play.
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SPEAKER_01: Fast forward to year seven, I think it was, and playing against a rival in a packed out gym.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's really loud in there.
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SPEAKER_01: Emotions are really high.
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SPEAKER_01: Down by one or two.
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SPEAKER_01: Allow your players to just play, not call a timeout.
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SPEAKER_01: Was there was that a difference in you or was that a difference in the players?
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SPEAKER_01: And I ask that just so that coaches can get into the mind of it rather
43:48
SPEAKER_01: than necessarily having a I always call a timeout because when I see this online,
43:52
SPEAKER_01: especially I get I get the two camps of they're always calling a timeout
43:57
SPEAKER_01: or they're never calling a timeout.
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SPEAKER_00: My philosophy has always been to try to not to have to call a timeout.
44:04
SPEAKER_00: And with that first team, there were a lot of Internal struggles.
44:11
SPEAKER_00: There was a lot of infighting and stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: It was amazing that we even made it to a national championship,
44:16
SPEAKER_00: but there were so many distractions that I felt did not give me the confidence based
44:21
SPEAKER_00: on pressure games that had happened fairly recently, even in that same tournament.
44:27
SPEAKER_00: I did not have the confidence that they were going to make the right decision.
44:31
SPEAKER_00: And so while I would have preferred that,
44:34
SPEAKER_00: and I still think that would have been the right thing to do,
44:39
SPEAKER_00: I felt like in the moment what gave him the best chance was instead of the guard
44:45
SPEAKER_00: that had it trying to make a decision where there had already been some turnovers.
44:50
SPEAKER_00: One factor that really is a factor is he was severely,
44:54
SPEAKER_00: our point guard was severely hampered by high ankle sprain.
44:58
SPEAKER_00: And in any other game, he wouldn't have even played.
45:02
SPEAKER_00: And so I didn't have any faith that he was going to be able to blow by anybody
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SPEAKER_00: and get to the basket.
45:09
SPEAKER_00: We had a tried and true play based on stats that we ran out of that timeout.
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SPEAKER_00: That was the play that gave us the best return on investment all year.
45:20
SPEAKER_00: And so that's what I did.
45:23
SPEAKER_00: It's a hard pill to swallow, but I had reasons why I did that.
45:27
SPEAKER_00: And then fast forward to year seven,
45:30
SPEAKER_00: we actually won on a Friday night and a Saturday night with the same player taking
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SPEAKER_00: the shot from the same spot,
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SPEAKER_00: both three-pointers from Basically the left slot area and both of them,
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SPEAKER_00: one was in transition where we didn't call it.
45:47
SPEAKER_00: Another one was, it was off of a play call, but we didn't call a play call out of a panic.
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SPEAKER_00: It was just what the situation dictated.
45:58
SPEAKER_00: If I remember right, they called the timeout.
46:00
SPEAKER_00: And so we trusted our players.
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SPEAKER_00: We had done, you and I had been together a lot by then.
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SPEAKER_00: We thought the same and We just didn't have enough time under our belt in year one
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SPEAKER_00: with our players and with that group to be able to make a better decision in
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SPEAKER_00: the national championship.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm talking to more coaches who are telling me they're doing these kinds
46:22
SPEAKER_01: of things earlier and earlier in the year.
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SPEAKER_01: Just how you feel going about it,
46:27
SPEAKER_01: you kind of mentioned a little bit,
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SPEAKER_01: but when you start looking at these,
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SPEAKER_01: when you want stuff in place,
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SPEAKER_01: how much in place, how much you want to introduce it, what do you think is best?
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SPEAKER_00: Well,
46:38
SPEAKER_00: I think just generally a fault of most coaches that have ever lived in any sport is
46:44
SPEAKER_00: to try to do too much and basically vomit all that they've learned,
46:48
SPEAKER_00: all that they know onto their players.
46:51
SPEAKER_00: And I don't think there's any tried and true method except
46:55
SPEAKER_00: for do what you really feel like you're likely to face in the first couple of games
47:02
SPEAKER_00: and then just slowly get better at the things that you need to get better at.
47:08
SPEAKER_00: You don't ever want to lose games,
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SPEAKER_00: but it's also fool's gold to think that if, man,
47:13
SPEAKER_00: if I just had had the press breaker play where everybody gets out of bounds
47:18
SPEAKER_00: and we run it like a football play, if I had just had that in, we would have won.
47:22
SPEAKER_00: And the reality is that if you are practicing that enough to get really good at it,
47:27
SPEAKER_00: you are probably neglecting something that you truly needed to get better at earlier
47:33
SPEAKER_00: in the year.
47:34
SPEAKER_00: And so, you know,
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SPEAKER_00: I do think going into your first game Having an out of bounds play or two and then
47:42
SPEAKER_00: a counter to those.
47:43
SPEAKER_00: And then if you can have a set play that could be run as an end of clock play,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
47:50
SPEAKER_00: while dribbling down the court, or if it could be run as a side out of bounds play.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of the best side out of bounds plays you and I ever ran were,
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SPEAKER_00: they were just our offense,
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SPEAKER_00: but it was entered from the sideline instead of being entered from
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SPEAKER_00: So that's a simple way to have some more sideline plays without eating up your practice time.
48:14
SPEAKER_01: Some people may want those.
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SPEAKER_01: Some may just have questions about this in general email address or something
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SPEAKER_01: that they can reach out to you.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm an AD at High Point Christian Academy in North Carolina.
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SPEAKER_00: Right now, and my email address is B-U-W-A-R-O-W
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SPEAKER_00: at H-P-C-A-Cougars.org.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's probably the best way to email me.
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SPEAKER_00: I've been working on a project.
48:44
SPEAKER_00: I've been working on a project where I've secured all my social media handles and
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SPEAKER_00: a YouTube channel, Time and Score Guy.
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SPEAKER_00: And I've been going,
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SPEAKER_00: spending the off season And really part of last year,
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SPEAKER_00: just making my own observations, trying to cut film together.
49:02
SPEAKER_00: And if you think about the D3 championship, Mary Washington won because Emory didn't box out.
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SPEAKER_00: If you think about game five,
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SPEAKER_00: I think it was in New York City,
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SPEAKER_00: where they got the tip in at the last simply because nobody boxed out.
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SPEAKER_00: Those are all things that's the highest level of the game.
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SPEAKER_00: I already mentioned Boozer and the pass that he made.
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SPEAKER_00: Those are the best players at the top level of our game making key mistakes.
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SPEAKER_00: So if they can make them, your players are going to make them.
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SPEAKER_00: And I really think that what you do right now can really help mitigate.
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SPEAKER_00: If nothing else,
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SPEAKER_00: it helps you sleep better at night knowing that you had a plan
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SPEAKER_00: and you gave your players a chance to be able to win.
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SPEAKER_01: Awesome stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll be sure to put your email address down in the description as well.
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SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you doing this.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.