Monica Wright vs. Ryan Gomes H-O-R-S-E
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Monica Wright
Monica Wright playing Ryan Gomes is H-O-R-S-E.
Moni has to learn to talk the talk and walk the walk!
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2010 NBA Finals Schedule
The following is the schedule for the NBA Finals, which will begin tonight! (Thursday, June 3:)
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HOOP THOUGHTS: Bob Starkey
Coach Starkey always provides us with GREAT teaching insights and articles on his HOOP Thoughts site.
This is no exception. Follow Coach Starkey, if you don’t already.
The Ultimate Coaches Clinic
The Ultimate Coaches’ Clinic: Jeff Van Gundy
Jeff Van Gundy
In 2008, Pat Williams, the GM of the Orlando Magic and a tremendous motivational speaker put out a book, “The Ultimate Coaches’ Clinic.” It is a fascinating book because of the style Pat utilized. He surveyed over 1000 coaches and administrators for insights to what is important to successfully do their job. From time to time I will share a few but it is a great book to own and I highly recommend it. Here are some thoughts from Jeff Van Gundy:
• The players don’t care if you are short or tall, black or white, a former player or not, all they care about is whether you can help them.
• When I was 29 and an assistant with the Knicks, Pat Rileytold me I could be a head coach in the NBA. Then Pat said, “Remember these four things, and you can lead anyone:”
……Competence—know your stuff.
……Sincerity
……Reliability
……Trustworthiness
• John Wooden and Dean Smith were right. Focus on the process and not the result. That is how you get better. The more you talk about winning, the less winning you do.
• Don’t accept in victory what you won’t accept in defeat. You can’t overlook mistakes when you win a game, because they will come back to haunt you later.
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago. 1 comment
Character, Selflessness Count
I’ve been away for a week or so… the “labor of love” of cleaning out 46 years of your parents home. We all are blessed with having to do something like this at some point in time, it’s part of life. Never the less, it is challenging…
Kevin Durant
During the time away, I read an article in the USA Today on The Oklahome City Thunder and Kevin Durant, Durant drives Thunderous resurgence in Oklahoma City.
I never knew Durant was like that, not at all. I assumed he was another young, ego guy. My apologies. The article continues to help convince me that it is more and more about “Who is on the bus,” as the Good to Great book by Jim Collins says. (*Good to Great is a fantastic book to use as a team reading. If you do it, email me at ideas@allbasketballreview.com and I will send you the team follow up questions I used with our team after they read it. It went really well for us.)
Enjoy the article…
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Some Offensive Thoughts From Kevin Eastman
A tremendous site for so much basketball knowledge and ideas.
Some Offensive Thoughts From Kevin Eastman
I’m always looking for nuances that help explain things. I like finding patterns and see how to apply them for added advantage. From some notes that I received a little while ago, here are some interesting “truisms” courtesy of Kevin Eastman, the Assistant Coach for the Boston Celtics
TRUISM # 1: There is a direct correlation between the number of ball reversals and defensive breakdowns. Our players have to understand that the hardest thing to do defensively is to close out — to be running out at a player from the help position. Having said that, we need to understand that an advantage our offense must look to create is to get the defense to close out as often as possible; we want the ball to be reversed from side to side. With our team I can tell you that our scoring proficiency goes up as the number of passes and ball reversals goes up. Of course we have a shot clock that forces us to shoot the ball quicker, but we still would like a minimum of 3 passes as we then know the ball is getting reversed. When we only throw 1 or 2 passes we find that it is very easy for the defense to load up to the ball
TRUISM # 2: The closer you run your offense to the basket, the more physical your screens can be. We have found that the officials are more apt to let contact go when it is closer to the basket as they are used to seeing more contact down there as opposed to out by the 3 point line. We feel that is why the flex action is allowed to get away with some physical baseline and pin down screens, and why we have to be careful when setting a back screen out by the 3 point line. So give some thought to having some part of your offensive system where you run your stuff closer to the rim.
TRUISM # 3: The faster the ball moves, the closer the defenders stay to their man. We have found that when we move the ball a little faster, the defensive players are more concerned with staying up with their man and tend to not jump to the ball and get in help position. We also feel that that leaves us with more room to drive it as the defenders are out of position just enough to allow us to get a good driving angle on them. I would say if you do not have a good scoring post man, you should look to move the ball a little faster at times and create driving opportunities. If you do have a good post man you would want to slow it down and give the post man a good look.
