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ICYMI: Last week, we highlighted the top viewed SGTV defensive breakdowns of 2025. Get caught up HERE.

This Week at a Glance:

🏀 SG Plus Content: 2025 SGTV Most Viewed Offensive Breakdowns

🎧 Slappin' Glass Podcast: Sean Miller {Texas}

📣 Hudl Instat

📚 Interesting Reads: 25 Best Ideas

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Best of 2025...Offense

As we turn the page on 2025, the past couple of weeks have offered a brief opportunity to look back at the ideas that defined our film work this year. This edition revisits the offensive concepts that captured the most attention across the Slappin’ Glass community.

Below, you’ll find a curated recap of our most-viewed SGTV offensive breakdowns of 2025, featuring the concepts SG+ Members from around the world returned to most often. Each entry includes the original video, newsletter, and additional supporting content.

Top 5 SGTV Most Viewed Defensive Breakdowns

🥇 Cal Poly SLO - 4 Out, 1 on the Move​

"Our Film Room session with SLO assistant coach Kyle Bossier breaking down their positionless offensive spacing, cutting, and screening concepts."

🎧 Pair With: Our podcast conversation with Cal Poly SLO HC Mike DeGeorge.​

🔒 SG Plus Content: Our breakdown on the technique and advantages of the "Hot Stove" Screen.

🗞️ Newsletter​ {Part 1}

🗞️ Newsletter​ {Part 2}

🥈 Slide Cutting - Full Side Spacing Automatics​

"Exploring the versatility and effectiveness of sending multiple cuts, a baseline cut and a corner slide, when penetration is occurring to the full side of the floor."

✚ Pair With: Using the slide cuts within a two guard front, allowing a guard to attack back to the same side the pass was reversed from. Generating attacking lanes or kick ahead 3s & backdoors.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Our breakdown on defending the Slide Cuts around a ballscreen.

🗞️ Newsletter​ {Part 1}

🗞️ Newsletter​ {Part 2}

🥉 Ryan Pannone - 5 Out Delay Teach Tape​

"Coach Ryan Pannone's 3-Part "Film Room" session on the modern-day 5 Out Motion. In this multi-part teach tape breakdown, Coach Pannone details entering the offense, the various cuts within the offense, the delay reads, and implementing the offense in practice."

✚ Pair With: A straightforward use of a shooter in the Flex screen wihin a 5-Out Delay alignment to generate a clean look.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Our "Crunch Time" session with Coach Pannone.

🗞️ Newsletter​ {Part 1}

🗞️ Newsletter​ {Part 2}

🗞️ Newsletter​ {Part 3}

​🏅 Transition Spacing - Short Corner Runs​

"Building early baseline pressure with throw-ahead short corner catches in transition, freeing the rim for cutting and off ball screening actions."

🎧 Pair With: Our podcast conversation with Finland NT Head Coach Lassi Tuovi on modern offenses and spacings.

🔒 SG Plus Content: A multiple big transition offense concept with a rim-running 4-man turning a rim seal into a Spain ballscreen.

🗞️ Newsletter​

🏅 PG Stampedes - Step-Up Screens & Switch Attack​

"The value and effectiveness of shortening the pass back to the middle third with a Stampede catch in step-up screen–dominant offenses and when attacking perimeter mismatches."

✚ Pair With: A drag screen flowing into a “Get” action with the slot player to set up a corner stampede.

🎧 Pair With: One of favorite podcast of the year with Paris Head Coach Francesco Tabellini on playing relentless and tagging up.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Pedro Martinez's use of the Stampede in early offense and late-clock retriggers.

🗞️ Newsletter​

Honorable Mention

​Zach Guthrie - Rethinking Pre-Game Routines & Warmups​

"Coach Guthrie’s SoCal Coaches Summit clinic on creating game-like environments in warm-ups to better prepare players for the mental and physical demands of the game."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Drew Dunlop’s SoCal Coaches Summit clinic on practical ways to implement ecological design in practice and player development.

🗞️ Newsletter​

​5 Out Early Offense - PG Read Option​

"An effective 5-Out early offense trigger that based off the reaction of the defense creates driving gaps and downhill attacks."

✚ Pair With: A quick hitting flare screen against the nail help in the 5 Out alignment.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Coach Mark Pope’s 5 Out Delay solution when playing two bigs, starting in 4 out 1 in spacing and flashing the four man from the weakside dunker to the slot during the Zoom to create gravity and flow into 5 out spacing.

🗞️ Newsletter​

​Sito Alonso - Inverted Post Ballscreen • Uphill Pitch​

"A post screening concept where the post passer sets an inverted ballscreen for the post player, freeing the big to dribble into an uphill pitch with a guard positioned in the middle third of the court. Creating opportunities to attack through the short roll and/or pop."

✚ Pair With: A few of our favorite actions from Coach Sito Alonso over the years.

🎧 Pair With: Our podcast conversation with Coach Sito Alonso on triggering offense through the post and his "Goalkeeper" defense.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Coach Sito Alonso's "Goalkeeper" or "Spy" Ballscreen Defense.

🗞️ Newsletter​

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Rounding out the Top 10

👀 Modern Game Truths - Perception & Scanning​

↪🗞️ Newsletter​​​

👣 Drag Screen Slips - Plant & Go Footwork​

↪🗞️ Newsletter​

Thank you all for your continued support and if you have further questions or want to discuss any of these breakdowns with us please feel free to reach out at info@slappinglass.com.

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🎙 SG Classics: Sean Miller on Attacking Pressure, Playing the Gray Areas, and Building Real Advantage

As part of our SG Classics series, we’re revisiting one of our most detailed and practical conversations—our sit-down with Sean Miller, now Head Coach at Texas and one of the most thoughtful minds in the game when it comes to pressure, preparation, and in-game decision-making.

In this episode, Coach Miller breaks down how elite defensive teams use full-court pressure not just to force turnovers, but to shrink the clock, disrupt rhythm, and make the game feel uncomfortable—and more importantly, how offenses can fight back. From attacking the “gray area” after breaking the press, to teaching players when to strike versus when to flow, this conversation is packed with lessons born from both success and failure at the highest levels of college basketball

A major theme throughout the discussion is the idea of playing with purpose. Coach Miller explains why over-structuring against pressure often plays directly into the defense’s hands, and how empowering players with concepts—not constant resets—can tilt the game back in the offense’s favor. His “What Rule” (don’t ask what defense they’re in—read it and play) is a powerful framework for helping players stay aggressive, connected, and confident when chaos is the goal of the defense.

The conversation also expands into offensive rebounding vs. transition defense, modern drag screens, purposeful cross-matching, and how to maximize players who may give you more on one side of the ball than the other. It’s a masterclass in balancing control with trust—and systems with feel.

📌 What You’ll Learn

· How elite pressure defenses use the shot clock as a weapon—and how offenses should respond

· The difference between attacking advantage and flowing when no advantage exists

· Why trying to “reset” after breaking pressure often hurts more than it helps

· Sean Miller’s “What Rule” and how it simplifies offensive decision-making

· Practical ways to structure press offense without over-coaching it

· How to teach players to attack pressure with purpose, not panic

· Transition defense priorities and why Miller often favors getting guards back over crashing the glass

· Modern challenges defending drag screens and fast, flowing transition offenses

· Purposeful cross-matching: when it helps, when it hurts, and what it costs elsewhere

· How to leverage offensive specialists while protecting them defensively

· Why patience with certain player profiles can raise a team’s overall ceiling

This SG Classic is a reminder that the best answers to pressure aren’t always new plays—but clear principles, shared language, and confident players who know when to strike.

If you’re preparing for teams that want to speed you up, slow you down, or live in between—this episode belongs in your rotation

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Interesting Reads

📚 The 25 Best Ideas of 2025​

If an outside observer watched you for a week, how serious would they say you are about achieving your goals?

You see, there are two types of priorities in life:

1. The priorities you say you have.
2. The priorities your actions show you have.

I call the gap between the two the Say-Do Gap.

And here's the uncomfortable truth: For most of us, it's significant.

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Thank you for reading and have a great week coaching,

Dan, Pat, and Eric

info@slappinglass.com

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