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Welcome to the Sunday Mornin' Newsletter, exploring basketball's best ideas, strategies, and coaches from around the world. We hope all of your pre-seasons are off to a great and thank you for the support.

Today's edition features:

• AS Monaco Playbook: "Drag Screen to Stagger Action" Spotlight
• Andrea Trinchieri: Inside the Episode
• Best of the Week
• "Coaches Corner Q&A": ESPN's Fran Fraschilla joins SG Plus members this week!

Let's dive in...

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This Week on SG Plus

For members of SG Plus, here's the extra content included this week:

📺 Deep Dive Video: AS Monaco Playbook: A Full 20+ Minute Breakdown Video + PDF's, view a preview here.​

📖 Sunday Mornin' Newsletter: A long-read breakdown of AS Monaco's "Drag Screen to Stagger Series"

🎤 ESPN's Fran Fraschilla's Live Q&A with SG Plus members on Sunday, October 24th!

🔥 "How to Teach 'Tagging Up'? - An informative discussion in the private "Coaches Corner Community" about installing, drilling, and running the "Tagging Up" offensive rebounding system at various levels.

Coaches interested in this content, plus thousands of additional hours of videos, deep-dive articles, community forums, Q&A's, and more can sign up for less than $30 a month (or save 30% with a yearly subscription) below...

Join SG Plus!

"SG Plus has been an incredible resource for us here at Wagner, being a member of SG Plus is like being able to attend a coaching clinic every day of the week" - Bobby Jordan, Wagner MBB Assistant

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Inside the Episode

"Your questions were not boring..."

Bayern Munich Head Coach, Andrea Trinchieri, has a way with words. Combine that with a fun sense of humor and extensive knowledge about basketball, leadership, and human motivation, and you've got one heck of an educational and entertaining podcast episode.

We were fortunate to sit down with Coach Trinchieri as his season got under way to discuss an array of topics including competition, establishing an identity, the balance of complexity vs. simplicity on offense, stats that matter, and using non-shooters, with plenty of "Trinchierisms" sprinkled throughout. Here's a look inside the episode.

Building an Identity and a "Winning Mentality"

"Of course you want to have a winning mentality, good habits, and culture, of course. But, how to get to this point? I don't like general stuff. 'Ah we have to have a winning mentality.' What is a winning mentality? For you a winning mentality is 'I hate to lose', and for you a winning mentality is, 'I want to win.' It's totally different, because when I hate to lose, you have to right those motivations. From this you can build something." - Andrea Trinchieri

Coach Trinchieri touched on a number of factors that go into building an identity and establishing a winning culture. These were discussed through conversations about:

• The Value of Competition
• Practice and Drill Design to Promote Competition
• Gaining Buy-In
• Being Specific with Goals
• Adapting to Your Team
• A Great "Cooking" Metaphor

Offensive Complexity vs. Simplicity

"If you have a very extensive playbook, you also cover the defense, because your team already saw in practice some things you're going to face. So to me it's a win-win situation." - Andrea Trinchieri

Another main area we discussed with Coach Trinchieri were his views on the balance of complexity and simplicity in half court offense. Some of the main topics included:

• When he would prefer to have more sets and actions, and when he wouldn't
• Building a base offense to handle "two polar opposite" defenses (from a "trap to a switch")
• How to help players through the learning process when understanding complex offensive actions

Playing and Maximizing "Non-Shooters" and Rebounding Mismatches

Among many other tactical conversations included in the episode, a couple specific areas of the game of interest were Coach Trinchieri's thoughts on "using non-shooters" in and offense, and "minimizing rebounding mismatches".

For using non-shooters, Coach Trinchieri discussed topics of:

• Teaching non-shooters to become great cutters
• Turning Cuts into Hostage Screens
• Learning to Create Space as a non-shooter

He also threw out this gem of a quote about non-shooters... "We are going towards basketball where non-shooters are becoming like Panda: you don't want them because you have to keep them in a safe place."

And when it came to Rebounding, we talked about both Offensive and Defensive rebounding topics...

• How Offensive Rebounding is about a "System", and Defensive Rebounding is about "Desire"
• His thoughts on minimizing "Rebounding Mismatches" on a Switch...

Coach Trinchieri goes into further detail about how he teaches rebounding during a bad mismatch including involving a third rebounder, pushing the mismatch under the rim, and trying to "tip the ball" instead of grabbing a rebound.

Beyond these topics the episode also covers:

• ​Start, Sub, or Sit?​
• Building trust through cooking, small interactions, and more
• The best investment Coach Trinchieri has made in his career
• Guarding non-shooters and "2nd Side Actions"
• And more!

You can listen to the entire episode with Coach Andrea Trinchieri here...

Listen to Andrea Trinchieri

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Tactical

📺 Florida State - RIP to Hi-Lo​

"Florida State uses a RIP Screen from a guard to flow right into their 'Hi-Lo' Seal Action"

➕ Pair With: Last week's podcast with Florida State WBB Coaches Sue Semrau and Brooke Wyckoff discussing how they teach the "Hi-Lo" Seal"

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📺 Inverted Horns - Handoff + RIP SCREEN​

"Cividale starts in an Inverted Horns set that eventually leads to a RIP/Backscreen LOB look."

➕ Pair With: Australia Women's NT's creative "Stagger to RIP" Entry​

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📺 Ball Screen Twist / "Varejao"​

"The subtle art of "twisting" a ball screen late."

➕ Pair With: Coach Zak Boisvert is always worth a follow on Twitter. We also nerded out with him on the podcast HERE and then again HERE.

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Interesting Reads

📚 Morgan Housel: Dangerous Feelings​

"But when success is maintained for a long period the greatest skill often isn’t technical, or even specific to your trade. It’s identifying and resisting a few dangerous feelings that can nuzzle their way in after you’ve achieved any level of success."

➕ Pair With: Our conversation with NY Knicks Head Coach, Tom Thibodeau, on continuing growth and learning.

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📚 Bill Belichick's 3 Rules for His Players​

"Talib shared that it never mattered what a player was wearing during walkthroughs or how they conducted themselves in the facility, so long as it was professional. Belichick never tried to crackdown on that aspect of running his team if his players followed those main three rules."

➕ Pair With: Our conversation with Mike Lombardi, who coached with Belichick and spoke about what he does so well as a coach.

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📚 What Nobel Laureates and Elite Athletes Have in Common​

"Bottom line: athletes who went on to become the best adults did a wider variety of activities in childhood, and initially progressed more slowly than the best youth athletes — who more often specialized early and peaked early."

➕ Pair With: Our conversation with ACB Player, Mike Carlson, on how players learn and mature.

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Thank you for reading and have a great week coaching,

Dan and Pat

info@slappinglass.com

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