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Happy Sunday and welcome to the Slappin' Glass Newsletter! Welcome to all the new coaches who've joined this week! If this was forwarded to you and you'd like to join, you can do so HERE.

Today at a Glance:

🥇 Best of the Week

🏀 Sertac Sanli's Drop Coverage: Framing the Lane Line

🎤 Inside the Episode: Rick Brunson

And more!

Let's dive in...

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Tactical

📺 Lock the Pivot

"Finish off the 1v1 defense by locking your opponent's pivot foot. Closing space and preventing the secondary finishes. Win the battle of who will dictate terms."

➕ Pair With: Our podcast conversation with Euroleague Player Kyle Hines on Perimeter Defense. Also, take a look at a breakdown of his defense too.

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📺 Ludwigsburg - Euro Continuity Flare PG​

"Use the 2nd side as a decoy to attack back to the initial side with a flare screen for the PG."

➕ Pair With: Our complete Deep Dive Breakdown of the European Ballscreen Continuity​

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📺 Virtus Bologna - Zone Flare Slip (SG Plus)

"Coach Sergio Scariolo attacks a 2v1 weakside advantage with the Flare Slip. Aligning both his bigs at the blocks and entering the ball to a forward at the high post, he is able to create the matchups he wants for the action to succeed."

➕ Pair With: Our Extra Pass conversation with Yale Coach, Matt Kingsley, on Offensive Zone Concepts.

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Interesting Reads

📚 How People Think​

"We are swayed by complexity when simplicity is the real mark of intelligence and understanding."

➕ Pair With: Lake Oswego High School Head Coach, Marshall Cho, on mastering the fundamentals.

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📚 Find the Coaching in Criticism ​

"The skills needed to receive feedback well are distinct and learnable. They include being able to identify and manage the emotions triggered by the feedback and extract value from criticism even when it’s poorly delivered."

➕ Pair With: NFL Hall of Famer, Bill Parcells, on "damage control" and delivering criticism.

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📚 Saint Peter's is a Miracle​

"Even compared to other March Madness Cinderella stories, Saint Peter’s is a true miracle. Take UMBC, which in 2018 became the first 16-seed to beat a 1-seed: That school opened an $85 million basketball arena in 2018. Saint Peter’s plays in a 47-year-old rec center where games have been postponed due to ceiling leakage."

➕ Pair With: St. Thomas Aquinas Head Coach, Tobin Anderson, on making the best of tough jobs.

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This Week on SG Plus!

As always, we've had a busy couple weeks adding new content for the members of SG Plus, here's a look...

🏀 Sertac Sanli's Drop Coverage: Framing the Lane Line​

• A deep-dive video looking at the footwork, depth, and decisions of FC Barcelona's Sertac Sanli.

📖 "Framing the Lane Line" Newsletter

• An in-depth explanation of some of our top learnings from the deep-dive "Framing the Lane Line" Drop Coverage video

📺 Liam Flynn's "Canceling Screens" Clinic Video​

• A full clinic from Pro Coach and NBA Consultant, Liam Flynn, on disrupting offenses by "canceling screens."

😃 Coaches Corner Roundtable: Our monthly get together with coaches around the world discussing learnings from the season, favorite drills, and more.

You can get access to all of this week's content, plus over 400 more detailed breakdown videos, 70 in-depth long-read newsletters, Q&A Replays with coaches like Moncho Fernandez, Ryan Pannone, Fran Fraschilla, Steve Donahue, and much more here...

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 Coach

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Inside the Episode

We were joined on the podcast this week by former NBA veteran and Assistant, and current Head Coach of Camden High School, Rick Brunson! Coach Brunson brought his unique point of view as both a player and coach to the conversation where we discussed a variety of topics including:

• Motivating and Coaching Talented Youth: Coach Brunson has a tremendous run of success at Camden High School and is fortunate to have 8 scholarship players on the roster this season. We discussed ways he continues to motivate and push his talented group.
• Lessons learned from Nine Seasons in the NBA: Coach Brunson spent almost a decade in the NBA and we dove into some of his learnings about earning roster spots, competing at the highest level, and being intrinsically motivated.
• "Start, Sub, or Sit?!": During the always fun segment we heard Coach Brunson's thoughts on bus rides, isolation areas, passing and much more!

You can listen to the entire episode with Coach Brunson here...

Listen to Coach Brunson!

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Thanks for reading and have a great week coaching,

Dan and Pat

info@slappinglass.com

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