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Happy Sunday and welcome to all the new subscribers from around the world! Glad to have you as part of the community 🙏

🎉 🙏 A big thank you to all who attended our 1st Annual Coaches Social at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas! We had over 200 coaches attend from the NBA, FIBA, NCAA, and beyond in what was an unforgettable evening. We had a blast connecting with many of you in person and look forward to building this event for years to come. Thanks again!

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Today at a Glance:

🔒SG Plus Content: Mid-Year Review: Best of the Best

🎤 Slappin' Glass Podcast: Cedric Heitz {French Pro Coach}

🥇Best of the Week: Unicaja Elbow Scissor & Floppy​

ICYMI: Last Sunday we looked at Unicaja Malaga's Arrive Offense with 2 bigs and their Top Guard Diamond set from Ibon Navarro. View the full breakdown HERE.

Let's dive in...

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Mid Year Review

Somehow, it's July already, and as the year continues to march on we're taking a moment to reflect back on all the defensive schemes, offensive strategies and technical details we've covered over the past three months in our SG Plus breakdowns and newsletters that you may have missed while you were recruiting, travelling, vacationing, etc...

Below you'll find a short recap accompanied by the video, newsletter, and extra added content for each concept that was explored that week.

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📺 PNR Series - The Skip Dribble​

"Highlighting the use of the Skip Dribble in the PNR, and its effectiveness in allowing the ball handler to play with a change of pace and/or change of direction in their PNR set ups & attacks."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Our PNR series collaboration with The Pro Lane on the Reject, Hostage Dribble & Snake Dribble.

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 Deceptive Designs - Tenerife's Sets for Sasu Salin​

"This breakdown highlighted Tenerife's use of deceptive screens and decoy actions to free their shooters."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Andrej Lemanis Pin Down series with the Brisbane Bullets.

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 Dynamic, Decision-Based Warm Ups​

"We were joined by The Pro Lane to run through a number of drills to help coaches introduce decision making, skill & conceptual development into a warm-up."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast with Coaches Drew Dunlop & Jake Grossmann of The Pro Lane.

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 Ben Lammers' Quick Show Recovery​

"This video highlights the defensive technique in providing aggression on the ball in the PNR with a quick show while also being able to recover back to protect the rim."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast with Alba Berlin Head Coach, Israel Gonzalez, on the "ABCs" of their PNR Defense.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Alba Berlin's Next & Last PNR Coverage.

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 Penn State's 5 Out Delay Offense​

"This was a fun look into the details of Coach Micah Shrewsberry's Delay Offense with Penn State."

✚ Pair With: Virtus Bologna's Delay Swing Away​

🔒 SG Plus Content: Joventut Badalona's 5 Out Delay Offense.​

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 Attacking Off Ball Screen Stunts​

"This video and newsletter analyzed various offensive strategies to attack aggressive off ball screening stunts off the passer."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Off Ball Screen Stunts & Next Defense.​

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 Crunch Time with Tobin Anderson​

"Newly hired Iona Head Coach, Tobin Anderson, joins us in the Film Room to breakdown their historic NCAA Tournament victory over 1 seeded Purdue to discuss Post Doubles, Defending Baseline Inbounds, Late Game Pressure and much more."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast with Coach Anderson on many of these same topics.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Get caught up on all our "Crunch Time" sessions (late-game decision videos).

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 Manresa's Arrive Offense - Hunting Stampedes​

"Coach Pedro Martinez and his club, Manresa, are one of our favorite teams to study, and in this breakdown we looked at the use of the Stampede Action in their 2-sided arrive offensive spacing."

✚ Pair With: Royce O'Neale's use of the stampede catch.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Manresa's Empty Side Flow Offense.

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 DHO Skip Receives​

"We enjoyed looking at Kevin Pangos' use of the Skip Step in the DHO, receiving with the Skip Step to build patience and aid his decision making."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Defending the DHO, Deny and Under.

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 UConn Deceptive Designs​

"Our detailed look into National Champion UConn's Swing Thru and Diamond Series."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Heroes Den Bosch "Flare the Ballscreener" series.

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 3-2 "Monster" Zone (Available for purchase!)

"A 3-2 zone, which morphs into a 2-3 zone look as the ball moves from the top of the perimeter to the corners. The term "Monster" denotes the big/forward positioned at the top of the zone, whose responsibility is to mirror the ball as it is passed along the perimeter, consistently positioning themself at the level of the ball."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast conversation with Merrimack HC Joe Gallo on his "No 3's" Zone defense.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Merrimack's "No 3's" Zone Defense.​

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 Olympiacos' Under Solutions​

"We loved diving into the fantastic way Olympiacos tailors their attack against the 'under' in the PNR to their personnel and offensive philosophy."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Olympiacos Flex Ballscreen Motion.​

📖 Newsletter​

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📺 Nova Southeastern's Press & Pace Concepts​

"A Breakdown of D2 National Champion Nova Southeastern's Press and their calculated risks to create pace off of made and missed shots."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast with Montclair State HC Justin Potts on the art of pressing.

📖 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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Together with Hudl

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Slappin' Glass Podcast

We travelled to France this week on the podcast where we sat down for a truly thoughtful conversation with French Pro Coach, Cedric Heitz! Coach Heitz has experience coaching at the professional levels in France and Poland, and gave us a ton of interesting ideas to think about when it comes to stretch 4's, analytics, spacing and

• The true value of Stretch Fours
• The art of spacing and why it's so important for shooters and non-shooters alike
• And we talk analytics that matter and Post Defense during the always fun "Start, Sub, or Sit?!"

Please enjoy the entire great conversation with Cedric Heitz here...

Listen Now!

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Tactical

📺 Unicaja - Elbow Scissor Over​

"Playing through the elbow to screen a shooter to the ball and screen a big to the rim."

✚ Pair With: BC Lietkabelis Elbow Scissor Series​

🔒 SG Plus Content: Adjusting and Opening the DHO​

📺 Floppy Weak • Floppy ​

"A well designed set to move the shooters around the court to set up the pin down screens."

✚ Pair With: FC Barcelona's Double Floppy set​

🔒 SG Plus Content: Xavi Pascual's Off Ball Screening Techniques & Concepts​

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Interesting Reads

📚 Actionable Feedback​

"Just because criticism is on offer doesn’t mean you have to seek it out or even listen to it."

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📚 A Smart Way to Handle Anxiety — Courtesy of Soccer Great Lionel Messi​

"If you split soccer game play into “preparatory” and “engaged” components, Messi leans heavily on preparation. During one classic game between Messi’s Barcelona and archrivals Real Madrid, in 2017, Messi ran for just four minutes and walked for more than eighty of the game’s ninety minutes. When he was engaged, though, he was dynamic, creating nine chances, scoring one goal, and feeding the ball to a teammate who scored another goal."

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📚 Intermediary Pro Sports Leagues are Paying Off​

"OTE did something smart last year… They allow players to forgo their salary to stay eligible for name, image, and likeness (NIL) opportunities — this has allowed the program to cast a wider net in recruiting high school players who want to maintain their NCAA eligibility."

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Quote of the Week

Thank you for reading and have a great week coaching,

Dan and Pat

info@slappinglass.com

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