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Today at a Glance:

📺SGTV: Ryan Pannone - 5 Out "Motion" Teach Tape {Part 1}

🎤 Slappin' Glass Podcast: Jim and Jay Larrañaga {U. of Miami & LA Clippers}

🥇Best of the Week: Spain Reject RIPs & Zone Screening​

Let's dive in...

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Teaching 5 Out - Late Cuts & Spacing

We are excited to be joined in the "Film Room" once again by now Alabama Assistant Coach, Ryan Pannone, for a multi-part teach tape breakdown series on his "Modern Day Motion" - 5 Out. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be bringing you an in-depth look at the progressions within his offense, how to teach the offense, drills to build the offense, and a step-by-step video of all the reads in the split screen. Coach Pannone is one of the best teachers in the game today, and we thank him for his generosity in sharing his time and knowledge to put together this incredible 5 Out resource.

Whether it's on the podcast, Roundtables, or in a gym, we've engaged in a ton of conversations about 5 Out concepts over the past year or so to try and dig out the underlying teaching points of what some of the best are doing. But, much like in the heyday of 'The Bobby Knight Motion,' simply adopting the popular offense of the time without a clear understanding of how to teach it can lead to the loss of the essential elements and randomness that make it so effective.

Enter Coach Pannone and his teach tape to aid us in grasping the reads and teaching points within the 5 Out offense. As he alludes to in his opening remarks on the video, 5 Out is essentially our modern-day motion—an offense based on reads and recognition, not patterns. Teaching the reads ensures the offense can always have the advantage against the defense. The next step becomes helping players move to the next play based upon the read of the previous action or player.

In creating this "flow," Coach Pannone stresses the importance of 1) weaponizing all parts of the offense and 2) naming everything. On the first point, to be effective in a 5 Out offense and take advantage of the spacing, the players should understand how to be aggressive and create at all points within the offense.

Next, when building out the offense, it is imperative to name every action. Naming actions acts as "training wheels" for players, helping them build their understanding of the reads and recognition of how to get to the next action. Once they begin to grasp the reads the offense can begin to effectively randomize.

Initiating the Offense - RIP Screen Late Cut

To begin every possession Coach Pannone wants an aggressive rim cut in order to set the table for the rest of the possession. In order to achieve this rim pressure, the 5-Man sets a point or away screen...

Zooming In: What Coach Pannone has found with this initial cut is it often leads to more cutting. As shown in today's video, with the offense chasing the possession immediately off this cut opportunities for more cuts arise before they even get to their primary Delay reads.

Zooming In 2.0: Not shown above, but the 5 defender will often track the rim cut, creating an easier catch for the 5-Man on the 3-point line to initiate the next phase of the possession.

Of course, when screening for a shooter, the point screen is an effective option. However, when screening for a non-shooter or when the opposing team is denying the point screen, Coach Pannone teaches his bigs to change their angle and set a RIP Screen...

A major teaching point within this initial cut is getting the PG to have patience in allowing the cut to develop. Coach Pannone tells his cutters to cut all the way to the circle knowing the cut will be open late. Therefore, the PG must first get on the 3-point line to be able to make the pass and wait for the cutter to complete the cut before moving on to the next option.

Zooming In: This is a major pet-peeve of Coach Pannone's, as he states in the video, "this cut will be open at least twice a game" where the PG doesn't wait for the cut to finish and passes the ball too early. Throughout the video are several examples of possessions that could have ended immediately with a lay up but were missed opportunities because the PG was in a rush to get to the next action.

Don't Fight Pressure

In weaponizing the offense and maintaining fluidity another important teaching point from Coach Pannone is "don't fight pressure." If at any point the defense wants to deny or blow up an action...cut. With all 5 players spaced on the perimeter at any given time the paint is wide open to punish the defensive aggression.

Zooming In: As shown above, the defense attempts to blow up the Chase Action. So, instead of fighting the defense to receive a handoff, the PG '0 Cuts' off the big for a layup.

The 5 Out offense is not predicated on getting the ball to any one action. Of course, the offense has a progression and builds towards the Delay, but if at any point the defense attempts to disrupt it, the offense has its reads and counters to punish them and stay random.

Empty Side vs Corner Filled Spacing

As we have alluded to, the offense builds towards a balanced floor, with the 5-Man initiating the Delay actions. In next week's video, we dive into Coach Pannone's Split Screening Progressions. In today's video though, we first discuss Coach Pannone's preferred spacing when playing to a handoff or ball screen based on whether the corner is filled or empty.

With a filled corner, Coach Pannone wants the handoff to occur at the "Runway..."

Zooming In: Coach Pannone calls the "Runway" the point of the elbow out, ideally keeping the action off the slot where the nail defender could potentially come into play and provide help. It is for this reason, and pictured above, the weakside will also occupy the defense with an exchange or decoy pin down.

With an empty corner, Coach Pannone wants the action to occur below the free-throw line and ideally below the 3-point line break. This stresses the ability of the nail defender to impact the ball and forces a longer rotation from the corner defender to the roller.

These are just a few of the many teaching points Coach Pannone shares with us in today's multi-part breakdown. Additionally, we cover on SGTV:

• Sneak drives
• 5 Man pop backs
• Backdoors against pressure
• 45 cuts
• 5's initiating the side
• 5 entry DHO

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Slappin' Glass Podcast

It was a fantastic week on the podcast as we were joined by the father/son duo of Jim and Jay Larrañaga! Jim (HC of U. of Miami), and Jay (Ast. for the LA Clippers) bring a wealth of experience to the show as we explored the areas of:

• Coaching Your Best Players: Great insight for both the NCAA and NBA levels on how to get the most out of your best players. We discuss trust building, role definition, playing through mistakes, offensive play design, and much more.
• Transition Screening Actions: In our special edition of "Start, Sub, or Sit!?" we dive into both coaches' thoughts on the best types of screening actions to get into in transition. Great nuggets on ballhandler patience and spacing concepts throughout.
• The Coach as a Gardner: Also during "SSS", we explore some "coaching metaphors" and why Jim Larrañaga has always seen his job as a Gardner more than anything.

Please enjoy the entire great conversation with Coaches Jim and Jay Larrañaga here...

Listen Now!

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Tactical

📺 Spanish PNR - Reject • Stack RIP​

"A Spanish PNR decoy set from Coach Moser. Point Guard rejects the stack PnR & big sprints off a RIP screen from the stack man."

✚ Pair With: Brad Stevens on blitzing the Spanish PNR.

✚ SG Plus Content: Our collaboration with The Pro Lane breaking down when and how to develop The Reject.

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📺 Post Zone Defense - Elbow Pin Down​

"Baiting the defense to jump into the zone on the post up in order to attack the weakside with a pin down screen."

✚ Pair With: University of Portland's 1-3-1 BLOB Zone Defense.

✚ SG Plus Content: Our breakdown on the 3-2 Monster Zone.

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Interesting Reads

📚 Oregon Football’s Unique Culture Is Fueling Its Success​

“You hear coaches say it all the time the game is 90% mental 10% physical, and I would say as a football coach, you always lean toward the physical, and that really becomes more than 90% of what you do. What I was able to learn from Drew and Cory, working with those guys, is how you can actually go attack the mental just as much as the physical, whether it be from a messaging standpoint, or you know, just understand how to how to connect with a guy and relate to a guy to get the result that you want.”

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📚 The Art of the Turnaround​

“Mentally tough people are the same every day, and that’s what he is. The people underneath him reflect that. It gives you confidence in your leader and it creates confidence in yourself, because you just know what you’re going to get and you know what you’re focused on. You’re not as concerned with the results as you are the process and how you’re going about it.”

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Quote of the Week

Thank you for reading and have a great week coaching,

Dan and Pat

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