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ICYMI: Last week we introduced Part 1 of our "Film Room" session with Coach Pannone on the 5 Out Offense.

Today at a Glance:

🔒 SG Plus Content: Ryan Pannone - 5 Out Teach Tape {Part 2}

🎤 Slappin' Glass Podcast: Will Hardy {Utah Jazz}

🥇Best of the Week: Horns Weave & Boomerang PNRs​

Let's dive in...

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Ryan Pannone Strikes Back

"If you want to master something, teach it" - Richard Feynman

Last week we introduced Part 1 of our 5-Out video series with Alabama Assistant Coach, Ryan Pannone. Well regarded as one of the best teachers in the game, Coach Pannone sat down with us to dissect the film, teaching points and how to install a modern version of the 5-Out Offense. Today, in Part 2 of our "Film Room" session, we round out Coach's 5-Out Offense by delving into how he teaches the split screen, various Delay actions, including how to attack switches and unders, and the drills to install the offense.

Split Screening

In the majority of Part 1, we discussed the different entry cuts and pressure releases Coach Pannone uses within the offense to set the table for the 5-Man to receive the ball at the top of the arc with a balanced court. Once the 5-Man initiates a side and triggers Delay action, the next important teaching point becomes developing the split reads between the 45 and corner players.

Where to screen?

When starting to teach the split cuts the first thing Coach Pannone discusses is defining where the screening action should occur. In the case of the Delay, the screen should be set at the level of the block, inside the 3-pt line...

Zooming In: Setting the screen at this depth provides ample spacing for the players to make cuts and room for the 5 to find players on those actions as well. Screening too high will not allow enough timing and space for the offense to read the cuts and cause everything to become too congested.

One of the most important aspect of this location is its ability to provide space for punishing the high switch. If the high defender is going to switch out on whoever comes up to the ball, then setting the screen down closer to the baseline allows the corner man to hold or pop back to the corner and attack as the screener clears out.

Cutting Rules: Screener has 1st Right of Refusal

As long as the screener is on the move, they has the first right to slip the screen. With the screener still in motion, the corner player waits in the corner and reads...

Zooming In: Creating a clear order of operations prevents both the screener and corner from cutting on top of each other.

Cutting Rules: Pop's Feet, Corner Cuts

Once the screener stops, the corner has the right to cut, with the screener holding the screen until the corner has made their decision...

Zooming In: As shown above, in today's breakdown and covered in next week's "Split Cut Reads" breakdown, the corner has a number of options to play off this screen. However, the screener cannot late slip or pop back (shown above) until the corner has made their read.

With the screening area and order of operations clearly defined the offense can succinctly begin to attack the defensive coverages and play to a number of different actions, including a stagger hand off...

When to Shake?

Another insightful conversation in our film breakdown with Coach Pannone centered around how to attack off a filled corner DHO or ball screen and when the corner player should "shake" (Lift) behind the roll. Players often shake too early and without reason, and Coach Pannone stresses that his players should shake only when the defender tags, following the principle of "no tag, no shake."

Zooming In: Shaking behind the roller is solely dependent on the defense. If the defender doesn't tag, then that offensive player can hold the corner. Once the defender tags, regardless of whether it's early or late, only then should the corner be active and shake up.

Shaking too early and without reason leads to situations where the corner and the roller converge on each other, allowing the "Tag" defender to easily impede the roll and close out.

Installing the Offense

To finish out Part 2, Coach Pannone was generous enough to share essentially his "Day 1" drills to install the spacing and reads within the various screening and cutting actions. All of these drills are scripting the situations and cuts, but as the players begin to grasp them, they will transition to 3v3 in order to begin building the recognition and randomization within the offense.

To watch all of these practice drills, along with insights on several other teaching points within the 5-Out Offense, including:

• Stagger handoffs
• Using ATOs to build the offense
• "Bull" catches and "Next" pitch aheads
• Attacking under
• Delay Chase

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Slappin' Glass Podcast

We sat down this week in what was one of our favorite conversations of the year with Utah Jazz Head Coach, Will Hardy! Coach Hardy is one of the great young Head Coaches in the NBA and we dove into a number of great topics including:

• Freedom vs. Structure in Unlocking Player Potential: Coach Hardy gives his thoughts on developing players within an offense, along with giving them "breathing room" to grow. Great thoughts throughout.
• Late-Game Analytics: We went down a fun rabbit hole about how Coach Hardy views analytics, and specifically in late-game.
• Transition Flare Screens: During "Start, Sub, or Sit?!" we explore Coach Hardy's use of a Flare Screen in transition to ignite their offense. We discuss spacing, timing, and the overall philosophy in using that type of screen.

Please enjoy the entire great conversation with Coach Will Hardy here...

Listen Now!

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Tactical

📺 Igor Milicic - Horns Weave​

"Coach Milicic creates confusion and distorts the defense's shape by running a top weave before flowing directly into a horns twist entry."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast conversation with Coach Igor Milicic, including how he teaches his bigs to hard hedge in the PNR.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Our breakdown of Coach Milicic's Extended 2-3 Match Up Zone.

📺 Sito Alonso - Reverse Angle Boomerang​

"Attacking an aggressive PNR coverage with the boomerang pass and rescreen."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast conversation with Coach Alonso, and several other applications of the boomerang pass to set up the ballscreen.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Our breakdowns on Coach Alonso's Offense and his "Spy" or "Goalkeeper" Defense.

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Interesting Reads

📚 The Top 100 Players in the NBA ​

"The Ringer’s Top 100 Players in the NBA for the 2023-24 season—a year-round, around-the-clock ranking of the players making the biggest impact on the league right now."

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📚 Are You Serious?​

"When I say serious I don’t mean solemn and tedious. I mean something closer to ‘dynamic persistence’, and a sense of humor is often critical to that. It’s hard to persist for a long time if you ‘take yourself too seriously’. You become rigid, stiff, the opposite of dynamic, and eventually you bang up against something that breaks you one way or another, because you weren’t able to back down, or laugh it off."

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📚 The Surprising Power of Questions​

"For some people, questioning comes easily. Their natural inquisitiveness, emotional intelligence, and ability to read people put the ideal question on the tip of their tongue. But most of us don’t ask enough questions, nor do we pose our inquiries in an optimal way."

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Quote of the Week

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