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ICYMI: Our Podcast Year-In-Review 🗞

This Week at a Glance:

🏆 Top 3 Breakdowns 2023

🎖️ Quarterly Review - Most Viewed Offensive & Defensive Breakdowns

🎤 Slappin' Glass Podcast: Start, Sub, or Sit? {A Year of Breakdowns}

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Let's dive in...

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Top 3 Breakdowns 2023

2023 has been a truly remarkable year, and we thank you for your support of our platform. Our aim, as always, is to provide the deepest, most thoughtful content on topics that are relevant to coaches, and your Sunday Morning Newsletter subscription helps us do that. This year we added almost 50 new Deep Dives or "Film Room Sessions" to SGTV, along with over a 100 shorter, "Best of the Week" sets and concept videos, brining the total number on SGTV to over 750. We also launched our first "Mentorship Series" with one of the best coaches in Spain, Obradoiro's, Gonzalo Rodriguez, and had an absolute blast hosting our first live event in Las Vegas where over 200 coaches attend the "Summer League Coaches Social."

Again, thank you for your support and you can expect all of this, along with a few new projects in the works for 2024.

Below is a list of our most popular offensive and defensive breakdowns, as determined by views...

🥇 Ryan Pannone - 5 Out Motion Teach Tape​

"Coach Ryan Pannone's 3-Part "Film Room" session on the modern-day 5 Out Motion. In this multi-part teach tape breakdown, Coach Pannone details entering the offense, the various cuts within the offense, the delay reads, and implementing the offense in practice."

✚ Pair With: Coach Pannone's "Slip to Punch In."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Our "Crunch Time" session with Coach Pannone.

🗞️ Newsletter {Part 1}

🗞️ Newsletter {Part 2}

🗞️ Newsletter {Part 3}

🥈 Joe Gallo - Miami Heat's Zone Defense​

"Merrimack Head Coach Joe Gallo joined us for a two-part "Film Room" series on the success of the Miami Heat's Zone Defense and the similarities between their zone and Merrimack's Zone."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast conversation with Coach Gallo on zone defense.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Joe Gallo's "No 3's" Zone Defense full breakdown.

🗞️ Newsletter {Part 1}

🗞️ Newsletter {Part 2}

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🥉 Marquette - High Slot Flow Offense​

"We did a detailed look into how Marquette initiates the offense to achieve their desired 'High Slot' spacing and the benefits derived from being high and wide in the half court."

✚ Pair With: Marquette's 77 High Quad Spacing​.

🔒 SG Plus Content: Manresa's High Slot Stampede Arrive Offense.

🗞 Newsletter​

🥉 3-2 "Monster" Zone

"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 themselves at the level of the ball."

🗞 Newsletter​

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Best of the 4th Quarter

As we close out the year, we also reflect on all the defensive schemes, offensive strategies, and technical details we've covered over the past three months in our breakdowns and newsletters. These insights may provide you with some last-minute thoughts or inspiration before heading into your next practice.

Most Viewed Offensive Breakdowns of the Quarter

🥇The Pro Lane - Off Ball Shooting & Off Ball Cutting​

"In a brand new "Modern Game Truths" series, we have teamed up the The Pro Lane to highlight skills, movements, and decisions that occur most frequently in a game and how to develop them in a practical training environment."

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

🔒 SG Plus Content: Our previous collaboration with The Pro Lane on Dynamic Decision Based Warm Ups.

🗞️ Newsletter​ {Off Ball Shooting}

🗞️ Newsletter​ {Off Ball Cutting}

🥈 OKC Thunder - Utilizing the Elbows​

"We looked at the OKC Thunder's use of the Elbow to facilitate their offense and continue to highlight the strength of their big playmaking wings."

✚ Pair With: OKC cutting the corner on high post catches against a Zone Defense.

🔒 SG Plus Content: OKC cutting concepts through the lens of their Ghost Screen.

🗞️ Newsletter​

🥉Gaziantep Basket - Spain PNR Set Ups​

"A study on how the Turkish club, Gaziantep, derives benefit from the Spain PNR by routinely using false motion and cleverly timed counters."

✚ Pair With: Gaziantep's BLOB "Triangle Exits."

🗞️ Newsletter​

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Most Viewed Defensive Breakdowns of the Quarter

🥇 Perimeter Mismatch "Hits"​

"Highlighting the defensive strategy of "Hitting" (sending a double at the perimeter ballhandler) perimeter mismatches and/or late clock isolations."

✚ Pair With: Our podcast with Georgia Tech Assistant, Nate Babcock, on End of Quarter "Hits"​

🗞️ Newsletter​

🥈Defending the Pop - "Box & 1" the 5-Man​

"An innovative solution to defending the Pick and Pop with slow-footed, rim protecting bigs, by opting to deploy a Box & 1 to neutralize the big's ability to pop and keep defensive size at the rim."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Implementing the "Box & 1"​

🗞️ Newsletter​

🥉 Facundo Campazzo - Post Mismatch Defensive Techniques​

"A look at Real Madrid guard, Facundo Campazzo's, understanding of the battles he must win and which ones better serve his physical attributes in order to defend the post and be less reliant on doubles or tactical schemes to protect him."

🔒 SG Plus Content: Big Men defensive techniques against perimeter mismatches.

🗞️ Newsletter​

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Thank you all for another year of listening to the podcast! We cannot thank you enough for the support of the show. To end 2023 we played a fun game of "Start, Sub, or Sit?!" with ourselves all about our favorite deep dive breakdowns of the year. We discuss the "Hedge and Plug", "Spy Defense", "Marquette Spacing", and much much more. Enjoy!

Listen Here!

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Quote of the Week

Thank you for reading this year and have a great week coaching,

Dan and Pat

info@slappinglass.com

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