🏀 Team Culture and Some Holiday Hoops
Fast-paced SSG, a Jump Ball Play, Look Inside Jerome Tang's Wildcats Culture
In this week’s AQTO edition (Total read time: 3 minutes):
🏀 Kansas State Rodney Perry talks Wildcats’ team culture
🏀 Baylor Jump Ball Play
🏀 Grinnell 4v3 Small-Sided Game
🏀 Disguising Plays with a “Family” of Plays
🏀 Duke-Baylor Xs & Os
KSU Assistant Coach talks Wildcats’ Culture
This week on A Quick Timeout podcast, Kansas State Wildcats' assistant coach, Rodney Perry, provides an inside look at Jerome Tang's program. He shares a behind-the-scenes look at the Wildcats tournament run last season along with advice for those seeking to advance in the coaching ranks.
Miller: What’s a lesson you took from Coach Tang in that first season that you’ll carry with you?
Perry: There was one time where Desi Sills had a transition situation where he was really great at being able to attack the basket, but he stopped and shot a 3. I said, “Desi!” and then Coach Tang turned to me and was like, “We ain’t saying nothing to him, except ‘Just play. Good job. Let’s go’. We do out coaching practice and in film study, but on game day, they play.”
Miller: Just watching your team play last year, you can see that freedom the players were encouraged to play with, even in that all-oop play in the NCAA Tournament game against Michigan State.
Perry: They had all the confidence in the world. Most player wouldn’t attempt that during crunch time of a game like that. Our guys were like, “Hey, it’s what we’ve done all year, so let’s do it!”
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Play of the Week: Baylor’s Jump Ball Play
Did you see Wednesday’s ally-oop tip-off play that everyone is trying this year? Baylor has had success with it a few times this year. Duke sniffed it out though. You tip it backwards then screen for the guy who won the tip (i.e., You're screening the other team's jump man.).
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Happy Holidays! Here’s a special offer for those who sign up for an annual subscription to A Quick Timeout+ newsletter ($45 for the year). In addition to receiving subscriber-only articles this season (1-2 newsletters per week) and the weekly AQTO newsletter, you’ll get access to these two coaching clinics.
Games-Based Coaching with Small-Sided Games | Mark Cascio, Courtside Consulting
Building Small-Sided Games | Tony Miller, BJU Bruins
SSG of the Week: Grinnell 4v3
Play fast. Shoot 3’s. Make the “one more” pass. Here’s how this full-court small-sided game works:
🔸put 7:00 on clock
🔸4v3 each way (shooter steps off each transition)
🔸players can drive it, but all shots must be 3s (defender must stay with driver)
🔸:08 shot clock
🔸every 3PM is 1 point
"Family" of Basketball Plays to Disguise
A lot of coaches like to use the same alignment to run a series (or “family”) of plays, making it more difficult for opposing teams to scout. Some coaches take things a step further and call plays in a sequence that allows the offense to set up the next play call.
One of the popular BLOB series comes from a 4-High alignment. Here’s an example of Florida State using 4-High just a few years back in the NCAA Tournament.
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Friday's 4 Xs & Os: Duke vs. Baylor
Hardly anyone knows it, but the college basketball season is starting to heat up. 😏 These Top 25 matchups mean a little more in late December now that teams are starting to settle in and beginning to near conference play.
Here are 4 plays from Wednesday night’s game between #10 Baylor and #21 Duke…
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