Today's notes are abbreviated because I missed some of the clinic by Xavier's Chris Mack. While I didn't catch all of his presentation, I liked what I was able to hear a lot. These three concepts have a good chance of making it into our team vocabulary in the near future. As with the other parts of the series, my own thoughts are added in italics.
- Show officials your hands on defense.
- If they see your hands, they don't think you're committing fouls
- Body contact fouls often are preceded by hand contact - especially on the perimeter.
- Guards often must play tougher on ball screens.
- Too many times blame for poor ball screen defense falls onto the help.
- If you don't switch the screen, the guard's job is to get through it and defend the ball again.
- The rotation back is important too. Once the guard is past screen, how will you rotate the help back?
- Defensive "kills"
- 1 kill = 3 stops in a row.
- Xavier staff theory: 7 "kills" in a game = 97% win rate.
A recurring theme throughout the NABC Convention was that not every part of your system needs to be a complicated X's and O's discussion. The more you can simplify part A of your package, the more complicated part B can get.
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