New college basketball rules are coming for a short time. Earlier this week, it was announced that the Postseason NIT Basketball Tournament will be featuring experimental rules this year. Experimental rules to be used at NIT This is not the first time that the NIT has...
How to Change Your Team’s Defensive Mentality Using Consecutive Stops by Raymond Navarro Basketball is a game of runs, and to go on a run, you have to accomplish two things. One, score the basketball and two, get multiple stops in a row. For the 2011 national...
Basketball Vocabulary: “Key, Free, and Three” by Robb Schultz I like to use specific phrasing and lingo with players. I believe that basketball vocabulary is an integral part of the game of basketball. Sometimes I use industry standard words, ie “drag” screen....
The following are some good looks to run out of a 4 low set in a BLOB situation. This formation is extremely hard to scout as you can flip your bigs and guards into any spot, simply by having an exchange like in “Rip”. If teams front the pass, then the inbounder just...
The Purdue Basketball ESPN “talking heads” had moderate expectations for Coach Matt Painter and the Purdue men’s basketball team entering the 2017 season. The Purdue Boilermakers were ranked number twenty in the AP Top 25. The Purdue Basketball ESPN...
Great article this past week in The Advocate on the baseball program at LSU and its head baseball coach Paul Mainieri. The focus of the article was on a unique routine that Coach Mainieri uses to help prepare his players for the start of the season. Intense LSU...
Pressure Defense: “On the line, up the line” by Robb Schultz Of all the pressure defense phrases I yelled this season, I yelled the title of this article the most. Defensively we have always been a pressure-oriented team but lacked a complete focus or purpose in our...
Coming down to the end of another season preparing for what hopefully becomes a long tourney run, but like most coaches, I am beginning to plan for the most important season, the Off-Season Skills Program. I didn’t always emphasize the importance of the off-season but...
Roy Williams Transition Offense by Ben Farquhar. Check out his 17 pages of basketball diagrams included too! Roy Williams Transition Offense has been one of the more popular secondary sets used throughout all levels of basketball for years now. One of the advantages...
