Nigeria Pre-Olympic Tuneup by Chris Filios USA VS Nigeria 2012 Nigeria became the first African team in history to beat the USA when they took down the Americans 90-87 in a pre-Olympic tune-up. In the previous matchups between these two teams, the US defeated the...
Play of the Week: Kansas EOG BLOB #5 Kansas 56 – #14 Texas Tech 57. 14.0 seconds left. Kansas ball under Texas Tech’s basket. Game on the line. Kansas coach Bill Self drew up a beauty out of the timeout and his team executed it to perfection leading to a...
Michigan Game-Opening Set by Chris Filios Fran Fraschilla tweeted this on January 12 about the University of Michigan Men’s Basketball Coach: “I said this two years ago. @JuwanHoward, after a terrific @nba career, could be chipping & putting at Doral every day....
Looking for a game-winning late-game sideline out of bounds play? Here are a couple of sets run for game-winners during the first couple of weeks of the NBA season. The first is courtesy of the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers were down 1 to the Boston Celtics with 11.8...
Play of the Week: Barcelona Stagger BLOB Here is a couple of baseline out of bounds plays that Barcelona has run this year under new coach Šarūnas Jasikevičius. The first is a good staggered look for a shooter. Rather than run a straight double stagger for the...
One of my favorite basketball coaches in the world, Šarūnas “Saras” Jasikevičius has a new home. He left his native Kaunas, Lithuania, where he grew up and eventually became a player and then head coach of Zalgiris Kaunas Basketball Club. He has relocated to...
Miami Heat EOG SLOB v Bucks- Game 4 Need a 3 out of the side out of bounds? Here is a great set for you. In overtime of Game 4, down 4 with 6.3 seconds left, the Miami Heat ran and executed this scissor-action SLOB to perfection to cut the game to 1. The...
If you are anything like me, you have used this quarantine period to try and get better- break down film, watch online clinics, go back through old notes, etc. It has also inspired me to read more than I usually do. I tried to balance my Covid-19 reading list so that...
In this great article coach Hamilton presents some Special Situation Home Run Basketball Plays, and some Last Minute plays that you can use to win close games. We had great feedback on this, therefore decided to publish an update of it. The Home Run (3 seconds left)...
