Favorite Sets of 2021- College Edition by Chris Filios Here are just some of my favorite sets of the 2021 college basketball season, featuring top 10 offensive teams- Gonzaga, Kansas, and Purdue. It is still quite early on in the season, but there have been a number...
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...
