Phoenix Suns Basketball Special Situations | International Basketball Clinic

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I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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July 9, 2015

Phoenix Suns Basketball Special Situations – International Basketball Clinic

The Phoenix Suns Basketball Organization has been turning things around the last couple of years. Most of the credit was on rookie head coach Jeff Hornacek and rookie GM Ryan McDonough. Any mention of the work of assistant coaches toward the Suns’ success was offered unprompted from Hornacek himself.

If you look at the Phoenix Suns season stats from 2014 – 48 wins, 8th in offensive efficiency, 15th in defensive efficiency – and give credit to so few people.

Phoenix Suns Basketball Assistant coach and defensive coordinator Mike Longabardi is one person who should get a lot more credit for the Suns’ success in 2014. He is an incredible defensive coordinator that gets his team ready for every game and alot of the success goes to him. He knows how to win games.

You can tell from the video clip above that when the Boston Celtics defensive coach Mike Longabardi talks about defensive trapping principles that he knows his stuff. It was a great insight on how Mike Longabardi coaches the Phoenix Suns Basketball team too. Mike Longabardi, an assistant coach who worked under Tom Thibodeau in Boston, has Phoenix playing a standard Thibodeau system with shocking success.

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Phoenix Suns Basketball Coach Special Situations – International Basketball Clinic

The international basketball clinic had Phoenix Suns Basketball Coach Mike Longabardi talk about special situations in blobs and slobs in the NBA. I have always thought that you can find the best slobs and blobs in the NBA. Here are some of basketball X’s and O’s that you will need to download.

I think that you will see the Phoenix Suns Basketball Coach Mike Longabardi on the sidelines on an NBA Bench very soon as the Head Coach.

Kostos

I have a new basketball contributor to Men’s Basketball HoopScoop.
He will be one of our Euroleague Basketball Specialists. His name is
Kostas Kalogeropoulos and he is a resident of Athens, Greece

He will be contributing drills that he show us some plays used by top Euroleague teams and of course basketball clinic notes.

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