Train for the game, not the drill. I help basketball programs design REPS into practice that transfers.
Waukesha, WI
Joined March 2018
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It’s officially live!
Slices of the Game is now available on Amazon.
I never meant to write a book.
Just like I never meant to open a gym.
Both came from the same place: a love for the game, a lot of questions, and a lot of mistakes 🧵
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☕️ Sunday Mornin' Newsletter
⚰️ The Nail Screen
🏀 Stealing a Quick Two
🎧 Ross Hodge and Adaptable Defenses
🧪 The Practice Lab
and more!
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“Some of your worst passers tend to be your worst decision makers.”
Ross Hodge on developing passers by fixing what happens before the pass. Attacking the right gap, stopping under control, and avoiding decisions that require great passes.
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@coachrosshodge on:
🧠 Teaching defense to play in the “gray area”
🛡️ Why good defenses eliminate space
🏀 Adjusting to flat middle ballscreens
🎯 Improving decisions before the pass
A really good one on modern defensive teaching and problem solving.
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An offense where “Everybody Eats.”
Kyle Bossier’s SoCal Coaches Summit clinic explores the “Beautiful Game” and building an offense around the experience you want your players to have.
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Sometimes the window is closing. Sometimes it’s still opening.
Clear advantage = act fast. But sometimes waiting allows for more options to open up.
Quick decisions matter. So does knowing when to wait and watch.
Is every catch isn’t a 0.5 decision? A hard closeout may call for an immediate attack. A short one may call for a hold, a jab, and a chance to let the defense shift.
Our Roundtable discussion asked how we can help players recognize the difference.
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Everyone in Europe is running variations of the same baseline out of bounds play, and despite the relative simplicity no one can stop it.
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“Work on footwork” sounds clear until you ask: footwork for what situation? Where’s the defender? Where’s the help? How much space and time?
This week in The Practice Lab, Drew Dunlop helped us get more specific about the problem before designing the work.
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Same amount of practice time. Same number of practices.
Where’s the potential edge?
Connect your Ready Up to how you play: spacing, shot priorities, offensive and defensive principles.
Those opening minutes become another opportunity to reinforce your system.
The first 10 minutes of practice can start training the reads players will face later.
This week’s newsletter looks at Drew Dunlop’s Ready Up and how to build those decisions into the opening of practice.
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In Tomorrow's Sunday Mornin' Newsletter
🏀 Creating your Ready Up
🌊 Flowing out of the Drag Screen
🎧 Brooks Savage
📚 Interesting Reads
and more!
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☕️ Sunday Mornin' Newsletter
🧠 Putting Decisions in the Warm Up
🎧 Brooks Savage's Offensive Evolution
🏀 Playing off the Drag Screen
and more!
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How do you build your PNR defense from two defenders to all five?
Martin Schiller walks through it in his SoCal Coaches Summit clinic with us, connecting the coverage to low man responsibilities, tags, and rotations through advanced shell.
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“The simplicity is where you can be different the most.”
ETSU HC Brooks Savage on why the separator isn’t always more offense, more actions, or more complexity. Sometimes it’s just being better at the fundamentals you’ve decided matter the most.
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Baldur Ragnarsson on building functional strength through basketball-specific contact
🧱 Short, controlled body-to-body work
⚖️ Balance, position, and physicality
The idea: prepare players for the contact the game will actually create.
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In Tomorrow's latest edition of the Sunday Mornin' Newsletter!
🏎️ Force the Late Switch
🛗 Elevator Screens
🏀 Bunched Spacing
🎧 Kim Caldwell
and more!
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Something crafty from Gargzdai to start the season using three 77 Twist Spain actions in the first half against Neptunas.
I wrote about the action and how it played against the coverage at The Painted Possession, with the link in the first reply ⬇️⬇️
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ICYMI: Preparing players for the movement and physicality the game demands.
💥 Baldur Ragnarsson on basketball-specific contact work
🔀 Drew Dunlop on Ready-Ups & variable movement
🧠 Practice Lab Takeaways Pt 2
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🏀You may spend a lot of time chasing more reps.
More shots. More finishes. More possessions. Because that works right?
But Slice 1 of Slices of the Game asks a different question: what are those reps actually asking the player to do?
Are they picking up useful information? Solving something? Adapting?
So maybe more reps isn’t the answer.
Maybe better REPS is.
And if you’re wondering what better REPS might look like in your own sessions, our companion workbook helps you start exploring that for yourself. We want to help you discover what works for YOU and your athletes. ⬇️
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What Survived the Summer — Part Two
A few ideas Drew Dunlop is carrying into the season:
• Every constraint has an expiration date
• Make the outcome matter
• Count decisions, not just reps
• Organize the disorder
The larger question:
Can practice prepare players not just to execute the plan, but to solve what happens when the plan breaks?
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Ready Ups get players moving, acting, & deciding within how you want to play.
Your offensive & defensive principles. Your shot priorities. Your style.
Reinforce your game model from the first minute through problems players actually face in games.
If players always move the way they’re most comfortable, what happens when the game takes that solution away?
This week’s SG Newsletter looks at Drew Dunlop’s Ready-Ups — short, variable movement drills built to make players react, reorganize, and find new solutions before practice really gets going.
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In Tomorrow's latest edition of the Sunday Mornin' Newsletter:
🤼 Contact Drills
⛹️♂️ Variable Movement Prep
🧪 Practice Lab Summer Takeaways Pt. 2
📐 Angled Pops
🎧 Jim Les on Urgency & Princeton Reads
and more!
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