Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach - Brooklyn College -Brooklyn, NY
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Rocco Sellitto retweeted
COMPETING is a skill
It can be trained. It can be developed.
As coaches, sure sometimes we inherit kids who have “it” already & some don’t
If you are a coach, hopefully you have the mindset you can teach your players how to play defense, how to improve footwork on shooting, or use a ball screen
Teach Competing by celebrating it & coaching it, and be specific in your language.
Avoid general coach speak that leaves players in the dark
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Rocco Sellitto retweeted
#1 Most Liked Teaching Video of October
The science is clear: play more basketball.
Ecological dynamics and the constraints-led approach aren’t asking for fancier drills. They point to one thing: practice should look like the game.
A 2v0 passing drill, a three-man weave, or walking through a play with no defense is not playing basketball. Playing basketball means offense against defense and making decisions under pressure.
Those drills remove the problem. No defender to read. No choice to make. No uncertainty. The game is none of that.
The research wants more of the game: players solving problems against a defense, making mistakes, and adapting.
Messier is fine. Controlled lines aren’t basketball.
If they’re deciding against a defender, they’re playing. If they’re rehearsing movements with nobody guarding them, they aren’t.
Play more basketball. Your players will get better.
There is no where better to learn more about this, and how to apply it to your coaching, than in our community. DM to jump start your learning.
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Rocco Sellitto retweeted
Transition isn’t a footrace. It’s a counting problem.
Dick DeVenzio said it in STUFF Good Players Should Know: "When you have more players than they do, you don’t need a fancy play. You just need to give the ball to the player who is unguarded."
The best guards know their numbers before they get there. They ask three questions:
Who’s with me?
Who’s against me?
Who’s up next, the players behind me?
The first two tell you the numbers. The third tells you the pace. Speed up to keep an advantage, or slow down a hair to let a trailing teammate add to it.
Count before you commit.
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Rocco Sellitto retweeted
Great answer from Joe Mazzulla on the purpose of rim pressure and the different ways to create it:
“It can be done in different ways…The most obvious one is driving into the paint, make a layup…Last game, we put a ton of pressure on the rim on our off-ball of curling to the rim.
“A curl to the rim on a guy who draws a 2-on-1 somewhere else on the floor is rim pressure. So, you can get it through drives, you can get it through cuts, you can get it through screening and rolling.
“…You put pressure on the rim to create 2-on-1s and create easy baskets. You have to be able to see that pressure on the rim doesn’t always lead to a layup. It may lead to a 3, it may lead to a kick-out.”
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Rocco Sellitto retweeted
Back at the top since 2008!🐶🏆 #PlayLikeaBulldog
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