starting from a one-on-one perspective and we we've played a lot of different types of one-on-one small-sided games whether it's a constrain space or different constrain in a shot clock or a dribble limit or you know maybe even different amount of points based off the shot quality that we want to have you know maybe a step in three and a shot inside the charge circle is worth more than a mid-range pullup or off the dribble three to just try to continue to rework our guys's mind State into what is the most valuable shot for us offensively and what we want to get but everything about offense for us one is playing Up Tempo but it's all about Advantage creation right and we want to work on doing as best we can to create an advantage keep an advantage and get what is essentially the easiest most important shot in the game which is not it's a free throw but also a layup right so one of the drills here that we work on is this I I know you've probably seen it and many coaches are probably doing it but it's a ball on the back kind of Advantage creation layup we call it a competitive layup drill where guys are competing to get layups and create an advantage and keep that Advantage from a layup standpoint so we start with the ball on the back guys are doing their best they can remove the ball on the back at any time they want to they're trying to be deceptive in their movements once they get their advantage they're trying to keep their advantage and get to the basket and score a layup as easy as possible so you see that ball gets removed and both guys are live at this point really just counting the layups here our our one of our players does a great job of Getting By kind of getting skinny slippery and getting past that hip and then getting all the way to the other side of the rim for a layup so I'll play it in full speed right here to allow the full uh drill to take place great job by both guys sometimes you know we ask our guys not to contest heavily at The Rim to avoid injury especially in the summertime but the drill kind of serves his purpose if you react and you get in front then you stay in front but if somebody's in front of you we don't want anybody at The Rim getting hurt because you're jumping late or anything like that that's just something that we like to do in the summertime as we get closer to the season the demands of that will increase and then as we're in season it will then decrease again as games you know start to come around but here's the second rep of that two more guys step up and we like to do it with everybody bigs and guards because you know here a big may see this situation maybe twice in the game and they have to be prepared for it well if they see it more times in practice than they see in the game they become more comfortable with it so here two of our big guys are going one does a great job of cutting them off so he goes over top and gets that solution for a layup and you know before this we'll actually do a layup drill a blocked practice layup drill in which guys are getting different reverse finishes different floaters different uh same side hand finishes and then we go into this competitive part where now they have to find the solution on their own without us telling them not only is it working on driving angles and different finishes at The Rim or playing through contact but it's also working on unintended defensive recovery reps or unintended shot contest reps where you're working on not fing there are a lot of benefits to some of the drills that we have trying to do that create you know the repetition without repetition that that allows us to try to get better in this way so you know that's one of the one-on-one drills we do like I said there are there have been many different throughout the summer but you know know us trying to emphasize how important layups are in our offense we tried to get that that drill going at least one time a week as well as other variations of for your finishes do you have like you know these are the 12 that we use or you just give it kind of more generic same hand same foot two feet floater type of thing I don't I don't know if you're familiar with the Michigan State Daily dozen uh finishing routine that we have kind of brought over but there are six different finishes on both sides that kind of equal out to to 12 layups and there are overhand samide finish underhand samide finish uh inside hand reverse finish outside hand reverse finish uh kind of a slides shot and then a floater that we kind of go through that is kind of essentially our block practice layup now we go here into some of the three on three stuff and this is a drill that we we set up to kind of mimic a a short roll type action in which are bigs go through in the high school game right now something that that I feel like I'm starting to learn when you get to college is in high school bigs and guards do not see many ball screen different ball screen coverages for the most part there aren't a lot of true bigs in you know maybe public high schools or even the Catholic League high school or the private school uh High School leagues so if everybody's the same size most coaches are switching and they're just saying switch it and they play it out and you rarely as a guard or as a big have to see many different ball scen reps so then when they get to College they don't see that many different coverages therefore sometimes the first time they see it is in the game and the first time they were reacting to this coverage is the game preparation and in the game one of the things that we tried to do this summer is put guys in situations that allowed them to make decisions that they would have to do in the game before that situation arises this drill here is we have our first big live action starts on his movement and he has to dribble around the second cone I mean the first cone the second big has to run around the second cone in which we are creating action in which maybe that first big heads or defensive big heads you catch the ball on the short roll and now you have to make a decision somebody helps you make the pass the pass is made and now we're trying to play the advantage from there so here we give that first big the advantage and now it's his turn to make a decision he makes a quick decision here skips into the corner we get a one more pass he attacks the next close out and now we playing from there we're playing live from there so you know that's essentially us mimicking a short road or maybe even a zone or you know whatever what have you that gives our bigs the opportunity to be decision makers so the first time they see it won't be in a situation that's in the game against the heads but not only are we working on decision- making but how many times do our bigs have to drive at a curve a linear angle in which they're driving around on this cone or passing reps where they have to put the ball on time or On Target or a passing rep for a guard that has to make a one more pass but once again there's a lot of unintended defensive reps that come from working on this offense now you working on the scramble are you pill switching at The Rim we're allowing our defense to do whatever they want to talk through it where okay now you're going to scramble and that our our big man here is the one who kind of peeled out and got to this next pass where they didn't exit out the big man peeled out right so that's an unended defensive reps that allows us to get it so playing it full speed again working on this decision make here we get the next one you see if he would have kept going our big was there to seal I think we did a our our big started to get more and more comfortable with it so here they we switch he comes around get a high help he makes the pass to the top guard we get a one more we get a shot so working on definitely getting an advantage and keeping an advantage we're creating the advantage already through the drill now it's time for our big man to make this read so if we're talking about this big here that just made this pass like if you look at this angle here on this drive is this more effective to allow him to become a better ball handler than maybe a dribbling drill I don't know that's something that is to be seen when we get out there in game action however this dribble has to be effective because he has to keep his Advantage as well as make this pass so we're allowing him to create different angles with this dribble now he has to get two hands on the ball to make this pass pass now we have to have shot ready and a guy make a good one more pass everything's kind of coming that you want offensively through the drill so you don't necessarily have to talk about it or speak too much about it the drill creates the environment that you're looking for instead of being like hey this is how we're going to attack the short roll and doing it three on 0 over and over again put you in a short roll situation allow you to make decisions so maybe in this practice because this big who just made the pass is a freshman maybe in this practice he saw more repetitions of this right here than he ever did throughout high school because they never had so does that allow you to become a better basketball player quicker than just doing it on air or doing it one on0 or just watching film of it because I think we're all in this big we we kind of all have to speed up the time frame in which we develop individuals because of the transfer portal now and you truly don't know how long you're going to have a player so I kind of have to be a little bit better and a little bit more concise and a little bit more specific on how much quicker we can get you better because I don't know if I have time for you to see this in practice in live situation for three years and by the senior year you become really good at it you might have to be good at it by November or you might be the 11th man on the roster this year and could end up being fifth next year you could go from the third string to the starter in eight months are you prepared to make these decisions in eight months and I think that's something that we're all in in the quest of figuring out is how quickly we can get somebody better becomes it because it's becoming more important I love this drill we've done something similar to that for like Wing drives or when a guard breaks a perimeter but I've never thought about doing it for the short rle and obviously that's becoming more necessary in the way the teams are playing ball screen coverage and that kind of thing and putting the ball like you said in the hands of the big men and working on skill development while at the same time also developing decision making is extremely important and I just haven't done it out of that that uh alignment before so steal that one I think the alignment I think I might have stolen the alignment from you because it maybe whether it was your Twitter or you know what you can subscribe to that that you offer I saw it done on the wing and I'm like can we so I changed it to see if we could get the same thing awesome part part of our this day was attacking our coverage solution was attacking the Hedge and how can we attack the head so our 4 on4 breakdown was all against the Hedge out of our triggers well the three on three breakdown was how do we put you in this situation and in 10 minutes you might have been done 15 short row that could be an entire lifespan for you yeah BBE so I mean and that's something that we really tried to do is how can we create or recreate the entire life High School lifespan in eight weeks yeah you ultimately get better at it right so another rep here awesome just really just once again unintended defensive reps but also shooting reps and now guys have to be ready to shoot different spacings different attacks and now you can re-trigger and play a ball screen now it just becomes three on three on this point so like I think it's a lot of things that we did that allowed us to continue to uh get better and I feel like we did a great job of it throughout the summer guys became more and more comfortable here again another three Onre game that we played working out out of our initial transition spacing like maybe when the ball is advance to head to the wing what happens because we have a rim Runner and then we have two guys who feel the corner one trailer and then whoever initiates that break so now you toss it the guy who tosses it the defender who tosses it have to touch one cone and now you're creating either a middle drive or a Baseline Drive what Drive what does the big do on the middle Drive where are they going what does the big do on the Baseline Drive where are they going in that opposite corner guy are they creating a window or they drif into the Baseline it's something that I don't feel like that we did very well last year so we tried to recreate scenarios and how we could get better at it this year everything that we do is probably going to end up in our spacing our transition spacing so what happens when guys drive baseline or guys drive middle so here we have a Baseline Drive so we have big that circles to the front of the rim and because he circling is going to get the ball the opposite Wing guy here has is filling to the corner we create an advantage and now we're learning how to play the spacing out of that Advantage rather than just staying stationary we don't get it so now he turns it into a post up he makes a good move once again now we're doing it off a live dribble so now he touches the cone off a live dribble and we're creating reaction decision making reps turns into a baseline drive again circles middle he doesn't have it so he plays the other side and it just becomes three on three make a couple good passes into a shot now once again we've done it now we turn it into a big man drill now they get to make decisions maybe off of a trail drive or another short roll and now there's two corners field and they they have to make a decision on what comes I stunt and recover the opposite Wing doesn't help so he gets a dunk it's a unintended ball handling drill one it's an unintended unintended defensive drill again strong side stun recover stay strong side corner this backside Wing doesn't help so now next time without saying it or without having a drill defensively that teaches it you understand that if you don't want to get scored on and you don't want to get beat you have to help on the backside from the weak side and see if he can make that drift pass unintended because I'm putting you at a disadvantage defensively but I think by the end of the summer without even necessarily working on it we got better at it as a defensive culture and as passers and as dribblers from all different positions on the court so is this a better ball handling drill than maybe a two- ball drill I'm not sure I think that is yet to be seen and yet to be discovered for our basketball team and for the different players on our team however he is required to dribble and now make a decision on which way he has to go with this dribble when the defense touches this cone so he has to create the advantage for himself now he has to be ready to make a decision in which I don't know if he had ever gotten that opportunity in high school in a high school situation nor do I know if he'll ever get that opportunity in the game but maybe when something comes around and it's time for him to read the helps side he will be able to so I think this right here is is the drill that you have right where we have the wings do it once again now we're playing four on four PR of it we are working on our middle Drive Baseline Drive spacing so the guard the front guard first guard is allowed to go middle or Baseline whichever way he wants to and that triggers the spacing that our the rest of our guys have to get into so we have him now he chooses the middle Drive slot guys spaces to the wing Corner guys stay in the Deep corner and that big empties out he makes a good pass we get a one more we get a good shot once again unintended defensive reps here who are you guarding can you stunt and recover if you are this guy right here do you take away the outside edge of this pass it started happening organically because you don't want to get scored on and you want to give people the chance to get back he makes the one more pass now we get the shot here and I think you know you get unintended scrambles you become a better passing team just because you start to read situations now we get a Baseline Drive then we get a peel so on our Baseline Drive and our spacing we want the big to peel kind of to this elbow area here kind of big to pel to this elbow area here whoever is in the slot kind of kill cuts to the basket to take two with them so he does that we get an open shot and if he had this one more he could have easily made that one more to the wing but he chose his shot so once again we get a Baseline Drive you see the Baseline Drive the big pit kills we get a kill cut here now he makes that drop off pass and we get a layup I mean that's essentially without showing you know some of our other offensive triggers that I I I don't want to show here ear maybe we can revisit this at the end of the year let's say everything works the way it's supposed to and we can talk about how we kind of went through it but you know we did a lot of whether it was live action our players against our players or we did some stuff where it was just the players against the coaches where it wasn't necessarily live defense but it was different things to show you how you could come to different solutions based off how the defense is covering you with the same play right how does it work when they're you know turning it down when they're icing when they're weaking how does it work when they're in drop coverage how does it work when they're hedging how does it work when there's a switch it's the same thing but how does it work and how what are your Solutions and how are they different and at the end of the day it's all about creating an advantage and what does that look like when we create an advantage on a Baseline Drive what does it look like when we create an advantage on a middle Drive what does it look like when we make those one more passes and what does it look like when everybody is a decision maker on the court and I think that's something that we try to do a good job of it as I've talked to more coaches the ability of the coach to get in there and just adjust slightly I think sometimes when we think of like coaches jumping and it's like they're playing full speed and I don't know how you feel but I'm getting too old for that and so it's like throw that out completely and so now it's either on air or just live play but it doesn't have to be that it could be just simply you jumping in and adjusting an angle for a ball screen or something like that getting creative and how you just give them a different look uh the other thing that you were talking about that I'm I'm interested in hearing you talked a lot about the unintentional outcomes of some of these one is I I just wonder how did you feel like the mood of the players was when primarily practicing through these kinds of games versus Maybe the past where you did more of drill based on air stuff well especially when you're dealing with competitors and I think we have a good group of competitors they would rather compete than do things on air so they would rather compete against one anothers and have a winner and a loser one of the things essentially especially when you're trying one of these drills for the first time I'm showing you guys the the good Clips but there are some some messy ones in there where you first do it and they're like wait I the the advantage is so easy I'm getting a shot off of one pass well then the defense starts to get better and now you have to make more decisions and then it becomes a little bit more competitive so the the mood and the vibe in the gym was definitely higher and more a beat because it became more competitive and not because you don't want to lose and you don't want the other team to score you start thinking of different ways to stop them from scoring which makes them think of different ways that they have to score and it it became it became a very fun gym did it give you you as a coaching staff More film opportunities to teach through the play does that make sense yes definitely because now you have everything is competitive and everything's kind of liveaction so you can kind of teach all the time with every drill and practice so there's more clips for you to say this is good or this is something that we want to work on it definitely gives you more opportunity to uh have more film to give to a player so one of the things that you know I read Alex I can you pronounce his name Sama is that s yeah sama's book transforming basketball and one of the things that I loved in his Player Development section was when he talked about his pdps and actually putting it down and I think he had all of these on one sheet about how to go about it and I kind of created my my wife and I kind of created a different an actual sheet that we could fill out that I could fill out as a practitioner that allows me to fill in all of these different things uh from you know their position their height and weight personal background just understanding where they come from who their family members are do they have uh you know professional athletes in the family their socioeconomic background all of that I think ties into personality wise why somebody thinks the way they do is is kind of where they come from do they lack confidence because of maybe some personal history right you you kind of never know and I think understanding them as a person allows you to dive deeper as a player their individual constraint I know you know myself as a player presented with uh one leg shorter than the other and I did not know that until I played basketball professionally and I think once my legs even out there were some athletic gains that were made for me and and and some shooting Gams that were made for me that allowed me to become a stronger more balanced basketball player understanding limb length understanding maybe different um action capabilities in terms of ankle door deflection or hip mobility or vertical jump or change of Direction ability and how do you test all that and how do they present at first is it do they have great vertical a vertical leap is it only good when you test it is it good in the game actually does their HP Mobility allow them to create positions that you want them to create on the basketball court are they not a good Defender because they lack in a certain area that is constrained within their body or different action capabilities that they're not able to access that if you allow them to access and help them access you could get the best out of this certain player so you know what their intrinsic Dynamics their rate limiters it's not my idea it's it's his but I put it on paper because it allows me to hold myself accountable as a practitioner that works with players if I put it down right and I you look at there what he talks about anchors building blocks and growth areas if I put it on paper and I put their individual development plan on paper it allows me to hold myself accountable to do what I said I was going to do for them right and I think that's something in the past in my mind I always knew what I wanted to go in there and work out with I knew what people were struggling with but if it's it's not written down if you don't have it then you're kind of just guessing and I want kind of wanted to take the guessing game out of it for myself and bring myself a little bit more discipline for you know the players that I worked with because now there are about five or six guys who I have these individual development plans for so at the end of the year if it works out I can point exactly to what we did and how we were able to accomplish this also at the end of the year if it doesn't work out I can say well this didn't work and I can go back and change it but I can also be you know very fluid throughout the year and say okay maybe we didn't get to that part let's change it and let's move the part that we said we were going to work on to in the summer in the fall because we just didn't have the time in the summertime to do it you know for with practice with weights and then with the hours constraints that the NCA has we just couldn't get to that but we can get to it here and not only is it for the player but it's also for for myself and I think that that is mostly what what I wanted to get out of it is when I read his book and I was able to put this down on paper now I can be more disciplined and I can hold myself more accountable because I I I think players more often than not will follow you know where you want them to go if if you have a specific plan that allows them to see themselves getting better so that's essentially what I tried to put together it's really helped me and I think it's helped the guys that's worked through it