Don Showalter on Efficient Practices, Press Defenses, and Competitive Spirit { Team USA }
Inside the Episode: Don Showalter Coach Don Showalter spent 42 seasons as a High School Head Coach before transitioning to his current work with Team USA basketball, and we were fortunate to have the opportunity to sit down with him to discuss both of those worlds in this week’s newest Slappin’ Glass Podcast. Coach Showalter […]
Hedge and Under: A Primer
Hard Hedging, Switching, Icing, Trapping, Pin and Under… there are all sorts of ways to try and disrupt the advantages caused by a PNR. Today we’ll take a look at another PNR Coverage being utilized more frequently in Europe, the “Hedge and Under.” What is it? Simply defined, the “Hedge and Under” is an action […]
Frantz Massenat on PNR Progressions, The Art of Passing, and the Power of Basketball & Community {VL Pesaro}
Frantz Massenat: Inside the Episode One of the best ways that we’ve continued to find great guests for the Slappin’ Glass Podcast, are from recommendations by other coaches and players who’ve been generous enough to connect us with the guest. Thanks to current Wagner Assistant, Bobby Jordan, we were able to link up with current VL Pesaro […]
Rise of the Zones
Zone Defenses are not new, but with the recent March Madness success of teams like Syracuse, Oregon State, USC, Oklahoma State, and Oregon, along with NBA teams like the Hornets, Heat, and Jazz, AND a host of international teams at all levels, Zones are a worthy topic of discussion. From a plain vanilla 2-3 Zone, to a […]
Jay Bilas on Long-Term Vision, Zone Analytics, and Advancing the Game {ESPN}
Jay Bilas: Inside the Episode Like so many in our game, we’re big fans of former Duke Blue Devil and current ESPN analyst, Jay Bilas, and his extended knowledge of concepts both on and off the court. So, we were thrilled to have him as a guest on the podcast this week to discuss exactly […]
The Ghost Flare: A Primer
In our podcast last week with Fran Fraschilla he joked about the “Ghost Screen” becoming the next “America’s Play”, and with the utmost respect to the classic “shuffle screen to double-down”, he may be onto something. After continuing to see it run at a high rate across a variety of levels, we started to track the […]
John Mosley on Accountability, Incentives, and the UCLA High Post Offense {ELAC}
John Mosley: Inside the Episode If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch the newest season of Netflix’s hit series “Last Chance U”, we highly recommend it. Not only is it a terrific story about hope and redemption, but it also highlights one of the great coaches in our game, and this week’s guest on […]
“GET Action”: A Primer
Come and Get It This week on the Slappin’ Glass Podcast we had the pleasure of hosting Brown University Head Coach, Mike Martin. Coach Martin is highly regarded as one of the best young head coaches in the college game and we did our best to keep up with him as we explored topics of “forcing left” as […]
“Peel Switching”: A Primer
How We Got Here… We were fortunate to host Telekom Bonn and Angola National Team Head Coach, Will Voigt on the Slappin’ Glass Podcast, and it was an interview we looked forward to for months as it gave us an opportunity to examine the philosophy, rules, and rotations of the “Peel Switch” Defense for which […]
Creative Elbow Actions
Ratiopharm Ulm Head Coach, Jaka Lakovič, is widely considered one of the best young head coaches in the European game. He had a great playing career as a pro, and comes from the Igor Kokoškov coaching tree, who, if you’ve been a subscriber, know we’re big fans of as well. We spent the last couple of […]