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Brian McCormick
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- Iverson Loop. Game-winner. First saw EOS run this in Basket Ettan in 2013.
00:00 - Y’al think I’m crazy when I say children need to shoot with smaller balls, maybe you’ll listen to Ray Allen talk about his 12-year-old son’s shooting… Via @OldManAndThree
00:00 - Defensive agility game that I saw posted somewhere by a Japanese coach. 3 defenders guarding the 4 cones.
00:00 - Another simple drill that I’ve started to incorporate to start practices instead of a dynamic warmup.
00:00 - 4v3 no dribble shooting (ht @safalika) D-1 coach asked, “Do your guys always go this hard?” Yes. C: “Our guys hate this drill and never play this hard on defense.”
00:00 - In the USA, we’re adamant that 9 year olds can play on a 10’ basket with a men’s ball, but we’re not sure varsity players (15-18) can handle a 30 or 35 second shot clock, while in Europe I’m watching 13 year olds play with a size 6 ball with a 24-second shot clock.
- Here is an NBA player, maybe the best NBA player, warming up. If a HS or NCAA player had this much fun in warmups, his/her coach would get mad. Can he have fun because he is great or is he great because he has fun?We should’ve known Steph Curry was gonna go off when he made this during warmups 😩😩
- He just turned 20 & is destroying NBA players, but people are like Kentucky’s too young & inexperienced to beat a team led by a former D2 player.
- Basketball is expensive because parents choose the expensive path. Nobody plays "rec ball" at the local rec center or YMCA. They pay an ex-player to rebound for their kid so they're "training". Parents travel to every game. Teams play in big, new facilities. These are choices.Basketball has unofficially become an upper middle class & rich persons sport. It cost anywhere between $30-100 per hour to get a kid basketball training & to play on AAU teams can cost anywhere from $300-600 and that’s without travel, hotels, food, gas, new shoes, etc. Today
- If I shoot 34% from 3 & 50% from midrange, over 10 shots or 100, I will score more by shooting 3s. This is not controversial; it’s math. If I need to make one shot (I.e. a game-winner), I am more likely to make the midrange shot. It’s math, not rocket science.
