X’s & O’s of Basketball

Downloaded some great notes the other day which cover Bobby Knight's DVD on Practice Planning and Drills (notes created by coaches at S...

Flipping through some notes today and came across these zone offense nuggets from a Double Pump clinic with University of Pittsburgh head co...

The start of college basketball is upon us and it was great to take in a bunch of games. On friday night, I was able to watch a bunch of gam...

One of the reasons why I don't like playing a straight zone as a base and especially at the end of games is because it allows the offens...

If you are looking for a good continuity zone offense, probably the best one that I've come across is Bo Ryan's "X" zone o...

Notwithstanding another costly inbounds turnover late in the game, I thought the Nuggets played well in Game 3. The big difference was the e...

What an impressive performance by Michigan State last night in beating number one overall Louisville. As a coach, you can look at that win a...

The weekend was just a cornucopia of frenzy, intense excitment, excruciating moments of anticipation, disappointment, and euphoria -- that i...

You can tell things are starting to get serious with March Madness only a few weeks away. One of the most hottest teams in all of college ba...

What a day of upsets and close games. BC stunning UNC at Chapel Hill, Oregon State beating USC, Louisville and Kentucky going to the last sh...

From Friday night, I caught the college basketball game between the Texas and Stetson. With Stetson being the smaller, less athletic team, I...

From last night, I watched most of the Michigan game against a feisty Northeastern team at the Coaches for Cancer pre-season tournament. Wit...

If there was ever a time to scheme plays or design something specific on offense, it would definitely be on zone offense. There are a lot of...

Two terrific games at the Olympics today in Beijing. First, Spain with the gutsy win over Lithuania in the early game. Then Team USA beating...

When you have shooters, all your troubles just melt away. Watching the U18 FIBA Championships yesterday in a match between Team Greece and T...

It's been over a week since the last Phoenix Mercury game I watched and it seems they are still resigned to running their matchup zone d...

It was my first game of the year watching the defending champion Phoenix Mercury so far, and like their 4-7 record indicated, their play was...

From last night's WNBA game between the Washington Mystics and the Chicago Sky. For most of the game, both teams played tough M2M defens...