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The JV high school basketball team I coach won by 1 point tonight on a bank half court shot at the buzzer. Truly ESPN Top 10 / movie worthy stuff. It was awesome. But there were still 4 seconds left when he shot it. So I told him after the post-game celebrations nice shot, but next time take it all the way to the rack.

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dude I’m coaching varsity at a tiny ass rural hs this year…played ball all my life but never coached…we just took a tough L in a winnable game tn — finding it so hard to teach teenagers discipline, truly humbling win or lose! peep this tho: https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/clips/ucl1663e066e91734753391951

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Who would have thought two high school basketball coaches here on Farcaster. That’s a great play by the shooter in the video, on a tough pass too. This is my second season coaching this team (mostly new players this year) and I love it. I don’t really focus on discipline as much as getting max effort and positive attitudes with everyone supporting their teammates. I like a winning effort in a loss better than a poor effort for a win, not that I would know much about the latter, we are not good enough to get many wins with poor efforts haha. We play tough defense with a full court press and 2-3 zone and push the ball on offense to try to score as much as possible in the fast break. I don’t teach offensive set. We don’t even have an inbounds play. I’d rather focus and get great at a very few things than try to do too much. It’s worked fairly well in 2 seasons.

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I love it too, super challenging! If it was easy it would be boring, right? what's funny is when I said discipline I meant the discipline to give max effort all four quarters. I've got a great group of sweet kids, super young for a proper varsity squad (half the team are sophomores), but all the fundamentals we work on in practice (boxing out, ball movement, cutting, etc) seem to go out the window when it's game time. They either go deer in the headlights or fall asleep on the basics. We run 2-3 zone too, which works well for the most part. Got some streaky shooters who can be lights out or ice cold depending on the night. We fall apart when pressed, give up turnovers leading to easy layups. There's stretches when they figure it all out & the game is beautiful, but those moments are fleeting. The mindset part is the hardest for me, no matter how much we talk about and work on what needs improving, it doesn't translate when it matters... Super cool to connect on FC! Would love to keep up the convo.

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Likewise great to connect and sounds like we are coaching the same team. Last year I started 2 games into the season, was delayed by getting the proper licensing, and first thing we worked on / top priority was press break because the first 2 games which I could only watch from the stands we could hardly get the ball over half court against a press, just like you said. This is the video I based our press break on and no matter who the ball goes into the key I emphasize is spacing and receivers. Spacing away from your teammates and away from defenders, and receivers as in being close enough to the guy with the ball to receive a solid pass with hands up and looking to help when ball handler is pressured tap, not just abandoning the dribbler. Ebbs and flows in execution but we’ve executed against far more athletic teams because it loads 4-5 in the backcourt where the other team usually has at least 1-2 not involved in the press protecting the basket. Also, Morgan Wootten’s book CBS has been my bible

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“sounds like we are coaching the same team” 😭😭😭 We started preseason games before we even had a full squad (half the team had to finish football/soccer szn before they could join practices). Been playing catch up ever since. Press break super crucial! I’ve had to emphasize V-cuts to actually get open pretty much everyday, since just moving away into open space allows good defenders to creep/hunt passing lanes. What video clip did u mention? Not seeing a link, curious to check it out. There’s SO MUCH coaching content on YouTube, I’ve def gotten lost down the rabbit hole a few times 😅

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