Today I just want to give you something to think about.



(1) At half-time of your games why do you take your teams into the dressing room? What can you do in the dressing room that cannot be done on the court? If they want to visit the restroom that can be done. But have you ever kept a team in the dressing too long at half time "chewing" them out and it cause you to have a slow start in the 3rd quarter?



(2) Do you have the same player always inbound the ball in all inbound situations? When the University of Houston had their great Phi Slamma Jamma Team, this team of great athletes had a player come off the bench on all dead ball throw in situations to inbound the ball (I think his name was Reid Gettys). Why not have the same player inbound the ball in ALL situations. Make him a specialist.



(3) Do you chart your defense? or just your offense?



(4) I'm sure you all have or considered using this tactic. At the start of the 3rd quarter line three of your players up under the opponents basket. Have your inbounder inbound the ball to your point guard in hopes that the defense is guarding their own basket. I'M SURE YOU'VE DONE IT OR THOUGHT ABOUT IT. Here is what we are going to do this season. And I don't care if our opponents know this or not. In fact the more that know about it the better it will work.

HERE WE GO: Start of the 3rd Quarter Our Ball. WE WILL LINE IN THIS WRONG FASHION EVERYTIME!!!!!!!!!! I know what you are going to say. If you do it everytime then no one will fall for it. That is right until the ONE (or two times) time we line up at the right basket and being the good coach the opponent has his team prepared for our lining up at the wrong basket. So they go to the opposite basket than we do. And we get an easy score.



Give me some feedback.





Best Swishes,



Larry Jackson

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