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@TweetsbyCoachP Yes, I think when you are coaching a team that is just now becoming a good program. A close loss to a good team can often teach the team that EVERY possessions matters and teach you to win, whereas if you win, you can tend to overlook a poss. or 2 until it bites you in the end.

Coaches: do you think you can learn somethings in a loss that you simply cannot in a win? Why or why not?

@LoveTheOrange1 I know you’re using Twitter Bron fan logic here But 2 disagrees. Cavs being B while Bulls being C. Bulls won more games them piston years. Both C or B IMO. LeBron 2015 team is a D-C cause they lost Kyrie and Love. For me, only equal/better loss is ‘11

MJs teams that played Boston in the 80’s were a D- team playing an A+ team. MJs team that played Detroit in the late 80’s were a C team playing an A team. Yea that includes Pippen ascension. At that point he was just a B level or B+ at best. He wasn’t the Pip you dudes say he was. His peak Pip was an A player. No better than Wade or AD and Kyrie in the playoffs was an A player of not better. MJs comp in the 90’s Finals were all A teams while the Bulls were A+. Idgaf what you think. We who know fucking know this. Injured Lakers may be the only B+. And it’s you bums that think that Bulls team couldn’t beat the KD warriors so the can’t be A++ by your own lenses for it LeBrons first finals team was a B team playing the Spurs A+ team. A mostly healthy finals team is a damn good squad and having the guy you say is the Goat should assure the A level of they made the finals His Heat team was an A+ team when he lost to an A- Dallas roster His years vs the Warriors he had an A team playing an A team. The Dray suspension dropped that grade for a pivotal game. with the KD years being A++. Pre KD was not A+. 73-9 losing a finals isn’t an A+. His 2020 Lakers were an A team playing a C level at best Heat In all situations LeBron had better teams when he lost and equally good teams when he won. It’s you dudes who say MJ played bums so you’re the ones discounting that teams power. Its clear MJ lost to better teams with lesser rosters and Lebron had better teams losing to mostly equal comp outside of KD GSW and im telling you the MJ Bulls peak aren’t a betting loser to them. I’m even using your arguments here.

Not our best execution examples but I didn’t feel like searching through games. My favorite set. We get every option MULTIPLE times a year. Favorite is to curl the STS and then throw and go. A LOT of options.

We are looking forward to the future of Hamilton Girls Basketball.

@WestwoodMesa @CoachEliBurk Into the head coach spot! Congrats coach! Can’t wait to see what you do🤝🫡@CoachEliBurk

Westwood High School is excited to announce the hiring of Eli Burk as our new Boys Basketball Coach. Coach Burk comes to Westwood with years of experience at the college level! With time at Benedictine, OKU and most recently GCC, he is ready to take our Warriors to the next level

We watched prime Kevin Garnett and now they want us to be excited about Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid or whatever… 35 points 20 rebounds 7 assists 15/21 shooting No spacing, no TikTok highlights, no “load management.”

@TweetsbyCoachP Assists per game in basketball. Some teams simply score the ball off the bounce.

This is freaking awesome Usually all we see is watered down, censored content, in the huddle THIS is real Dusty May is a Ball Coach

1 of the first things I learned in college as a guard. We ran a dribble drive and coach said two things can’t happen. “Can’t miss a layup short and you can’t get blocked.” Goal was to make or get it to the other side for the big to clean up. Love seeing this in the gameplan.

“I feel sad, I’m sad. If you want to know the truth, I’m sad… I’m going to steal a quote from Kelvin Sampson: ‘I may not be as big a part of their life, but they are my life.’” An emotional Brad Underwood after their loss to UConn.

I’ve listened to this about 10 times and it hits hard cause I now understand it as a coach. I understand my college coach’s love, cause I pour that same love in to the girls I coach. Coach love is a special kind of bond and love🫡

"I don't have to be their life, but they are my life." Kelvin Sampson talks on the importance of not taking a break to make sure his players are taken care of for the next step in their lives. ❤️

Houston / Illinois (Houston) The undisputed King of the S16 games with the 4th and 6th best teams in KenPom facing off in a quasi-home game for the Cougs in Houston. Also the most fascinating schematic matchup of the Thurs/Fri games As I alluded to in a previous post, I can make a decent argument that Illinois may be the single worst matchup, especially offensively, for a Houston defense that has played exceptionally poor for their standards against top competition (3rd best defense falls to 45th vs T25 teams). If your team possesses any of the following, you are pretty much DOA against the Cougs: Rim reliance, transition reliance, dribble-heavy shot diet, lack of perimeter shooting, poor defensive rebounding, and don't protect the ball offensively Illinois doesn’t fall into ANY of those categories, and actually, they tend to excel in most of them. This iteration of Illinois plays much slower and is happy to entertain a half court, execution-based game. They’re 15th nationally in 3PRate, Top 10 in allowing turnovers offensively, and are even shooting 35% from the arc (which was their issue last year). They also have 3 different guys who can lead/initiate offense to alleviate some of that up-the-line pressure concerns, as well as being the biggest team in the country and an elite 2-way rebounding frontcourt. If you can keep Houston off the offensive glass, prevent them from creating live ball turnovers, and force them to play in the half court, you have as good a chance as anybody to beat that physical juggernaut. Illinois has the best 5-out spacing in the country to stress that Houston no-middle overload, in addition to having highly skilled bigs who are above average passers playing out of the short roll, while also having 3 ball handlers Go back and look at the way Illinois picked apart Nebraska's aggressive post doubles. While obviously a different caliber of athlete b/w Corn and the Cougs, Mirk was slowly backing down with his head swiveled like a Serbian Owl and MAX-baiting the double team in order to spray it crosscourt to an open weakside shooter. Can implement the same gameplan here with the auto Houston Monster double team on post-ups. The Illini don’t possess as many advantages defensively as Houston is more than willing to jack a ton of the contested, midrange jumpers that Illinois’ drop coverage will inevitably funnel them into. Which means A LOT of Houston’s offense will come down to Flemings/Uzan/Sharp midrange shotmaking. The efficiency fall-off for Flemings down the stretch of the season wasn’t as stark as I was expecting (only a couple % difference in true shooting), and if you look at his KP page, you’ll actually see the usage tick up against Tier A/B competition and again vs Tier A. Which means he's probably the single most important piece of Houston's offense in this game and could have the upside to score upwards of 25+. He just has to hit his shots. One of my issues with Illinois comes down to Underwood himself. While I certainly commend his adaptable scheme changes year-to-year, he has also not been a very good in-game manager at times, so what happens if they come out with the wrong gameplan akin to 'let's challenge Clingan early' (we saw how that went). That lack of in-game X's & O's management means Houston has the potential to jump on them early and never let up. I think Houston is also much more capable to mount a comeback with their style of play should Illinois get up early. Illinois is also 348th in Paper Tiger and both teams are outside the T300 in results consistency per Haslam, so that makes things a bit tougher to gauge. There aren't any drastic fall-offs with Illinois' analytics against top tiers but the rebounding numbers aren't quiteee as elite. In 13 games vs T25 teams, opponents shot 34.4% from 3 compared to 31% (35th nationally) Best guess is the venue location means Cougs take money for the majority of the next couple days, which is when I'll probably look to play back on Illinois. This won't be as hostile of an environment as Mackey or Breslin were, but Illinois did have a very soft road schedule in B10 play. Columbus was the toughest place they played at other than those 2 as well as Pinnacle Bank in Lincoln. FWIW, Houston is also the type of team where even the greatest schematic advantages can be tossed to the wind if that defense comes out connected & locked in, so it could all be for naught. I RARELY find myself in the business of stepping in front of Kelvin Sampson, but this does feel like the single best offense left in the tourney to matchup against that vaunted Houston defensive pressure. One last thing. Yes, Torvik's 'close games' stat can be used as a way to identify late game luck/variance for SOME teams. But when programs consistently win a high % of close games, that is something I tend to buy. Prior to this year, Houston was 21-10 S/U in games decided by 2 possessions or less. This year, what's been our worry with Houston? Amongst other nitpicky stuff is the fact that this is the youngest Cougs team under Sampson I can remember in a while. Houston this year is 3-4 in close games. While obviously a small sample, I also think there is something to Houston being slightly less bulletproof in close games this year. Looking at betting: >Illinois +points at better number later in week. Points will be worth a lot in this low possession game >Mirk assists over (likely have to wait til day of) >Flemings o17.5 points (think alts somewhat in play as well). Wish there was a littleee better scoring floor from the FT line, but Illinois just doesn't foul so you'll need him to get hot on tough shots & likely against Boswell. Not my favorite but his pull-up game is definitely Houston's best path to offense >Tomi/Mirk over 3Pointers, probably Sharp as well >Initially thought about an 'efficiency-based' over as both offenses can take advantage of the types of shots the other defenses allow. I'm also not really a totals guy fwiw and if there isn't good shotmaking in this one, we could be staring at a 64-62 game in the low 60's possessions so I'll probably pass on that

“You guys make it about the wins and losses. 25 years from now, I want them to pick up the phone and call me because they need me. I’m there for them.” The life of a coach is an investment in people, not just points. Build a legacy that outlasts the jersey.

Must Add Action Lakers: “Bunch Touch Step” Haven’t seen the bunch formation flow into touch.. filthy.

Jj is a sick man for this

@CoachT_2 That Marlon? Lol if so doesn’t surprise me that he hit that.

The first semester we lost a game because I didn’t have a good SLOB play ready. Went to Cleveland State practice in January and seen them practicing late game situations. So we started practicing this play a couple times a week. It worked even then Zay didn’t set the screen lol