Joe Griffin

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Starting a new series: Best Nuggets From Coaching Books 📚 The first one comes from Dean Smith & Bob Spear’s Basketball: Multiple Offense and Defense. Dean Smith believed: “Defense dictates the game.” His example was that coaches can’t say, “Tonight we’ll run a zone offense,” because the defense decides whether it’s man or zone. But a defense can say, “Tonight we’ll press man-to-man.” Defense takes the initiative. Several years ago, one page in particular in this book flipped my stubborn view on multiple defenses. Smith compared defenses to a pitcher’s repertoire — no one survives with just one fastball. Great pitchers change speeds, change angles, keep hitters off balance. Dean believed defenses should work the same way. If you only have one defense, the offense is in the driver’s seat. They know what’s coming, they can script for it, and eventually they’ll find cracks. But when you have multiple defenses, and you control when and how to use them, you stay in the driver’s seat. You dictate the terms of the game. That one idea changed how I thought about schemes, scouting, and preparation. We don't have 16 different defenses like Dean Smith, but we certainly adjust and change a lot more than I used to - flexibility dictates.

Every player and every parent of a college athlete needs to listen to this!!! Securing the bag is one thing but life lessons are priceless !!!

The rise in Achilles injuries in the NBA might be a result of this 👀 Paul Pierce: “KG made an interesting point … ‘They don’t practice no more.’”

This post is endorsed by every preps writer I know. Can we make posting rosters standard?