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Message: [QUOTE="NineOneSeven, post: 2446404, member: 871"] Excellent post RF. Incredibly detailed- much more than I was even hoping for! I noted a few of your points that I will comment on. 1. Would love to see where each player is practicing shots from-- this has definitely not translated to games for most of the players. 2. Fast breaks are DEFINITELY not translating to games. Pretty typical drill though, often called 3 on 2, 2 on 1. The naming obviously is backed up by the drill. I always liked this one when I played. 3. A big part of limited depth is not only noticeable in games, but in practice. Walk-ons are incredibly underappreciated and important parts of a team, but you can't over-estimate how beneficial scrimmages are when you have guys of equal talent battling against each other. I think that is what made our 11-12 team so great- one of the teams was MCW, Dion, Southerland, Fair and Keita! WOW! Look at the dream team documentary- the practices those guys had were more intense than the games! 4. Also a very common drill used for foul shooting. It's impossible to replicate game pressure obviously, but learning to shoot while tired is very important especially with our team. Overall, seems like a lot of conditioning takes place which makes sense since we have three guys going close to 40 each game. I still believe we should try to place a little more emphasis on drawing up specific plays to execute. There are absolutely sets that we run during a 40 minute game, but when we have timeouts on the floor and come out and next "play" take a contested 25 footer with 4 seconds on the shot-clock, I have a hard time saying we can't get better at this. I would love to see more back screens, low post screens for guys to curl off, and less high ball screens. Thanks for the write-up! [/QUOTE]

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