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MIT Coach Sonia Raman spoke about the dribble drive offense at last month’s Coach’s Classroom at Merrimack College. She immediately cited Vance Walberg who is credited for creating this scheme while working with John Calipari at…
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I, along with fellow site blogger Chris, recently went to a Coaches Classroom put on by the WBCA at Merrimack College. Thanks to the Merrimack Girls Basketball Staff of Monique Leblanc and Heather Stec for organizing and…
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I had the opportunity to listen to Quinnipiac Associate Head Coach Mountain MacGillivray (@QUCoachMT) give a talk on their five in and five out substitution pattern at the WBCA Coaches Classroom this past week. The concept…
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I sat down with Matt Willis who is the girls coach at Amesbury High School a little over a week ago. Matt and the Amesbury girls team had a historically great season with a Cape Ann…
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The Bentley Falcons women’s basketball program has been to 33 Division II tournaments – more than any other team in the country. I reached out to the coaching staff and Associate Head Coach C White was…
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I had the opportunity to speak with Merrimack head coach Monique Leblanc and her assistant coach Heather Stec last week for about an hour. I have attended Merrimack practices for the past four seasons and have…
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For virtually my entire coaching career I have had my teams play a 2-3 zone on baseline out of bounds plays (BLOBs) for two reasons. So many gimmick plays are designed to get players to the…
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