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June 2, 2020 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Offense

Teaching and Getting Players to Remember Set Plays

I did a Zoom conference with Fontbonne Academy head coach Clare Murphy recently. Two seasons ago, my team played against Coach Murphy’s team in a game on New Year’s Eve. I remember the date because it…

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July 6, 2019 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Offense

Setting a Ball Screen in Read and React Offense

One of my greatest frustrations implementing the read and react offense last season was the reduced amount of ball screen opportunities. Ball screens are used at every level of basketball because they are complicated to defend.…

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November 15, 2018 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Offense

Villanova Ball Screen Actions

For reader discretion this write up on Villanova ball screen actions is based on watching them during one practice. My interpretations might not be one hundred percent accurate with what their coaching staff would endorse. Take…

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October 20, 2018October 20, 2018 Mark Schruender 2 Comments
  • Offense
  • Positionless Basketball
  • Practice Plans

How The Villanova Women Practice the Five-Out Offense

I had the opportunity to watch the Villanova Women’s practice for an hour. I can remember watching a Merrimack practice the year before in which they ran a series of five-out sets. After practice, their coach…

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July 13, 2018 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Merrimack College
  • Offense
  • Positionless Basketball

Extending Five-Out & Managing Individual Expectations

Both of these thoughts on five-out and managing individual expectations came from Merrimack Coach Monique LeBlanc. In a very productive conversation, we also discussed how to best measure rebounding and how she makes recruiting decisions. Five-Out…

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May 25, 2018 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • General
  • Offense
  • Shot Selection

How to Develop a Shot Fake Like Larry Bird

The key to develop a shot fake like Larry Bird is “ball up, butt sits,” Coach Randy Bennett of the AAU program Evolution told me this week. It is that simple. Coach Randy told me there…

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Best Basketball Articles
June 11, 2017 Chris Brablc No Comments
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5 Favorite Basketball Articles of the Week – June 11, 2017

Each week, there are a number of tremendous basketball articles on blogs, websites and elsewhere. As such, we wanted to capture of a few of our favorites each week and share on the blog. If you have…

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April 25, 2017May 17, 2017 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Bentley University
  • Defense
  • Offense
  • Transition

Transition Basketball Philosophy at Bentley University

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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March 30, 2017May 17, 2017 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Merrimack College
  • Offense

Takeaways from Merrimack College Women’s Program

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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Basketball Pivots
March 29, 2017May 17, 2017 Chris Brablc No Comments
  • Offense

Basketball Pivots: Should We Focus Only on the Left Pivot and Right Jab?

One of my favorite Youtube channels for basketball is by @CoachKroogs. He does a great job of scouring NBA clips and isolating key skills and moves that you can show your players. His voiceover work is…

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