The SHORT ROLL as a life insurance for shooting teams
Learn more about all the ins and outs of the "short roll". When opponents try to take away shooting options out the PNR, the short roll is your escape!
The Gortat screen
The Pick-and-Roll situation is indisputably a key to any game at the highest level. Within a single game, teams use different coverages to stop this two-men action. Consequently, the best coaches prepare different counters to punish the different defenses. The…
The art of FENCING 🤺 to protect the low post
Learn more about how to stop the most dominant centers without a trap. The fencing technique takes away the most important strengths on the low post without leaving any shooters wide open.
Europe’s best concepts after an offensive rebound
Last Euroleague season, teams averaged around 10 offensive rebounds per game. Even when more than half of them ends in a put-back, it’s easy to understand that it pays off to have a plan for these extra possessions of 14…
How analytics lead to winning playcalls
In today’s article I highlight how analytics helped Real Madrid to be successful in the Euroleague. After a rough start of the season, the mathematics behind the game whispered the winning playcall in Coach Laso’s ear! Ever since I spent…
The Sweet Spot in any offense
Welcome back to join me on my the quest for THE ultimate analytics cypher that has the biggest impact on winning games. Can analytics make you win games? I say YES! In my previous article I showed how the effective…
Spacing secrets by one of Europe’s coaching 🐐’s
Good afternoon! Every disadvantage has its advantage. This Covid-19 crisis leaves us with some extra time to study the game. Today I want to dig in some of the spacing concepts by one of Europe's coaching GOATs, Željko Obradović (9x EuroLeague…