⛹🏽TSF 110: Feeling the Love


What’s up, internet basketball junkie?

First off - thank you for all the birthday love this week. I officially crossed into the “veteran minimum” years of life, and your messages made me feel a lot less creaky than I probably should. Seriously… I appreciate every single one of you.

Now onto something Coach Kramer and I are fired up about.

We’ve been back in the studio grinding, filming new supplemental video features to elevate a few of our products. These upgrades add clarity, real-game examples, and deeper understanding - basically the exact stuff coaches kept asking for.

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SG - 🔢 What metrics indicate winning? I can boil most games down to these stats:

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SF - 📕 Here's a great general zone offense principle from "The Encyclopedia of Zone Offense"

PF - 📋 Is your team serious about rebounding or nah? #5 on Coach Crean's list is the one that stands out to me... Pursuing the ball even when it's inconvenient is a great trait for successful rebounding:

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Christmas break is always a weird stretch for basketball teams. Your whole routine gets thrown into a blender.

Kids start sleeping in, practices get bumped into odd time slots, and everyone’s living off a steady diet of sugar cookies, leftover ham, and whatever they grabbed from Aunt Linda’s dessert table. Structure goes out the window fast.

And as coaches, we all know what that means: energy can dip, execution can slide, and the focus you built through the early season suddenly feels a little… wobbly.

Holiday break is a blessing and a challenge at the same time.

So if you’re navigating the chaos right now, just know every coach in America is right there with you.

Have a great week!

-Coach Hack

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