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🥇 Best of the Week I love screen-the-screener BLOBs because they can stress the defense inside and out, as well as the front and back side of the rim:

Matt Hackenberg

@CoachHackGO

Screen-the-Screener BLOBs require the defense to navigate consecutive screens AND present both inside and outside options
Here's 7 different styles
1 | A twist on the classic STS action by Coach Sampson, sending the scoring option to the back side

11:1 AM • May 22, 2026

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PG - 🏀 How Richard Pitino steals BUCKETS with slip screens:

SG - 🏀 I always keep a "brush up" defense drill to catch up on all the small details of defense... it's a nice change of pace from however you teach team defense (for me, that is Shell Drill):

Hardwood Texas

@hardwoodtexas

"7 Point Drill"
Defensive fundamentals worked through a gauntlet into live 1v1

1:20 PM • May 25, 2026

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SF - 🏀 x5 is the guy to attack in a 2-3 zone, and there's many ways to do it:

Matt Hackenberg

@CoachHackGO

Attacking 2-3 zone...
🏀 Flash both elbows
🏀 Hit one to engage x5
🏀 Dive the the other

1:4 PM • May 24, 2026

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PF - 🏀 The 1-2-2 “Red” Zone Defense That Creates Offense:

C - 🏀 I wrote the foreword for Hunter Price's new book "Care to Compete." Pre-order copies are available now!

Hunter Price

@CoachHPrice

Why did I reach out to @CoachHackGO to write the foreword for my book?
That’s a great question. I considered a few college coaches. I felt like that would pop. 
But after thinking on it. I wanted someone that embodied the plight of a high school coach. He is a guy that worked

11:24 PM • May 23, 2026

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🏀 Building a Lockdown Defense with Mike Jagacki

🏀 17 ideas to promote your program on social media

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The Lost Art of Program Building | Randy Montgomery, 600+ Game Winner
Upcoming: BBall Breakdown, Brian McCormick

💪🏼 What am I working on? Prepping the final guide from Coach Misky on a 1-3-1 BLOB Defense System... Live streaming... Studying Hall of Fame Coaches and how they operate as tacticians (will release Zone Offense first, then BLOBs)... Continuing to work on the Bucky McMillan pressing system, a modern defensive strategies guide...

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So my Cavs got absolutely dog-walked in the Eastern Conference Finals.

And while that hurts to say out loud, I’m still trying to keep perspective - there were only four teams left standing in the entire NBA, and Cleveland was one of them.

But it also feels pretty clear this version of the team may have hit its ceiling.

Donovan Mitchell hasn’t looked like “Spida,” the defensive issues (James Harden being old and not trying most of the time) have been impossible to ignore, and when you combine that with contract pressure and coaching questions, it feels like major changes are coming.

That’s the reality of the NBA: windows close fast, expectations rise even faster, and eventually hard decisions have to be made.

Maybe the King will return for one last run in The Land?

Have a great week!

-Coach Hack

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