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[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Dominoes! Punish & Prevent! Subtle O! Margins! More!

ES's language has taken hold within the 🏀 Coaches Twitterrati with its colourful metaphors & analogies

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[Roberto Fois @CoachFois]

Zipper Action➡️ High Mid.Pick'n Roll
Hard Hedge➡️ Deep Roll with Shotters in both corners
"Messi Pass" -tnx @EfficientSauce -hit the Roller
🔍🔑 Micov that comes up from the corner "hitting" the Tag space while the Tag was busy with the roller
@CoachVear @RyanPannone

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

The breakdown @PGCbasketball kindly referenced today, for those who may be interested. 👀 at our Instagram for more comprehensive breakdowns of the concepts we’ve shared https://t.co/S80Cy8o9sn

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

With2⃣complimentary strokes of his marker Txus Vidoretta & @CB1939Canarias pens this #Picasso with each play acting as a ⚠️ (a deterrent to perform a certain coverage, in this case to cheat the cross screen) for the other. @PickAndPopNet STS options. More: https://t.co/rQDs1yEPpf

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Stuff Good Players Should Know by the OG Dick DeVenzio 🐐 was one of the first coaching books 🏀🧠📖 one of our head chefs 👨‍🍳 purchased many years ago - a great resource until lending it to a player, who, perhaps unsurprisingly, didn't return it 🤣

[PGC Basketball - Point Guard College @PGCbasketball]

5/ Speaking of Euro flavor, @EfficientSauce is one of the best follows on Twitter. Love this breakdown of a simple action/counter. Besides just posting sets they are challenging coaches to think the game differently.

[AKelly @andlankell]

@jackfrank_jjf After the game, KD called Collins the best at slipping screens in the league. Trae's gravity only enhances that quality. Really fun two man game when they have it cooking. Putting shooting around them is a no brainer.

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

John Collins : Master of the Run Roll https://t.co/zIEDs4r2d3

[Steve Jones @stevejones20]

This is such a great slip from John Collins.

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Checkout The Saucery for innovative, descriptive definitions of modern 🏀 techniques & tactics: https://t.co/3qxaqdgoYm Video exemplars & comprehensive breakdowns of the principles they portray can be found on our IG: https://t.co/VcKmcnGLjo

[Zach Welch @Z_Dubz26]

Now that I’m on winter break I’m enrolling myself in a self-prescribed basketball semester. This will include @LarryCoon’s CBA course, diving into some analytics projects I’ve had in the works, studying @EfficientSauce and @dictionarybball, and doing practice video sessions (1/2)

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Focuses particularly on Preventing and Punishing the Show

[Basketball Coach @bball_tips23]

Check out @EfficientSauce course on Coverage Solutions against Pick and Roll defense
https://t.co/BSWbhKghxW

[Josiah Maama @JosiahMaama]

@EfficientSauce Detail, unreal! Love your work @EfficientSauce

[Roberto Fois @CoachFois]

Cannot Use better terminology than this, from @EfficientSauce
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[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Frame 4, as 5 rolls clearly inside the paint (now supposing a Low Tag and x2High being in a Take Two, otherwise the kickback would have already been made v High Tag) 1 needs to Fill Behind to separate/stretch (Medieval Torture Rack) the Take Two= ⬆️ open, easier pass decision

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

From the diagram it appears to be a “Middle or Angle PNR (4 Ahead) with a Short Roll Hold (as opposed to a Cut and Slide or Wheel where 2 would cut and 1 would slide to the left corner) to Punish the Show.”

[Lason Perkins @CoachPerkins]

Is there a particular name for this action, other than 4 Corners PNR? @EfficientSauce @SlappinGlass @Franz_NanniBK @CoachFois @AlexJSarama

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Frames 2 and 3 described above. Frame 1 is a Diamond 💎 alignment. Frame 4 we’d recommend depicting a “Rounded Roll” to get sufficient E-W separation from x5 in Drops, while still getting a conducive roll angle to the hoop (“Punish the Drops”)

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Awesome to see the adoption of the Messi Pass terminology 🔥
For a comprehensive breakdown of the "Who," "What," "How," "Why," & "When" of the Messi & related options, see our clinic from ⏲️ 54:56
https://t.co/Wlt1GHTlJz

[Roberto Fois @CoachFois]

New “tutorial” Video: How to attack the Hard Hedge with @OlimpiaMI1936 l vs @valenciabasket in @EuroLeague

@CoachPerkins @SlappinGlass @HeadCoachesOrg @HarrConnor @the_BasketHead @franfraschilla @maslen_pierce @AlexJSarama @JimmieOakman @coachbtipton @coachkylebrown

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Great discretion shown here by Calathes employing the "Smurf" dribble. "Papa Smurf" is a tongue in cheek term for a rare version of "Smurf" employed by a big 🤣 Great clip @TheHiveScouting 🔥

[The Hive @TheHiveScouting]

After getting Calathes going downhill with the help of two middle screens (attention to the angle) he gets a switch on the "Papa Smurf" dribble (att @EfficientSauce). Great recognition by the whole team being patient and adapting to punish it.

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Great eg of what at ES we call a "B-Drive Boomerang" from our friend @Franz_NanniBK

📖 While employing a Boomerang to Punish the Switch, on the A to B pass, B makes a hard drive back in the direction of A

For the full definition & tactical implications:
https://t.co/3qxaqdgoYm

[Francesco Nanni @Franz_NanniBK]

An example of what I call "aggressive boomerang", where after the switch and the initial pass, the wing attacks the nail, forcing the defender to stunt and creating a closeout 1v1 instead of a static 1v1
I've wrote some stuff about boomerang actions here https://t.co/K8NJJGQyrM

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Efficient Sauce's @rossmcmains developing a Malleable Big- valued by GMs for flexibility in roster construction, & coaches in crafting 5-man unit options & strategic/tactical diversity
🏀 Headstart vs Gentleman's
🏀 Fast Roll
🏀 Pop (involved in PNR)
🏀 Relocations (not involved)

[DraftExpressContent @DXContent]

"Being a lob threat. Focusing on being good at playing in space... My jump shot is only gonna get better from where I'm at right now"

~ 6-9 + 21 y/o Daniel Oturu, who showed signs of shooting as a sophomore (36.5% of 52 3FGA)

@Mike_Schmitz report >> https://t.co/S8chWub3bt

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Great clip Coach! Here Arrive Alone compromises the Show, easing the short roll pass by creating space. Then good application of coverage solutions. Great to see our terminology has been of use 🔥🥫🏀

[Andreas Stavridis @stavridia11]

Smash to Arrive Alone (@EfficientSauce) versus the show and a double gap on the backside provide excellent spacing for @paobcgr to take advantage of the 3vs2.

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

Contextual Skills with @EfficientSauce @RossMcMains
🏀 Prevent the Push by Fight the Coverage (PNR set up)
🏀 Throw & Go Action with a North Angle
🏀 Isolate the Turtle 🐢 to Punish the Switch
🔥 Coaches separate themselves teaching the "Why?" & "When?" #GameApplication

[DraftExpressContent @DXContent]

"Just being able to be 100% [hip injury] being able to have my full range of motion, being able to work on everything without any pain day to day is just amazing," Tre Jones told @Mike_Schmitz after a recent workout at @P3sportscience in #SantaBarbara >> https://t.co/R1EsHMCrn7

[Francesco Nanni @Franz_NanniBK]

How Valencia effectively attacked Real's drop coverage?
Combining a cut to a pop action, according to the time of the cut this could be used to PREVENT the help on the pop (first clips) or to punish it (last 3 clips)
S/out to @EfficientSauce for the terminology 👨🏻‍🍳🍲

[Efficient Sauce @EfficientSauce]

A Snapshot of @Tre3Jones Pre-Draft Work. For the full version head to https://t.co/aWVZILWzaL
Exciting times ahead for Tre... the ACC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year for @DukeMBB , a relentless worker that is getting better by the day