🏀 Northern Kentucky head coach Darrin Horn teaches the basics of NKU's very aggressive "Fist" defense including why they teach their defenders to play with an open stance.
BEST FOODS TO EAT BY TIME OF DAY:
1. Morning — eggs and fruit for energy
2. Mid-morning — yogurt or nuts
3. Lunch — protein with rice or potatoes
4. Afternoon — bananas for stable energy
5. Pre-workout — oats or rice cakes
6. Post-workout — protein and carbs fast
7. Dinner — protein and vegetables
8. Late night — avoid heavy junk food
9. Before bed — magnesium-rich foods help sleep
Your body responds differently depending on timing.
Everyone knows "walking" lowers cortisol.
But walking is not the only tool.
Here are 8 unconventional — yet powerful — ways to lower cortisol that nobody talks about.
1. Hum for 60 seconds.
Drive & Kick isn't about getting a paint touch every time.
It's about knowing what to do when you DON'T get one.
Bounce out. Retreat dribble. Create a new advantage.
Want our complete decision-making framework? Check out the System Basketball Community.
Tiago Splitter & ATO Plays featuring PnR Concepts from 2025-26' Portland Trail Blazers
I) Pistol Slip, Chicago into Spain Continuity
b) Pistol Slip
II) Horns out to Roll Replace
b) Rocket to Chicago Continuity
c) Stampede to Next, High Gortat
III) Short Roll, Spray against Blitz
IV) Iverson Peja
V) Weave
🔥Gonzaga’s Secret Weapon That Crushed Kentucky… Worked 6 TIMES in 12 Minutes!
If you coach basketball at any level, you NEED to see this. Gonzaga ran one simple 1-4 High Iverson set over and over in the clutch — and it was basically unstoppable. Easy buckets, perfect reads, and total defensive confusion.
Watch how they turned one action into layups, lobs, pops, and kick-outs… all while Kentucky had no answer. This is coaching gold — simple, high-IQ basketball that wins games.
Full breakdown here 👇
https://t.co/SIHcJAGbUH
Drop a 🔥 if you’re stealing this for your playbook!
Coaches — what’s your go-to late-game set? Comment below!
#FOCUSED #GetBetterEveryDay
Shift from "Me" to "We"—when the focus is on everyone, effort multiplies. Lead by creating value through selflessness: draw the defense and pass to lift your teammates up.
That’s how you foster the contagious joy that keeps a team motivated to win. 🧠
#WeOverMe@BallisPsych
Love this
“No switch” drill
What you rep you perfect
Don’t get mad at your guards for how they defend ball screens, and then never work on it
Foot work, effort, keeping them out of the paint
Great stuff
(Via @CoachRoryP 🎥)
Hey athletes…
Want to have the BIGGEST summer transformation ever?
Save this list & do these things. You’ll be a different person by September!
GO:
1. Max-sprints 2-3x per week
2. Max-jumps 2-3x per week
3. Lift heavy weights
4. Lift light weights fast
5. Lift heavy weights fast
6. Throw med balls diversely
7. React to real athletes at full speed
8. Eat properly
Curt Cignetti on his program's philosophy on how not to be average:
🎭 Average is a decision disguised as a default. Make standards visible, measurable, and non-negotiable. Because what you tolerate becomes your identity.
🤝 Most people negotiate with the work; elite teams eliminate the negotiation. The gap isn’t talent, it’s the daily refusal to accept “good enough” in reps, details, and accountability.
🧱 You don’t rise above average in big moments, you escape it in small ones. Every meeting, drill, and conversation is either reinforcing the standard, or quietly lowering it.
Alabama’s practice court
4pt line = don’t hug the 3 pt line & spacing
Blocks outside the 4 point line = “Houston spots”for spacing
Corner rectangles = transition & staying wide
Dotted line = shrinking the floor defensively
Larger box = no catch zone defensively
Smaller box = dunker spot
@nate_oats@AlabamaMBB
40 7th grade girls learning to RDL in just under 20 minutes.
Watch this whole video.
Feet under hips
Calves on bench
Break at the knee
Flat tight back
Butt back until hammies stop you
Bar touching all the way down and up
Or bar touching head, t spine, and rear
Then real RDL
Rick Majerus told his players in the offseason to “be back-doored all summer.”
1. Deny every pass (ear to chest, maintain vision of the ball, crack of your back toward the ball).
2. On the catch, make offensive players put the ball on the floor. The hardest thing to guard is staying in front of the ball.
“I don’t care if the offensive player is a non-shooter — play one arm’s length away as though he is the greatest shooter in the game. Nose on chest, and level that dribbler off.”
#MondayWithMajerus