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NCAA Women's Basketball Coaching: Why Developing Expertise At Mid-Majors Is Best For The Game
Brian McCormick, author of Cross Over: The New Model of Youth Basketball Development who writes at Brian McCormick Basketball (developyourbballiq.com), is an experienced coach and development expert whose basketball insights about everything from youth development to point guard play are valuable...
Interpersonal chemistry and women's basketball: Are there gender differences?
In the process of writing yesterday's piece about what Brian Agler does for the Seattle Storm -- and quite honestly, my argument for why he is a strong candidate for coach of the year -- I stumbled across quotes about "managing" a team vs. "establishing relationships" with players. NBA coach Phil...
So much for the "Gilbert Arenas will have the ball in his hands all the time" offense
This is a couple days old, but I've been swamped with SBNation.com stuff, so I missed it until now. Needless to say, this is a really, really interesting quote from Flip Saunders (emphasis mine). Saunders made the odd move of inserting a new two-guard offense with three weeks left in the season,...
The Wizards' new offense is working. Why didn't we see it earlier?
If you've watched the Wizards' offensive sets in recent games closely, you might notice that they look, well, a little different. That's because Flip Saunders put in what he's calling a "new offense." No mark Hawk plays or Hawk cuts. No more of the point guard controlling the ball 80 percent of...
Coaches, GM scold Wizards players for winning game
WASHINGTON - In a season where nothing has gone according to plan, things took yet another unexpected turn last night. After snapping a 16-game losing streak in a win against the Hornets, Wizards players were admonished by coaches and general manager Ernie Grunfeld for winning what Grunfeld...
Liberty's Anne Donovan on Coaching Opportunities: "I've had some women that have stepped to the plate"
Since basketball legend Nancy Lieberman was hired as coach of the NBA D-League's Dallas affiliate, there has been talk about the "woman-coaches-a-mens'-pro-team angle" that will only increase once she actually starts coaching, win or lose. Can a woman successfully coach a men's team? Can a woman...
Flip Saunders deserves blame for the on-court selfishness, but the GM deserves more
There's been a lot of talk recently about the Wizards' on-court selfishness. As John Hollinger noted in his midseason disappointments column, the Wizards are currently 29th in the league in assist rate. Less than half of our baskets are assisted, which is a pretty staggering statistic. These...
Pregame discussion: Who deserves what percentage of the blame pie?
As a precursor to tonight's game thread for the Memphis game, I wanted to gage the community's opinion on who is to blame for the Wizards' slow start. Let's assume that you have a pie that you need to split three ways. The three sections must accurately mirror who you believe deserves blame for...
Smoke and mirrors: Flip Saunders wants Gilbert Arenas to play more up-tempo
I missed practice yesterday, but according to Michael Lee, Flip Saunders had a message for Gilbert Arenas. "We haven't had as much of a thrust with the ball," Saunders said. "We want [Arenas]to be aggressive with the ball, whether it's scoring or distributing, but we cannot walk the ball up the...
Can we not jump to conclusions about Gilbert Arenas' relationship with Flip Saunders after seven games?
We all know that sportswriters do a lot of writing these days. Feature stories, blogs, Tweets, video, etc. Not to mention that there are ... um ... fewer of them with the industry struggling. The only problem is that there isn't more time in the day for all these articles to be written, so...
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