The Prevalence of the Ball Screen

Years ago, Chuck Daly held a clinic and for 90 minutes the former Detroit Pistons coach explained how to run and defend one of the fundamental plays in college basketball.

In the audience, Northwestern coach Bill Carmody sat and listened.

Daly explained nine ways to defend the pick-and-roll, from sliding under the screen to hedging the screen to different ways to force the ball-handler into a trap or away from the screen.

“After the hour-and-a-half, he said, ‘And you know what? None of them work,’” Carmody recalled

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It is about that time of year...

"I work 18 hours a day during the football season. I don't own a mountain cabin. I believe that a successful coach must be totally dedicated. I don't even play golf. If I don't give this job 99 percent, I'm a dead coach." - John Madden

Wooden on Competitive Greatness

"For more than half a century I have defined Competitive Greatness as follows: 'A real love for the hard battle, knowing it offers the opportunity to be at your best when your best is required.'"
- John Wooden

Leadership From The Bottom-Up

"I think that there is one really fundamental military truth.  And that's that you can add up the correlation of forces, you can look at the number of tanks, you can look at the number of airplanes, you can look at all these factors of military might and put them together.  But unless the soldier on the ground, or the airman in the air, has the will to win, has the strength of character to go into battle, believes that his cause is just, and has the support of his country...all the rest of that stuff is irrelevant."

-General Norman Schwarzkopf