John Harmatuk's Documents

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    Tempo

    TEMPO: CAN YOU WIN PLAYING FAST? By: John Harmatuk I had a major philosophical crisis this summer. Can you win at the highest level playing up-tempo, fast-break basketball? Conventional wisdom says no; the proverbial “play the right way.” One of my coaching friends calls fast paced basketball “rat ball”, certainly not a glowing endorsement of the up-tempo game. I love up-tempo basketball. I teach full court man press and to take the first available shot we have in our scoring zones. The

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    Practice Philosophy

    GREAT PRACTICES My favorite pre-season activity is to observe other coaches practice. As a younger head coach, I spent several days observing Billy Gillespie at Texas A&M. The intensity in his practices is unparalleled. In fact, upon my return to school I commented to a football coach on our staff that their football practices were not as physical as Coach Gillespie’s basketball practices. That is not an understatement. In fact, I learned the intensity in my practices had to improve if I was g

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    Space and Attack Preview

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