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I haven't been to any practices at WSU, only pick-up scrimmages. If anyone has seen past prectices, maybe you've seen this drill that Tad Boyle ran in his first two weeks working with Colorado players:
your comment about "high energy hustle" reminded me of a story. I mentioned above that I attended the last practice Coach Boyle could conduct before the "dead period" or whatever it is called. He ran an absolutely amazing drill that I have never seen anywhere else.
Coach would position himself at mid-court. One player would dribble the ball down the court toward the basket (let's call it the North basket) and after crossing mid-court would charge full speed into a defender who took the charge and ended up on his butt. The player with the ball, would turn and roll the ball back toward the other end of the court (toward the South basket.) The player who took the charge, would pick himself up, run the length of the court and dive for the ball. When he retrieved it, he flipped it to the coach, picked himself up and ran full speed toward the North basket, getting the ball in an underhanded toss from the coach and dribble it toward the basket in an attempt to score. But he had to drive through two managers who beat the crap out of him with oversized pads the size of an umpire's chest protector. (The old fashioned ones.) So they are beating him over the head, across the back, on the butt while he is attempting to maintain control of the ball and take it to the hoop.
You cannot imagine the noise as the other players cheered him on, whooping and hollering and cheering when he scored. It was a high energy, total effort drill that combined great hustle with fighting through adversity!"
Does anybody know what Gregg's practices are like?
Coach would position himself at mid-court. One player would dribble the ball down the court toward the basket (let's call it the North basket) and after crossing mid-court would charge full speed into a defender who took the charge and ended up on his butt. The player with the ball, would turn and roll the ball back toward the other end of the court (toward the South basket.) The player who took the charge, would pick himself up, run the length of the court and dive for the ball. When he retrieved it, he flipped it to the coach, picked himself up and ran full speed toward the North basket, getting the ball in an underhanded toss from the coach and dribble it toward the basket in an attempt to score. But he had to drive through two managers who beat the crap out of him with oversized pads the size of an umpire's chest protector. (The old fashioned ones.) So they are beating him over the head, across the back, on the butt while he is attempting to maintain control of the ball and take it to the hoop.
You cannot imagine the noise as the other players cheered him on, whooping and hollering and cheering when he scored. It was a high energy, total effort drill that combined great hustle with fighting through adversity!"
Does anybody know what Gregg's practices are like?
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