How To Win With Less Talent? Will Voigt — Angolan National Team Coach

Transcendent Themes

How can your team be special?

• What can you be the best at your conference at?
• Give yourself a chance in your league.
• How do we as the Nigerian national team, be in the game vs Spain in the final 2 minutes?
• You want to CREATE not EMULATE.

How is your culture unique to your team?

• What do you have with your team that nobody else has?
• Maybe it’s a drill, a team outing,
• All Blacks NZ Rugby Team: haka, sweeping the sheds by the older players sets the example for the younger players
• Japan knocked out in the World Cup — clean the locker room, leave a note written in Russian thanking the host.

Good to Great by Jim Collins

• Hedgehog concept = good is the enemy of great.
• Are you a hedgehog or a fox?
• The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
• Not realistic to think you can be great at a multitude of things
• What can you REALISTICALLY be GREAT at?

Relationships

• Development of the staff is just as important as the development of the players.
• You can have more impact on the game by developing coaches, than you can developing players.
• Those below you are the crucial components to your program.

International Game

• If you are a college or high school coach, you should be watching the international game more than the NBA.
• The defensive 3 second rule and the NBA 3pt line changes how the game looks
• European coaches have had to deal with more pick and roll far longer than the NBA.
• Get your mind thinking about what you have not seen before

Shell Drill

• Why the hell do you do 4 man shell drill?
• Rotation and movements are longer, can kill your buy in.
• Post player is a big part of it
• Are you a pressure team or a KYP (know your personnel) team?
• There is only one language that matters, the one that you create for your team.
• Everybody must know what those words mean.

Components of Shell

Skill 1: jumping in the direction of the pass

Skill 2: rotation out of a drive — slot then baseline

• Corner three will get you killed
• Rotation = GO, doesn’t have to be aggressive just stop the lay up.
• Sink guy to a BODY, if it goes up it’s an automatic block out.
• Don’t sink to an area

Alternatives

• Peel guard to guard rotation

- Straight rotation on baseline drive automatic go

2 for 1 situations

• Are you teaching your team to rush it in, or walk the ball up the floor?
• Why in the NBA do you call time outs to set your offence, but in college you run time outs to set your defence?
• At what time point when you are up 3 will you foul? Serbia it is 20 seconds, they want to be in control of the situation.

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