🏀 The Power of Trust

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people who TRUST each other.

Welcome to The Basketball Academy. 🏛️

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We want to acknowledge and send thoughts and prayers to everyone affected in Los Angeles right now 🙏

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Here’s what we’re serving up this week:

🏀 Got Your Six ✊

🏀 Must Add Actions Part I 🎥

• TEAM USA “Spain Low Splits” 🇺🇸

Below the Pay line

🏀 Must Add Actions Part II 🎥

• MICHIGAN 4-5 P&R

🏀 Must Add Skill ⛹️

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LET’S DIVE IN ⬇️

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Sticky Saying To Build Trust

“GOT YOUR SIX”

A military phrase that originated with American fighter pilots in WW1

• Analog clock positions indicate position

  • 12 o'clock = straight ahead

  • 6 o'clock = directly behind

• In a dogfight, a pilot’s wingman was responsible for his

NAVY SEALS {TRUST}

How can this help on and off the court?

It creates:

1. Trust and Dependability

2. Accountability

3. Selflessness

4. Communication

5. Building Unity

Key’s to earn Trust 🔑

By Bill Belichick & Becky Hammon

1. Star in your role: when you define your role and act on it, you earn respect, with respect, you earn trust.

2. Words = Actions: when words and actions line up, it proves you’re reliable.

3. When you are accountable to someone else or something bigger than you, the desired results are more likely.

4. To overlook or excuse character issues because of talent makes the athletic experience meaningless. On great teams, no one is exempt from accountability.

5. Start to ask deeper questions from your team, they will do the same, and this forms connections before pressure situations which ultimately puts them together. When you don’t prepare for this, they will not be together during pressure situations.

The T.R.U.S.T. mantra by Becky Hammon

• Trust

• Remember

• Unwavering

• Secure

• Together

“You play more freely when you know someone has your back.”

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Must Add Actions 🎥

TEAM USA “Spain Low Splits” 🇺🇸

Clever way to grow from Stack to immediately into the next Action using a shooter like Curry and the strong side corner (Jrue).

BELOW THE PAY LINE UCLA tried six different coverages to combat UM’s 4-5 Pick & Roll with Danny Wolf & Vlad Goldin.

Check out how the Wolverines were ready for the coverages (Below) IQ.