Tuesday, October 18, 2011

TAKING THE OTHER TEAM OUT OF THEIR OFFENSE WHILE YOU STILL HAVE THE BALL

"Offensive thinking very rarely encompasses an immediate adjustment to defense.  We always tried to set up a triangle for rebounding.  The forward on the strong side rebounds at the foul line.  Whoever’s at the post, he rebounds on the strong side of the basket.  The weak-side forward takes the weak side.  We were always looking ahead to that, taking the other team out of their offense while we still had the ball."

-Pete Newell
From "A Good Man: The Pete Newell Story" by Bruce Jenkins