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Registration is officially open for Coaching U Live 2026 in Las Vegas!
Learn the latest strategies, trends, Xs & Os and player development secrets and at the only annual coaching clinic featuring the NBA's best coaches.
📅 July 10-12, 2026
📍 Las Vegas, NV
🚨 This year's clinic is 3 days - mornings only!
🏀 ADD-ON: Overtime NBA Front Office Breakout Sessions available in the afternoons after the conclusion of each day's clinic.
💲Early Bird Pricing is currently available with tickets & packages available for as low as ONLY $149!
🎟️ Register Today: coachingulive.com/2026
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Golden State Warriors assistant coach Jerry Stackhouse demonstrates this 4 out motion concept to generate movement and space for easy scoring opportunities.
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"There are 3 things we can't have, We can't have complacency, we can't have selfishness, and we can't lose our accountability."
– Nick Saban
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"Even when you win, you should study what you could have done better and plan how to improve next time."
– Nick Saban
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🏀 Illinois head coach Brad Underwood explains his why he changed his rebounding philosophy, their simple rebounding rules, and how these changes helped Illinois become the No. 1 team nationally in recovering missed threes.
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🏀 Texas head coach Vic Schaefer teaches this Mirror drill, emphasizing the importance of turning and running to stay ahead of a ball handler in transition.
🗣️ "Step-sliding won't cut it" — sprint and get ahead to defend effectively!
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“One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.”
– Nick Saban
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🗣️ "If they don't like you they are not going to play hard for you"
🏀 Texas head coach Vic Schaefer shares a key coaching lesson - while being demanding is essential, you can't be demeaning and your players MUST know you care about them.
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"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you."
– Bear Bryant
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🏀 Jacksonville head coach Special Jennings teaches her "Team Closeouts" drill which emphasizes closeouts, ball pressure, and proper rotations.
This drill is adaptable and can be modified to include any actions & coverages to fit team-specific strategies.
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🏀 Texas head coach Vic Schaefer teaches this Mirror drill, emphasizing the importance of turning and running to stay ahead of a ball handler in transition.
🗣️ "Step-sliding won't cut it" — sprint and get ahead to defend effectively!
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🏀 Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes emphasizes the importance of passing while showing this "Shell Passing" drill he uses every day in practice.
He also explains why teaching players to make strong passes with accuracy helps them build the skill set needed for high-level play.
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"When your best player's working harder than everybody and holding everyone accountable, that's a winning culture."
– Grant Hill
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"Winning is a good feeling, but it passes, and what lasts is what you’ve learned. Winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point."
– Pat Summitt
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"If a man is a quitter, I’d rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I’ll know later what I can expect."
– Paul 'Bear' Bryant
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🏀 2024 Division III National Champion Brooks Miller of Trine University shares the core elements of Trine's no-middle defense.
Here he demonstrates Trine's pickup points, gap principles, and bluff-and-recover positioning to keep opponents from driving middle.
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Toronto Raptors assistant coach Jama Mahlalela explains their "Crash to Tag" concept — sending all five players to the offensive glass, not just for rebounds, but to slow transition by tagging the ball early.
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"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are."
– Ara Parseghian
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🏀 Tennessee assistant coach Roman Tubner teaches their "Get Open Drill" to help players create separation, handle pressure, and meet the ball with strength.
This drill emphasizes embracing contact, fighting for position, and driving through defenders.
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"The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way."
– Gregg Popovich
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🏀 Jacksonville head coach Special Jennings teaches her "Team Closeouts" drill which emphasizes closeouts, ball pressure, and proper rotations.
This drill is adaptable and can be modified to include any actions & coverages to fit team-specific strategies.
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🏀 Tennessee assistant coach Roman Tubner teaches their "Get Open Drill" to help players create separation, handle pressure, and meet the ball with strength.
This drill emphasizes embracing contact, fighting for position, and driving through defenders.
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"If you want to be good, you really don't have a lot of choices, because it takes what it takes."
– Nick Saban
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🏀 Tennessee assistant coach Roman Tubner teaches their "Get Open Drill" to help players create separation, handle pressure, and meet the ball with strength.
This drill emphasizes embracing contact, fighting for position, and driving through defenders.
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Golden State Warriors assistant coach Jerry Stackhouse demonstrates this 4 out motion concept to generate movement and space for easy scoring opportunities.
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🏀 Arkansas head coach John Calipari teaches this 3-on-3 advantage drill designed to allow offenses to attack while reading the defense and working on decision making.
💻 Watch the full video now on Coaching U+
🔗 coachingulive.com/superclini…
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🏀 Dusty May teaches his preferred technique for closeouts 1 pass away. Players learn to meet the ball on the catch, control space, and absorb drives effectively.
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🏀 Jacksonville head coach Special Jennings teaches her "Team Closeouts" drill which emphasizes closeouts, ball pressure, and proper rotations.
This drill is adaptable and can be modified to include any actions & coverages to fit team-specific strategies.
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"When I talk about being a champion, I'm not talking about winning a championship. I'm more concerned with you being the best you can be."
– Nick Saban
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🏀 Tennessee assistant coach Roman Tubner teaches their "Get Open Drill" to help players create separation, handle pressure, and meet the ball with strength.
This drill emphasizes embracing contact, fighting for position, and driving through defenders.
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“It’s not about the number of hours you practice, it’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.”
– Kobe Bryant
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🏀 Buffalo head coach Becky Burke opens every practice with "Quarter Court Closeouts," a drill originally from Jeff Walz that reinforces the basic fundamentals of defensive closeouts.
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"There are no magic plays. You win based on effort, unmet focus and being brilliant at the little details."
– Steve Kerr
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🏀 Oakland head coach Greg Kampe is one of the best in the game at creating open looks for shooters.
In this clip he shows his "Bunch 43" play for multiple 3-point looks, as well as "Bunch 45" that adds a backscreen by the shooter into the action for an easy layup.
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"A coach can help you with your mistakes, but NOBODY can help you with your excuses."
– Buzz Williams
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"Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people."
– Nick Saban
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"I am going to be the coach my team needs me to be, not the coach they want me to be."
– Mike Tomlin
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"Mental toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you."
– Bill Belichick
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🏀 @OhioStateHoops head coach @JakeDiebler demonstrates the Perfect Closeout Drill, focusing on defensive closeouts, positioning, and communication. Any mistake resets the drill, reinforcing accountability while teaching defensive fundamentals.
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"The hardest thing to do as a coach is to get players to do the things they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want."
– Pat Riley
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“To be successful as an individual player you need your teammates. The better you connect with them, the better you interact as a team, the more successful you will be individually.”
- Bill Belichick
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"You don’t win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches."
– Red Auerbach
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"The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way."
– Gregg Popovich
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"Every team faces adversity. Mediocre teams are destroyed by it. Good teams survive it. Great teams get better because of it."
– Urban Meyer
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"All the successful teams I've ever seen have 3 characteristics: They play unselfish, they play together, and they play hard"
– Larry Brown
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"In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes."
– Tom Thibodeau
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🏀 Oakland head coach Greg Kampe is one of the best in the game at creating open looks for shooters.
In this clip he shows his "Bunch 43" play for multiple 3-point looks, as well as "Bunch 45" that adds a backscreen by the shooter into the action for an easy layup.
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"I'd take a 2-star recruit with a 5-star work ethic over a 5-star recruit with a 2-star work ethic any day."
– Mike Krzyzewski
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🏀 Oakland head coach Greg Kampe is one of the best in the game at creating open looks for shooters.
In this clip he shows his "Bunch 43" play for multiple 3-point looks, as well as "Bunch 45" that adds a backscreen by the shooter into the action for an easy layup.
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"The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way."
– Gregg Popovich
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"It's not necessarily winning a championship, but it's about giving a championship level effort."
Drake head coach Ben McCollum shares how his coaching style has evolved into a process oriented approach.
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"You can easily separate ‘team guys’ from ‘me guys’ by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning"
– Bill Parcells
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"Soft is when you choose the easier path when the right path is the harder one. That's soft"
– Bill Self
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"Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you"
– Bill Belichick
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"On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable."
– Joe Dumars
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"Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning."
– Jeff Van Gundy
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"We're not going to talk about what we're going to accomplish, we're going to talk about how we're going to do it."
– Nick Saban
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🏀 Jacksonville head coach Special Jennings teaches her "Team Closeouts" drill which emphasizes closeouts, ball pressure, and proper rotations.
This drill is adaptable and can be modified to include any actions & coverages to fit team-specific strategies.
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🏀 Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes emphasizes the importance of passing while showing this "Shell Passing" drill he uses every day in practice.
He also explains why teaching players to make strong passes with accuracy helps them build the skill set needed for high-level play.
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"There are no magic plays. You win based on effort, unmet focus and being brilliant at the little details."
– Steve Kerr
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🏀 2024 Division III National Champion Brooks Miller of Trine University shares the core elements of Trine's no-middle defense.
Here he demonstrates Trine's pickup points, gap principles, and bluff-and-recover positioning to keep opponents from driving middle.
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"When your best player's working harder than everybody and holding everyone accountable, that's a winning culture."
– Grant Hill
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“The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11.”
– Knute Rockne
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🗣️ "We’re never going to accept in winning what we wouldn’t accept in losing."
@LSUBaseball head coach @LSUCoachJ shares his commitment to focusing on the details and holding his team to the highest standards. It's all about mastering the little things to achieve greatness.
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"Mental toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you."
– Bill Belichick
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🏀 Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes emphasizes the importance of passing while showing this "Shell Passing" drill he uses every day in practice.
He also explains why teaching players to make strong passes with accuracy helps them build the skill set needed for high-level play.
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“Hard work isn’t punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach excellence.”
– Jay Bilas
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🏀 North Alabama head coach Tony Pujol teaches the correct footwork and technique when teaching defenders to "step-slide" when guarding the ball
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During practice:
- Average players get BORED
- Good players get BETTER
- Great players go to BATTLE.
– @TomCrean
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"Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have."
– Doc Rivers
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Jerry Stackhouse walks through a secondary break concept rooted in Dean Smith’s North Carolina system and explains how it can flow into more modern actions with the same alignment that can evolve into five-out spacing.
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"Bad teams, no one leads. Average teams, coaches lead. But elite teams, players lead."
– P.J. Fleck
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🏀 @OhioStateHoops head coach @JakeDiebler demonstrates the Perfect Closeout Drill, focusing on defensive closeouts, positioning, and communication. Any mistake resets the drill, reinforcing accountability while teaching defensive fundamentals.
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“The measure of who we are is how we react when something doesn’t go our way.”
– Gregg Popovich
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🏀 Penny Hardaway shows how Memphis works several offensive actions into their daily combo work.
Hardaway emphasizes teaching his players how to read coverages, adjust their actions, and generate advantages depending on whether teams are dropping, blitzing, or hedging.
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🏀 Kelvin Sampson demonstrates why Houston always dedicates 2 defenders to the ball in their middle pick & roll coverages with emphasis on communication, "closing the window," and "shutting the door."
💻 Watch the full video on Coaching U+
🔗 coachingulive.com/superclini…
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"I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me."
-Shane Battier
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"It’s not about any one person. You’ve got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done"
– Gregg Popovich
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“Hard work isn’t punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach excellence.”
– Jay Bilas
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"You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win."
– Larry Bird
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🏀 VCU head coach Phil Martelli Jr. breaks down this “Gator Shooting” drill
The drill runs as a continuous weave: players sprint the floor for layups, slot threes (to 75 points), wing threes (to 150), and corner threes (to 225) as the clock adds an extra element of pressure.
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"The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon."
– Bill Walsh
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"Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning."
– Jeff Van Gundy
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"Mental toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you."
– Bill Belichick
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"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."
– Paul 'Bear' Bryant
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“If I’m honest with you, you might not like me for a day or two. But if I lie to you, you’re going to hate me forever.”
- Joe Maddon
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