Tim Jankovich – SMU Coaching U Live April 2017 (Dallas, Texas) -When I was young I thought it was all about X’s & O’s and would laugh when I heard older coaches talk about culture. -Will study teams in the offseason to try and get ideas. Will watch clinic videos to try to spark ideas. -Game is so infinite. It’s one of the most exciting things about basketball to me. -We are all products of what we’ve been able to experience. I’ve had the fortune to work for a collection of 9 fantastic coaches. It’s not about copying a coach. It’s thinking about what makes him great. Lon Kruger (current Oklahoma head coach; Jankovich worked for him at UT-Pan American): • Not afraid to be simple offensively. Sometimes as coaches we feel like we have to manufacture every basket. • Coach was so competitive and so smart • My biggest takeaway was actually that there was more than one way to skin a cat. I had played for an old school guy in Jack Hartman and I thought that was the way to do it. Jack Hartman (former Kansas State head coach where Jankovich played and worked for him): • Base of knowledge Bob Weltich (former Texas head coach where Jankovich worked for him) • “Motion Offense” acumen (Weltich coached under Bob Knight at Army). Motion is truly glorious – five guys running around trying not get in the other guys’ way while still being purposeful. Boyd Grant (former Colorado State head coach where Jankovich worked for him) • Coach Grant won with less unlike anyone I’ve ever seen. Taught me, “Don’t freak out. There’s a way to win with less talent.” • There are ways to control the game: be good defensively and be solid offensively (get the ball to the right guys). Gene Iba (former Baylor head coach where Jankovich worked for him) • Taught transition defense every single day. It was honestly exhausting working for him because he was so relentless and consistent about it. Transition D is the most underrated aspect of coaching – make them play half court offense. Eddie Sutton (former Oklahoma State head coach where Jankovich worked for him) • Relentless attention to detail (long practices) • Patience + confidence (“Don’t worry. We’ll get it from here to there.”) Kevin Stallings (current Pitt head coach; Jankovich worked for him at Vanderbilt) • Coach Dean Smith’s system (Stallings had worked for Roy Williams) Bill Self (current Kansas head coach; Jankovich worked for him at Illinois) • Watches the game from the defensive perspective • No such thing as 50/50 balls. We should get more. We can steal possessions. You can tell a lot about a coach by how his team chases loose balls. • Such an emphasis on ball security and two hands. Larry Brown (former Kansas/Philadelphis 76ers head coach; Jankovich worked for him at SMU) • Relentless in grinding on his guys about their attention to detail (he didn’t miss a single thing in my four years working for him) • So concerned with shot selection. You can coach good shot/bad shot and still play good O basketball with freedom/confidence. Offense: -Design your offense to attack and jack with the opponent’s defensive principles. -I’m going to explore what some of the teams in the American Conference did that gave us trouble. -The things that give us the most trouble are the things that distort our help coverage immediately before an action (weakside movement occurring at the same time as a ball side action). -Cincinnati would play a ton of 3-Out/2-In and they would drop the opposite big down to the short corner (uncomfortable because he’s below you). As soon as there’s a bounce to the middle of the floor, 5 is coming underneath the rim. -Now Cincinnati would slide their PG in there and play Bully Ball with him. Same concept with the 5. As soon as there’s a bounce to the middle of the floor, 5 is coming under the rim. -C52: One more thing Cincinnati would do would be to back screen the hedge defender on a high pick & roll. The left diagram shows the way they would run it the majority of the time, but at times they would stack it. -This is hard to guard because of how these two actions (the side pick & roll on the right side of the floor and the double screen on the left) are occurring at the exact same time. -Love this backdoor set from Houston. -Really good screening action for a shooter from Houston’s Kelvin Sampson. 3 inside cuts as 2 comes around 5’s screen. -Another one from Kelvin Sampson: “21 Hammer” -What makes this transition set from Temple so hard to guard is how high 1 stays as the back man in the pick & roll and the timing of the weakside exchange (happens at the same time as the pick & roll). -Another Fran Dunphy set: not your typical ball screen motion action because of how late 4’s list occurs and how late the interchange is. These two movements don’t happen until 3’s first dribble. Makes the defense struggle to identify who should pick up the roll man. -From Tulane’s Mike Dunleavy, their 3- man got so many open 3’s in the right corner on this action. -Memphis BLOB: .