Slappin’ Glass sits down this week with the Assistant Coach for Des Moines Area Community College, who also runs the fantastic basketball channel “Tucker and Thorson Basketball”, Taylor Tucker. The trio deep dive on the ways to attack a “No Middle” Defense, the benefits of playing a “No Middle” defense, and talk effective on-court communication and developing young PG’s during the always fun “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”
Inside the Episode
We were joined on the podcast this week by Des Moines Area Community College Assistant Coach, who also runs the fantastic coaching channel, Tucker and Thorson Basketball, Taylor Tucker! It doesn’t take long when listening to this week’s episode to see that Coach Tucker is one of the best young basketball minds around and speaks on a number of detailed topics with great depth. In this episode we dive into:
- Attacking the “No Middle” Defense: Coach Tucker has spent the past year digging into the film and what teams do to try and successfully attack a team that runs a “No Middle” Defense. As written about above, we also collaborated with Coach Tucker on this week’s Deep-Dive video that explores what we discuss in this opening 20 minutes of conversation.
- Effective On-Court Communication: During one of our “Start, Sub, or Sit?!” conversations we hear Coach Taylor’s thoughts on building on-court communicators and the fundamentals that go into it.
- Building Young PG’s: Another discussion during “Start, Sub, or Sit?!” centered around ways to build a young PG into the mature, steady, and reliable floor general we all love to have at the helm. Some great thoughts from Coach Tucker here on teaching game-flow, when to be aggressive, calling sets, and more.