Slappin’ Glass sits down this week with Coach Nate Babcock of the G-Leagues Grand Rapids Gold, the affiliate of the Denver Nuggets! The trio explore a variety of interesting and thought provoking topics including aligning practice stats with game performance, winning the possession battle, the end of quarter “Hit” strategy, and talk “Exit Screens”, offensive triggers, and enticing great players to cut during the always fun “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”.
Inside the Episode
You’ll want to have a pen and notepad ready when listening to this week’s newest podcast with the G-League’s Grand Rapids Gold Coach, Nate Babcock, as he gave a terrific interview filled a ton of interesting things to think about. A few standouts included:
- Aligning Practice Design with Data: Coach Babcock spent a few years with the Atlanta Hawks, and he discusses the system the used in making sure they were practicing the most important things on a weekly basis. We walk through this system and what Coach Lloyd Pierce wanted from the daily/weekly reports.
- Special Situations: We discussed ways coaches can think about practicing special situations and why Coach Babcock feels it’s so important to do so.
- Winning the Possession Battle: Some fun ideas on winning the possession battle at the end of quarters and halves. We dive into the strategy of “Hitting” or randomly doubling a ballhandler to potentially force a quick shot and retain the last possession of a quarter.
- “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”: During this always fun segment we explore offensive “triggers”, enticing great players to cut, and much more!