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One on One: Mark Turgeon On How Video Defines His Scouting Process

By Brian Williams on November 29, 2016

Hudl got a chance to sit down with Maryland coach Mark Turgeon to dish on how he uses video to prepare Maryland for upcoming opponents.

If there was ever any doubt about how important video study is to college coaches, Mark Turgeon squashes that thought almost immediately.

An assistant on the USA Basketball U18 squad that won the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Chile, Turgeon knows a thing or two about leading a team. Entering his 19th season as a head coach (his sixth at Maryland), he’s already captured four conference Coach of the Year awards – one Missouri Valley, two Big 12, one Big Ten. Turgeon has learned the importance of preparation and used it to vault himself into the upper echelon of college coaches.

Video has a bigger role in his rise than most casual observers might realize. In fact, Turgeon estimates that an assistant spends 20-30 hours watching video for every opponent. He’ll watch six to eight hours himself, depending on how familiar he is with the opponent or its coach.

If that seems excessive, it’s not. In a one-on-one conversation during Team USA’s July preparations in Houston, Turgeon discussed just how critical video is to his scouting process, what he looks for when watching and how he feeds that information to his players.

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“Video is huge for us.”

These are the first words Turgeon uses to kick off the interview. He watches all that he can, breaking down an opponent’s sets, secondary break strategies, rebounding and ball screens. If the opposition excels on fast breaks, Turgeon will zone in on that.

The staff puts extra attention on close games – Turgeon and crew will always watch the last four minutes of any game decided by five points or less. No detail is too small to overlook.

“For about six months it feels like you’re just watching video after video,” Turgeon said. “But it’s paramount for what we’re trying to accomplish as a basketball program.”

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Turgeon locks in on the tendencies displayed by both the opposing players and coaches. If a team runs a certain play more often than others, Turgeon will dedicate more practice time to defending that action. Similarly, if an opposing wing player drives right far more than he drives left, Turgeon will instruct his defender to shade more toward that hand.

“There are a lot of ways we can use video to get those stats,” he said. “That’s a lot of work for my guys and they put a lot into it. Left shoulder, right shoulder for a post player, we break it down that way.

“When it comes to percentages defensively and offensively for an individual player, is he turnover prone? Is he an assist guy? Is he a really good shooter? Is he a better shooter from the right corner than the left corner? I have a great staff and great film guys that do a tremendous job of helping our players get prepared in a really fast manner.”

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All the time spent preparing through video leaves Turgeon armed with an encyclopedia of valuable information. But gathering the breakdown data is only half the battle – sharing the information with his players is a different obstacle.

Players have neither the time nor the attentiveness to take in as much data as coaches do. If Turgeon unleashed all the video he and his staff gather on the athletes, they would be overwhelmed, and most of the insights would likely go in one ear and out the other. Players might think too much during games, trying to recall dozens of instructions instead of playing instinctively.

Turgeon’s experience has taught him how to avoid those potential pitfalls. His opponent breakdowns are rarely longer than 12 minutes, hitting on the most important opponent tendencies without drowning his players in information.

The same goes for self-scouting. Maryland’s postgame video sessions are generally brief, though some contests require longer breakdowns.

“It’s a long year, so I try not to go more than a 15-minute clip on ourselves going into games,” Turgeon said. “Sometimes you get to games where you need to watch the whole game, the whole half, or you might just need to break off 15 clips. It all depends on who you’re playing. As you get into the season you’re working on taking from practice what you’re doing well defensively and what you’re doing well offensively.”

Turgeon will occasionally have players watch video on their own time. Each locker in Maryland’s practice facility is equipped with an iPad that allows athletes to study both game footage and the playbook.

But Turgeon does try to limit how much studying players do on their own time, especially the younger ones. He’d rather they get their information from the coaches during team sessions than make their own judgements.

“We don’t really want them forming their own opinions on how to guard somebody or whether it’s a good shot or a bad shot for them personally,” Turgeon said. “But when you get a veteran around, they watch a lot more on their own. Jake Layman for us was a veteran last year. He’d been through it, so he’d be sitting at his locker watching film.”

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The USA Basketball experience was a unique one for Turgeon. He was last an assistant coach in 1998, but he took a back seat to head coach Shaka Smart for the U18 Championship.

Such an ego check might have been difficult for a coach with his resume, but Turgeon took it as a learning opportunity. Having previously coached under titans Larry Brown and Roy Williams, Turgeon realized this was another chance to improve at his craft.

“If you have that approach to your coaching career, it allows you to stay fresh and stay successful,” he said. “It comes down to passion and really wanting to help people be successful.

“In the end, I couldn’t be my high school coach. I couldn’t be Larry Brown. I couldn’t be Roy Williams. I had to be Mark Turgeon, and that’s what they gave me. I’m not a dummy. I soaked it up like a sponge. When I was with them I learned and took the good from everybody.”

That includes video study. Turgeon has his philosophies, but they are ever-evolving, and he’ll incorporate some of what he learned from Smart and fellow assistant Kevin Ollie into the way he approaches video in the future.

“I want to be great. I don’t want to be good,” Turgeon said. “I want to be great, so I’m always trying to get better and trying to learn.”

Interested in unlocking the power of video for yourself? Check out Hudl basketball to learn more.

Alan Stein In Season Conditioning

By Brian Williams on December 27, 2015

Some ideas from Alan Stein to use for your in season strength and conditioning.

The videos are from the Pure Sweat You Tube Channel. You can subscribe to that channel if you are interested at this link: Pure Sweat You Tube Channel

The first video are some tag conditioning drills.

The second video are some on court strength drills.

The third video shows some pre-practice warm up drills.

Again, the videos are You Tube videos, so make sure you can access them on the server you are using and make sure your sound is on.

Click the Play arrows on the videos to watch them

Alan Stein Tag Drills

On Court Strength Drills

Pr-Practice Warmup Drills

Coaching Basketball: Recommit Daily

By Brian Williams on December 17, 2015

Today’s video on recommitting daily to your core values is from PGC Basketball. I also posted a video from them last week that you can view by clicking on the link: Building a Strong Coaching Staff.

The videos are from their free program they started to serve coaches, and it’s called The Coaches Circle Journey.

Every week, coaches who are part of the circle get a new email with a new video. The video typically includes 2-3 minutes of coach talk about culture, lifestyle, and it’s incredible.

After the culture, lifestyle chat, there’s always a free drill video offered.

TJ Rosene, the coach who produced the videos, is one of the PGC directors, and he’s a championship-level college coach.

If you are interested in joining the Coaches Circle Journey, you can click this link for more information: The Coaches Circle Journey from PGC Basketball

Enjoy!

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After Coach Rosene talks about recommitting daily and how you respond as a coach when frustrated, there is a great competitive shooting drill that forces players to move and shoot at a game pace called “Catch Up.” Players compete in two against another pair.

Again, if you would like to be a part of the Coaches Circle Journey, you can join for free at this link: The Coaches Circle Journey from PGC Basketball

Combination Guard Scoring Drill

By Brian Williams on December 3, 2015

This drill called Combination Guard Scoring Drill is among the thousands of resources for both coaches and player available from basketballhq. They have several more videos as well as basketball coaching resource articles.

Please make sure your sound is on to see the video.

Click the play arrow so see the drill. The drill is a YouTube video, so you will need to be able to access YouTube to see the drill.

The coach in this post is Darnell Archey, former Butler player and Assistant Coach, and currently the head coach at the University of Mobile.

If you use this drill, you will want to include the types of actions that lead to shots in your offensive system.

In this drill, the 3 types of shots the players take are

1) Ball Screen Read (You can change the read for each of the five shots, or make the same read on each shot. In this example, they are reading as though the defense is icing the ball screen.

2) Dribble Hand Off

3) Screen the screener action (You can run this from other spots on the floor where you run sts actions)

15 shots on the right side (5 shots from each of the 3 actions), then 2 free throws, and 15 shots on the left side of the floor.

Combination Guard Scoring Drill

Scramble Defensive Drill

By Brian Williams on May 22, 2015

This video is with Minnesota Men’s Coach Richard Pitino.

The drill is meant for pressuring teams that play for steals, but regardless of what style of defense you play, and whether or not you run a drill with 5 defending 4, I think he has some good teaching points and ideas for you to give some thought to.

Like Coach Don Meyer always said, “It’s not what you teach it’s what you emphasize.: The same thing can be said for drills. It’s not what drills you run, it’s what you emphasize in the drill (and how you emphasize it) that helps your players to improve. We all can do a better job of finding ways to make sure that we are making it clear to players what the purpose of and what the skills are that we are seeking to improve with each drill.

Some of my takeaways from this short video,

1) Run the drill as a shell before making it live.
2) Charting deflections in the drill to emphasize ball pressure.
3) Chart the times the defense forces the ball handler to turn their shoulders in your pressure defense drills as another point of emphasis.
4) Rather than requiring a certain number of stops to get out of a defensive drill, at times see how many stops they can get in a specific amount of time. Of course, there are times when you will want to require a specific number of stops, even if it does take 20 minutes to get it done.

This is a YouTube videos, so you will need to have permission to view YouTube videos.

Make sure your sound is on as you watch. Click the play arrow to see the videos.

Scramble Defense Drill

If you are interested in learning more about the entire DVD that this sample came from, click this link: Establishing a Full Court Pressure Defense. Anyone who purchases anything from the store receives one of my basketball coaching eBooks as a bonus. Just email me and let me know which one you would like to receive!

Box Screen Defensive Drill

By Brian Williams on February 6, 2015

This video shows a defensive drill run by former Akron and current Duquesne Men’s Basketball Coach Keith Dambrot.

You probably don’t use the same defensive rules, but my hope is that it gives you an idea of a way to set up drills to get high energy and a high number of reps for the actions that you defend frequently.

The video is a YouTube video so make sure that you are on a server that allows YouTube access.

Make sure your sound is on and click the play arrow to see the videos of the drills below.

Box Screen Defensive Drill

If you are interested in seeing 2 more drills from Coach Dambrot or more information about the DVD that this sample is from, you can click here: All Access Basketball Practice with Keith Dambrot

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