Hawks Bury Michigan State; McCaffery Transcript
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EddyP
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Q. Have you guys have a couple good practices?
COACH McCAFFERY: We did. We had in a lot of ways, a back to the drawing board kind of practice. When you get to this you get to February, you know, you already have everything in. You sharpen things up and then you focus on the next team on your schedule. You go game plan, personnel, especially because we had not played them.
But what we did on Monday was break down every aspect of our defense like it was the first day of practice. You know, how we position our feet; how we help and recover; how we defend the post; how we contain penetration; how we rotate out of it. All of those things, and then we did the same thing out of our zone. We played some zone tonight. We mixed our zone. And so we worked on an entire practice through an entire practice, all defense, Monday.
And then yesterday, normally we would introduce the next opponent two days before the game. This week was the first time we did not do that. We introduced them one day before and just focused on a defensive practice, because anything short of that, it didn’t matter what the game plan was. We’ve got to be able to stop somebody.
This is great. But Fran you played very little zone last night. Just admit you read my posts.
COACH McCAFFERY: We did. We had in a lot of ways, a back to the drawing board kind of practice. When you get to this you get to February, you know, you already have everything in. You sharpen things up and then you focus on the next team on your schedule. You go game plan, personnel, especially because we had not played them.
But what we did on Monday was break down every aspect of our defense like it was the first day of practice. You know, how we position our feet; how we help and recover; how we defend the post; how we contain penetration; how we rotate out of it. All of those things, and then we did the same thing out of our zone. We played some zone tonight. We mixed our zone. And so we worked on an entire practice through an entire practice, all defense, Monday.
And then yesterday, normally we would introduce the next opponent two days before the game. This week was the first time we did not do that. We introduced them one day before and just focused on a defensive practice, because anything short of that, it didn’t matter what the game plan was. We’ve got to be able to stop somebody.
This is great. But Fran you played very little zone last night. Just admit you read my posts.
