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Episode 563 – Handling & Breaking Pressure

How does your team react when they face a high pressure defense? This week the discussion is around the habits, mindset, and principles you’ll want to instill next season in your players in order to be great at breaking and handling pressure.

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Show Notes:
• Intro to Topic
• Teaching necessary skills and habits
• Flipping the mindset – Pressure is a facade
• Being the aggressor
• Making it part of your style
• Who passes the ball in
• Availability of the first pass
• Squirrel analogy
• 3 available receivers
• Attack out of first or second reversal
• Alignment and stretching the defense
• Why you should be a pressing team
• Role identification

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