Episode 31: Matt Woodley, Individual and Team Defense

Matt Woodley, Individual and Team Defense Guest: Matt Woodley, Drake Men's Basketball Assistant Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Drake men's basketball assistant coach Matt Woodley joins the Basketball Podcast with Chris Oliver to discuss team and individual basketball defense. Woodley boasts extensive and diverse experience at the professional, collegiate and high school levels. He has coached 21 future NBA players including Klay Thompson and Hassan Whiteside in addition to serving as the head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies D-League and an assistant for the franchise’s summer league teams. Prior to Drake, Woodley was a head coach for three years at Truman State. He has also been a highly respected assistant coach at Washington State University for head coach Tony Bennett, at Middle Tennessee State for head coach Kermit Davis, and at Pittsburgh for head coach Kevin Stallings.   Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Defensive Philosophy Conversation 3:00 - Adapting the System 5:00 - Execution of your Fundamentals 6:20 - Restricted Area Deep Paint Shot 7:20 - Step-in Threes 9:00 - Stay consistent 10:30 - Someone to have a Chart 11:30 - Chronological Order of Adjustments 13:30 - Spending on Scouting Reports 15:00 - Horn's Down Look/ Point Corner Split Action 17:00 - More on Scouting Reports - Order 18:50 - SMILE 20:30 - Get Up and Down with Purpose 21:30 - "Sticking Them All" Concept 22:40 - Does a Closeout Matters Much? 23:30 - We Don't Believe in "Chopping Your Feet" 24:30 - Run and Stop 26:00 - Working on One on One 27:00 - Are we Leaving our Feet to challenge? 28:15 - Teaching Guys To Run and Stop 30:00 - Chopping Your Feet 31:00 - One Slide: Turn and Run 32:40 - Knowing WHY 34:00 - Scouting Report is so Important 35:30 - Never Play 1-on-1 from the Gap 37:00 - Help and Recover, Single Side Tag 39:00 - Ball at the Top of the Key 40:30 - Explaining Terminology of 1-on-1 and other terms 42:00 - On The Ball 43:00 - Swarm the Basketball 44:30 - Below to Up Movement, Back to the Ball 46:00 - Recruit Offense in Coach Defense 47:00 - Reading The Ball and Teaching Defense Decision Making 48:30 - Consistency Changing your Match-ups in Practice 51:00 - Single vs Double Side Tag Thoughts 52:30 - Need some Iso Situations 53:30 - How to Cover the Ball in Screen&Roll? 56:00 - How to Attack Switch 57:00 - Find Time to Study the Game 58:00 - Conclusion   Matt Woodley’s Bio Twitter: https://twitter.com/coachwoodley Bio: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/Pitt/2017/05/01/kevin-stallings-matt-woodley-pitt-panthers-basketball-coaching-staff/stories/201705010133   Basketball Immersion Website: http://basketballimmersion.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion Facebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.