SACH, LOYOLA'S ATHLETIC HEAD
-.REPORTS ON COMUIITTEE FINDINGS

By Leonard Sachs

In bringing forward this report, we have had to cover a
wide area with different playing :conditions to be found in dif-
ferent sections, By the use of examples and’ the like,-we;hope,to’ |
make this report’an interesting and constructive one. es

At Loyola. we have the usual set-ups in our’ preliminary |
work which most’ teams employ - -.a pass and cut, an-outside roll,
a screen and cut, ete. [T have found through my own-experience and -
that of other coaches that if a team of five offensive players is
put on the floor: with no defensive men against them, and play an -
imaginary.6ffensive game for periods of 30 minutes at a time, they
soon become proficient in ball-handling and will use the same tac=..
tics in an actual game.’ The coach will occasionally call outa
move by the imaginary defense, and the offense re-acts accordingly.
Thus when they are in a game, they are absolutely at ease anda |
team can be working at both ends of the floor without interfering
with one another, Of dourse at times a coach will have to use :the
entire floor, especially when the defense is of the forcing type.

In the various set-ups used, we assume that the defense is
either forcing, switching, or dropping back, when the players
through, constant work on these set-ups:are ready for actual scrim» _
mage, we place: defensive men on the floor and find that the. players

feel and act: almost as thuch at.ease as with no defensive men,

Several coaches have experimented with definite arm tndybody ~
actions in shooting set shots. Coach Claire Bee of Long Island Univ-
ersity wrote an interesting article some time ago along. the lines
of how to shoot a set shot, His theory was primarily to keep the
eyes focused on the basket after the ball-had left the shooter's
hands, I found very favorable results among some members of my squad
who gave this method a'very fine trial, Ww notieto | ;

Another trestern’ coach instructed his men to finish up with
the palm of the right hand facing the basket. We had quite a con-
versation about higS:experiment, and he claimed that the team's
shooting improved 35 per cent. He found that. in many cases it was
necessary to reverse the order because of the fact that some of his
player's left arms were better coordinated than the right.

I think that today most coaches agree and coach their players
that in taking a pop or set shot, we must follow the principles of
a marksman, in other words, get set first arm, and then fire,

According t6 many questioneires regarding the style of pop
shots, I would say that at least 90 percent of the thousands of
teams use this style wf shot.