Coaches Clipboard with Randy Ayers Sept. 30, 2003

Throughout the Sixers Training Camp, Head Coach Randy Ayers will check in with Sixers.com and give his feedback on the team's progress following practice.

The thing we are trying to do is get our players to think about concepts more than plays. We can put a play in, and they can run it and execute it well, but it’s concepts. How are we going to react when a play breaks down? And that’s my biggest concern. Whether we pass and cut, or pass and screen away, or pass and post up. How do you play when the play breaks down. A good defensive team takes you out of plays and now you have to react to those situations.

The best way to do that is repetition and given them certain things (to help them). Early, I like to put coaches into the drill to control the drill so you get out of it the teaching points that you explained to start the drill. We will control the drills the first couple of days and then once it’s ingrained in them, you have to let them play.

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