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This week is a four-quarters episode with TJ and myself discussing ball pressure, preparation,

rebounding, and what we do in our cultures when we're winning versus when we're losing.

Let's get started.

Welcome to the hardwood hustle. It is me and Lisa today,

and we're going to do a little four quarters, you know, keeping in line with the basketball game,

there's four different quarters. Probably none of these deserve a full episode, but they're all

definitely worth talking about little things, little advantages or disadvantages and little

changes that you might make over the course of the season and decisions that you have to make

as a coach.

So we're going to talk about four different things.

We're going to talk about ball pressure, to pressure or not to pressure.

We're going to talk about preparation.

What's too much?

What's too little?

We're going to talk about rebounding, you know, how much do you blocks out versus how much do you pursue the ball and

what impacts that decision. And then finally, we're going to talk about culture when you're

winning and when you're losing. What are some things that you change up or do a little bit

different? So Lisa, let's jump into the first one. Let's talk ball pressure. I know a lot of people

have different philosophies about this. And my philosophy would be probably, um, according to a little bit

according to personnel, a little bit according to what we're trying to accomplish on the defensive end.

But give me your opening thoughts here on ball pressure. Yeah, I think you're right that it starts with what's the end goal, you know,

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