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Francesco Tabellini discusses his team's relentless style of play and strategies for maintaining pace in basketball.

This week we’re joined in this SG Classics episode by International Head Coach Francesco Tabellini for a deep dive into the concepts behind his team’s relentless style of play. Tabellini opens the conversation by unpacking the idea of “canceling the pauses” in the game — eliminating the dead space between offense and defense, defense and offense, and every small conversion moment in between. From there, he details how Nymburk builds pace through first-three-step urgency, no-catch zones, early...

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Host: Slappin' Glass

Guest: Francesco Tabellini

Topics covered

• relentless style of play
• offense and defense
• game pace
• basketball strategy
• coaching techniques

Keywords

• basketball
• coaching
• relentless play
• offense
• defense
• game strategy
• Nymburk

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nymburk

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