{"id":300,"date":"2009-11-05T14:38:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-11-05T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:39:52","slug":"new-article-3-things-you-can-learn-from-footballs-wildcat-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/new-article-3-things-you-can-learn-from-footballs-wildcat-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW Article: 3 Things You Can Learn From Football&#8217;s &#8220;WILDCAT&#8221; Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any of you who know me or have read my work, know I look at basketball differently than most. I am always looking at things in everyday life or in other sports and relating them to basketball to try and help me be a better teacher and coach. <\/p>\n<p>I apologize to our readers who are unfamiliar with American football. Please try to understand the essence of these thoughts. <\/p>\n<p>I hate to draw parallels from football. Football has become so technical that I think you can program &#8220;Rock-em-Sock-em&#8221; robots to play it. Jim Valvano, the late, great coach at Iona and North Carolina State, used to call football the &#8220;F&#8221; word and forbade anyone to say it in his presence. That&#8217;s quite a statement when you consider he was the athletic director as well <\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, I think we all can learn from the Miami Dolphins. Here in Miami, the Wildcat offense is a star. For anyone not familiar with the &#8220;Wildcat,&#8221; it is a formation and system of plays that has its roots back in offenses of the 1930&#8217;s and 1940&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the article, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/coaching\/3-things-wildcat.html\">http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/coaching\/3-things-wildcat.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any of you who know me or have read my work, know I look at basketball differently than most. I am always looking at things in everyday life or in other sports and relating them to basketball to try and help me be a better teacher and coach. 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