{"id":877,"date":"2015-11-03T02:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T08:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/?p=877"},"modified":"2015-11-02T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T22:22:26","slug":"its-not-christmas-no-gifts-for-our-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/its-not-christmas-no-gifts-for-our-opponent","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Christmas &#8211; No gifts for our opponent!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/christmas-present.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/christmas-present-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-present\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/christmas-present-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/christmas-present.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I found this saying in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cincinnati-Clinic-from-BJ-McAlister.pdf\">UC coaching clinic notes<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0I really like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s not Christmas\u201d.<\/strong> Meaning &#8211; No gifts for our opponent. Examples:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Layups<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Free throws<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bad fouls<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Open 3&#8217;s for good shooter<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Turnovers for touchdown<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This fits my coaching philosophy and seems like a good way to get young athletes playing the right way. \u00a0Kids love Christmas and this is something they\u00a0will remember.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to start using this saying to help hammer home what we want our players to do. \u00a0Just another tool for the coaching tool box that you might want to considering using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this saying in the UC coaching clinic notes\u00a0that\u00a0I really like&#8230; \u201cIt\u2019s not Christmas\u201d. Meaning &#8211; No gifts for our opponent. Examples: Layups Free throws Bad fouls Open 3&#8217;s for good shooter Turnovers for touchdown This fits my coaching philosophy and seems like a good way to get young athletes playing the right way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-practice-strategy","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}