Michael Jagacki

Transition Defense has become a crucial building block to any defensive team. With the emphasis of pace and space, the ability to establish your defense, defend in disadvantage scenarios and organize your team in chaos, has become a necessity to build winning defenses. Coach Mike Jagacki covers the Mindset Drills to flip the advantage in transition, individual techniques for recovering defenders, and discusses the two main philosophies to build a transition defense system.

Mike Jagacki
Assistant Coach Hofstra University
former Associate Head Coach Combine Academy: 3 Nationally Ranked Wins
former Associate Head Coach Middlesex High School
former Owner of True Hoops AAU

Details: 33 minute video, 7 Drills, 4 Individual Techniques, 2 Transition Systems

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The better our on-ball defenders, the better our team defense. Often as coaches we look from the inside out. Focusing on help rotation, positioning and scrambles - and although these aspect are important, the time we invest in developing our individual defenders will greatly prevent these worst-case scenerios. And give our Defense the chance to be elite.

In this course, Coach Mike Jagacki covers the drills, concepts and teaching points he uses to train and develop great on-ball defenders. The clinic is set up in 4 parts: Creating a Scheme, Stance Technique, Drills and Concepts, plus Advanced Tips and Teaching. Coach Jagacki introduces an advanced way of evaluting your defensive system and offers in-depth thought of how to create a scheme that will always put defenders in position to succeed on the ball. Next you will see a deep dive breakdown on the techniques found from analyizing elite defenders and how these can be applied to our defensive teaching. Finally we will get into the drills and concepts to teach these techniques to our defenders and help them become, elite. Defense is about more than just effort.

At Hofstra University Coach Jagacki's impact was felt as the Pride went from a 352nd ranked D1 Defense to Top 30: leading their conference for 2 consecutive years in Defensive Efficency and Steals. Before Hofstra, at Combine Academy Coach Jagacki had the chance to train and develop 4 D1 prospects. Now at the Division 1 level, each rank in the top percentiles in Synergy Defensive Categories. Sean East II ranks in the top 89% for Isolation Defense, Rudy Fitzbiggons ranks in top 87% in Man to Man Defense, Rodney Carson ranks in the top 83% at Closeout Effectiveness, and Jovan Zelenbaba tops 80% for Isolation Defense.

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Toughness is becoming less and less apart of the game. This unfortunate trend in today's game gives the program willing to commit to the principles of toughness an even larger competitive advantage. From the coaching of Lee Deforest, Mike Jagacki breaks down the drills and philosophies that have propelled Deforest's teams to be some of the toughest you'll ever play. Discussed in this 35 minute clinic: how to shift a player's mindset to toughness, the drills that set the standard of physicality and sacrifice, plus extra tips to make toughness a habit instead of a rare occurrence. Also included are Deforest and Jagacki's approach to "Ball Toughness" and the ability to bring toughness to the offensive end to limit turnovers.

Mike Jagacki
Assistant Coach Hofstra University
former Associate Head Coach Combine Academy: 3 Nationally Ranked Wins
former Associate Head Coach Middlesex High School
former Owner of True Hoops AAU

"They were such a pain in the ass to play against."

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Coach Mike Jagacki covers the drills, concepts and teaching points he uses to train and develop pressure on-ball defenders. The clinic is set up in 3 parts: Forward Stance Technique, Drills and Concepts, Advanced Tips and Teaching.

In this 39 min clinic you will see the same drills and teaching points that Coach Mike uses when training all his players and developing their individual defense.

At Combine Academy Coach Jagacki had the chance to train and develop 4 D1 prospects. Now at the Division 1 level, each rank in the top percentiles in Synergy Defensive Categories. Sean East II ranks in the top 89% for Isolation Defense, Rudy Fitzbiggons ranks in top 87% in Man to Man Defense, Rodney Carson ranks in the top 83% at Closeout Effectiveness, and Jovan Zelenbaba tops 80% for Isolation Defense.

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Closeouts have become one of the most important aspects of successful half court defense. With the emphasis now on spacing and 3pt shooting, the ability to go from off-ball to on-ball is the most common defensive technique and has become the most crucial one. The effectiveness of your teams ability to do closeout will determine the shooting percentage of your opponent, the dribble penetration/blow bys and the scrabble situations your team finds itself in. Coach Mike Jagacki covers the drills, concepts and technique to effectively closeout the ball and develop great defenders in this 37min clinic. From mechanical breakdowns of movement, keys to disrupting shooting % and drills to contain penatration - "Think shot, play drive."

At Hofstra University Coach Jagacki's impact was felt as the Pride went from a 352nd ranked D1 Defense to Top 30: leading their conference for 2 consecutive years in Defensive Efficency and Steals. Before Hofstra, at Combine Academy Coach Jagacki had the chance to train and develop 4 D1 prospects. Now at the Division 1 level, three of those players rank in the top percentiles in Synergy's Closeout Category: Rudy Fitzbiggons ranks in top 85% in Closeout Effectiveness, Rodney Carson ranks in the top 83%, and Sean East II ranks in the top 66%.

Found out more at https://www.lockdownhoops.com