Slappin' Glass Podcast

Air Force Head Coach Joe Crispin joins Slappin’ Glass to explore teaching soul and spontaneity, building confidence through practice constraints, and making fast play a daily habit. The trio discusses how to balance player freedom with shot selection, use offensive advantages and shorter shot clocks to change behavior, and let players help reveal the concepts that fit their team.
During Start, Sub, or Sit?!, the conversation turns to creating an unkind environment for opposing offenses through run and jumps, zones, and fake traps, followed by the relationship between self awareness, confidence, and skepticism in coaching. Crispin also shares his approach to scouting, managing the flow of a game, and helping players and staff do their best work.
Timestamps: 
02:21 Teaching soul and spontaneity
06:15 Player identity, trust, and freedom
10:12 Can you, should you, and did you mean it?
13:10 Sponsor messages
14:16 Constraints that change offensive habits
16:56 Analytics, scoring rewards, and player exceptions
19:18 Embracing messy learning
22:33 Making fast normal and listening to players
25:08 Nudging the offense toward useful concepts
28:26 Start, Sub, or Sit?! Disruptive defensive environments
31:50 Personnel and defensive pressure
33:34 Conceptual defense and recovering to neutral
36:30 Making fake traps credible
38:22 Start, Sub, or Sit?! Coaching characteristics
42:42 Challenging your philosophy
44:19 The head coach’s role
46:12 Managing the flow of a game
47:59 Scouting to disrupt the opponent’s core
50:45 Best investment: faith and perspective
52:24 Dan and Pat’s takeaways
61:21 What the trio could explore next
63:26 Closing
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Dan Krikorian, Patrick Carney and Eric Fawcett discuss the next stage of the offensive rebounding conversation: strict tagging up, crashing five, and the space between them. Pat shares his early experience with a staff sending five to the glass, while Dan breaks down the details that keep aggressive rebounding connected to transition defense: approaching on the high side, staying with the tag long enough, and making the rebounder’s first dribble go east-west.
The group explores freeing a strong offensive rebounder, adjusting to mismatches and scrambled defenses, and why the third player reaching the glass may matter more than adding a fourth or fifth. Eric shares observations from Division I tracking data, and Dan explains why transition numbers need to be checked against the film. The episode closes with a look at European teams and styles on the hosts’ watch lists.
What you will learn
How crashing five changes the message players receive about offensive rebounding.
Why low-side approaches, soft tags and early re-switches expose transition defense.
How a one second press can buy time for teammates to recover.
Where floor position and shot quality may justify more rebounding freedom.
Why actual participation matters more than the number of players assigned to crash.
How to separate transition possessions after turnovers from those after missed shots.
What to watch when opponents use early screens to disrupt tags after made baskets.
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Ross Hodge joins Slappin’ Glass to discuss defensive adaptability, teaching defensive decision making, and adjusting a no middle defense against modern basketball offenses. The trio explores how to prepare players for scramble situations, develop defensive feel, and defend the flat ball screens that challenge paint protection.
During Start, Sub, or Sit?!, the trio dives into offensive player development, including rim finishing, shot selection, passing, and drawing fouls. Hodge explains how better decisions create better finishes, why footwork and spacing matter for bigs, and how to help secondary playmakers avoid situations that demand difficult passes.
The trio also discusses zone offense, using step up ball screens and weak side screening to create advantages, and building practice plans that expose your offense to different defensive coverages. Hodge closes with his thoughts on investing in players, staff, and the people around your program.

Time Topic 
 |02:28  | Ross Hodge joins the conversation
 | 02:49  | Defensive adaptability and playing in the gray
 | 05:49  | Teaching through scrambles and disadvantaged situations
 | 08:25  | Personnel, peel switching, and defensive feel
 | 12:57  | Building habits before adding freedom
 | 17:38  | How North Texas protected the paint and limited threes
 | 20:19  | Adapting no middle against middle third attacks
 | 23:37  | Defending flat screens and adjusting the pickup point
 | 26:45  | Start, Sub, or Sit?!
 | 27:11  | Offensive puzzles: passing, finishing, and drawing fouls
 | 30:12  | Guard finishing and shot selection
 | 33:37  | Developing a big’s base, balance, and spacing
 | 36:56  | Helping secondary players become better passers
 | 39:24  | What defensive coaches learn from watching offense
 | 41:22  | Ranking screening actions against zones
 | 44:35  | Adjusting the offense to different zones
 | 46:38  | Practicing against other defenses
 | 49:38  | Using “punch” segments early in practice
 | 51:24  | Foul line playmakers and driving against zones
 | 53:49  | Best career investment: investing in people
 | 55:57  | Dan and Pat’s takeaways
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Brooks Savage has changed his offense several times since becoming a head coach. In this episode, the East Tennessee State coach explains how personnel, team strengths, and defensive identity shaped those decisions—and why he became more effective once he stopped trying to be different for its own sake.
Savage also shares how he builds a clear team identity through standards, recruiting, and consistent language; why he prefers short, repetitive practices built around a few priorities; and how his approach to offensive rebounding has shifted from tagging up to more selective crashing. He discusses the decision to play without a traditional center, how he attacks a late-game deficit, and why coaches should use timeouts when the game calls for it instead of saving them for an imagined final moment.
What You’ll Learn
How personnel and team strengths should shape an offense
Why a program’s identity starts with standards and informs recruiting
How to build culture through repeated language and daily expectations
Why Savage favors short, focused practices with consistent priorities
What his team learned by shifting from tagging up to crashing
Why ETSU chose to play without a traditional center
How he approaches pressing, lineups, and timeouts when trailing late
Timestamps
02:42 The evolution of Savage’s offense
07:54 Finding an edge through fundamentals
09:59 Choosing sets and preparing for opponents
12:03 How a set-heavy offense changes practice
15:02 Building practice around a team’s capacity
20:37 Moving from tagging up to crashing
24:29 Start, Sub, or Sit: identity and standards
28:58 Making culture real through language and behavior
32:00 Matching team identity to the university and community
33:52 Coaching players who fall below the standard
36:31 Creating a comeback by changing the game
40:02 Why ETSU plays without a traditional center
42:49 When to use timeouts
44:38 The best investment of Savage’s coaching career
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Tennessee Women’s Basketball Head Coach Kim Caldwell joins the podcast to detail the connected system behind her high-possession style of play.
Caldwell explains how her teams pursue a 20-shot advantage through forced turnovers, offensive rebounding, limiting their own turnovers, and getting to the foul line. She breaks down the habits that must be unlearned to play fast, how shot selection connects to floor balance, and why crashing four naturally establishes matchups for the press.
She also discusses subbing for fatigue rather than mistakes, giving defenders freedom within the run-and-jump, and the danger of introducing a Plan B that contradicts the team’s identity.
In Start, Sub, or Sit, Caldwell ranks communication, decision-making, and execution when players reach their physical limit. The conversation closes with her approach to full-court practices, eight-minute drills, conditioning, and choosing coaching jobs where winning is possible.
Timestamps
2:20 – Kim Caldwell joins the show
2:34 – The goal of creating 20 more shots
4:29 – Adjusting the shot-margin target by competition level
5:13 – Unteaching habits and training with a 12-second clock
6:33 – Defining a good shot within the system
7:41 – Preferred opponent shot profile
9:12 – Using defense to regain pace and momentum
10:47 – Substitution patterns and playing in short bursts
12:55 – Attacking teams that try to slow the game
14:36 – What Caldwell tracks during timeouts
16:49 – Crashing four and “building a house”
18:37 – Matching up and flowing into the run-and-jump
19:45 – Giving defenders freedom to err toward aggression
20:26 – Conviction, adaptation, and the danger of Plan B
23:04 – Protecting leads without abandoning pace
25:14 – Late-game shot selection and pressure adjustments
26:12 – Caldwell’s philosophy on calling timeouts
28:02 – Start, Sub, or Sit: Practice tipping points
30:12 – Player-to-player communication under fatigue
31:51 – Keeping chaos within the right boundaries
33:14 – Full-court practice and conditioning
35:03 – The eight-minute drill limit
36:46 – Finishing the final conversion of a drill
38:19 – Building practice plans with the staff
40:04 – Caldwell’s best career investment
41:39 – Slappin’ Glass takeaways
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