Principles of team sports transcends multiple sports and is why coaches look at other sports to see how they apply them and how they could do the same to their benefit.
Newly-crowned NBA Champs the Boston Celtics' head coach Joe Mazzulla met with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola just before the NBA Finals who Mazzulla labelled "the best coach at any level, in any sport."
AFL coaches are regularly taking off-season trips overseas to get an inside look at other sports and how they are coached, trained and managed.
I saw this clip of Mazzulla coaching his Celtics in the conference semi-finals v Cleveland and he talks about what we call slow play in Aussie Rules Football where says (paraphrasing)"
"Play fast when we have the number advantage but if it’s not even then wait 3secs so we can get to our spacing...you can't play fast when it’s even numbers as you need to give everyone else time to manipulate space/time"
Coaching junior footy this year and seeing A LOT of junior footy prior to that, slow play is a pretty much existent and is barely coached and then you see this in senior grades of football when all they've been taught is to go fast, all the time.
We were doing kick outs at training prior to finding this video and I was pretty much saying the same thing to the kicker - walk to the goal square line and wait - wait for your teammates to start moving to see if any of them can become open enough to kick to and we're a probable chance of maintaining possession. Someone who provides an easy kick from you, and an easy mark for them, as we can always go long to a contest when that doesn't eventuate.
Mazzulla's comments do differ slightly from football because if we have a dominant marking option then we would like to get them in 1v0's/1v1's but we also still want other numbers around them to be able to contest the ball on the ground, hold defensive structure behind the ball etc so the rebound from the opposition doesn't just bypass our players caught in the middle of transition.
Sydney are the kings of slow play and have been for a while now and it's all geared to get set up how they want in front and behind the ball, what I simply coin "6/6/6", to stay connected through all 3 lines, and to have the option of utilising as many of our 18 players on the ground at all times.
Here are some videos showing it in action.
#1 - FORWARD HALF SLOW PLAY...
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