Your best player picks up their 2nd foul with 6:30 left in the 1st half. Do you leave them in or sit them, and what factors decide it for you? Is it an automatic sub, situational, or never coming out? What matters more: protecting a player from foul trouble or trusting them to adjust? Does this change if it’s a conference game vs a must-win game?

I love Xs and Os. I love actions, counters, and beautifully choreographed sets. And plays like this from Kansas look incredible. It is nasty. The timing, the spacing, the deception. As a coach, your brain immediately lights up watching it. But every time I see something like this, I also have two questions running in the back of my head: - How much practice time did this take - How many times are you actually going to run this in a game? Because here is the reality. Most of these super detailed, intricate actions end up producing the same thing a lot of simpler offense does: a contested shot or a difficult shot of sorts. And that does not mean the set is bad. It just means that complexity does not automatically equal efficiency. At the college level, especially at a place like Kansas, they have far more practice time, far more reps, and far more buy-in to install and maintain actions like this. That context matters a lot. So yes, marvel at it. Appreciate it. Learn concepts from it. But do not watch plays like this and immediately think, “Yeah, let me go run that with my team.” For youth and high school programs, practice time is precious. Your return on investment is almost always better spent on spacing, decision-making, advantages, and simple actions your players can execute under pressure. Cool sets look awesome on film. Winning basketball usually comes from keeping things simple on offense.