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Dan Fitzpatrick

3 months

⬇️ HALF COURT ELBOW ACTION SERIES ⬇️ In this thread, I break down the Elbow Action Series. A great series for team’s looking for creative scoring options out of simple actions ‼️

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

I studied five of the nation's most efficient offenses from last season (according to Ken Pom): #2 Alabama, #11 Arizona, #14 BYU, #19 Houston, and #21 Marquette. All 5 teams excelled offensively in the following areas: 🏀 Early offense execution 🏀 Floor spacing principles

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Fired up for year 2 with Coach Pitino and our staff. Grateful for the opportunity to continue my GA tenure with him and the rest of the guys at St. John’s. Can’t wait for November 💯

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Off season player development with new Indiana Pacers signee Cole Swider ( @coleswider21 ). 3 In-a-row game shot sequence.

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Unbelievable opportunity to represent @IonaGaelsMBB everyday. An unparalleled learning environment and commitment to winning. Our players have reached new levels in their work ethic and attention to detail this off season - ready to see where it all takes us 🤝‼️

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Elbow Action has been a staple of Arizona’s half court offense for the past few seasons. The action starts with an elbow rub screen and lifts into a slot ball screen. The key - is not the action itself - but how it allows Arizona to play with proper spacing.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

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BYU & Alabama mastered using the wide screen to generate high % 3P opportunities. This was their primary early offense action with balanced floor spacing & the big trailing the action.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

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The beauty of Elbow Action is how easy it is to build off of it. Arizona’s favorite counter was to slip the slot ball screen into a wide screen. Pelle Larson shows how effective a player who can make reads and take advantage of spacing can be in this action.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

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This quick hitter from Alabama is a perfect counter to the fade action above. Bama clears out the weak side corner (similarly to Houston) & motions into fade action. They then lift the strong side big for an outside ball screen, opening a lane for a slip to the rim.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

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Alabama's counter tendency was to re-screen into a middle ball screen. They maintain their spacing throughout the action, creating easy dribble drive and lob chances in the middle of the floor. In the third clip, South Carolina over helps on the tag, opening up a corner 3.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

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Here, Houston runs a simple, yet killer counter out of Elbow Action. After executing the initial rub, they clear out the weak side corner & run L.J. Cryer off a fade from what would usually be the big setting the slot ball screen. Incredibly hard to guard.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

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Here, BYU utilizes a pitch back counter following the wide screen. They naturally flow out of the pitch action back into their balanced floor spacing, allowing the lob to be executed.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

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2 years

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Cole Swider

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2 years

Year 1, Blessed. 💜💛

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Dan Fitzpatrick

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3 months

HI-LO’s are another great counter that you can easily implement out of Elbow Action. In this clip, Oumar Ballo slips out of the slot ball screen - but instead of setting a wide screen - cuts to the rim for a low post seal.

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2 months

It was a privilege and a pleasure to get to witness DJ’s development first-hand the past two seasons. He has a long successful career ahead of him. Stud worker @Djenkinss5

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2 months

St. John's guard Daniss Jenkins has agreed on a two-way deal with the Pistons, source tells ESPN.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

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1 year

Good things come to those who work hard 🤷🏻‍♂️ #Knowyourworth

Dom Samangy

@DSamangy

1 year

Dream come true & incredibly grateful to be joining the New Orleans Pelicans as their Basketball Analytics Coordinator. Will forever be thankful to everyone who helped me get to this position !! Time to work !! @PelicansNBA

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

ZOOM action is another early offense action to utilize when you have balanced floor spacing & a trailing big. Nobody flowed into this better last year than BYU. Balancing the floor with a passing big at the top of the key & shooters on both sides leaves back doors wide open.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

1 year

I am incredibly grateful to have learned under the leadership of Coach Boeheim for four years. I would not be anywhere close to where I am today without his guidance, and I congratulate him on a tremendous career.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Houston also runs this great stagger counter out of their Elbow Action series. Off of the rub screen, they run quick pitch action into a stagger away.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Here, Marquette & Alabama show case how they resort to a drag or low ball screen when they have unbalanced spacing. Notice how the 3 players on the overload side stay wide, leaving open driving lanes for the ball handler.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Creative special from Indiana State that you can run as an ATO out of this series. Following the rub screen, they beautifully execute Hammer Action to get their career 38% 3P shooter a wide open corner 3.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Marquette builds off of the reject with a deadly "45" cut. The cut is automatically cued by the ball-handler rejecting the ball screen. Notice, however, how the cutter maintains the spacing by waiting for the perfect moment to initiate his cut.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Floor spacing - especially in early offense scenarios - will not always be perfect. All of the aforementioned teams have mastered a non-verbal understanding amongst each other of what actions to run into when they overload one side in transition. Continued thread below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

In this clip, Marquette utilizes Oso Igodhoro to get into ZOOM action with him as the primary ball handler. Despite the location of the ball, the big (Oso) is still behind the rest of the action with even floor spacing ahead of him, allowing for natural flow into ZOOM action.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

In past years, Arizona has initiated the slip into a wide screen with a zipper cut, but ultimately, the action remains the same. In ‘22-‘23, Courtney Ramey utilized the wide screen almost identically to Pelle Larsson. He curls in the first clip, then plays behind in the second.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

A couple of options from Alabama when the guard refuses the wide screen and makes a cut thru. The second clip is run in the half court, but plays out of the same spacing as the above early offense clips.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

The double high ball screen was another routine action for Arizona in the Elbow series. The guard coming off of the rub executes a “ghost” before the big sets a step-up outside ball screen. Timing is what makes it appear as a double high ball screen.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Using the trailing big to set the ball screen puts the on-ball defender at a massive disadvantage. They will automatically be below the screen, giving the ball-handler "play-behind" 3 opportunities.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Defenses will eventually get accustomed to the action & pick up on the "ghost" cut as an initiator for the drag / low ball screen. When they do, the ball-handler can look to keep and make a quick attack downhill.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Racing into this action will force the overload side defenders to have to make a QUICK decision. Do they tag the role? Stunt on the drive? Or stay home on the shooter?

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

These 5 teams finished the season with a combined record of 134-47 (.740). All 5 made the NCAA Tournament, with 4 of the 5 reaching the Sweet 16. Simple wins.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

In all of the above early offense clips, the big is trailing into the action. But what if the big is ahead of the action? Arizona dominated the efficiency landscape by utilizing early offense post seals and above the foul line spacing to create high % looks for Oumar Ballo.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

This is a direct counter to the clip above. Cryer gets into fire action and comes back off the wide screen himself. They don’t score off the set, but get a key switch that Cryer ultimately takes advantage of. Great job of re-spacing after failing to score at first.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

It spreads. Gael nation was on fire tonight. Thank you to all the students and fans who showed out big time 💯

Jon Rothstein

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2 years

Rick Pitino has a star in Daniss Jenkins, who easily could have played for his head coach at Louisville. Iona over Saint Louis by 22 in New Rochelle. A great win for the Gaels. A brutal loss for the Atlantic 10.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

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Here, Marquette & Alabama show how they don't strictly play out of drag / low ball screens when they run into overload spacing. Their guards have the ability to be creative and play 2-MAN GAME out of the same spacing they use for what would typically be a ball screen.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Resorting to a drag or low ball screen when you have unbalanced floor spacing plays perfectly for guards who can effectively attack out of rejects. The nature of the spacing will put the overload side defenders in a position where they're late to help.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Here, we see another great special from Indiana State that plays perfectly out of the elbow series. Defender gets pulled further down the paint helping on the back screen, and is ultimately late chasing #3 off the dribble hand off.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Marquette will occasionally get into their early offense spacing a little differently. They motion from balanced spacing into unbalanced spacing by "ghosting" the extra ball-side man thru. The action still resorts back to the same drag / low ball screen.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Notice in both of these clips how this "ghost" action allows you to run your ball screen further below the foul line. This makes it easier to exploit help principles and attack the opposite side corner.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

If you're like Marquette, and have a big that can attack well off the bounce, you can utilize the "ghost" action to create clear out opportunities. This is essentially the same 2-MAN GAME that Marquette and Alabama flowed into earlier out of their unbalanced spacing.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

It's harder to find creative actions that lead to a lot of options when the big is ahead. But this "twist" (outside) ball screen action does a great job of pulling the defending big out of the paint and allowing the ball-handler to reject back into an open middle driving lane.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 years

Had the opportunity to spend a week checking out @BoeheimsArmy training camp earlier this month. Flash forward a few weeks and I’m getting to watch that same group lift @thetournament trophy and bring home $1 MILLION for the ‘Cuse.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 years

@DSamangy Looks like your manager game chart

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Houston is elite at running early offense drag ball screens out of "dunker" spacing. This type of unbalanced floor spacing pulls a player from the overload side off the perimeter & into the dunker spot. It gives passing options to teams who play with two non shooting bigs.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

30 days

2 in-a-row series, DHO read into a separation 3.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 years

@DSamangy You’re so different bro

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

30 days

3 in-a-row off the dribble game shot sequence.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 years

@DSamangy No one wants to see us in March!... a lot of fun watching this group

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

30 days

Contested touch shot work.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

30 days

4 in-a-row game shot sequence.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

@DSamangy Feel like an awesome next step to this (at any level) would be taking players that you have access to over the off-season and tracking their workout data to see how overtime different off-season development plans translate to in season performance.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

Hynes center atmosphere was unbelievable tonight… thank you Gael nation ! 1-0

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 years

@DSamangy You’re not in class, you’re not

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

This is a direct counter to the clip above. Cryer gets into fire action and comes back off the wide screen himself. They don't score out of the set, but get a key switch that Cryer ultimately takes advantage of. Great job of re-spacing after failing to score at first.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

“To be willing at any moment to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become.”

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

1 year

@JoggersAndSatay My man C-Wood! Best out there 💯

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

This quick hitter from Alabama is a perfect counter to the fade action above. Alabama clears out the weak side corner (similarly to Houston) & motions into fade action. They then lift the strong side big for an outside ball screen, opening up an uncontested slip to the rim.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

The New York Giants are undefeated.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

The double high ball screen was another routine action for Arizona in the Elbow series. The guard coming off of the rub executes a "ghost" before the big sets a step-up outside ball screen. Timing is what makes it appear as a double high ball screen.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 years

Shoutout @KevinBelbey for building Boeheim’s Army from the ground up and guys like @ED23HOOPS for seeing the team’s progression all the way through to a championship 🏆

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

@CollHoopsChat @Gaelforce80 @IonaGaelsMBB Thank you!

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

@MaesKonstantin1 @RealPitino @IonaGaelsMBB It was a pleasure having you coach!

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Dan Fitzpatrick

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2 years

@DSamangy @IonaGaelsMBB 🫡🤝

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Dan Fitzpatrick

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2 years

Heisman

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2 years

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Dan Fitzpatrick

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2 years

@Titanee @Gaelforce80 @IonaGaelsMBB Thank you!

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Dan Fitzpatrick

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2 years

@Gaelforce80 @thedunk34 @IonaGaelsMBB You bet !

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

HI-LO's are another great counter that you can easily implement out of Elbow Action. In this clip, Oumar Ballo slips out of the slot ball screen - but instead of setting a wide screen - cuts to the rim for a low post seal.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

@Eugenetiwat_ @IonaGaelsMBB Young goat keep working

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Houston also runs this great stagger counter out of their Elbow Action series. Off of the rub screen, they run quick pitch action into a stagger away.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

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2 years

@coleswider21 Chasing greatness together 🤝💯

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

@jason1martinez Right back at you J!

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Dan Fitzpatrick

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3 years

@DSamangy Randall

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

@aakatsan Thank you for everything you taught me - but in regards to this “cooking”…. I think your memory misleads your

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

In past years, Arizona has initiated the slip into a wide screen with a zipper cut, but ultimately, the action remains the same. In '22-'23, Courtney Ramey utilized the wide screen almost identically to Pelle Larsson. He curls the first clip, then plays behind in the second.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

3 months

Here, Houston runs a simple, yet lethal counter out of basic Elbow Action. After executing the initial rub, they clear out the weak side corner & run L.J. Cryer off a fade from what would usually be the big setting the slot ball screen. Incredibly hard to guard.

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Dan Fitzpatrick

@coachfitzNY

2 years

@DSamangy @leegerstman is this you ?

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