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Post by Dash on Mar 16, 2009 11:27:01 GMT -8
I'm very defensive minded. The main drill you should practice is called "Shell Drill". Unfortunately, its somewhat difficult to explain the true concepts of man defense on the internet. Things like jumping to the pass, getting on the wall, getting skinny through screens, not getting your face crossed. Thats things I need to show you in person otherwise you won't get a real idea on it. However, this drill is where there are 4 guys on defense and 4 dummy guys on offense. They pass it around and the defense gets into place acting like it was real game. Then you blow the whistle and the 4 dummy guys on offense actually start playing that way both your defense and offense get work. There are also different variations of this once you get more advanced.
But honestly, shell drill is the drill I'd do if I could only pick one.
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Post by Dash on Mar 16, 2009 11:29:10 GMT -8
I always set out to establish the respect of my players. Be harsh and stick to your guns. Make your players responsible for their actions. Don't be afraid to discipline your players when necessary. If you threaten a punishment make sure you go through with it. Also, I try to keep my practices very competitive even regarding the simplest of things. For example, a lot of players like to take 'one more shot' after you blow the whistle to gain their attention. I make it know to my players that if they take that 'one more shot' and miss they will run for it. Little things like that help keep your practices much more sharp. I always focus on defense initially. If a player is a weak on-ball defender then they simply will not cut it on my teams. At this level, defense can often be your best offense. Preach good, technically-sound defense and your team will be in every game. I spend probably the majority of my practices working on defense. Playing solid man defense will make any zone you decide to run even that much more effective. Preach defense. My team this past season was excellent defensively and thus the fast break became one of our main means of offense. At this level, you're probably best running a simple motion offense in the halfcourt. It's easy to teach and easy to learn. Think back. The coaches that you liked and remember from your childhood were probably those that were the hardest on you. You can still establish a bond with your players no matter how tough of a coach you prove to be. Don't be afraid to blow the whistle and line them up on the baseline. I don't know about that last part completely.. I still remember my 8th grade basketball year where we RAN NON STOP. I almost quit basketball because I got tired of running for people getting into trouble that had nothing to do with me. Everyone hated it and hated going to practice. It can be a fine line. |
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Post by WillC on Mar 16, 2009 11:31:51 GMT -8
How athletic is your team? Honestly, if you don't have a star scorer, the easiest way to score is to get into transition. The easiest way to get into transition is to force turnovers, and you do that through pressure defense (Whether you play a full court press, half court press, trapping half court defense, overaggressive in the passing lanes, etc). However, if your team is slow you might have some problems. This sounds like a good bit of advice. We have a relatively small team and, therefore, we're pretty quick on our feet (although hardly super athletic). I can imagine us playing a quick uptempo game with lots of fast breaks, where possible, and a slower motion offense when need be. Like I said, we have quite a deep team (deep with mediocrity!), which would allow us to exhaust our starting five and still have plenty of energy off the bench. Maybe some more sim-league-style pressing and trapping is what the doctor ordered  |
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Post by Dash on Mar 16, 2009 11:37:52 GMT -8
There are some great half court presses that could work, but again, unfortunately I can't fly down to England even though that'd be extremely cool. I've seen a great 1-3-1 press turn an average team with no D1 players into a top 5 team in the state of Texas. However, that can be a hard press to master. A 1-2-2 half court press is what you want to implement. Your most athletic guy is at the top of the press and tries to force the ball handler to go the sideline. As soon as he crosses half court you trap the crap out of him. Then everyone rotates. The rotation is EXTREMELY important because if one person screws up the other team is getting a layup if they are decent.
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Post by Marty on Mar 16, 2009 11:39:06 GMT -8
In highschool we ran the Flex offense. It's probably the basic of all basic offensive plays and you can basically be as "creative" as you want with it. www.coachesclipboard.net/FlexOffense.htmlThat's an example of it. The flex play is probably one of the most common offensive plays and the easiest for kids to learn(from my own experience) Defense obviously you'll want to play zone and make the kids learn to talk to each other on the court that's probably the biggest key to a zone defense. Honestly, I dislike the flex offense. Its a good thing to use I guess to transition into actual motion offense, but it gets a little stale. Teams eventually figure out what you're doing, and most players that age aren't smart enough to start slipping screens or making the defense pay for "guarding the play". There are so many variations to the flex offense you have infinite freedom to run what you want. It's basic, and is easy to learn. You get your kids to learn that THAN you move on to a motion offense. |
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Post by AllHailManiac on Mar 16, 2009 11:39:37 GMT -8
I always set out to establish the respect of my players. Be harsh and stick to your guns. Make your players responsible for their actions. Don't be afraid to discipline your players when necessary. If you threaten a punishment make sure you go through with it. Also, I try to keep my practices very competitive even regarding the simplest of things. For example, a lot of players like to take 'one more shot' after you blow the whistle to gain their attention. I make it know to my players that if they take that 'one more shot' and miss they will run for it. Little things like that help keep your practices much more sharp. I always focus on defense initially. If a player is a weak on-ball defender then they simply will not cut it on my teams. At this level, defense can often be your best offense. Preach good, technically-sound defense and your team will be in every game. I spend probably the majority of my practices working on defense. Playing solid man defense will make any zone you decide to run even that much more effective. Preach defense. My team this past season was excellent defensively and thus the fast break became one of our main means of offense. At this level, you're probably best running a simple motion offense in the halfcourt. It's easy to teach and easy to learn. Think back. The coaches that you liked and remember from your childhood were probably those that were the hardest on you. You can still establish a bond with your players no matter how tough of a coach you prove to be. Don't be afraid to blow the whistle and line them up on the baseline. I don't know about that last part completely.. I still remember my 8th grade basketball year where we RAN NON STOP. I almost quit basketball because I got tired of running for people getting into trouble that had nothing to do with me. Everyone hated it and hated going to practice. It can be a fine line. Yeah, well, one can certainly go overboard with it, haha. That's never good. A coach needs to find the right balance of discipline. |
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Post by Dash on Mar 16, 2009 11:40:02 GMT -8
A good thing about a 1-2-2 half court press is that you can play a 1-2-2 zone. Then you can act like you're not going to press as you set into your base 1-2-2, but then as soon as they cross you extend out the zone and play the same press essentially. And its only one thing to teach and master for them.
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Post by AllHailManiac on Mar 16, 2009 11:41:15 GMT -8
There are some great half court presses that could work, but again, unfortunately I can't fly down to England even though that'd be extremely cool. I've seen a great 1-3-1 press turn an average team with no D1 players into a top 5 team in the state of Texas. However, that can be a hard press to master. A 1-2-2 half court press is what you want to implement. Your most athletic guy is at the top of the press and tries to force the ball handler to go the sideline. As soon as he crosses half court you trap the crap out of him. Then everyone rotates. The rotation is EXTREMELY important because if one person screws up the other team is getting a layup if they are decent. I'm not a big fan of a half-court press. Any decent, slightly disciplined team can tear apart a half-court press unless you have some great athletes. |
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Post by Dash on Mar 16, 2009 11:44:12 GMT -8
Honestly, I dislike the flex offense. Its a good thing to use I guess to transition into actual motion offense, but it gets a little stale. Teams eventually figure out what you're doing, and most players that age aren't smart enough to start slipping screens or making the defense pay for "guarding the play". There are so many variations to the flex offense you have infinite freedom to run what you want. It's basic, and is easy to learn. You get your kids to learn that THAN you move on to a motion offense. I'm probably a little biased because I ran that my freshman year of high school and didn't feel is was very effective for us. It can be a good learning tool like I said though. You are going to want to learn two offenses for your team. One "man" offense and one "zone" offense. Try to learn a generic zone offense which will work again any zone so once again they only have to master one. |
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Post by Dash on Mar 16, 2009 11:47:13 GMT -8
There are some great half court presses that could work, but again, unfortunately I can't fly down to England even though that'd be extremely cool. I've seen a great 1-3-1 press turn an average team with no D1 players into a top 5 team in the state of Texas. However, that can be a hard press to master. A 1-2-2 half court press is what you want to implement. Your most athletic guy is at the top of the press and tries to force the ball handler to go the sideline. As soon as he crosses half court you trap the crap out of him. Then everyone rotates. The rotation is EXTREMELY important because if one person screws up the other team is getting a layup if they are decent. I'm not a big fan of a half-court press. Any decent, slightly disciplined team can tear apart a half-court press unless you have some great athletes. You'd be surprised at how many teams are undisciplined. Especially in England I'd almost guarantee that most teams will be undisciplined. It can be very effective. If they show they can beat it several times in a row, then you back off. Until then, you press the crap out of them. My high school team's fatal weakness was the press unfortunately. We didn't have point guards who could handle it well. |
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Post by Tigertecz on Mar 16, 2009 11:49:20 GMT -8
WATCH COACH CARTER!
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Post by AllHailManiac on Mar 16, 2009 11:50:12 GMT -8
I'm not a big fan of a half-court press. Any decent, slightly disciplined team can tear apart a half-court press unless you have some great athletes. You'd be surprised at how many teams are undisciplined. Especially in England I'd almost guarantee that most teams will be undisciplined. It can be very effective. If they show they can beat it several times in a row, then you back off. Until then, you press the crap out of them. My high school team's fatal weakness was the press unfortunately. We didn't have point guards who could handle it well. That's true. Will's team will probably be going up against a glut of inexperienced, undisciplined players. Will, you should watch Louisville on TV if you get the chance. They run the best full-court press right now in college basketball. Of course, you don't have a bunch of tall, athletic players like they do, haha, but it's still very effective. Run a full-court trap. It sounds like you at least have the bodies to plug in should your team get a little tired. Make sure your team is well conditioned though if you're planning on applying pressure throughout the whole game. And work on defense a lot! |
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Post by AllHailManiac on Mar 16, 2009 11:50:36 GMT -8
Tiger, STFU.
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Post by Dash on Mar 16, 2009 11:51:19 GMT -8
I'm sure thats exactly the kind of kids Will is going to be coaching haha.
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Post by AllHailManiac on Mar 16, 2009 11:53:59 GMT -8
I'm sure thats exactly the kind of kids Will is going to be coaching haha. I've heard Will has recruited Earl Clark and Terrence Williams to play for him. |
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