http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/thoughts-on-the-dribble-drive-motion/ Basketball Coaching Tips, Training Tips, and Strategy Thu, 17 May 2012 02:12:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/thoughts-on-the-dribble-drive-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Ron Jess Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:45:31 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/test-with-new-perm/#comment-93 I would agree with the author and commenter, I have been running this with high school girls for quite some time. I believe the three point shot has made this much more effective in recent years. One thing I did right away when we had a 23-1 season was try to understand how to effectively defend it, because I knew it was going to start showing up against us. We have found against real athletic teams "good" teams you want to try zone early to see how they well the opponent can handle a sagging type 2-3 or 1-2-2 (maybe even an old style box and one defense so you at least have the top of the 3 point circle covered)Many times high school teams can't shoot well enough to really play it effectively. I don't really like to play a strait up zone defense unless I'm ahead in a game, but against a good driving team who is running this offense you can do better in a zone even when behind. Many times we get ahead by 10 or so points and they feel they need to apply pressure to get in the game, it just ends up opening up more lanes to the basket. As a final comment I would say as a high school coach it has made me look more at speed and conditioning when we have tryouts, it pretty hard to run this offense with the slower big kids, or kids who are not in shape. I would agree with the author and commenter, I have been running this with high school girls for quite some time. I believe the three point shot has made this much more effective in recent years. One thing I did right away when we had a 23-1 season was try to understand how to effectively defend it, because I knew it was going to start showing up against us. We have found against real athletic teams “good” teams you want to try zone early to see how they well the opponent can handle a sagging type 2-3 or 1-2-2 (maybe even an old style box and one defense so you at least have the top of the 3 point circle covered)Many times high school teams can’t shoot well enough to really play it effectively. I don’t really like to play a strait up zone defense unless I’m ahead in a game, but against a good driving team who is running this offense you can do better in a zone even when behind. Many times we get ahead by 10 or so points and they feel they need to apply pressure to get in the game, it just ends up opening up more lanes to the basket. As a final comment I would say as a high school coach it has made me look more at speed and conditioning when we have tryouts, it pretty hard to run this offense with the slower big kids, or kids who are not in shape.

]]> http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/thoughts-on-the-dribble-drive-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-6 steve dement Tue, 13 May 2008 01:55:12 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/test-with-new-perm/#comment-6 bingo!! I have called it "spread" for years, and run my version by keeping the post players in the short corners (unless I am playing with 5 perimeter players). same basic cuts, lots of variations off of this and can really be a problem for a team that doesn't rotate well on defense. bingo!! I have called it “spread” for years, and run my version by keeping the post players in the short corners (unless I am playing with 5 perimeter players). same basic cuts, lots of variations off of this and can really be a problem for a team that doesn’t rotate well on defense.

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