This is an useful Product for me and my Team.

i wanted to read the entire e-book before writing a customer review.
I have now a new title for the book : HOW TO TEACH TEACHING THE MOTION OFFENSE !
just like the motion, your book starts with the skills, continues with the rules and ends bij giving the opportunities to the readers.

thanks for that

coach chris
Mechelen Belgium

Great coaching tool. We have implemented this system and are using with our youth league team ages 11,12,&13. I really like the drills and the offensive sets. We have our first game Saturday Nov. 15th and I am very excited to see how well it works in game situations. We have scrimmaged 14 year olds using the ofense and had some success!

Great Book. it is very good at explaining the motion offense and how to teach it.

I would purchase it again

Hi,I am Martin Chmel from Prague,Czech republic. I have started teaching 4out 1 in motion offense . This book is for me the best I have found to educate myself first. All you produce with Don Kelbick is of a great value for me

I agree with a previous reviewer in that this was just as good of read on how to teach the Motion Offense as it is on how to run it. This was also very honest in whether your team should run a Motion Offense or not. I am not ready to give up control so will not run it at this time but I'm sure at some point I will have the depth of players to be able to run this.

I've been running a motion offence for the pass 14 years with bantam aged (12-13 year olds) girls and boys in a competitive league. This book reinforced my believe that coaching skills and drills; looking and reinforcing the process and not just the results; is definitely the way to go.
There is no greater motivator for kids to want to come to games and practices, than knowing that they are part of offence, no matter what their limitations may be.

I pickup up so many little gems in this book that I'm totally reinvigorated about the whole motion concept.

Good stuff.

The book was very helpful. I have been looking for comprehensive explanation of how to run a motion offense. Your book really helped. I look forward to putting the concepts to work on the court this season.

good basic way to teach the kids how to run a motion offense. Drills are easy to use.
Great book

I've been an advocate of the motion offense ever since I started coaching kids. I could never get all of the kids to remember set plays, and even if I did, if the play broke down in a game I could tell they never knew what to do next. So I gave up on plays and just started teaching motion. I've had success with it and most kids love it. It gets everyone involved. Now with this book, I've got the help I've always wanted to improve on what I've already been doing. It's great!

I thought the book broke down the motion concept well. It has helped me adjust my approach to teaching this offense.
I would be helpful if you had a section dedicated to novice coaches where you describe and emphasize the main points of motion that we ourselves need to understand and teach.
An earlier reviewer stated he's not ready to give up control yet. Well, I've tried the set play approach and all hell usually breaks loose after the 2nd pass. Your concept of motion offense is the answer to my concerns.

The e-book was great and very informative.I have a questiopn about it though.What is the best break to run to get into the 4 out 1 in or 3 out 2 in motion.
Thanks,Charlie

The motion offence book is not only good for its own sake but for anyone who advocate the concept, the philosophy and the purpose for which it is intended in playing.

As a coach, am not ready at this time to surrender most of what I want my players in our team to do in running our offense plays. I am of the opinion that my function as a coach is to teach, direct and motivate my players in each and every practice we do and all games we play.

Therefore, players must listen, follow and implement what the coach wanted them to execute in accordance with the kind of plays they will do. Beside, all offensive plays are dictated by the type of defensive plays that opponents put in each game. So, the motion offense is one among the various modes of offense plays that a coach can use as a matter of strategy or tactic in outplaying its opponents.


Overall, the book is a good stuff, informative and helpful to all coaches and players particularly the youth.

Useful tool but wish it devoted some more time to the 5 out open post motion.

This is a great book. Easy to understand and I believe it will be easy to introduce to my team this coming season. The drills are good teaching and building blocks. I believe any coach interested in using motion ofense could benefit from this book. Thanks again.

I coach 10-13 & 7-9 at the local YMCA. There's something in this book for every age group. Good stuff.

I coach a 5th and 6th grade girls team This is the 3rd season we have been togather. I have looked for an offense to teach the girls how to play off each other. They have a hard time running plays when the first pass in not there. We have started this season 5-0, winning our first tournament and our first league game . We are beating the other teams by at least 22 points. I have more time to work on fundamentals and the girls really enjoy the options that they have. We still have along way to go, but the book was great and who doesn't like to win. Keep up the good work! I look forward to more of your insight.

Very good information. One improvement would be to show some additional examples of how to run each offense.

Nice and useful book.
Some more examples of 5/5 situations
should be useful.

Great book on teaching the basics of the motion offense to youth. Informative, useful, and easy to apply drills. I want my players to see the floor and not be so mechanical. This book has already made a difference for us.

another excellent book

Very helpful stuff, thank you.

This is definitely a useful book. It is a book that you have to pay attention to every point and not go forward until you have a comprehension of what is being said. What I like most about the book is that it gives you an understanding of how the motion offense should be taught.

I did not purchase the book in time to implement the system for this year. I have a all freshman J.V. Girls team and I'm not comfortable with giving them total control of the offense at this time. I will try it in my summer program and see how the kids adapt.

Everything I have read in the instruction book makes sense and will make structuring practices much simpler. I am incorporating the motion offense with 3rd and 4th grade girls. It will be a little harder but I can instill the basics of spacing, cutting, and screening with the concepts and drills provided. Have you thought about a video presentation for the Motion Offense? Thanks!!

The Motion Offense instruction book is simply outstanding. There are so many positive things to say about it that I do not have the time to write about them. However, let me just state that if you are coaching/teaching basketball at any level, I highly recommend that you get this book. It will make teachuing basketball fun once again for you and the players. It will especially make playing fun for the players.

Finally, I will say that the men at MO are awesome, helpful and willing to go beyond the call of duty to help you. Thanks, to all of you at MO, you are the BEST!

Sincerely, Smiley Verduzco

Excellent teaching tool. The drills that are included have been a great help to me as I convert from our pattern offense to a true motion offense.

This book is an excellent tool for braking down, and establishing a winning motion offense.

This book was very helpful in introducing concepts to our team of 8th grade girls. They are a pretty talented team and the 4-1 offense fits their style of play. Most teams zone us but I can't wait for the teams to play us man to man. It will be fun to sit back and watch them play.

I thought the motion offense book was well worth the money. I was already familiar with the concepts of motion, but the part that was eye opening for me was the concept of the rules. I can still teach the same concepts of motion, but without the limitations of a set offense. I think it will be very "freeing" for my players.

We just finished up the season, so I plan to implement this motion system of rules next season with my 7th grade girls.

Thanks for the information! Good stuff.

Hi,

I think this book is very helpful. It 's nothing revolutionary but reminds a lot of simple concepts to be put together and constitute a practicle example of a general basket- ball philosophy.
Congratulations.

This is a treasure I am holding in my hands. Formely, i used to run "pass and cut" with 14-15 and it worked. Your e-book will be really helpfull for building an offense against zone def 3-2.
Thanks, you are TEACHERS.

Great b-ball basics for the 10yr. old girls youth league I coach in. Started using it right away and it took 2 full games for them to get it. Had to scale it way down to pass and screen away, then all of the sudden two ten year olds asked for another option that they could use? Go figure, but they love it and are very excited running it. A great thing I like for me is just letting them go. I am normally a very vocal teacher on instructions during the game. But since the first game, have just been standing back during game action and enjoying the kids' getting to it. It's was a strange feeling at first, but I just love it! The team and I cannot wait for the second half of the season, and we'll be adding more and more as they need it. Thanks a million J & J, Tom G.

I like the book alot. I will be coaching a 5th grade girls team next year and I want to put the motion offense in. This book has helped me and i will read it many times until I get it. I would recommend this to anyone who is starting out coaching youth basketball and wants to teach the motion offense.

Great resource. I only wish I had the information before our first practice this season. With this e-book, I'll be better prepared for next season.
I coach 8/9/10 year old girls in a rec league. Getting them in to the "motion" state-of-mind has been just a little difficult. Keeping good spacing on the floor has been my toughest challenge.

GREAT BOOK FOR A COACH WHO HAS NEVER RUN MOTION OFFENSE, DRILLS WERE MORE COMPLICATED THAN THEY NEEDED TO BE, THE MOST IMPORTANT CONCEPT IN THE BOOK WAS TO MANY RULES RUIN THE OFFENSE.

great e book on offense. it jibe with my style in teaching skills and coaching players though in actuallity, after practice and talking out what each one should do during games, my role is reduced to reminding them of their job on the floor while playing.

as we moved from our school system to the club system this coming spring and summer, we will incorporate more pecisely what were presented in the e book on offense based on what the team requirements and needs in terms of new additional players who must also conform with what the others are doing during games like reading, reacting, cutting, screening, curling and related motion movements.

thanks a lot.

It was Very helpfull, easy to learn and teach.

The Motion Offense was an easy read. This is our first year implementing the Motion Offense and I found the information very helpful and detailed. I would recommend it to any Coach in America..

I was very pleased with this coaching manual. I have used these ideas / drills with two teams with excellent success.

This was a phenomenal eBook on the motion offense. As a rookie head coach of a 5th grade AAU team, it really opened my eyes to see coaching in a different light. I have found myself trying to incorporate drills that directly will benefit our team's offense. Most importantly it allows me to give our team certain freedom, but being a youth coach I am able to hold a pretty tight reign on that freedom. A great book.

the ebook is a must have for coaches looking to install a motion offense for any age group. It takes all the guess work out and makes it easy by going step by step and shows you motion drills to help players with their execution of the offense. I highly recommend this book for all coaches.

Hi!
I really liked this book. It helped me a lot with my 2nd grade basketball team. We all liked it and it helped the team score more points during our games. Thank you for all the great stuff you guys come up with.

I coach Elementary school boys at a Christian School. Years ago, I learned that plays fall apart as soon as they are challenged. The Motion Offense teaches concepts. The boys see the court and react to what the defense is doing or not doing. I have taken what I feel is the most important things in the book and made them part of our program. Thanks.

So far I really like what I have put into place we are just getting ready to start our season so I'm looking forward to seeing the results. The boys have a hard time getting adjusted to the fact they have freedom to go where they want to instead if me telling them

This eBook is fantastic. I really like the way the offense is explained. As a coach, it relieves me of the burden of finding a system for the kids on offense. I hate seeing the kids stand around and not really do anything. We are still just learning the motion offense, but I know that the players will do just fine. This offense dovetails nicely with my belief that the coach has to let the players play on their own as much as possible.

I coach middle school girls and the team is very excited about using the motion offense. Last year the team used a zone offense and unless they had the skills to shoot extremely well, they were left out in the cold. This offense makes it much easier for everyone to contribute and score. One word of caution: Don't teach too much too early. One of my favorite sayings is "slow is fast".

The drills are great as is the advice...I am still reading the book, but have already used many of the ideas with my 6th grade boys ! Many thanks,

Brian

Thank you very much for this fantastic ebook! I have started to use the simple rules that you stated and in the first match with it my u16's wiped the floor with the opposition. We did have a slight height advantage, but the pass and move to space helped open up so much floor that my post players were just picking off the easy lay-ups and my guards were putting shots down left right and centre. I have another match with the u19's on Thursday and will use the same tactics, hopefully with the same results.

Thanks again, your books have made me a better coach, and my teams better players.

Col

The motion offense is great! We have implemented this offense for our team in our house league as well as our all-star team; both teams are 10 and 11 year olds. Our house league team had an informal scrimmage last night (no clock about 30 minutes playing time) and we won 34 to 12. We can't wait to see how the all-star team performs!

We have started simple; a few cuts, a few rules, and basically let the kids play basketball. Best of all no set plays to remember. Our limited practice time is spent teaching the kids fundamentals like dribbling, shooting, passing, cutting, and screening. Both coaches like the system and the kids love the motion offense.

Drew

I've recently finished reading the Motion Offense ebook. In general, I think it's great! Gives a very detailed approach to implementing this offense. I coach 1st and 2nd graders in a developmental league (in a small suburban area) that only allows one 2-hour practice a week and only 3 practices before the first game. The ebook has a special section entitled "Advice for Youth Coaches," which is pretty good. But, a lot of the information in the ebook cannot be used with this age group. So, I have to read it all and then distill it down to what I can use. I wish there was a separate ebook that covered everything step-by-step for coaching youth basketball specifically focusing on the unique characteristics of coaching this age group.

This is a great book! Very easy to understand and introduce to my team. The drills are great teaching tools and I used them as building blocks for my offense. I kept things simple with just three rules on offense, no set plays, and M2M defense.

We are not a powerhouse by any measure but my team went from averaging 16 points a game to 24! Huge in youth basketball.

All 10 of my girls play a lot of minutes due to the constant motion I require. The kids love playing this style of offense because every girl knows she has an opportunity to score. I believe any coach interested in using motion ofense could benefit from this book. Thanks again.

A lot of good information, but lacking in ideas on how best to use motion when facing a zone defense.

I found the book was very good at explaining the different concepts of the offense and helping me as a coach understand the concepts better myself so that I could explain and teach my players better. I was coaching a 10 year old youth league team. The lack of structure was difficult for them and in the end we created structured movements based on the motion offense which helped them tremendously. By the end of the season, they were beginning to understand what option to do based on what the defense did. It is a difficult offense for inexperienced 10 year olds with only 2 hours of practice per week to grasp but I do agree that they will be better players next year for having learned it this year.

Its like te other e-books aggain a wunderfull tool to work with thx

My team this year had only 3 returning players, so we were a little short on the bench. We beat some pretty good teams, and after the coachees asked me what offense I was running, because they could never figure out what was coming next. The guys loved it, because they could just go out and play, and had the most fun they ever had playing basketball. Thanks for such great products!

I think the book is very thorough in how it explains the offense but I am finding it difficult to get my kids to understand the concept of moving to space and to even remember what we practice once the whistle blows. we will keep working at it and hopefully by the end of the year they will be doing better, not that 2-2 is bad but it is shear athleticism and will that is winning the day. I think a little more info on how to get players to understand what is going on would be great.

Jeff,

I have recently finished reading Don Kelbick's ebooks on motion offense as well as the motion offense drill manual that supports the offense. Both books are extremely comprehensive re: this offense and, without a doubt, could easily be adapted for younger, less experienced players.

The ebook information will allow a coach (regardless of his level of expertise in coaching basketball) to learn quite a bit about this fluid attack and to structure his offense to best meet and feature the skills of his players.

The information is well thought out, easily presented, and comprehensive. In addition, as you initially stated to me, it is not a playbook for the motion offense but rather a framework of how to install the offense in addition to being a sound, troubleshooting guide.

This outstanding resource can easily be implemented into any basketball philosophy - deliberate/patient, up-tempo, open post, single post (low or high), or double post. Its information can easily be adjusted to attack a variety of defensive looks - man to man, zone, combination, or match-up.

This is a tremendous resource for any basketball coach. Keep up the great work.

All the best to your team, your family, and you.

Sincerely,

Michael O'Donnell/Grantsburg, Wisconsin

Great book. Using the motion offense with a 6th.grade boys team. In the past I have used pass and screen away only (passive offense) set plays (kids forget or turn the ball over) and flex (difficult for youth). This book will change the way I coach from now on. Kids are never standing and watching, Kids are cutting for layups. Most off all it teaches to "just play basketball".

Really good book. I read through the entire book on my first sitting. I am coaching a group of third grade boys and just began installing this philosophy over the past few weeks. We are definitely going to experience some growing pains in getting there, but I'm convinced after just a short time that this is the best way to help develop better basketball players.

We were running some pretty simple "pass and cut through or screen away" offenses with more defined plays and positions prior to this, and the reality is that we would make one or two passes and then (if we still had possession of the ball) one of our two "scorers" would create a scoring opportunity on his own.

This offense is allowing the other boys on the team to understand that by moving around and cutting and screening they can help create better scoring opportunities for the boys who already do most of the scoring IN ADDITION TO creating much better scoring opportunities for themselves.

I especially liked the descriptions and examples of the 2-on-2 and 3-on-3 drills.

Overall a very good book, although I felt it was a bit expensive for what I got (which is why I gave it 4 stars and not 5).

The book was good. It cleared up a lot for me because I had been struggling to put all the pieces together, so to speak, to incorporate the motion into everything we do in practice. I know I'm on the right track now.

I had been running some of the drills and philosophies prior to reading the book, but was having difficulties putting it all together. After reading through the book and going over a few things, I focused an entire practice on the rules, philosophies and drills. We (13U girls) had a game the next day, so I decided to run motion for the whole game. I was impressed by the outcome. The offense ran much more smooth and the girls weren't rushing and panicing like usual. Now, I just need to work even more shooting in practice b/c we couldn't hit any of the open shots we had...

The only issue I'm having is the cost. It was pretty expensive for an E-book. I bought it thinking that there must really be a reason why it's so expensive. The book was decent, but I'm still questioning the cost. I guess throwing in the book of drills makes it a little more paletable...

I coach 7th and 8th grade boys and used the suggestions in the motion offense e book. The boys began to react instinctively to different situations and it was a pleasure to watch. I think the biggest asset from using motion was to not see them not play like robots and to have fun

I am excited to see how this helps my junior high and High School girls. I love the fact that even the breakdown drills I can be workin on offense and deffense at the same time. I also love that it will continue on my job of developing basketball IQ and increase the potential of awareness of opportunities on the floor.
thanks for your help.
I have been a assistant coach for boys. from elementary to college the last 7-10 years. This is my first year as a head coach and working with HS girls. and they came off of last season with a 2-21 season. 4 different coaches the last 5 years. Alot of hurt to deal with and I hope to be a part of a journey they see their potential and great value.
Coach G