{"id":58,"date":"2008-12-22T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/should-youth-coaches-avoid-plays-and-patterned-offenses\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T20:52:16","slug":"should-youth-coaches-avoid-plays-and-patterned-offenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/should-youth-coaches-avoid-plays-and-patterned-offenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Youth Coaches AVOID Plays and Patterned Offenses?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year I coached two teams, a 7th & 8th grade team (12 to 14 year olds) and a Fresh\/Soph team (14 to 16 year olds). Besides, being a VERY busy year, it was also an extremely educational year from a coaching standpoint.<\/p>\n

I was frustrated from the year before when I coached 6th graders, because the offense wasn\u2019t where I wanted it to be, and I wanted a little more control over the offense (Bad Idea). For both teams, I decided I was going to run Bo Ryan\u2019s Swing Offense (Bad Idea). It seemed to work well for him, and I thought I might as well give it a shot. I created breakdown drills and I decided I would spend at least 15 minutes every practice drilling the patterns into these players. Little did I know\u2026<\/p>\n

Here are some conclusions I came to:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Youth players (14 & under) forget patterned offenses or plays, so why spend time on them during practice.<\/strong> Even with 15 & 16 year olds, the offense would consistently break down after 3 to 4 passes.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Most of the points we scored were off of fast breaks, loose balls, turnovers, and offensive rebounds.<\/strong> Shouldn\u2019t we practice some more situational & disadvantage drills if that\u2019s where we get most of our points?<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 I\u00a0could have spent a lot MORE time teaching the players the fundamentals of the game. <\/strong>How to read screens, how to pass, how to cut, how to shoot<\/a>, how to handle the ball, and so on. Instead, I WASTED a lot of time on a patterned offense.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Teaching the fundamentals of the motion offense<\/a> would have benefited both teams more in the long run.<\/strong> Rather than teaching them a pattern, I should have taught them offensive principles. It would increase their basketball IQ. Also, when they got older, it wouldn\u2019t matter what offense the coach runs, they would know how to play the game.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Kids tend to become ROBOTIC and FREEZE up when running the plays and patterned offenses during games.<\/strong> They don\u2019t react to the defense, because they are trying to please you (the coach) by running the pattern. When they forget the pattern (which is 90% of the time), they panic and freeze up. Why not run an offense that teaches the players how to react to the defense?<\/p>\n

I decided that simplicity is better and I will always run the motion, especially at the youth levels. I\u2019m not saying that you can\u2019t use a few simple plays during the year. I just wouldn\u2019t advise any more than that.<\/p>\n

If you would like to learn more about how to coach and teach the Motion Offense, take a look at our Motion Offense eBooks and Audio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What do you think? What have your experiences been?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One year I coached two teams, a 7th & 8th grade team (12 to 14 year olds) and a Fresh\/Soph team (14 to 16 year olds). Besides, being a VERY busy year, it was also an extremely educational year from a coaching standpoint. I was frustrated from the year before when I coached 6th graders, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[564,570,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}