It's mentioned in some of the drills on this site, but overloading in practice works well for games. When facing a press it almost seems like you're trying to get the ball past an army of players, so why not create that scenario in practice? Last practice we had 3 players trying to beat the press against 6. We also go with no dribbling allowed during a reg scrimmage 5 vs. 5 to get the kids used to moving, helping and making good choices.

Great advice from all. Hope I can add to it. I too have seen scores run up in favour of coaches style or parents in the stands. Regardless, I take a personal and professional approach and wont do it. I do what ever I can to not run past 15-20 point mark by making my team work on specifics. As stated in another forum, we will run one specific play, we will not dribble before half court, we will run a spread offence to kill time off shot clock to try for a last second shot clock shot. We will dribble with weak hand only.

Regarding press breaks, we have been hurt by one teams press (2-2-1 half court) almost everytime we have played them. They are awesome. We are now awesome at breaking it with two options. How did we do it. We'll practice 4 offence against 5 or 6 defence. We institue a no dribble rule until after half court by offence. (creates better faster cuts back to the ball to get open)