Hi Coach,
Thank you so much for the great contribution to the game of basketball. Iam a coach in Uganda and as per my subject, I would love to get your insight on how to stop teams that run a good transition and play full court press.
Thanks,
Coach Gad
How to Beat Teams that Run a Great Transition
9/16/2010 14:52
9/16/2010 15:15
First of all... work on your press offense until you can do it in your sleep.... IF you can break it for a lay up - go for it... IF NOT, bring the ball back out and run your offense - making X number of passes....
CONTROL the TEMPO ..... reverse the ball several times... most teams can play D for a short period of time... but once you make them play D on 6-8 or more passes their defense will break down.....they will either get antsy and over play, take chances, or they will get lazy and lay back, either way, you are a winner here.... you have taken them out of their game.....
Teams that like to run don't like to play a lot of D ..... AND then they have a tendency to take quick shots and have poor shot selection.
Good luck and I hope this helps.
CONTROL the TEMPO ..... reverse the ball several times... most teams can play D for a short period of time... but once you make them play D on 6-8 or more passes their defense will break down.....they will either get antsy and over play, take chances, or they will get lazy and lay back, either way, you are a winner here.... you have taken them out of their game.....
Teams that like to run don't like to play a lot of D ..... AND then they have a tendency to take quick shots and have poor shot selection.
Good luck and I hope this helps.
9/16/2010 15:46
You can also look at this article for ideas on beating a full court press:
http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/offense/press-breaker.html
http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/offense/press-breaker.html
9/22/2010 09:26
Hi coach.Thanks for that insight.i sure will be working on that and force my guys to make the extra pass to stretch the defense further.
Just a quick one too,do you think you can me some isolation plays for the bigs and is also wise to run a 2in 3out set on such a team to pile more rebounding pressure on them and force them to play defense.
Coach Gad from Uganda
Just a quick one too,do you think you can me some isolation plays for the bigs and is also wise to run a 2in 3out set on such a team to pile more rebounding pressure on them and force them to play defense.
Coach Gad from Uganda
Coach Sar wrote:First of all... work on your press offense until you can do it in your sleep.... IF you can break it for a lay up - go for it... IF NOT, bring the ball back out and run your offense - making X number of passes....
CONTROL the TEMPO ..... reverse the ball several times... most teams can play D for a short period of time... but once you make them play D on 6-8 or more passes their defense will break down.....they will either get antsy and over play, take chances, or they will get lazy and lay back, either way, you are a winner here.... you have taken them out of their game.....
Teams that like to run don't like to play a lot of D ..... AND then they have a tendency to take quick shots and have poor shot selection.
Good luck and I hope this helps.
9/22/2010 12:08
Coach,
I was a proponent of the 3 out 2 in motion along with an open post - 5 out when we had no real post players..... that will stretch any D. With 2 bigs 3 -2 is good - I would try to set up a lot of hi low situations with your bigs.... that is hard to defend, puts a lot of pressure on the D and is a great way to isolate a good post player.
I was a proponent of the 3 out 2 in motion along with an open post - 5 out when we had no real post players..... that will stretch any D. With 2 bigs 3 -2 is good - I would try to set up a lot of hi low situations with your bigs.... that is hard to defend, puts a lot of pressure on the D and is a great way to isolate a good post player.
9/27/2010 10:51
Coach
thanks alot for your advice.we played that team on friday and won the game..now we have three more crucial games this week to make playoffs.
I just need a quick one here,what are some of the drills you would teach to improve one on one offense to defense transition and also how would you approach a team that heavily relies on one or two guards to create their points,make plays for em and also score well over 25pts per game,10assts,6rebs.They also play a sagging man to man defense and run alot of transition.
Thanks again for the advice.
Gad
thanks alot for your advice.we played that team on friday and won the game..now we have three more crucial games this week to make playoffs.
I just need a quick one here,what are some of the drills you would teach to improve one on one offense to defense transition and also how would you approach a team that heavily relies on one or two guards to create their points,make plays for em and also score well over 25pts per game,10assts,6rebs.They also play a sagging man to man defense and run alot of transition.
Thanks again for the advice.
Gad
Coach Sar wrote:Coach,
I was a proponent of the 3 out 2 in motion along with an open post - 5 out when we had no real post players..... that will stretch any D. With 2 bigs 3 -2 is good - I would try to set up a lot of hi low situations with your bigs.... that is hard to defend, puts a lot of pressure on the D and is a great way to isolate a good post player.
9/27/2010 12:21
Congratulations on the victory, what worked well for you in this game?
We played a couple of teams that were very good breaking out.... when we practiced our offense....half court scrimmage - we put an extra player at half court and one more extra player out of bounds under the basket - the one out of bounds had a ball..... when we shot and made it, the guy out of bounds just tossed it to the guy at half court..... and the guy that gets the ball on offense just steps out..... same thing when we missed... IF they rebounded our miss.... he just held it and the guy out of bounds would throw it deep.
THAT forced our player at the top to get back fast and another player that we designated... usually our 2 man.We tried to force them to play us in a half court setting.... advantage us.
I'm not sure what age group you coach so I hesistate to say this.... ( I was a boys varsity coach ) when we ran into a situation where two people were scoring the majority of their points.... we added a triangle and two to our defensive scheme - which was m2m and a 1-3-1 match up zone. Where do they get most of their points? 3s? Driving to the basket?
IF they are sagging they would be telling me to shoot from the perimeter.... they wont allow me to get the ball inside or break them down off the dribble. I would penetrate and kick it out to my best 3 point shooters - and we ran an Open Post offense.... I didn't care what the score was..... I would control the tempo and wait until we got the shot we wanted. UP Tempo teams don't like to play D for extended periods of time... they want to get out and shoot it. IF you slow down the tempo, you force them to play A LOT of D, when they get the ball they are now anxious to shoot it and will take ill advised shots.
Thoughts?
We played a couple of teams that were very good breaking out.... when we practiced our offense....half court scrimmage - we put an extra player at half court and one more extra player out of bounds under the basket - the one out of bounds had a ball..... when we shot and made it, the guy out of bounds just tossed it to the guy at half court..... and the guy that gets the ball on offense just steps out..... same thing when we missed... IF they rebounded our miss.... he just held it and the guy out of bounds would throw it deep.
THAT forced our player at the top to get back fast and another player that we designated... usually our 2 man.We tried to force them to play us in a half court setting.... advantage us.
I'm not sure what age group you coach so I hesistate to say this.... ( I was a boys varsity coach ) when we ran into a situation where two people were scoring the majority of their points.... we added a triangle and two to our defensive scheme - which was m2m and a 1-3-1 match up zone. Where do they get most of their points? 3s? Driving to the basket?
IF they are sagging they would be telling me to shoot from the perimeter.... they wont allow me to get the ball inside or break them down off the dribble. I would penetrate and kick it out to my best 3 point shooters - and we ran an Open Post offense.... I didn't care what the score was..... I would control the tempo and wait until we got the shot we wanted. UP Tempo teams don't like to play D for extended periods of time... they want to get out and shoot it. IF you slow down the tempo, you force them to play A LOT of D, when they get the ball they are now anxious to shoot it and will take ill advised shots.
Thoughts?
10/1/2010 07:55
Thanks Coach,
One of the things that worked well for us was that we slowed the game to our favour and that bored them alot.we made between 5-7passes before we scored and ensured that the guys were frequently moving.we also attacked the boards forcing their guys who dont like to play D to play a little more D.On a missed shot we would pressure the outlet passer and deny the recipients forcing them to put the ball down most of the time while advancing it up front.
As regards our next game and my team,its a semi pro team i coach so my oldest guy is about 35yrs and youngest is 24.These opponents get points from the 3 and drives to the basket and also have two youthfull post players who are racking up a combined 35points per game.
I run a 2-3 zone with traps,so i dont know if that will slow them down abit,your thoughts on that will be good.
Gad
One of the things that worked well for us was that we slowed the game to our favour and that bored them alot.we made between 5-7passes before we scored and ensured that the guys were frequently moving.we also attacked the boards forcing their guys who dont like to play D to play a little more D.On a missed shot we would pressure the outlet passer and deny the recipients forcing them to put the ball down most of the time while advancing it up front.
As regards our next game and my team,its a semi pro team i coach so my oldest guy is about 35yrs and youngest is 24.These opponents get points from the 3 and drives to the basket and also have two youthfull post players who are racking up a combined 35points per game.
I run a 2-3 zone with traps,so i dont know if that will slow them down abit,your thoughts on that will be good.
Gad
Coach Sar wrote:Congratulations on the victory, what worked well for you in this game?
We played a couple of teams that were very good breaking out.... when we practiced our offense....half court scrimmage - we put an extra player at half court and one more extra player out of bounds under the basket - the one out of bounds had a ball..... when we shot and made it, the guy out of bounds just tossed it to the guy at half court..... and the guy that gets the ball on offense just steps out..... same thing when we missed... IF they rebounded our miss.... he just held it and the guy out of bounds would throw it deep.
THAT forced our player at the top to get back fast and another player that we designated... usually our 2 man.We tried to force them to play us in a half court setting.... advantage us.
I'm not sure what age group you coach so I hesistate to say this.... ( I was a boys varsity coach ) when we ran into a situation where two people were scoring the majority of their points.... we added a triangle and two to our defensive scheme - which was m2m and a 1-3-1 match up zone. Where do they get most of their points? 3s? Driving to the basket?
IF they are sagging they would be telling me to shoot from the perimeter.... they wont allow me to get the ball inside or break them down off the dribble. I would penetrate and kick it out to my best 3 point shooters - and we ran an Open Post offense.... I didn't care what the score was..... I would control the tempo and wait until we got the shot we wanted. UP Tempo teams don't like to play D for extended periods of time... they want to get out and shoot it. IF you slow down the tempo, you force them to play A LOT of D, when they get the ball they are now anxious to shoot it and will take ill advised shots.
Thoughts?
10/1/2010 12:27
I liked your game plan Gad ... make them play D! Most guys don't want to do that for any extended period of time. I would use that same philosophy in the next few games too. Make them play your style. Teams hate to be dictated too....
As regards our next game and my team,its a semi pro team i coach so my oldest guy is about 35yrs and youngest is 24.These opponents get points from the 3 and drives to the basket and also have two youthfull post players who are racking up a combined 35points per game.
It seems like this next team has a lot of weapons... inside and outside..... Sometimes we have to pick our poison.... IF this was me, I would make sure that they don't get the ball inside ( or as little as possible ) stop the drives and force them to beat you from the arc. Its hard to stop everything but at least you can say that IF they are going to beat me, they are going to have to shoot well from the "3" ---
Pack your defense and pressure the guy with the ball.... ?? Pack your defense and challenge the 3 point shooter .... thats how I see your options here.... I would control the tempo again...... 3 point shooters like to get in a zone so to speak..... but if they are not getting their touches and shots, they become antsy and will take bad shots. Shorten the game - keep yourself in the game to the end and then do what you need to do going down the wire.
Thats how I would play this game.... what are your thoughts?
As regards our next game and my team,its a semi pro team i coach so my oldest guy is about 35yrs and youngest is 24.These opponents get points from the 3 and drives to the basket and also have two youthfull post players who are racking up a combined 35points per game.
It seems like this next team has a lot of weapons... inside and outside..... Sometimes we have to pick our poison.... IF this was me, I would make sure that they don't get the ball inside ( or as little as possible ) stop the drives and force them to beat you from the arc. Its hard to stop everything but at least you can say that IF they are going to beat me, they are going to have to shoot well from the "3" ---
Pack your defense and pressure the guy with the ball.... ?? Pack your defense and challenge the 3 point shooter .... thats how I see your options here.... I would control the tempo again...... 3 point shooters like to get in a zone so to speak..... but if they are not getting their touches and shots, they become antsy and will take bad shots. Shorten the game - keep yourself in the game to the end and then do what you need to do going down the wire.
Thats how I would play this game.... what are your thoughts?
10/2/2010 12:12
Coach,
Totally agree with you.Picking our poison is the way to go because the two post players i told you about have the best shots in the league actually,so we run a defensive scheme yesterday that does not allow easy passes to the post and also forces them to play mostly from the outside.Today is the final prep for the game and i sure would like to try and ensure that the guys slow down the tempo of the game the way we did in the last game.I just also got the video of the last game and so we will watch it before the game tomorrow,although am thinking of letting the guys also watch our last years final championship game and challenge them not to allow anybody take away that moment from them? Your thoughts on this ASAP will be great.
Also if it were you in this position,what would you tell your guys?
Thanks alot.
Totally agree with you.Picking our poison is the way to go because the two post players i told you about have the best shots in the league actually,so we run a defensive scheme yesterday that does not allow easy passes to the post and also forces them to play mostly from the outside.Today is the final prep for the game and i sure would like to try and ensure that the guys slow down the tempo of the game the way we did in the last game.I just also got the video of the last game and so we will watch it before the game tomorrow,although am thinking of letting the guys also watch our last years final championship game and challenge them not to allow anybody take away that moment from them? Your thoughts on this ASAP will be great.
Also if it were you in this position,what would you tell your guys?
Thanks alot.
Coach Sar wrote:I liked your game plan Gad ... make them play D! Most guys don't want to do that for any extended period of time. I would use that same philosophy in the next few games too. Make them play your style. Teams hate to be dictated too....
As regards our next game and my team,its a semi pro team i coach so my oldest guy is about 35yrs and youngest is 24.These opponents get points from the 3 and drives to the basket and also have two youthfull post players who are racking up a combined 35points per game.
It seems like this next team has a lot of weapons... inside and outside..... Sometimes we have to pick our poison.... IF this was me, I would make sure that they don't get the ball inside ( or as little as possible ) stop the drives and force them to beat you from the arc. Its hard to stop everything but at least you can say that IF they are going to beat me, they are going to have to shoot well from the "3" ---
Pack your defense and pressure the guy with the ball.... ?? Pack your defense and challenge the 3 point shooter .... thats how I see your options here.... I would control the tempo again...... 3 point shooters like to get in a zone so to speak..... but if they are not getting their touches and shots, they become antsy and will take bad shots. Shorten the game - keep yourself in the game to the end and then do what you need to do going down the wire.
Thats how I would play this game.... what are your thoughts?
10/2/2010 13:32
Coach,
These are the things I always told my teams ( since we were usually out manned )
Keys for the game:
1- CONTROL THE TEMPO ( shorten the game - gave us a better chance for the W )
2- PROTECT THE BALL ( limit turnovers )
3- COMPETE ON THE BOARDS ( LIMIT their offensive rebounds to 1 per quarter )
4- MAKE THEIR 5TH PLAYER BEAT YOU ( take away their strengths
5- GET A GOOD SHOT EVERY TIME DOWN THE FLOOR.
I would tell them to play to our strengths, take away theirs - be patient and make them play a lot of defense. Leave it all on the floor, the last thing you want to do is walk away saying IF I HAD ONLY DONE THIS OR THAT. Play HARD - Play SMART and HAVE FUN.
I hope this helps, let me know how it goes.
These are the things I always told my teams ( since we were usually out manned )
Keys for the game:
1- CONTROL THE TEMPO ( shorten the game - gave us a better chance for the W )
2- PROTECT THE BALL ( limit turnovers )
3- COMPETE ON THE BOARDS ( LIMIT their offensive rebounds to 1 per quarter )
4- MAKE THEIR 5TH PLAYER BEAT YOU ( take away their strengths
5- GET A GOOD SHOT EVERY TIME DOWN THE FLOOR.
I would tell them to play to our strengths, take away theirs - be patient and make them play a lot of defense. Leave it all on the floor, the last thing you want to do is walk away saying IF I HAD ONLY DONE THIS OR THAT. Play HARD - Play SMART and HAVE FUN.
I hope this helps, let me know how it goes.
10/4/2010 11:11
Coach,
your advice totaly worked.we played great defense and matched them in all aspects as adviced.Their bigs got a combined 18pts and they made 25 freethrows and the other guard scored 21 hard earned points.we fouled him out and their bigs too hence helping us win the game 79-73.
we have now qualified for playoffs and are most likely to play this super fast team of basicaly guards who can post up,play out well and run like crazy.
Your take on that coz the series will be a best of 5.
Thanks
GAD
your advice totaly worked.we played great defense and matched them in all aspects as adviced.Their bigs got a combined 18pts and they made 25 freethrows and the other guard scored 21 hard earned points.we fouled him out and their bigs too hence helping us win the game 79-73.
we have now qualified for playoffs and are most likely to play this super fast team of basicaly guards who can post up,play out well and run like crazy.
Your take on that coz the series will be a best of 5.
Thanks
GAD
eteug wrote:Coach,
Totally agree with you.Picking our poison is the way to go because the two post players i told you about have the best shots in the league actually,so we run a defensive scheme yesterday that does not allow easy passes to the post and also forces them to play mostly from the outside.Today is the final prep for the game and i sure would like to try and ensure that the guys slow down the tempo of the game the way we did in the last game.I just also got the video of the last game and so we will watch it before the game tomorrow,although am thinking of letting the guys also watch our last years final championship game and challenge them not to allow anybody take away that moment from them? Your thoughts on this ASAP will be great.
Also if it were you in this position,what would you tell your guys?
Thanks alot.Coach Sar wrote:I liked your game plan Gad ... make them play D! Most guys don't want to do that for any extended period of time. I would use that same philosophy in the next few games too. Make them play your style. Teams hate to be dictated too....
As regards our next game and my team,its a semi pro team i coach so my oldest guy is about 35yrs and youngest is 24.These opponents get points from the 3 and drives to the basket and also have two youthfull post players who are racking up a combined 35points per game.
It seems like this next team has a lot of weapons... inside and outside..... Sometimes we have to pick our poison.... IF this was me, I would make sure that they don't get the ball inside ( or as little as possible ) stop the drives and force them to beat you from the arc. Its hard to stop everything but at least you can say that IF they are going to beat me, they are going to have to shoot well from the "3" ---
Pack your defense and pressure the guy with the ball.... ?? Pack your defense and challenge the 3 point shooter .... thats how I see your options here.... I would control the tempo again...... 3 point shooters like to get in a zone so to speak..... but if they are not getting their touches and shots, they become antsy and will take bad shots. Shorten the game - keep yourself in the game to the end and then do what you need to do going down the wire.
Thats how I would play this game.... what are your thoughts?
10/4/2010 13:32
Congratulations Gad - another HUGE victory......
The first thing I would do with your next opponent would be to SLOW this game down... A LOT! SHORTEN the game.... I don't know if you have a shot clock to contend with but at the high school level around here we don't.
This is something we did with a lot of success from time to time -
We called it "CUT ONE" which meant that we were going to take the clock down to the next minute - so, if the clock read 6:40, we weren't shooting until the clock read 5:59 UNLESS we got a wide open lay up. How would your players like to play D for 40 seconds? Most of the kids around here hated that - especially the GOOD TEAMS... they wanted to run and gun, shoot quickly IF they got good shots.
THIS style really messes with them.... they WILL take bad shots once they get the ball after playing D for that long... UNLESS they are really disiciplined.
I would pack 4 guys in while pressuring the guy with the ball - or at the least getting a hand in his face when they are shooting.
You might think about running some junk defenses at them also - Box & 1 - Triangle & 2 etc. (Next year talk to me about the match up defense we ran..... I dont think that you have enough time to put this in and run it well right now..)
Good luck and let me know what your thoughts are right now?
The first thing I would do with your next opponent would be to SLOW this game down... A LOT! SHORTEN the game.... I don't know if you have a shot clock to contend with but at the high school level around here we don't.
This is something we did with a lot of success from time to time -
We called it "CUT ONE" which meant that we were going to take the clock down to the next minute - so, if the clock read 6:40, we weren't shooting until the clock read 5:59 UNLESS we got a wide open lay up. How would your players like to play D for 40 seconds? Most of the kids around here hated that - especially the GOOD TEAMS... they wanted to run and gun, shoot quickly IF they got good shots.
THIS style really messes with them.... they WILL take bad shots once they get the ball after playing D for that long... UNLESS they are really disiciplined.
I would pack 4 guys in while pressuring the guy with the ball - or at the least getting a hand in his face when they are shooting.
You might think about running some junk defenses at them also - Box & 1 - Triangle & 2 etc. (Next year talk to me about the match up defense we ran..... I dont think that you have enough time to put this in and run it well right now..)
Good luck and let me know what your thoughts are right now?
10/5/2010 15:30
Here is something that goes along with our thoughts regarding PICKING YOUR POISON.
" When you try to defend everything, you defend nothing."
Dick Bennett
" When you try to defend everything, you defend nothing."
Dick Bennett
10/5/2010 19:34
Coach you never seize to amaze with yo wit.Yo absolutely right.
As it is now,our confidence has shot up and so today we kinda tonned things down.our challenge now is to prepare well.considering the teams we are going to play are fast.what are some of the areas you would focus on going into playoffs.we play best of 5 and then 7 in the finals here in Uganda.
Are you on face book,you could send me a friend request so that we could chat tonite.
Gad
As it is now,our confidence has shot up and so today we kinda tonned things down.our challenge now is to prepare well.considering the teams we are going to play are fast.what are some of the areas you would focus on going into playoffs.we play best of 5 and then 7 in the finals here in Uganda.
Are you on face book,you could send me a friend request so that we could chat tonite.
Gad
Coach Sar wrote:Here is something that goes along with our thoughts regarding PICKING YOUR POISON.
" When you try to defend everything, you defend nothing."
Dick Bennett
10/5/2010 19:44
Not on face book Gad, do enough things now, would never be off the computer haha--
I do have Yahoo messenger though it you have that....
As for things I would cover - the first thing I would ask is - " What are the 5 things we need to do to beat this team? "
List them and set up drills to get them done.
Thinking about what you have told me about them....... fast and good shooters?
1- Post defense
2- Closing out on shooters
3- Preventing penetration
4- Passing, ball handling and reading the defense
5 - REVERSING the ball at least 3-4 times to shorten the game and keep them from all the running
6- Shooting
7- I would try to work on that CUT ONE I explained to you..... IF that fits into your plans
Back to the Keys for the game -
1- CONTROL THE TEMPO ( shorten the game - gave us a better chance for the W )
2- PROTECT THE BALL ( limit turnovers )
3- COMPETE ON THE BOARDS ( LIMIT their offensive rebounds to 1 per quarter )
4- MAKE THEIR 5TH PLAYER BEAT YOU ( take away their strengths
5- GET A GOOD SHOT EVERY TIME DOWN THE FLOOR.
Thoughts?
I do have Yahoo messenger though it you have that....
As for things I would cover - the first thing I would ask is - " What are the 5 things we need to do to beat this team? "
List them and set up drills to get them done.
Thinking about what you have told me about them....... fast and good shooters?
1- Post defense
2- Closing out on shooters
3- Preventing penetration
4- Passing, ball handling and reading the defense
5 - REVERSING the ball at least 3-4 times to shorten the game and keep them from all the running
6- Shooting
7- I would try to work on that CUT ONE I explained to you..... IF that fits into your plans
Back to the Keys for the game -
1- CONTROL THE TEMPO ( shorten the game - gave us a better chance for the W )
2- PROTECT THE BALL ( limit turnovers )
3- COMPETE ON THE BOARDS ( LIMIT their offensive rebounds to 1 per quarter )
4- MAKE THEIR 5TH PLAYER BEAT YOU ( take away their strengths
5- GET A GOOD SHOT EVERY TIME DOWN THE FLOOR.
Thoughts?
10/6/2010 10:36
Coach,
Great list of areas to work on,you just nailed it for mer coz it falls exactly in the area that we need to improve as a team generally.I have however added one or two areas to help us protect the ball and rebound well as a unit.I think we need to practice our press breakers and offensive sets over and over so as to improve on unit execution.
Any good press breakers you could get me would do well for me?
Iam still struggling with understanding the CUT ONE concept.
i also have a yahoo messenger so you can send me mail on eteug@yahoo.com
Thanks
Gad
Great list of areas to work on,you just nailed it for mer coz it falls exactly in the area that we need to improve as a team generally.I have however added one or two areas to help us protect the ball and rebound well as a unit.I think we need to practice our press breakers and offensive sets over and over so as to improve on unit execution.
Any good press breakers you could get me would do well for me?
Iam still struggling with understanding the CUT ONE concept.
i also have a yahoo messenger so you can send me mail on eteug@yahoo.com
Thanks
Gad
Coach Sar wrote:Not on face book Gad, do enough things now, would never be off the computer haha--
I do have Yahoo messenger though it you have that....
As for things I would cover - the first thing I would ask is - " What are the 5 things we need to do to beat this team? "
List them and set up drills to get them done.
Thinking about what you have told me about them....... fast and good shooters?
1- Post defense
2- Closing out on shooters
3- Preventing penetration
4- Passing, ball handling and reading the defense
5 - REVERSING the ball at least 3-4 times to shorten the game and keep them from all the running
6- Shooting
7- I would try to work on that CUT ONE I explained to you..... IF that fits into your plans
Back to the Keys for the game -
1- CONTROL THE TEMPO ( shorten the game - gave us a better chance for the W )
2- PROTECT THE BALL ( limit turnovers )
3- COMPETE ON THE BOARDS ( LIMIT their offensive rebounds to 1 per quarter )
4- MAKE THEIR 5TH PLAYER BEAT YOU ( take away their strengths
5- GET A GOOD SHOT EVERY TIME DOWN THE FLOOR.
Thoughts?
10/6/2010 10:39
eteug wrote:Coach,
Great list of areas to work on,you just nailed it for mer coz it falls exactly in the area that we need to improve as a team generally.I have however added one or two areas to help us protect the ball and rebound well as a unit.I think we need to practice our press breakers and offensive sets over and over so as to improve on unit execution.
Any good press breakers you could get me would do well for me?
Iam still struggling with understanding the CUT ONE concept.The reason i say so is,how can i be able to teach the guys how to wear down the clock without compromising the offensive set up that we run?
i also have a yahoo messenger so you can send me mail on eteug@yahoo.com
Thanks
GadCoach Sar wrote:Not on face book Gad, do enough things now, would never be off the computer haha--
I do have Yahoo messenger though it you have that....
As for things I would cover - the first thing I would ask is - " What are the 5 things we need to do to beat this team? "
List them and set up drills to get them done.
Thinking about what you have told me about them....... fast and good shooters?
1- Post defense
2- Closing out on shooters
3- Preventing penetration
4- Passing, ball handling and reading the defense
5 - REVERSING the ball at least 3-4 times to shorten the game and keep them from all the running
6- Shooting
7- I would try to work on that CUT ONE I explained to you..... IF that fits into your plans
Back to the Keys for the game -
1- CONTROL THE TEMPO ( shorten the game - gave us a better chance for the W )
2- PROTECT THE BALL ( limit turnovers )
3- COMPETE ON THE BOARDS ( LIMIT their offensive rebounds to 1 per quarter )
4- MAKE THEIR 5TH PLAYER BEAT YOU ( take away their strengths
5- GET A GOOD SHOT EVERY TIME DOWN THE FLOOR.
Thoughts?
10/6/2010 12:29
Coach,
Great list of areas to work on,you just nailed it for mer coz it falls exactly in the area that we need to improve as a team generally.I have however added one or two areas to help us protect the ball and rebound well as a unit.I think we need to practice our press breakers and offensive sets over and over so as to improve on unit execution.
Any good press breakers you could get me would do well for me?
Iam still struggling with understanding the CUT ONE concept.
i also have a yahoo messenger so you can send me mail on eteug@yahoo.com
Thanks
Gad
Gad.
You and I are on the same pages regarding areas to work on.... as far as these:
1- We called it our PRESS OFFENSE.... and I am not so sure that I would change that right now..... we practiced ours EVERY DAY for 10 -15 minutes so they knew it in their sleep........ staying calm and execution is the key here..... we told them NOT to worry about a 10 second violation, we can deal with that because we can play D when they take the ball out of bounds, so stick with the one you are using and make sure they can execute it well.
Great list of areas to work on,you just nailed it for mer coz it falls exactly in the area that we need to improve as a team generally.I have however added one or two areas to help us protect the ball and rebound well as a unit.I think we need to practice our press breakers and offensive sets over and over so as to improve on unit execution.
Any good press breakers you could get me would do well for me?
Iam still struggling with understanding the CUT ONE concept.
i also have a yahoo messenger so you can send me mail on eteug@yahoo.com
Thanks
Gad
Gad.
You and I are on the same pages regarding areas to work on.... as far as these:
1- We called it our PRESS OFFENSE.... and I am not so sure that I would change that right now..... we practiced ours EVERY DAY for 10 -15 minutes so they knew it in their sleep........ staying calm and execution is the key here..... we told them NOT to worry about a 10 second violation, we can deal with that because we can play D when they take the ball out of bounds, so stick with the one you are using and make sure they can execute it well.
10/6/2010 12:35
2- As for sets - we ran them at the beginning of every practice every day without a defense - that way they all know exactly what to do and all the options... I picked that up from Kevin Oneil when he was at Northwestern University. Then you can run them vs a defense
3- As for CUTTING ONE ---- think of it this way... there is 7:39 on the clock.... we were going to run our offense until it got down to at least 6:59 UNLESS we got a lay up - this way we controlled the tempo and shortened the game vs the better teams.... in this case that is running 40 seconds off the clock.... The CUTTING ONE part is gettting down to a lower minute on the clock.... 7 to 6 - 6 to 5 etc... is that clearer?
3- As for CUTTING ONE ---- think of it this way... there is 7:39 on the clock.... we were going to run our offense until it got down to at least 6:59 UNLESS we got a lay up - this way we controlled the tempo and shortened the game vs the better teams.... in this case that is running 40 seconds off the clock.... The CUTTING ONE part is gettting down to a lower minute on the clock.... 7 to 6 - 6 to 5 etc... is that clearer?
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