{"id":913,"date":"2015-12-01T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/?p=913"},"modified":"2016-10-21T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:40:20","slug":"how-to-develop-great-spacing-on-offense-spacing-drills-for-your-motion-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/how-to-develop-great-spacing-on-offense-spacing-drills-for-your-motion-offense","title":{"rendered":"How To Develop Great Spacing On Offense – Spacing Drills For Your Motion Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SpacingDrills\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I explain motion offense to our teams in two\u00a0sentences…<\/p>\n

“We want spacing and ball movement until we get a good shot. Get all the rebounds and loose balls.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s how I explain it to our 3rd graders, 5th graders, and 10th graders. \u00a0Everything we teach comes from that. \u00a0Those words are repeated hundreds of times and before the season is over all the players on the team can recite them in their sleep…<\/p>\n

“Spacing and ball movement until we get a good shot. Get all the rebounds and loose balls.”<\/em><\/p>\n

All of our offensive teaching is based on those two\u00a0sentences. \u00a0Whether it’s a turnover, cutting, lack of player movement, screening, or poor decision making, it all comes back to spacing, ball movement, taking a good shot, or rebounding.<\/p>\n

The first word in the sentence is spacing. \u00a0Spacing is probably what we emphasize more than anything. \u00a0I like to give players freedom on offense so they can learn how to play and develop. \u00a0When we have a problem with our offense, instead of taking more control of the situation by adding more rules,\u00a0we often emphasize\u00a0spacing\u00a0to solve the issue.<\/p>\n

Spacing Drills<\/h1>\n

Here are the spacing drills that we use. \u00a0I’ll start with string spacing drills…<\/p>\n

String Spacing Drills<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know where “string spacing” came from… I believe I originally picked it up from Brian McCormick and the name stuck with me.<\/p>\n

In any case, string spacing drills are arguably our most effective and important drills<\/strong> when it comes to developing our motion offense.<\/p>\n

When building a motion offense, we start with string spacing\u00a0drills. \u00a0And we use them almost daily the first month or so\u00a0of practice.<\/p>\n

They allow you to work on skills and your motion offense at the same time (efficient use of time).<\/p>\n

Here are the string spacing drills that we use:<\/p>\n

Dribble At Wing – Lay Ups<\/a>\u00a0(we mostly practice variation 1 – back cut)<\/p>\n

Dribble At Post – Shooting<\/a><\/p>\n

You can use your imagination to create other spring spacing situations and drills. \u00a0But those are the main two drills that we use.<\/p>\n

5 v 0 Drills<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next, we run simple offensive passing drills <\/a>where our team runs the offense without shots or\u00a0defense. \u00a0You just pass and cut. \u00a0Pass and screen. \u00a0And so on. \u00a0You can view the instructions and diagrams here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are a few variations of 5v0 that we run:<\/p>\n