Basketball Drills

Keep your offense simple. I certainly believe that it is best to do a few things well, than a lot of things poorly. It is also my belief that basketball is a game where the individuals' skills and habits must be utilized to their fullest capacity. Therefore, I feel that you must not regiment the players too much, but should instill a type of play that will enable them to free lance a bit and not become mechanized slaves to pattern basketball.

My teams always try for the fast break basket. If we succeed in this, then I feel the psychological damage to our opponents in our picking up the cheap basket is much greater than the added two points on the Scoreboard might indicate. If we fail in our fast break attempt, we set up most generally in a single post offense.

I call our offense the continuity offense because the players are continually cutting for and away from the basket. With this type arrangement I have found that the players can utilize their individual talents and still keep good floor balance.

Here is the general floor plan of the single post set up.

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The pattern of attack is set up so that two, three, or four men figure in the play. You may set up drills to practice this before you put the entire play together. This I do on half court, and rotate the inside, and outside men, so that no matter what position they find themselves in as they come down the floor, they are ready for the offense to begin. This inter-changing of personnel has other merit too, in that, sometimes you will have one of your bigger men outside, defensed by a man who is not familiar with defensing an outside man. This often enables the boy to get by him, and score more easily. Also, the same thing applies to the smaller boy who has gone inside to replace the big man. Sometimes the defensive man assigned to him is unfamiliar with defensing an inside man so this works to your advantage also.

You may set up your drill as follows:

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