As coaches, we’ve all been there: the opposing team drops into a sagging, disciplined 2-3 zone, trying to dare your squad to settle for contested perimeter jumpshots or force risky passes into a congested paint. If you want to crack that shell, you need crisp ball movement, precise timing, and deliberate off-ball screening to manipulate…
In yesterday’s article on shell defense and in a previous Hoop Coach article, “On Ball Defense”, we have discussed the foundation for today’s topic of help and recover. The premises of those two articles were: the more a defender can stay between his man and the basket, the better; the less help the four support…
Three quarter court sideline out of bounds play that frees the 4 man up for a give and go with the 5 by screening for the point guard. Â Might want to try it with the 3 as well since they will be setting the second screen in the stagger Download the PDFÂ for Wizard –…
2-on-2 defensive drill with a focus on closing out. There are two main focuses of the closeout drill. The first is deciding whether to close out long or short based on the offensive player’s strengths and/or weaknesses. The second point of focus is preventing the offensive player from driving to the middle of the floor….
Post isolation play that uses a lot of perimeter player movement to set up a post up on the block. Â The guard movement should help prevent the guards from digging on the post and if you speed the post feed up I think you could catch the other big showing on the baseline stagger screen….
The NCAA Division II head college coach salary survey results have responses all over the board. The high salary for a division 2 basketball coach in our survey was $110,000. The low salary was $6,000 for a part-time gig at a private school. Below are the few responses we received in this category. If you…
