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Today we’ll finish our three article series on ideas to help prepare our players for the various double team types and locations that they’ll possibly encounter over the course of the season. Thus far we’ve covered a number of double teams that are backcourt oriented. Today we’ll discuss some common frontcourt double teams and corresponding…
Three and a half minute video with a few drills you can add your repertoire. None of these drills alone will make your team an outstanding defensive team but they will help develop an overall mindset of defensive importance within your program. If you are interested in the entire video from coach Don Showalter and Championship…
It’s a bit ironic that even in a “position-less” era, we still cling to the terms “guards”, “forwards” and “centers”. Even the more modern terms of “points”, “wings” and “posts” now seem inadequate. Historically, coaches would put two guards, two forwards and a center (or a point, two wings and two posts) on the floor…
In a previous article, “Pivoting: Basketball’s ‘Stepchild’ Fundamental”, we discussed the various pivots a player has at his disposal, how to drill them and we finished with an important concept for players at every level to master-pivoting out of trouble after a used dribble. Today, we’ll expand on that and start to discuss the various…
Quality play out of a horns set. The play is initiated by entering the ball to one of the “horns”. There is a UCLA cut, flex screen and a dribble hand off with a staggered screen for the ball handler. Really nice play in my opinion. You will want to take a look at the…
Today, we’ll add some thoughts on handling several other double teams. When we discussed Diamond Press doubles in our last article, we operated on the premise that our hypothetical double teams are very good and our ballhandler just can’t simply beat two men off the bounce (even though that obviously occurs and if/when it does,…