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May 25, 2021
Integrating Small-On-Big Screens into your Offensive Schemes
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="671"] Photo: Wesley Sykes / Great American Media Services[/caption] This article discusses various types of off-the ball-screens that are set in various locations of the floor with a smaller offensive player...
January 18, 2021
Get to the Line More with Isolation Plays
Isolations can be very effective in not only exploiting an opposing team’s individual player who has accumulated a high number of fouls late in the game but can also be very effective in actually getting teams in foul trouble during the early stage...
January 7, 2021
Integrating Ball Screen & Rim-Runs into Man Offenses
Ball screen-and-rolls have become increasingly more popular in the last several years. Defensive-minded coaches have tried to counter this fundamentally sound offensive way of attack with various methods, such as switching the ball screen, hedging, h...
December 9, 2020
Integrating Ball Screen-&-Rolls into Man Offenses
Ball screen-and-rolls have been a staple of offensive basketball for many years. When motion offenses became the craze in the 1970s, this fundamentally sound form of attack faded away for years. But it has come back and has become very popular agai...
November 20, 2020
Integrating the ‘Screen & Re-screen’ Action
Previous articles have discussed the various types of screens and their degrees of difficulty that opposing defenses have in defending them. When offenses include in their overall offensive package different types of screens, their offensive arsena...
July 31, 2020
Integrating Stagger & Re-Stagger Screens Into Man Offenses
The “stagger-screen” has been around for a few years now and the new modification of the “stagger-screen” could be called the “stagger and re-stagger screen.” When two offensive players set a stagger-screen for a teammate, this action i...
July 16, 2020
Adding Multiple Phases/Waves in your Offensive Attack
A successful offensive scheme is a plan of action that never relinquishes its aggressive attack on the opposition’s defense. There is never a lull in the action from one phase to the next phase of attack; giving the opposition’s defense absolutel...
May 8, 2020
Integrating various types of stagger-screens into man offenses
Off-the-ball stagger-screens are an invaluable tool for man-to-man offenses to integrate into their overall offensive package. They obviously can be used as an integral part of half-court plays/entries but also as part of the next phase of a team’s...
January 1, 2020
Drills and plays to win in the game’s final seconds
The final seconds of a tightly contested game show the character and preparedness of your team. Typically, chaos ensues and a player fires up a shot from a spot on the floor that has little chance at success. Many times, it almost seems like coaches ...
October 2, 2019
5 quick hitters to shred zone defenses
Attacking zone defenses is nothing new to the world of basketball. Many coaches, myself included, have used continuity offenses, alternating fronts, attacking from the short corner, high-low attacks, screening and much more. During the last few years...
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Installing a preseason emergency response plan
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