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Speakers:
-During drills make them accountable by asking for a head to head score.
Drill:
1 on 1
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Player A spins ball out
Player B defends
Series:
2) Stationary Dribble
-Force baseline
-Makes champions
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“Whatever you do, be committed to it.”
Key’s to Defense:
1. Transition “D”
2. No easy layups
3. No open 3’s
4. Contested 2’s
5. Enjoy contact
“In transition, one man must stop the ball, the other four must be ready to help.”
-Don’t let the ball into the shoot. Keep it out of the middle.
-Must get the ball on one side of the court to be a functional group.
Defense:
1. On the ball
3. Or on the bench
Get your big to sprint to the nail and help stop penetration from the point guard.
15’ area: Dribble, shot, pass – Own this area and you win.
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“It’s how you play after you get beat that decides how good your going to be.”
Drills:
Aspects to Defense
1. System
2. Adjustments
3. Parachute
In practice work on changing coverages. “It’s your job to prepare your players.”
1. Effort
2. Coverage
3. Play
-Make guys hate to lose! If you win, they should love it, if they lose make them pay for it!
-“We constantly are working on our double teams. We practice it every other day or every third
day. This way if we did it, we are ready!”
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Special Team’s:
3. Fouling up – 3 (Practice)
When you lose, respect the other team. Congratulate the game the other team played.
When you’re an assistant you have the responsibility to be an assistant not the head
coach. Respect what your head coach wants.
-“The players on your team are the most important part of the job.”
-If you have someone in your program who is hurting it, get rid of them!
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Billy Donovan, Florida
352.375.4683 XT 4200 (Darrin Hertz for Drills)
“Utilizing the Three Point Shot vs. Man to Man and Zone Defenses”
-Consider all the ways you get a 3 point shot over the course of a game.
-Florida runs a 4 out 1 in offense because it’s difficult to defend in transition, forces a true 4 man
to defend on the perimeter, and makes it difficult to double team post with so much space.
-Donovan and staff tell their players no 3’s unless there is a post player in the paint to rebound.
1. Fast Break
5. Offensive Rebound
-Passers should always lead shooters and pass the ball into inside shoulder.
Drills:
-Celtic 50
• Make 5 from 5 sports/10 from 5 spots
-Get Trapped
• Get trapped from offensive rebound and find open shooter on wing
Sets:
2. High-Low Action, double screen in low block, top of double screen flash to high post.
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Things to consider:
-How many shots does your best player get in a two hour practice?
Kevin Sutton:
Monteverde Academy (FL)
“Post Skill Development”
Kevin.Sutton@montverde.org
Tell Bigs:
• Run for scores
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• Run Rim to Rim
• Fist Fight (1st to get position) – Then Foot Fight to Score
• Own the Paint
• Get in Operating Position
• Post Play is a Leverage Game
• Catch Ball Clean (eyes first – hands second)
• Jump to the Ball
-To get better you must take players out of their comfort zone.
Drills:
-Blind Pass
• Slap ball then players turns around and catches pass.
-Tips
• Inside hand touches rim outside hand tips ball 6X’s
-Alternate Tips
• Inside then outside 10X’s each side of rim
• Alternate, then finish tip drill with made basket
-Communication
• Information Given
• Information Received
• Information Understood
-Mikan Drill
• Outlet out of bounds
• Run and touch half court
• Pass back for finish
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• Then swim move to low block (swim with arm and leg)
-Don’t miss layups, always make players use the back board.
o Paint-Own
o 3point Line-Homeless
-Chair Drill
• Grab rim then go chair to chair
• Chairs are placed outside the paint just a little above the low blocks
• Keep body low and keep elbows up!
• Post moves should include:
Drop Step
Tell post players to look middle, most likely a doubles comes from the high side.
• Pull chairs out further and use reverse pivot fake. Tell post players to use their
shoulders to fake.
• Reverse pivot, one dribble middle and finish.
• Reverse pivot opposite direction.
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“When players hold each other accountable you have something special.”
-Tell your post players to establish position and maintain it. “Be legally physical.”
-When you’re in the post, a post player should feel a hand or forearm, a leg, so know which way
to go.
• Forearm –use power game.
-When you pivot, pivot even to even. Feet are always shoulder width apart and under your body.
Drill:
“Fist fight under the hoop, foot fight as you move out from underneath the basket.”
Be a great copier.
Keep it simple.
Establish a system you believe in, trust, and fits your personality.
7 Fundamental Keys
1. See
2. Talk
3. Have an Act
5. Details
7. Finish Everything
Daily Objectives
1. Get Better
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2. Have Fun
4. Play to Win
Rules of Offense
3. Help Somebody
“Teach Unselfishness.”
Players were given a penny for doing a good job; the penny was placed into the jar. Team
was able to visually see the good things they had accomplished throughout the season.
-Play Volleyball one practice, everyone must touch the ball before it goes over the net. Find
team building games outside of basketball.
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“Players can never be afraid to lose or make a mistake. Your team should never be afraid to lose
or make a mistake.” #4 on Daily Objectives.
-Control: Attitude, and build the 4 Daily Objectives up every single day!
Davidson Offense
-Attacking Team
“If you want to get an offensive rebound, take high % shots in transition, no one rebounds very
well in transition.”
-“The ball is like spot light the longer you hold it the hotter it gets!”
-“Running in transition run for a spot on the floor, fight for the space!”
Rules of Offense
b) Use pivot to create space. A pivot is an act, it forces defense to cover space.
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2. Catch and See
a) Opponent
b) Teammates
c) Teammates opponent
3. Help Somebody
c) Willingness to sacrifice.
a) Top of key
b) Slot
c) Corner
a) Attack Somebody
b) To Help Somebody
-When you cut, its talk & see, flesh to flesh cuts, have an act, are balanced and finish your cut.
Drill:
• Line at the slot
• Line in opposite corner with ball
• Coach at elbow
• Corner player dribbles up the wing while player in from the slot cuts hard off the coach
and then receives a nice hard bounce pass.
• Players then switch lines
• Emphasize imagination, finishing their cuts, talking, seeing, flesh to flesh
-Teach your players to seek contact, not avoid it. Find contact first, and then shoot.
-Never become good at drills and bad at playing. We want to perform our best when the lights
are on! Often teams act as robots and run drills perfectly. Then in games can’t do what they do
in practice. Use imagination, make your players think.
-When you want the ball “Ask with 10”. Get your hands up!
-Play a lot of 3 on 3 live on different parts of the court with different rules. Make players use
their imagination and become comfortable with all types of situations.
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-If the first pass into your offense is easy, then the second pass is easy, and then so on.
-Slow down, avoid the pressure of time. Teach your players to feel comfortable with different
time situations on the clock.
Drill:
1. Jab
2. Step Across
3. Reverse Pivot
• Down
• Seeing
• Protecting the ball
• Work on both feet
• Handle the pressure
Emphasize the pivot and having it create space for lots of ball pressure. Can’t
give up your space to the defense, you must create it for yourself on offense.
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1. Jab
2. Step Across
3. Reverse Pivot
4. Down
5. Seeing
SCREENS:
Drill:
Story: In the 60’s and 70’s players played 3 on 3 outside because there were no great gyms, and
then played on two hoops so 12 guys could play.
Market Individuals
-Get five guys to do simple things and work together, because when it happens its magical!
Drills:
-Foundation of success stems from the work you do in April till November.
1. Toughness
2. Competiveness
3. Communication
1. Use of Angles
3. Balance
6. Time Efficient
-Feet are the most important part of the basketball body. You do everything starting with you
feet. In a perfect world, workouts would be done without shoes.
• Several Muscles and Bones
• Do Exercise Bare Foot
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-Triple Extension:
• Ankles
• Knees
• Hips
WORKOUTS:
-Reach forward
-Reach to side
• On one Foot
Tell kids “Chest over knees, knees over feet, on the power pads of your feet.”
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6. Hold tennis balls straight arm, drop and let player chase it, then throw another behind
head.
7. Place two balls in hands while other person puts hands on top. Drop ball and must catch
ball before it hits the floor.
o Change Positions
-Sprint to elbow, back pedal to baseline, push slide to corner, and sprint to half court.
DEFENSIVE SLIDES:
“Push Step”
o Don’t open up outside foot.
o Create Pyramid.
Pyramid
Knee
Ankle
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Have to be outside to create greatest push off.
RACES:
o Player 1 starts on baseline and back pedals to half court
PLAY TAG:
o Agility
o Accountability
3-2-3 box, ALWAYS PASS TO THE RIGHT and ALWAYS TRADE PLACES WITH PARTNER
-Get out early to practice and spend time with the guys at the end of the bench so they know you
care.
-“Spend time developing the people around you because it is the most effective way to be a
leader.”
-Start practice and end practice with a message because these guys hear so much different stuff
over the course of a season.
-Whatever you put in, you need to feel good about it.
o Open 3’s
o Work on development
Drills:
o Drive to score.
Purdue Drill
o Throw lobs when help comes because we have the advantage in length.
-2 on 1
o In line throw lob
Players feel “unleashed” because they can score a layup with either hand
Big man must read driver and get out of the way
-“Sprint to help.”
-When you are a smaller team you need to extend the passing lanes.
-Post feeds, no bounce pass because post players must give up position to catch ball. Pass ball to
hand.
-“If your defender is not closer to the ball then his man you’re going to be in trouble.”
-“You must do things the right way to be the good teams and have a chance to be the great
teams.”
-Get players to buy in “you’re going to have to beat more than 1 of us!”
1. Conversion
o Most fouls are dumb and unnecessary
o Officiate Practice
2. Offense
o Get it there
o Screeners
o Shooters
-Box out:
o Step over – cross over
o Get elbows up
-Post Defense
o Play defense behind big man
2. Or can’t shoot
o No help responsibilities or if can’t shoot then ball off and channel ball to him.
Guard Defense:
1. Square stance
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2. Head up
-Good teams get better and better with the ball so it gets harder to press.
-Look at how athletic and quick a team is on when you will pick up on defense.
Most important thing is the ball, if you don’t know where the ball is, you have a problem.
Five guys must stop the ball.”
Post Screen:
o The slop is effective against the switch.