ZL COACHES CLINICS 1995 USA INSTANT REVIEW NOTEBOOK VOLUME 6 irty-two years!! That is how long we have been making this notebook available to you, ‘The first notebook was a summary of the notes and diagrams from the St. Louis Baskeiball, Clinic in 1964 after UCLA and Coach John Wooden won the first of ten NCAA Championships. ‘The staff for the first clinic included Coach Wooden; John Benington, St. Louis University; Harry Gallatin, St. Louis Haws; Chuck Smith, Missouri-St. Louis, Vergil Fletcher, Collinsville IL) High School and Roger Laux, St. Louis DuBourg High School ‘e-was intended to merely provide notes to the attendees, ‘The notebook has been provided annual sinc hen under Mid-America Coaches Ciinis (1965-66), TUP Basketball Clinics (1967-74), Medalist Sports Education (1974-84), MacGregor Sports Education (1984-89) and now USA Coaches Clinics. ‘The USA INSTANT REVIEW NOTEBOOK is produced each summer and added to our library of nearly 2,000 books and videotapes, ee eee eee and Buez White along wits Pauick Gford and Mary lane Gellaes, mio peepee sad soe ov reat eee — Bob n meng , nae Be ti ‘© Copyright 1995 USA Couches Cine, Ic. All ighs reserved. 8420 Delmar + Suite 200 + St. Louis, Missouri 63124 + (314) 991-86001995 NCAA CHAMPIONS Ma ‘Women ‘DIVISIONI UCLA (31-2) UCONN (35-0) JIMHARRICK GENO AURIEMMA ‘DIVISION. UOF SO. INDIANA (29-4) NO. DAKOTA STATE (32-0) BRUCE PEARL ‘AMY RULEY ‘DIVISION UL U OF WISCONSIN, Platteville (31-0) CAPITAL UNIVERSITY (33-0) BORYAN DIXIE JEFFERS 1995 NAIA CHAMPIONS ‘DIVISIONT BIRMINGHAM SOUTH (35-2) SOUTHERN NAZARENE (30-2) DUANE REBOUL JERRY FINKBEIN ‘DIVISION It BETHEL COLLEGE (IN) (38-2) WESTERN OREGON (23-9) MIKE LIGHTFOOT RUSTY ROGERS: 1995 NJCAA CHAMPIONS ‘DIVISIONI OKALOOSA - WALTON CC WESTARK CC (35-0) MURRAY ARNOLD. LOUIS WHORTON ‘DIVISION NO. IOWA AREA CC (24-12) KANKAKEE CC (34-2) DAN MASON PAUL O'CONNOR: ‘DIVISION SULLIVAN CO CC (31-3) RAINEY RIVER CC (25-4) DAVID POSSINGER LEROY HUMBERTJIM HARRICK UCLA (Men) NCAA DIVISION I CHAMPIONS 1995 (31-2) UCLA 89 - ARKANSAS 78 Coach Jim Harrick has led the Bruins back to the level of the nation’s elite. It was Harrick’s first NCAA title and UCLA's firs in 0 years, since Coach John Wooden's last season as the Bruin coach. UCLA last appeared i a Final Four in 1980 when they lost to Louisville inthe Championship game, UCLA defeated the defending champions, the Arkansas Razorbacks, ina game much loser than the score indicates. In addition tothe stellar play of the Bruins starters and All- American Ed O'Bannon, UCLA received tremendous help from Toby Bailey coming off the bench to replace the injured Tyus Edney. The game could have been won by either ‘team until te lat several minutes, After his first 200 games at UCLA, Hartick, the tenth Bruin coach in history, has the best record (146-54) of any Bruin coach in history. He has been there seven years and rocorded 1 school record of 168-55 (753). During these seven years, Harrck has averaged 24 wins ‘a season while reaching the NCAA tournament each year. Hiarrick was named the Naismith and National Association of Baskeeball Coaches National Coach-ofthe- Year and the Pacific-10 Coach-of-the- Yea. ‘Congratulations to Coach Hamtick and his 1995 UCLA Brains team. kde Made uy PACKER HUBIE BROWN BOB MURREY Chairman Vice-Chairman President 8420 Delmar + Suite 200 + St. Louis, Missouri 63124 « (314) 991-8600WZEi COACHES CLINICS GENO AURIEMMA CONNECTICUT (Women) NCAA DIVISION I CHAMPIONS 1995 (35-0) CONNECTICUT 70 - TENNESSEE 64 Coach Geno Anriemma and his team had an incredible once-in-a-lifetime season. ‘The UConn team defeated a very fine Tennessee team to win the NCAA Division 1 Championship with an unbelievable record of 35-0. UConn was only the second women's ‘team to go undefeated enroute tothe national tide. ‘UConn was ranked #1 nationally by USA Today and the AP polls. Auriemma was named Coach-of-the-Year by eight organizations. He coached an unprecedented thee’ All- Americans last season, one each on the first, second and third teams. Rebecca Lobo was selected frst team All-America by virally every organization naming a team, Every freshman player recruited by Auriemma has obtained her undergraduate degree. Impressively, during the past four seasons, 15 of the 20 UConn starters (8 different players) have been Dean's list students, Auriemma has been the UConn coach ten years. During that ime, his teams have averaged 3 wins per season (227-81 - 737) and they have advanced to seven NCAA Toumamens. USA Coaches Clinics salutes Coach Geno Auriemma and his outstanding team for their achievement. BILLY PACKER HUBIE BROWN BOB MURREY Chairman ‘Vice-Chairman, President 8420 Delmar + Suite 200 « St. Louis, Missouri 63124 « (314) 991-6600QUICK CLIP BIOS 1994-1995 SPEAKERS JANE ALBRIGHT-DIETERLE -Wisosia Woes) [Bier degen Witconsn sh a han othe NCAA Touramen wih «19-8 record, Coached Norris for eayear, ‘Former Iniana All-American plays. Member U.S. Olympic Gold medal team; the NBA four yeu. IM ANDERSON - Minos Fr ere srt st Mss ing taylor sx yas, Chen by th NBA Pon Brin te Sit (GENO AURIEMMA.-UCONN (Wome) ‘Es ear wo the NCAA Divison Womens Chanpontip with 238 Orecerd and Coach Aura was name Coach of te Year ele xpos (MURRY BARTOW -Usveny of Alabama [nhs seuss anata UAB. Wort imal wih he defo, DICK BENNETT - Wisconsin Faso o Wasa sera utetanding creat UW Ore Bay. |AGNUS BERENATO - Gari Tech Wore) {ent Coch since 1985 (905) Cou fouyeus at Rider Cooke and yer a he high cho! ee LHUBIE BROWN -NBA Bosca orto tonnage ws of the NBA ox wel Known couch, ving as Head Conch fh Alana Haws and {how York Rncis, Now nhs th eto se anasten TEENA eat JIM CREWS - Urine of Evaeile ith year ond ous of to Purple Acs. He ar done a osteanding ob ing th progam und they hee bee in ‘hese NCAA Tounumens ice hecamec bur [NANCY FAREY STL Wastingoa Usivesty (Wome) ‘Hermans have been nic ragh Divison IT NCAA Touruneats and inthe Fal Four wc, Shas ecm 1 185- brocrd, Was 195 Opie Festiva coach ‘TIM FLOYD -towa Sto ‘Sood erat ows She ser 6 yeu Uf Now Ones whee leis defense a UNO to 4 regal seaon its, ‘ns contrence mares, NCAA an 3 NIT os, FRAN FRASCHILLA -Mantatan Cage ‘Head Couch Maia fr ire your bat ae hm a contending potion in te Mato Alan king highs fei goalpcentage Sp! 3 yeas asan te five dee college RIE GAUDET- Dake [A Dns 198 md respon for oig ad paper developer. Worked wi been npc nd evel oar NBA Gest ru alps, Ws ead ocho Ary in 980.82 GARY GLASSCOCK ST. -Coryesu Asay He tean won th 1995 Mirna Ge 4A Ste Te wth on ngreive 3-Osecord, Head couch for Ste years (118.29) “eaces payers ply very posion TIMHARRICK UCLA ‘Woe be 1985 NCAA Division [Charpostip.FistNCAA tie fr UCLA soe 1975. BILL HERRION. Dra es bd for tang yor with two NCAA ide. osc wih Mike avs st yur t Boston U and George Wasingon ‘TERRY HOLLANDER -St Chases (MO) Wes: High Shoo! ‘Reached the Sse Final ont pat wo yas od wo te 195 tte Champuship Has been head couch for yeas, ‘Avery borough ines olin ve pati,HARRY HUNTER Okie ‘Te fundamental of wining ave vay been prof ise player a Ohio an now the fe conch theBoteae SILL HUTCHISON - Mini Sate Wome) She ranks in te Top 1 ones in amberof wi. Her ams have Won 7 AIAW Sit ils inion receiving ae NCAA ndsn NIT ts. Seis do tee ine WDCA pst [MIKE JARVIS - George Washingoa ic hasbeen Genre Washington ioc 990 and has nd tho thee NCAA id. He wate Farmer ouch at Boson U nd Came Rindge Latin On Romo Detar be NAB: JIM JONSON - cate Wer igh Scoot ‘He his ban at Incas Wer lr 13 yur. Hi tums have wor 7 isi isin ero, 4 Sess Champomtie wih ‘Wo Final For apenanes plang fen 185 JOYE MCNELIS Merb State (Wore) ‘At Mepis forthe ust or yas wits 252 cord, Lahm the NCAA Touran at ssa Wi 21-7 eo ‘Hs teas ring spe point on tebe DAVE ODOM - Wake Foe ‘ets estas hmv ne ofthe op caches inthe ACC wit i rebuing ogsu. In 1994 named ACC Conc of the Yeur nd USBWA Dist Coarhof be Yer Henig ints i thar WE, KEVIN ONEILL Temnexce ‘Agroren bul of pograns. Behe moving to Tenses he med he Marge propa nthe years. His tears won ‘7020 esi nt wo yas ad rahe te NCAA bos years TOMPENDERS- tee sve 7 perp fast paced ee as ken he Ras Homso two SWC isin hi yor Tea thy have resid ‘BeNCAA Toumamen Snes KELVIN SAMPSON - Otto ‘J ied ifs year Oana whore he suceeded Bly Tbh, Helped stu wining pte Washington ‘Site where was beacons oven are PAUL SANDERFORD - Westra Keay ising his 13 yee as oad oh sar at roken visual every sho ear fr excellence Hs ean abated ‘eT eomocure NCAA Tournaments ad warn Fal Fat 9 nce WIMP SANDERSON. Arknex Lilet) ‘Seco year a Aransas Lie Rock le [Zonstuag yeu a Alsumns Aquat coh dod the of lente ‘gnmens: Thetis te a ceny inking poste TORRY SMITH - Geog Ini fist yar at Gorge pending fur qui yea ath ei in Tu. He edhe te See Sintec st ear 02.8 ear Alm spent two yea with dk ios Kent [NORM STEWART -Misoai [Las yenson Coch Sart wa with Bob Knight fr Sti vce oh ist asivewinngost NCAA Divison T (Coa. Inthe Big be has wo macula ae sd ie an anyone [RICHARD WILLIAMS Naini Ste (Coch Wiis highly serpeced hr SEC per and his ee ep ting ber, Hes ha eta ses eke, ROY WILLIAMS Kans ‘Init 72h sean a KU at bol he ihe wining porate sting Divison I coaches, His tan ay nmi ‘oan fee hat a dh Fal oer 19 a 1958COACH JANE ALBRIGHT:DIRTERLE STEVE ALFORD KIM ANDERSON (GENO AURIEMMA. MURRY BARTOW DICK BENNETT AGNUS BERENATO HUBIE BROWN JIM CREWS NANCY FAHEY TIMFLoYD FRAN FRASCHILLA PETE GAUDET GARY GLASSCOCK JIM HARRICK BILL HERRION ‘TERRY HOLLANDER LARRY HUNTER, JILL HUTCHISON MIKE JARVIS JIM JOHNSON JOYE MCNELIS DAVE ODOM KEVIN ONEILL ‘TABLE OF CONTENTS ToRIc Fist Things First “The Fast Breke ‘Guard Development Practice Sessions Post Play “Tee Post Ofense Practice Seasons UAB Defensive Philosophy Man Defense Drills Practical Defense for High School Rules For Offense ‘Team Bonding “Motivation and Commaniation Special Situations Breaking the Press Last Second Shots res Atacc Playing Without Size G Percentage Defense - Half-Court Big Man Pos Play Pressure Defense UCLA Defense Quick Hiters- Set Pays Side Ou-Of-Bounds Front Cour igh and Low Post Dis Developing Menta Toughness Match-Up Zone Defense Secondary Transition Defensive Building Blocks Man-To-Man Defense Ran and Jomp Press Match-Up Press Man-To-Mn Defense Zone Defense “Man-To-Man Pays 15 18 33 36 HAsaeS B B 88 95 100 108 u7 125 19 136 437 140 “7 152 156 161 169 495 mCOACH ‘TOM PENDERS KELVIN SAMPSON PAUL SANDERFORD WIMP SANDERSON TUBBY SMITH NORM STEWART RICHARD WILLIAMS ROY WILLIAMS TABLE OF CONTENTS ‘Topic Offensive Basketball Longhorn Defense Sooner Intensity Drills, ‘The 1-4 Offense Situation Basketball Offensive Alignments ‘Mixing Your Defenses “Missouri Basketball Philosophy Missouri Defensive Basketball Individual & Team Offensive Drills Zone Offensive Concepts ‘Multiple Defenses Kansas Offense DIAGRAM LEGEND. (5)centers (3,4) Forwards (1,2)¢uaras (Bven numbers generally are players on the right side of the floor.) 184 189 192 196 201 216 25 230 BSBJIM HARRICK UCLA DEFENSE hilosomy. Defense stats immediately when the opponent gets the ball. Give a lite of your offense to compliment ‘your defense. Pressure the ball. Force the player with the ball to dribble. Guard the passing lane. You ‘must teach your defense. Whatever you do on defense must be continved until you get the ball. ‘You must have defensive imagination, teach your team the value of unity and aggressiveness. They must understand why they are doing it. Decide if you are going to teach fan or funnel, Defense isa state-of ‘mind, an attitude. Emphasize that each team member is dependent upon the other to have a successful defense. One man covers the ball with the other four helping. Without communicating to each teammate, ‘there will ot be no unity on defense. You must tach when to pressure and when to sag. In our defense, we have a numberof things we feel are very important for us to become a good! defensive team. These things must be practiced diligently on a regular basis and we do not accept a half hearted effort from our players. They are basic, but as Tsai, they ae essential to our becoming an outstanding, efensive eam, 1. Stance: We want everyone down on ther rear ends with their hands above their shoulders with fingers pointed tothe sky. 2. Concentration: We emphasize the importance of listening. If players hear, ‘but do not listen, they will not become good players and there ‘will not be a high level intensity by the defense, 3. Balance: ‘The head must stay on the mid-point line. Once the head is tilted too far forward, there iso balance, just as there is no Way the defense can move ifthe head is up too high. 4. Quickness: Players must lear to think & aet quickly. They must learn 10 speed up reaction time and move to the proper position, 5S. Play hard ‘There isnot ever a time forthe players to play or work less than the hardes they possibly ean. When players do not prac- tice as hard as they can, we do not allow them to practice. ‘Toachieve these things, we have a few drills using the length ofthe floor, First, we will emphasize stance up and down the floor. We waat the defense to take abig step to stay ahead of the offense. The defense works on deny, closeout, charge and dive, Following this, we will use a mass ill with a leader calling out certain moves and the team echoing the callJIM HARRICK UCLA DEFENSE ‘Secondly, we will start with tree Hines on the baseline. 1, Run the full Iength ofthe floor 2. Change of pace/change of direction 3. Work on the closeout 4, Defensive slide, work on technique ‘3. J-on-1 without te ball 6. 1-on- withthe ball ‘Thirdly, put four lines on the baseline, Put four offensive men 15° away, each with a ball. The defense: 1. Works on the closeout 2. Contest the shot 3. Take charges 4. Diveon the floor ‘We may stat these drills going the ful length of the floar for ten minutes, then spend fifteen minutes doing 1-on-1,2-07-2, 3.on-3. We have a very good drill 4-on-4,4-on-4, 4-o1-4 whereby you go from offense 10 defense to sitting out. This is done for ten minutes. We will spend about this amount of time each day ‘working on atleast three defensive dis, Ina of the dels, we want our players to jump to the pass. ‘One-on-One Drills ‘A. Check Point Drill (Diagram 1) [In this dei we attempt to drive our player toa spot on the floor we eall our check point. ‘The two check ‘pints are the 28 foot mark on te sideline anda spot on the baseline half way between the basket and the "The defense hands the offense the ball and dives him tothe checkpoint.JIM HARRICK UCLA DEFENSE B. Wing Denial Drill (Diagram 2) In this drill we are denying the pass from the guard to forward, We tell our defensive player to have his front arm out in the passing lane withthe thumb down, pointing to the floor. ‘The head is turning and looking over the front shoulder toward the bal. This salve one-on-one dill We do this from both sides ‘of the floor, The rotation forthe players is offense to defense, defense to passer, and passer to offense, C. Close Out Drill (Diagram 3) ‘Hore the coach passes to the wing and the defense must come out on the ball inthe close out stance, ‘prepared to defend the shot. Ifthe offensive man doosa'thave the sho, itis 1-on-1 live, You can use atid player instead of a coach to be the passer . Cover Down Deill (Diagram 4) Here we are working on giving help ona ball passed into the post. The bal ison the wing with adefender (on the ball and an open post. The offensive man passes the bal into the post andthe defense must turn and ‘make a one step or two step cover down move toward the post. Whether itis a one or two step move is dictated by how good a three-point shooter the perimeter player i. Diogram 4 Cy a Diogram 5JIM HARRICK UCLA DEFENSE E. Post Drill (Diagram 5) [Here we are working on defending the high/side post. How you cover the post is based on your defensive philosophy. You can front him, 3/4 cover, or play behind. When the ball is passed from the top to the wing ‘or vice-versa we always go behind the post so we can't be dunked on. We feel there is nothing more ‘demoralizing than a dunk to the defense. When the ball i passed into the post we play 1-o0-1 live. ZZ = Diogram 5 ‘Two-on-Two Drills A. Two-on-Two Guard-Forward (Diagram 6) Here we are working on the common move of most offenses. The guard starts at mid-court with the ball ‘and using only the ballside ofthe cour, the offensive guard and forward attempts to pass, cut, and score ‘withthe defensive men working on the techniques taught in the one-on-one drills B. Two-on-Two Jump to the Ball (Diagram 7) (On a guard to guard pass we always stress jumping to the ball. Here we are working on the defense ‘moving with the pass and not waiting until the pass is complete. There is no attempt at tis time by the offense to score. 7, TJ eo) a> Pam Diagram 6 Diogran 7JIM HARRICK UCLA DEFENSE C. Screen Away Drill (Diagram 8) ‘So many offenses today have this ds part ofits arsenal. ‘There are two ways you can defense this move: 1, Switch on all screens. 2, Go over top of the screen. 3, Step back and slide trough. This is te technique we use most often. We tell our defender on the scTeener to step back from the screen and allow the cuter to slide rough. (Diagram 9) SS, D. Two-on-Two Below (Diagram 10) ‘The offense sets up below the foul line with each in a forward position. There are two players above the foul line who serve as passers. We are working on denying the ball, stopping and giving help on the back door, and denying flash post moves. E, Two-on-Two No Post (Diagram 11) 2a Piogram 11JIM HARRICK UCLA DEFENSE F. Two-on-Two with Open Post Diagram 12) “Hiere we teach our guards that if their man cts off the poston the same side they started from, they ae t0 fight over the top of the post. On a scissors cutoff te post the guards are to switch, ‘hrse-on-Three Drils A. Three on-Three Hal Court (Diagram 13) We se up ina guar, forward, center setup on offense If the offense scores, it presses and defense works on breaking the press. Ifthe offense doesn't scare, it ‘works on transition defense and the defense converts into our est break offense. ‘B. Three-on-Tharée Screen Drill (Diagram 14) Here we are working on fighting over the screen, communicating and giving help onthe screen, We setup ‘Screeners on each side ofthe lane with defenders on the sereeners. The dribbler starts with the ball atthe twp ofthe center circle and moves to use either screener to free himself for a shot. The man on the ball must ‘work to fight over top ofthe screen. The defense on the screener must warn his teammate of the approach- {ng screen, “screen right, screen left,” then he has 4 things he can to do to help on the dribbler, He can: 1. Make the dribbler go wide. 2. Make the dribbler pick up the dribble, 3. Make the dribbler reverse the dribble. 4, Take the charge. VW wy, © mo Diagram 13 OF 7 ON Diegan 12JIM HARRICK UCLA DEFENSE Eour-on-Four Drills {In our four-on-four drills, we can work out often different sets. Which ane we use i based on the set our ‘opponent will use. (Diagrams 15 -20) shows some of these potential sets. Diagram 15, Diagram 16, aS Diagram 19 iogram 20JIM HARRICK UCLA DEFENSE (Our basic four-on-four drill is the shell drill, We follow a basic progression in teaching this defensive ‘concept. The stages we teach four-on-four defense are: 1 Pass around the perimeter and check the defensive positioning. We're stressing rotation in this segment ofthe dil, ‘Skip-pass can check defensive positioning. Here we're stressing closing out on al skip-pass. ‘Help and recover with one dribble. We are stressing the concept of closing the gap. (Diagram 21) (Guard-to-forward pass and rotate (Diagram 22) Guard-to-guard pass and screen away. (Diagram 23) Here we are working on stepping back and sliding through the screen. veer (One day we will go 4-on-4 half-court andthe next day we will go 4-on-4full-court. We play this game (Grill) until the defense has made five stops, not until the offense has made five baskets. ‘A. 3-on-4 Coniest (Diagram 24) ‘We are working on making things a litle tougher for defense so they have to work together, communicate, ‘and make choices because of the disadvantage they have. The defense oaly gets out by sebounding a missed shot or ifthe player who wasn’t blocked off the board ges the rebound. This drills also forces the defense to make proper rotation. ieJIM HARRICK UCLA DEFENSE B.d-on-5 Contest (Diagram 25) This drills exactly the same as the 3-0n-4 drill except we have added one more defensive and one more offensive player. The final dil we use in teaching our defense isthe $-on-§ control drill. (Diagram 26) We do this ev- ery night for 5-20 minutes. ‘The only time we don't use this drills the night before a game, The coach controls this drill by determining how many times up and down the court tis drill goes. Tf the offense scores, they press andif they don’t score they get back on transition defense. Ifthe defense is scored on, they nan their press offense. IFthey aren't scored upon, they must move into the fast break offense. ‘Do you teach free throw defense? If not, itcan hurt you. When I was at Pepperdine, we were playing Jim ‘Valvano’s team and we're up six wih the ball witha minute to goin the first overtime. With nine seconds to goin the frst overtime, North Carolina State is tthe line shooting a one-and-one with us up two. They ‘miss the shot, get the rebound, and bank the ball back in to tie the score. We lose the game inthe second ‘overtime, So, free throw defense is critical to winning o losing! ‘Some ideas I would like to share wit you in closing. 1, Don’t allow your players to short leg you on the transition defense, What I mean by this is that you should look to see if your players are tkiag small steps instead of long sprint stride steps when hustling ‘back on defense. 2. ‘Transition defense must start as soon as you lose the ball. The priorities we place on transition defense is: one—don't give up the dunk and, two—stop the 3-point basket, 3. When you do individual drils, do you have players standing around or spread out at ll the baskets being actively involved? We only have 3 -4 players at each basket working on the dil, 4, We put two lines on the floor when teaching our defense with the understanding that we want our ‘weakside defender to have one foot on the midline a all mes, We are constantly yelling to our helpside: "Get on your line, get on your line.”