Coaching Basketball
1. Why do you want to be a Coach Handout
2. Coaches Who Have Impacted Me
a. Coach Meyer
i. U-tube
ii. Papers
1. Stop and think cards
2. 1000 Marbles
3. Old Warwick
4. Stanford Story
5. Power of Mind Set
6. Magic Note
7. Life and juggling
8. Emergency phone numbers
9. Book List for Leaders
10. I love you enough
11. What I won’t do for my friends
12. You tell on your self
13. 8 gifts that don’t cost a thing
14. Happiness keys
15. The Art of Happiness
16. I wish I would have known
17.
b. Coach Wooden
3. Leadership
a. Handout: The Mental Game
b. Coach Self
c. Coach Valvano
d. Pat Croce
e. Coach Summitt
f. Ray Lewis “Leadership”
g. Coach Carter
h. Coach Coale
i. Coach Izzo
j. Coach Krzyzewski
4. Defensive Philosophies and Techniques
a. Intensity / Communication / Box Out
b. 1/2 Court: #5-11
c. Press: #12
d. BLOB: #13
e. SLOB: #14
f. Ft: #19
g. Box Outs
h. Situations: end of qt. / end of game
5. Offensive Philosophies and Techniques
a. Attack Middle / Zone = high post and short corners / Do what YOU do
Well / Know Your role /
b. #15
c. Fast Break: #16
d. BLOB: #17
e. SLOB: score vs just get it in
f. Ft: #18
g. Shooting: #3
h. Dribbling: #1
i. Pivots: #2
j. Post Moves: #4
k. Set Plays
l. Situations: end of qt. / end of game
6. Developing a Practice Plan
7. In Game Coaching Philosophies
8. In-Season Drills
9. Off-Season Drills / Individual Skill Development
10. Injury prevention
a. Taping Joints in general
b. Taping ankles
11. Watch Game Film / Stat Films where and when needed
BASIC FUNDAMENTALS
1. Dribbling:
a. Left hand, right hand
b. Crossover
c. Back-up
2. Pivots
a. Front
b. Reverse
3. Shooting
a. Triple threat
b. BEEF
c. Hand placement
d. Shooting window
e. Wrinkles in the wrist
4. Post Moves
a. Drop Step
b. Up and under
c. High post flash
5. Defense
a. Man you ball
b. On the line, up the line
c. No middle penetration
d. No direct drives
e. Active ball pressure
6. Post Defense
a. Ball up top – on the line up the line
b. Ball on the wing or corner – full front
i. One hand up, one hand locating opponent
ii. Yelling help!!
7. Post to Post Screens
a. Leg over screener
b. Offense goes low = switch
c. Offense goes high = fight thru
8. Flex Screens
a. Treat this as a Post to Post Screen
9. Down Screens
a. Person guarding the screener steps to the middle of the floor
b. Person guarding the man coming off the screen goes between the screen
and the teammate who has stepped to the middle of the floor
c. WE CALL THIS 3RD PERSON
10. Away Screens
a. 3RD PERSON
11. Back Screens
a. SWITCH
b. Person getting screened gets leg over the screener toward the ball side
c. Other person yells “screen, switch”
**never switch screens unless communicated**
12. Press
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Deny inbounds pass
When pass is made everyone yells “BALL”
Dead ball press must have a center fielder
Live ball press must have a safety
Once ball is in keep it out of the middle and keep it in front of you
“CORRAL”
f. Everyone else is jumping to the ball
g. If you see the back of the person dribbling “RUN & JUMP”
h. Guy jumping, jumps and yells GO when the person picks up the dribbler
i. The guy guarding the ball filters to the middle
13. BLOB Defense
a. PRE-SWITCH when possible
b. Guy guarding the ball is under the basket defending any pass that direction
c. Screens away from the ball should be switched
d. Screens toward the ball “fight thru”
14. SLOB Defense
a. PRE-SWITCH when possible
b. Guy guarding the ball is under the basket in help position (he can not leave
until someone replaces him as help)
c. Everyone else is denying, but not getting beat basket side.
15. Offense
a. Triple threat
b. Spacing 10-15 feet unless screening
c. Raise fist when screening
d. After you pass you have 4 options
i. Basket-Cut
ii. Corner-Cut
iii. Screen Away
iv. Ball Screen
16. Fast Break
a. Spacing
b. One post sprints to ball side post
c. Other post stays behind ball for reversal
d. Guards get wide and sprint the floor looking back for the ball
17. BLOB Offense
a. Get to the spots quick and be ready
b. If the defender guarding you is not seeing the ball, then the pass is coming
to you.
c. Action starts when the person inbounding the ball GRABS the ball from
the official
d. EXECUTE WE SHOULD GET EASY POINTS OFF INBOUNDS
PLAYS
18. Free-throw Alignment and duties WE ARE SHOOTING
a. (right handed shooter) person left of the shooter and closest to the rim tries
to get across the lane and in front of the opposing teams low guy
b. Person right of the shooter can fight middle or baseline side
c. Other 2 player behind the shooter match up with the opposing players to
prevent a long rebound
19. Free-throw Alignment and duties OPPOSING TEAM SHOOTING
a. Best rebounders down low
b. 2 players in the top spots on both side of the shooter
c. The top player and the bottom player pinch the opposing teams best
rebounder
d. The other top guy is responsible for blocking out the shooter.
e. The 2 players behind the shooter must block out the opposing player
behind the shooter.
20. Substitutions
a. Players take a towel and give the towel to the person they are subbing for
(at this time players communicate assignments)
b. Players exiting the game will jog off the court
c. NO WALKING, NO THROWING THE TOWEL