Using Your Man-to-Man BLOBs vs. Zone Defense
Do you have a separate out-of-bounds playbook for man-to-man defense and zone defenses? Don’t waste the time and frustration teaching your players a whole new set of plays for each defensive scheme! Coach Ido Singer explains how to take your existing OOBs plays and tweak things to score against zone defenses.
Spain Actions for Your Playbook
During this past season, it seemed like every college and NBA team had their variation on Spain action. Some teams kept it simple with a middle ball screen followed by the typical back screen. Others flow into Spain out of transition. Here are a couple ideas for your team from the Dallas Mavericks and Kentucky […]
NCAA Tournament Trends: Ghost Screens and Gap Creation
Looking for ideas to improve your basketball playbook? This year’s NCAA Tournament teams offered a variety of ideas to help your half court offense, zone offense, and special situations.
Building Your Basketball Playbook: Inverted Offense
Flip the traditional setup – Inverted Offense posts up a guard, running actions above to create huge advantages and tough covers. While attending the NABC Coaches Convention a few years back, I was intrigued when I saw the session titled, “The Analytical Edge: Underutilized Strategies to Increase Win Percentage,” presented by Frank Dehel of Dribble Handoff.
Building Your Basketball Playbook: Multiple Actions
There is incredible value in running sets with multiple actions, and the options are nearly endless – here’s a few to get you started. For those who read the companion blog post on plays with consecutive actions, you may have already begun tweaking your playbook to include a few more of these types of sets. Before you get too […]
Building Your Basketball Playbook: Consecutive Actions
String together consecutive actions to creates advantages by forcing the defense to make back-to-back quick decisions. During my second year as a college assistant coach, we had a Division I point guard transfer into our small program. His skill in the pick and roll was quickly apparent, not just to our staff, but also to our opponents. […]
