In this particular drill what we want to do is we want to send our wing cutters and we want to try to keep our packing game within the three-point circle. They are going to be cut to get open and plant and break out. The guard in this case it is a guard is going to make the first pass and we are going to square up in the triple threat position. On the pass he is going to make what we call the direct cut and this is the first of the series that we are going to talk about and now there is a hard cut to the basket, the lay in, rebound, and then in this particular drill we are going clockwise and we are going to move these people. We will take it through with the direct cut and talk about it for just a moment.
Now notice that time this young man stepped away. He made the pass and he stepped away. This told me that he pushed his defensive man here. He got angle and went hard to the basket with the direct cut. He did what we call visualize. He actually in his mind assumed that there was a defender in front of him and he did not run it as though it was a drill. He is has actually now has showed that he is in the ball game and he is playing a game on someone right now. This is the direct cut.
Okay let’s hold it up for just a second. A couple of things we try to teach in all the series of offense is move that we do instruct is we call for the ball with one hand the target hand. We call for it with two; we call for it with two. We will call for it with one and we come out and gather the ball with two squares into our triple threat position. I want to tell you this that we use what we call an outside pivot. We feel that the outside pivot is the way to pivot and every offensive situation. The outside pivot is simply this. As I go down and plant and come out and lead with my forehand away from the defense. I try to stop it at a jump stop.
The outside pivot means that we take our outside foot and we square up to the basket. It does not matter which foot the outside foot is. If you are coming up to the lane of the difference and we happen to catch the ball this way. This is unusual obviously but if we did this is our outside foot we would square up this way. We teach this to our pose to our forwards for a guard to forward pass for a forward to guard pass for guard to pose pass. It would not matter. What we try to do when this is a little bonus on passing game is we will take a dribble and we will work with our pose, throw the ball, catch, and square up.
Throw the ball and catch square up. Throw the ball, square up. Take it through the lane. Outside foot quick pivot, outside foot quick pivot, we will go guard to forward. We will play catch. I will stuck him out and catch it. We will throw it to him jump stop see now that was wrong. You pivoted on his closest foot to the lane and he pivoted back this way. If he would have pivoted correctly he would have pivoted this way. What that does is this, as he catches the ball and the defense sucks up. If he pivots on the inside to the closest foot he will not have the room because the defense will crowd. Go ahead and catch the ball. If I step here and I am crowdening, if he is going to pivot this way he has got to come into me. He cannot.
He will have to stay here because the pressure is on him but he jump stopped, jump and pivoted on this foot he immediately gives himself a buffer and I have to honor that buffer. We always try to teach our kids in passing game cuts could catch on the outside foot and square up the quickest way to the basket. We try to teach our post that. We teach our guards and our forwards. No matter where they are on the floor it will not matter if whichever foot is the farthest the quickest way to the basket. It does not matter.
Whichever foot is the quickest way to the basket. So a little coaching point, if you work with young kids in your grade schools and junior highs. If you are high school coaches teach them to always catch in a jump stop to pivot on the outside foot closest way to the basket will make them quicker players in the long run. Let’s assume this time now that we have a lazy defender and coaches do not teach jump to the ball. When you throw it you pass by without stepping away to rocketing. Good!
That is the direct cut that is the first segment that we use everyday in a passing game. We will wind it up and rotate our kids to where we will have if we have 12 players 12 direct cuts. Now one thing that did not happen that we tell lour players; number one, try to keep the whole game inside the three-point line. Obviously, this is a passing game to score. We do have a primitive passing game or we keep it outside, but in this particular case it is all inside. We are looking for the quick decisive passes off the sprints to put points on the board.
Had they have missed – they should have been like piranhas on the board because we never stop the drill until the ball goes through the basket. This is a drill that they have to make the lay in. We would want them to make lay in off the direct drive but sometimes their acceleration does not allow that there is a mess. We always attack the boards with the other two.
Transcription by:
Scribe4you Transcription Services