Again, I want to repeat this is what we are doing and you have to kind of visualize this until we get into the drill itself. We are teaching these young men and women, whichever Coaches you maybe, to make a split decision at the last instant. We are catching the ball on the outside foot and scoring up quickly when we catch it so we can watch that cutter. We are going to deliver that pass when they are ready. We have to simulate in our minds that there is a defensive person on even though there is not.
So I do not want to pass like this because there is someone there, when he makes his cut, I want to pass with a fake that where we have set up our own man to get it through. Then we have now taken the whole concept of basketball. I am being defended, he is being defended, he is open, I deliver the ball to where he can score. That is how you win basketball games. That is how you utilize this type of offense and any type of game whether it would be closed, whether it be utilized, it is installed, it matters not. You have to learn to execute. Let us go ahead and continue with the drill right here. Play it.
Now we are going to correct a couple of things right here and as we do this and we are actually teaching this group to take this drill down to the Las Vegas and Phoenix Tournaments and use right into the tournament. This are two areas fellows that I want you to concentrate on. When I come out and I call for the ball, extend one hand and call for it there. Drop out and catch it and square up.
If I throw and I am cutting through do not give a two hand target, give a one handed target and know where your defense is. If coach is here on me, then obviously I may get it way out in front. If I am going to beat it I do want to try to take it this way here and let him have a chance for the ball. So, always in your mind one-handed target, call for the ball and try to pin point it on that one hand if you are going to make the pass. Let us continue the drill.
Good. Good, all the way through the block. Good, now come back out. Good, there is a back cut, good. Keep your line balanced. Please do not go to sleep on me. Now, that was good, he made the pass, he scored it but if I think you noticed in the film he almost over ran it, did he not? He threw it almost too low on to the basket.
Normal rotations when you get it down will automatically come. And the coaches can regulate how the lines will end up just by how many times they stepped up and down. I am going to switch coaches now, so he can get a little camera time. We are going to continue with the drill, okay, here we go. Keep moved up guys, keep moved up guys. Good square up. Good job there. Good and David- good square up, nothing, good, hit it, score.
Now the important thing is – and we do this in our program - we never miss a lay-in. If we miss a lay-in in any drill, the individual, he runs a line. We never miss a lay-in, we never stop if they miss, they continue until I put it in. I think you have to demand excellence specially if you are going to run this drill. Now, it does not take a lot of preparation, but what it does do is it takes a lot of anticipation and learns the kids how to read the defense.
We have to teach that because it is not something that is instinctive, only to a few it is. But most kids have to learn how to read the defense. So we take coach here and we say, “If he is above the foul line, he is in a denial position.” He is denying you, what we are saying is this, “If coach is on me,” step over the other David, come up. I am saying, “If I run here, then coach is going to deny me, if he does, I plant and I backdoor.” If he is below the foul line, then we are saying he is playing me so soft, back in, and I am going to be able to plant, catch the ball, square up real easy here.
And we want to try to make 90 degree cuts. This is important; basketball- football is played with 90 degree cuts, receivers that can run good patterns, normally runs sharp, plant and cut. In basketball very seldom do we talk about 90 degree cuts. In this offense we do not only run 90 degree cuts but we also run 45 degree angles and we also make a team defense above the foul line.
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