Culture is a huge part of building a basketball program. With the basketball season getting underway, the following information is about how we go about building our culture. The .pdf below shares the information from a lecture given at a recent basketball clinic. Building a Culture Within Your Program … [Read more...]
Team Captain Description & Application
This is an application we use for team captains. Many teams look for captains to lead off-season and summer workouts and others yet give captains a huge role during the season. This page contains our "job description" for what it means to be a captain. The Word document which you can also download includes the "job application" which will be completed by those players who are desiring to be a captain. Team Captains Job Description Captains should have great character and emulate … [Read more...]
Preseason Basketball Shooting Workout
Use this basketball shooting workout as a preseason workout for your players. It can even be used in the early season or during the season when you want to get in a good shooting session. Players can certainly perform this workout individually but if you have gym time and space available have all your players get involved. You can set it up in your before or after school training sessions ... just put 20:00 minutes on the clock and have your players get after it. Here it is... Preseason … [Read more...]
12 Team Covenants
Use this list of 12 team covenants with your basketball team to help instill values such as togetherness, selflessness, hard work, and more that will lead to a winning team. If you simply want to view this in a normal webpage, you can view 12 Basketball Team Covenants from Coach Keene. Coach Zach Keene, expert Academy contributor, was kind enough to share his '12 Covenants' document. It is in a Word .doc format so you can simply add your school/team name in a few spots and then hand it out … [Read more...]
11 Press Defense
The "11" Defense has the same base principles as both the Double Fist Havoc Press and our Diamond press. The only difference is how we align our top two people. The two guards in this instance are stacked vs. playing side by side. We will still use our quarter system along with our "Taker", "Reader", and "Teaser" system with all players off the ball. With this defense we really are allowing the offense to relax a little and not see all the pressure at once. We are wanting the ball to be … [Read more...]
Double Fist Havoc Press Defense
Philosophy of the Double Fist Havoc Press Defense: “Pressure, Pressure, Pressure” We want to keep pressure on the opponent on both offense and defense What are we Trying to Get Out of the Press: Turnovers (Live Ball Turnovers) Quick / Bad Shots From Our Opponents Create More Offensive Opportunities Force Tempo / Disrupt Offensive Flow Difficult To Prepare For Make Opposing Players Do Things They Aren't Comfortable Doing Create Fatigue (Overall Cumulative … [Read more...]
Don Meyer 2010 Leadership Seminar Notes
The following came in 7 pages of information shared to me from the 2010 Don Meyer Leadership Seminar. One of the winningest coaches in the history of the game, Coach Meyer is an expert at developing, motivating, and building leaders. For more great information from Coach, I urge you to check out CoachMeyer.com! Don Meyer Leadership Seminar August 2010 You can have anything you want, just not everything you want. Learn who you are and what your game is. Biggest turnoff is being … [Read more...]
Dribble Play (1 Finger Down)
This play works great directly out of your secondary break. It's a quick hitter that can be run anytime, but executes quite well out of your transition offense. We will look to run this directly out of our secondary fast break. It can be initiated by either calling it out, pointing to the spot where the point guard wants the screen to be set (1 finger down) or by simply dribbling directly at the 4. 4 will come over and set a pick for 1 equal to where the lane begins. 1 will look to turn the … [Read more...]
Bomber Secondary Fast Break Offense
Our 'Bomber Secondary Fast Break Offense' looks to attack and score with several options leading to inside or mid-range scoring opportunities. Wings make sure to run wide. Post players run opposite of ball then break to ball side block and post up hard. Our first look is always to the post. If the post is not open we can either reverse the ball back to the 1 and they enter the ball to the post, look to drive, or continue to pass the ball to the 4. Or 2 may decide to just throw a skip pass … [Read more...]
Tap the Head Basketball Play
This set play starts with a dribble hand-off and an on-ball screen to create misdirection and dribble-drive opportunity. Executed well, it allows for penetration right down the lane. In this set we are looking for (1) to drive the ball towards (2) on the right wing. As (1) is driving (2) will look to come "over the top" and receive a dribble hand off from (1). Meanwhile (5) is looking to step out above the 3-point line to set a screen for (2) who is coming right back around to the left … [Read more...]