Nike Basketball Clinic – Las Vegas, NV – April 30 – May 2, 2010 Taylor Harris – Metro State College –
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2010 Nike Championship Basketball Clinic April 30 – May 2, 2010
Notes Included: Ben Jacobson – Northern Iowa – “Man to Man Offense” Bob Huggins – West Virginia – “Our Defensive Philosophy” Bob Knight – “Knight School: Teaching Coaches What to Coach” Lon Kruger – UNLV – “UNLV’s Man to Man Offense” Craig Robinson – Oregon State – “Oregon State Defense”
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Ben Jacobson – Northern Iowa Attacking Man to Man Defenses
Coaching requires you to build a solid foundation and have solid expectations Don’t shift your views if a shot is made or missed 3 concepts of man to man offense o Spacing o Pace o Screening When attacking man to man defense, what do you want to accomplish? o We want to find a way to force help o Force a 2nd defender out of position We let our players have lots of freedom o We want them to play with lots of confidence Ali Farokhmanesh had the confidence to hit the shot in Kansas game
We don’t run a motion o We set lots of ball screens and run lots of set plays Offense is about how hard guys are cutting away from the basketball
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DRILL o 3v3 quarter court Play right or left side only on a half of the court o Rules Set any screens you want No ball screens Don’t only meet halfway on screens Talk Reinforce talking Give them shot clock Play cutthroat with multiple teams Score, stay on offense. Defense to offense, new team to defense Gradually move to 4v4, but by strict about staying on one side of the court. An imaginary line in the middle of the court is out of bounds! Utilizing the dribble hand off o If your PG hands the ball off to a player on the wing, consider running him off a double screen to the opposite side of the court o Guy receiving the ball quickly reverses it, and you could have the PG open at the post or corner How do you teach the timing of the ball screen? o Repetition is most important o Emphasize patience o Wait for screener to set feet
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Roy Williams – North Carolina Running Game and Early Offense
Point Guard’s job is to go as fast as he can from top of the key to top of the key Make a commitment to run every single time We practice taking the ball out of the net o Coach stands in front of FT line, shoots the ball o Post player takes ball out and quickly outlets it to manager at the 28 foot line Make or miss Outlet pass o Point Guard As you catch the ball, make sure you can stop on a dime and change direction Don’t risk committing the charge
Primary Break o 2 or fewer defenders 3v2 or 2v1 o Shot within 2 passes Secondary break o 3 or more defenders Everybody on the team must like the shot that’s taken by a player o Poll the team in practice during play
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How many people on blue liked the shot that was taken by Joe? Post players: Deception o Pretend like you’re catching the lob o Tyler Hansbrough was so good because when he was in the post, he fought the hardest and demanded the ball every time
Cherish the highs of coaching o After we won National Championships, the next day I was on the road recruiting Didn’t celebrate the successes o With a subpar season, we dwell too much on the negatives, we need to balance that out with celebrating the wins
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Bob Huggins – West Virginia Our Defensive Philosophy
How do you get your players to play so hard? o Run – in practice o Sit – in games In practice, players would run 22’s but wouldn’t touch all the lines o Set up a treadmill set at 17mph o Make a kid run on the treadmill for 44 sec o He can’t cheat the treadmill, and if he doesn’t run fast, he’ll fly off Tape a “help” line on the court every day o From rim to rim, middle of the court o Guys need to straddle the help line o If they’re not at the help line, they go to treadmill
DRILL o o o o o o
2v2 Sprint to Help Drill Coach up top Player at each wing (offense & defense) Pass to one wing, other wing must sprint to help line We do this every day during practice If they don’t sprint and straddle the help line, they go to treadmill
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On defense, we want guys to be closer to the ball than their man is To get through the screen, throw your arm out and hit the screener Go back and look at game film regarding opponents passes o Passes that hurt you are direct passes o Not lobs or bounce passes o Direct passes set up easy shots Philosophy: “You can through it over, under, or around us, but you can’t throw it through us”
Closeouts – We work on closeouts more than anyone in the country Closeout to outside, high shoulder o Prevent middle penetration As coaches, do you do things in practice not knowing why you do it? o Think about those drills that you do “just because” o Do you have time for all those drills? Everyone speaks of spacing – what is it? o 15-17 feet o Close enough so you can make a direct pass o Far enough where 1 guy can’t guard 2
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You don’t get beat off of 1st shots – you get beat by 2nd and 3rd shots Shoulders point to where the ball is going to be thrown – not the eyes o Teach players to read shoulders, not eyes Key to rebounding: Staying lower than your opponent
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Bob Knight Teaching Coaches What to Coach
Have rules on how you’re going to practice o Never let a kid step onto the court and shoot on their own o They needed to have a coach, manager, or other player with them o No free shooting on their own Have things in practice that are physically and mentally tough o Drills where players will bang and bruise each other o Drills that will challenge their mind Start practice with quick drills o Drills that require hand/eye quickness, and get their mind thinking right away Don’t practice too long o You get to a “point of no return” with practice time o Start of season -> December = 2 hour, 15 min practice o January -> End of the season = Never go longer than 1 hour 15min
Drills that involve an individual skill – spend no more than 5 minutes Drills that involve the team as a whole – spend no more than 10 minutes
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There are 3 phases to basketball o Offense o Defense o Conversion Rule of defensive transition – no easy points, and don’t let them get to FT line Rules of offensive transition – get there without a turnover and get there with an opportunity to score Best coaches understand simplicity. With simplicity comes execution. A lot of this stuff I teach you is elementary, but most of this game is elementary o How to prevent turnovers? Don’t throw the ball to the other color jersey
Stress the importance of getting to the bonus before the opponent o Game goal: make more FT’s than the other team attempts Spend more time on conversion of offense to defense and defense to offense Mental is to physical as 4 is to 1 Make players responsible for knowing what they’re supposed to do o Call a timeout in practice and describe the play you’re going to run Who’s going to get the ball and how Give players a notecard and have them take a quiz on what’s supposed to be run See if more than 50% of players get it right Shooters must be able to give a shot fake and drive right or left – both directions quickly Watch your players shoot FT’s o Do their eyes follow the path of the ball? Good shooters do not When you catch the ball, hold it for a 2 second count so you can see what’s going on
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DRILL o Keep Away 3 players = 2 players 12 ft apart, 1 player in the middle Defensively, get your hand on the ball – don’t use your feet to kick ball Pass fakes, pivots, stay at 12 ft Terminology: “Feed the post player” Step into your passes, don’t be flat footed Shoot FT’s every 20 min of practice Every single day in practice, work on passing, cutting, screening Versus a zone o If you make a lot of passes, you’re going to shoot a lot of 3’s o If you dribble penetrate, you’ll be more effective Post entry o Bounce pass away from defense o Make pass low, so post player is already low o If pass is high, player has to go low to make his move
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Lon Kruger – UNLV UNLV’s Man to Man Offense
As a coach, create an atmosphere in practice for your best chance to teach and best chance for your players to learn o What would you want to do if you were playing for you? o We do this by being positive and encouraging Encourage an atmosphere for players to want to come early and stay late Create more confidence for your players Talk to your players, ask them questions o Get your players to share ownership in the program o Not my program and my team; it’s our program and our team Expect a lot out of your players o Be fair, and consistent Your best player needs to be your hardest worker o Needs to make the other players want to come in early and stay late with him Focus on the details o We compete to win each and every possession of the ballgame
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Everyone gets to practice early o Coaches and players work together o Get game like shots before practice o Always start our individual workouts with shooting In practice, don’t allow bobbled catches or travels – if they happen in practice, they will happen in the game DRILL o Follow The Leader o Coach at top, players line near half court & sideline o Pass to coach, then coach passes back Player needs to catch it at the wing o Rip through right/left & rack it o Rip through & pull up jumper o Go for 5 minutes – Change shot after they make 5 of 7 o No travels or bobbled catches allowed
On offense, have an opportunity to get an easy bucket in transition Good spacing allows you to get the ball inside You need to be able to reverse the ball o If the ball never gets swung, you’re attacking the defense at its strongest point Win Battles o Usually when we lose, we don’t need to do something different We just need to work harder and execute more precisely Ideally, we want to get down the court and score off of our initial action (back cut action) – we’d rather not call any sets
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Players need a security blanket on offense o Something they’re very comfortable with that they can go to in pressure situations When you play a team for the 3rd and 4th time, they start to figure out your stuff o You need to have counters so you have more options o Counters give your players a chance to read and respond to situations Most of our screens are small on big or big on small Against a 2-2-1 contain press o We “headhunt” 5 man picks a man to free up 1 o 2 and 3 go deep corners o Once the pick is made, we attack them o If they want to control the pace, we attack it with a ball screen in the back court Up 3, 8 seconds to go o We always foul, but we work on it a lot in practice We also work on the FT line box out The last thing you need is them to make the first, miss the second, and tie it
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Craig Robinson – Oregon State Oregon State’s Defensive Philosophy
In practice, we devote 30% of our time to defense Positively reinforce hard work rather than technique o Don’t throw technique out the window, but on the defensive end hard work must be praised more than anything else 1-3-1 Zone is a gimmick defense, but if you play hard, you can use it as a weapon Tape your practices – you can learn more day to day and improve over the week Form your defensive philosophy based on what you have and what you’re recruiting Why 1-3-1? o Makes it hard to get the ball in the post Most athletic player on the bottom of the zone o We recruit these kids – Fast, athletic, high IQ 1-3-1 is susceptible to giving up shots in the corer o Also prone to a quick swing and ball being thrown to the opposite corner How do we practice rebounds? Not by rebounding drills o Too many injuries o We play live – if defense doesn’t get a rebound, they run Guarding low post in the 1-3-1 o Pete Carrill taught to run for the ball – like football o Don’t run for the man
