Offense

Army Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert has assembled some clips of how John Beilein attacked ICE ball screen coverage when he was at Michigan.

Zak has an outstanding site with posts on various coaching topics at www.pickandpop.net

His You Tube channel has several videos with various types of man to man plays, zone sets, and inbounds plays as well as clips on various defensive coverages.

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Army Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert has assembled some clips of stampede action.

The concept is to set a ball screen and then throw the ball back to the player whose defender is preparing to help on the pick and roll.

Zak has an outstanding site with posts on various coaching topics at www.pickandpop.net

His You Tube channel has several videos with various types of man to man plays, zone sets, and inbounds plays as well as clips on various defensive coverages.

You can subscribe to receive an update when he posts a new video Zak Boisvert You Tube Channel

You can follow him on Twitter at this link: @ZakBoisvert

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This article is republished with permission. The original article appears at The Fundamental Guide to Basketball Offensive Concepts and Structure.

This article is republished with permission. The original article appears at Pick and Roll Decision Making ft. C.J. McCollum and Coach Chris.

In todays post Coach Chris will talk about decision making when playing pick and roll/pop action. For this occasion Coach C will be using some videos of C.J. McCollum.

Pick and Roll is a play that has one goal: try to create miss match in terms that the bigger player has the advantage over smaller player under the basket and that the smaller and faster player has the advantage over bigger and slower player on the perimeter.

As there are variations in defending this screen action, it all comes down to recognizing the plays and making fast decisions. Lets get started.

What is wrong with this defensive play? I would say just about everything. Both defenders made errors. Why? First, you need to know who are you playing against. CJ is a grate long range shooter, and Nurkic, the screener, is not. The proper way of defending this screen would be that the guard defending CJ needed to go over the screen and Lopez would need to show. Instead of doing this, McCollum`s defender went under, and Lopez decided to stay in the “pocket”, closer to paint area. This opened space for an open jumper.

On this play we have more bad decisions by defense. We have a player that is guarding CJ “dying” on the screen , and player defending screener is just being passive and stays on the free throw line, where he has no chance of defending just about anything.

In this case, CJ is going to play some unconventional away from the screen action. He read the movement of both his direct defender and a player that guards the screener. I might add that both of them made the right moves in terms of going over the screen with the help defender getting up hight on the arc. But, CJ saw this and made a decision to go and “Reject the Screen”. He took a huge first step towards the open floor (yellow circle) and gave himself the opportunity for an open shot. Lets see the picture.

In our next play, Coach Chris is highlighting two things. First, the bad hand position by the defender, and second, McCollum`s awareness of that bad defensive stance. yellow line indicate how the hands are positioned in this play particularly.

Coach C always says that one hand is attacking the ball, while the other hand is high preventing the shot. So, to be more clear, we marked whit the RED LINE where the other hand should be. No matter who are you guarding, one hand must be up.

In this video we are going to analyze how to prepare for the screen as a offensive player. When ever you have aggressive defender on the ball, tell your players to try to bump him to the point when they are in the level of the screen. Why? If the screen is set high, the defense has more time to react and to catch up with the action, but if you are near the 3 point line, right after the screen you have the opportunity to shoot a jumper, and if you try to drive to the basket you will have less ground to cover.

Everything that we heard today from Coach Chris is basically Read and React Basketball. We need to teach our players what to expect of some plays, and we need to train them to feel comfortable in those situations so they can make the right decisions.

By Brendan Hall

From the Hudl Blog

Not all turnover totals are built the same. That’s why coach­es look to this stat as one of the biggest deter­min­ing fac­tors in a game’s outcome.

By nature of the sport, any­thing you try to elim­i­nate for your­self on offense, you’re try­ing to force on defense.

That’s why if you believe effec­tive field goal per­cent­age is the No. 1 deter­min­ing fac­tor between wins and loss­es for high school teams, you prob­a­bly believe turnover per­cent­age is close behind. 

Why a per­cent­age over a sim­ple cumu­la­tive total? For one, turnover per­cent­age gives you a bet­ter idea of how you’re tak­ing care of the ball when pace is con­sid­ered. A team that racks up a big num­ber of turnovers may sim­ply be play­ing at hyper­speed, and thus not all that bad.

For anoth­er, there are few sta­tis­tics that affect a team’s effec­tive field goal per­cent­age more than this one. Think about it the more you turnovers you force, the more missed oppor­tu­ni­ties your oppo­nent will have to score or get an offen­sive rebound.

How It Works

Let’s com­pare two teams play­ing in dif­fer­ent games on the same night. Team A com­mits eight turnovers, while Team B has 12.

Team A ran a slow­er-paced game, and had 24 total pos­ses­sions, while Team B was in a faster-paced game with 40 total possessions.

Who had a tougher night in the turnover battle?

To find out, divide the total amount of turnovers by total pos­ses­sions for a team using this for­mu­la: TO/(FGA + .475 x FTA + TO)

Once you’ve run the num­bers, you’ll learn that this real­ly wasn’t a bad night for Team B.

How Coaches Value It

Why turnover per­cent­age over a more tra­di­tion­al stat like assist-to-turnover ratio? Just look­ing at the two stats, with­out any under­stand­ing of the flow of the game, the for­mer paints a more com­plete pic­ture than the latter. 

Assist-to-turnover with­out con­text might be able to tell you whether some­one is a good deci­sion-mak­er or not. But turnover per­cent­ages can tell you so much more. How do they respond to pres­sure? Are they dis­trib­ut­ing the ball clean­ly? Are they secur­ing it well enough? Are they play­ing good enough defense?

“It’s huge. That gives me a tool,” says Orange City University High (Fla.) boys bas­ket­ball coach Robert Soler. ​“If I’ve got a kid who’s trend­ing at 10, 12, 13 [per­cent], and then he shoots to 18, you’ve got to pay atten­tion. Then let’s say a kid is aver­ag­ing 13 – 14 and then drops to 6 – 7. I can tell him, ​‘That’s a hell of a game, son, you were perfect.’” 

As we men­tioned, turnover per­cent­age can have a vary­ing effect on effec­tive field goal per­cent­age. Forcing a live-ball turnover can often lead to an open layup for your team. The more easy field goal oppor­tu­ni­ties you can cre­ate for your­self, the greater your chances of increas­ing that percentage.

How You Can Use It

This is a great tool for scout­ing, both your­self and your opponents. 

In fact, turnover per­cent­age should be one of the first things you should look at when siz­ing up foes. This will give you an idea of how you should defend them. For instance, if your oppo­nent has a high per­cent­age, you might want to apply an aggres­sive defense — maybe it’s an attack­ing zone, man-to-man or even a press. If their per­cent­age is low­er, you might opt instead to sit back and try to con­trol the boards.

And once again, it’s also real­ly valu­able to pair line­up data with turnover per­cent­age. Seeing how each of your line­ups rank with turnover per­cent­age can offer some sug­ges­tions about how you can bet­ter stag­ger min­utes among your top-per­form­ing players. 

Looking at your upcom­ing oppo­nent, let’s say a par­tic­u­lar line­up of theirs is espe­cial­ly trou­ble­some in the turnover depart­ment. Maybe you can install a spe­cif­ic pres­sure pack­age just for that match-up.

Looking at this stat for indi­vid­u­als might also unearth some new dis­cov­er­ies. Maybe there’s a bench play­er who’s been demon­strat­ing great ball secu­ri­ty in lim­it­ed min­utes. And when scout­ing your next oppo­nent, you notice they love to play pres­sure defense. This would be an oppor­tune time to give more min­utes to that kid with the low turnover per­cent­age.

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There’s real­ly no end to the ben­e­fits of reli­ably track­ing turnover per­cent­age. Let Hudl Assist give you a head start. You’ll get a more com­plete depic­tion of how you’re tak­ing care of the ball when every stat is tied direct­ly to video.

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