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Today’s video on recommitting daily to your core values is from PGC Basketball. I also posted a video from them last week that you can view by clicking on the link: Building a Strong Coaching Staff.

The videos are from their free program they started to serve coaches, and it’s called The Coaches Circle Journey.

Every week, coaches who are part of the circle get a new email with a new video. The video typically includes 2-3 minutes of coach talk about culture, lifestyle, and it’s incredible.

After the culture, lifestyle chat, there’s always a free drill video offered.

TJ Rosene, the coach who produced the videos, is one of the PGC directors, and he’s a championship-level college coach.

If you are interested in joining the Coaches Circle Journey, you can click this link for more information: The Coaches Circle Journey from PGC Basketball

Enjoy!

Recommit Daily

After Coach Rosene talks about recommitting daily and how you respond as a coach when frustrated, there is a great competitive shooting drill that forces players to move and shoot at a game pace called “Catch Up.” Players compete in two against another pair.

Again, if you would like to be a part of the Coaches Circle Journey, you can join for free at this link: The Coaches Circle Journey from PGC Basketball

This video is with Minnesota Men’s Coach Richard Pitino.

The drill is meant for pressuring teams that play for steals, but regardless of what style of defense you play, and whether or not you run a drill with 5 defending 4, I think he has some good teaching points and ideas for you to give some thought to.

Like Coach Don Meyer always said, “It’s not what you teach it’s what you emphasize.: The same thing can be said for drills. It’s not what drills you run, it’s what you emphasize in the drill (and how you emphasize it) that helps your players to improve. We all can do a better job of finding ways to make sure that we are making it clear to players what the purpose of and what the skills are that we are seeking to improve with each drill.

Some of my takeaways from this short video,

1) Run the drill as a shell before making it live.
2) Charting deflections in the drill to emphasize ball pressure.
3) Chart the times the defense forces the ball handler to turn their shoulders in your pressure defense drills as another point of emphasis.
4) Rather than requiring a certain number of stops to get out of a defensive drill, at times see how many stops they can get in a specific amount of time. Of course, there are times when you will want to require a specific number of stops, even if it does take 20 minutes to get it done.

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Scramble Defense Drill

If you are interested in learning more about the entire DVD that this sample came from, click this link: Establishing a Full Court Pressure Defense. Anyone who purchases anything from the store receives one of my basketball coaching eBooks as a bonus. Just email me and let me know which one you would like to receive!

This video shows a defensive drill run by former Akron and current Duquesne Men’s Basketball Coach Keith Dambrot.

You probably don’t use the same defensive rules, but my hope is that it gives you an idea of a way to set up drills to get high energy and a high number of reps for the actions that you defend frequently.

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Box Screen Defensive Drill

If you are interested in seeing 2 more drills from Coach Dambrot or more information about the DVD that this sample is from, you can click here: All Access Basketball Practice with Keith Dambrot

This sample video features former Division I Head Coach Will Rey teaching a drill to work on handling defensive pressure.

The video segment is almost five minutes long and the drill starts at about 3:00.

The first 3 minutes are some ideas about individual development and some teaching points for drill.

One note, when he says “break the glass on the pass,” he is referring to the passer getting his hand by the defense
when making the pass.

Make sure your speakers are on to see and hear the YouTube video. Please make sure that you are on a server that allows YouTube access.

If you are interested in learning more about the entire DVD that this sample came, click this link. Anyone who purchases anything from the store receives one of my basketball coaching eBooks as a bonus.

Just email me and let me know which one you would like to receive!

If you are interested in learning more about the entire DVD that this sample came, click this link. Anyone who purchases anything from the store receives one of my basketball coaching eBooks as a bonus. Just email me and let me know which one you would like to receive!