NBA Finals Notes Game 2

By Brian Williams on June 8, 2022

These short video clips were put together by George Washington Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert.

They are some notes that he took when watching NBA finals game #2.

If you missed his notes from the first game, you can access it at this link: NBA Finals Game 1 Notes

You may or may not agree with the notes, but hopefully they will stimulate your thoughts for some ideas that can help your program.

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

His YouTube 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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NBA Finals Notes Game 1

By Brian Williams on June 8, 2022

These short video clips were put together by George Washington Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert.

They are some notes that he took when watching the first NBA finals game.

You may or may not agree with the notes, but hopefully they will stimulate your thoughts for some ideas that can help your program.

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

His YouTube 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 is a YouTube video, so you will need to be on a server that allows you YouTube access.

Half Court High Low Rebounding Drill

By Brian Williams on June 7, 2022

This post is a drill from the Arkansas Women’s Basketball program.

This video and other basketball coaching videos are available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball You Tube Channel

Like all drills that you see other programs use, you can either modify it or take parts of these ideas for your use and your needs. I hope to provide food for thought for you to use as a place to start for ideas to improve your program.

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Pressure Shooting Challenge Drill

By Brian Williams on June 7, 2022

Provided by our friends at Dr. Dish Basketball,

This drill requires shooters to make 2 consecutive shots from 5 spots for a total of 10 makes. The score on the drill is the amount of time that it takes the shooter to complete the 10 makes

You can and should modify any of the drills and how they are timed or scored to make them fit your needs or to add variety to your skill development work.

Some ideas to modify or add variety to the drill are:

1. If you are working with younger players, require them to make 2 shots from each spot, but they don’t have to be 2 in a row.

2. Change the spots.

3. Add in extra spots so that the shooter has to make 12 or 14 shots.

4. For younger players, cap the time at 60, 90, or 120 seconds or whatever is appropriate and their score is the number of shots that they can make in that specified time.

5. Rather than going for a specific time, have players shooting head to head at each end and the first one to complete 10 shots is the winner.

6. The best modifications will be ones that you create to fit your players.

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Attack and Escape Drill

By Brian Williams on May 10, 2022

This drill is from Ratiopharm Ulm and FIBA Skills Trainer Moris Hadzija and is provided by our friends at Dr. Dish Basketball

It works on attacking and retreating twice and then a pull-up shot.

You can and should modify any of the drills and how they are timed or scored to make them fit your needs or to add variety to your skill development work.

Please make sure your sound is on to see the video.

This drill is hosted on YouTube, so you will need to be on a server that allows you to access YouTube to see the drill.

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Broken Pipe-Cut

By Brian Williams on April 21, 2022

This play was submitted by John Kimble.

Coach Kimble is a retired Basketball Coach who coached High School teams in Illinois and Florida, as well as Central Florida Community College.

He is the author of five published books and over 25 DVD/Videos by Coaches Choice and Healthy Learning.

John has written over 100 articles from several different basketball magazines.

He has been a regular contributor of articles on many topics to The Coaching Toolbox.

Frame 1

3 pops out of (5-3) ‘Pin-Down Screen’ & then immediately ‘Iverson Cuts’ over the top of 5 to the opposite wing. 1 makes the ‘Wing Pass’ to 3 and then Flare-Cuts off of the (5-1) ‘Flare-Screen.’ At the same time, 2 makes a tight curl through the lane around 4 and ‘stacks up’ on top of 4. With 2 now stacked above 4, 3 has more room to make a ‘Lob Pass’ or ‘Inside Pass’ to 4 or also to 2 now at the ‘Mid-Post’ area. If not, 3 can reverse the ball to 5, who has also stretched his ‘big defender’ out to the top of the key.

Frame 2

If 3 reverses the ball out to 5, 2 immediately makes an ‘Inverted Duck-In Cut’ into the ‘Dotted Circle’ area, while 4 steps to the rim for a possible ‘Lob Pass’ from 5. If 2 does not receive the ‘Inside Pass’ from 5, he continues across the lane to post up on the other side. If 4 does not receive the ‘Lob Pass,’ he returns to post up on the same side of the lane. All five players have now moved their defenders and are in the ‘3-Out/2-In Spot-Ups” to continue to the next phase of the offensive attack.