Basketball Drills Animal Drill

From a clinic presentation by Pete Gillen

Match up is a zone with man to man principles.  The man is as important as the ball.  The defense will take the shape of the offensive set.

The purpose of a matchup is to get you confused, indecisive, and out of sync.  Attacking it is 80% mental.  We are going to run the offense that we want to run and act rather than react.

Our ten Principles for attacking the matchup.

1.  Attack the zone with the fast break.  The fast break is the toughest thing to defend in basketball.

2.  Send cutters through.  Cutters cause confusion as to who is guarding the cutter.  If you just stand, you are doing the matchup a favor.

 

3.  Attack the baseline and then reverse the ball to the other side’s baseline.  When the ball is on the baseline, all zones become 2-3s.

4.  Dribble penetration.  I asked Don Casey, who was a great zone coach, what hurt his zones the most.  His answer was dribble penetration.  You must work at dribble penetration against a zone in practice.   You need to use the dribble after several passes that stretch the zone first.  Our rule is that anytime we catch the ball at the point from the wing, that player must penetrate as deep as he can and look to pass to the post or wing.

5.  Screen the wings.  (Diagram 11) The point guard must dribble at our wing players.  Those wing players fade to the corner.  That puts pressure on the back man in the zone.  Does he stay in our play the man in the corner?

(Diagram 12) If we make the pass to the corner, 5 rolls to the basket and 4 fills the high post, so we have a quick 2 on 1 on the back of the zone with the corner and 5

(Diagram 13) If the corner passes back to the point, the ball is reversed to 3

6.  Screen the point.  (Diagram 14).  1 passes to 2 and 4 screens the point.  Diagram 15 shows the ball being passed back to the point.  We run a screen and roll with 4 and 1.  3 fades to the baseline.  1 can take the jumper, dribble into the gut of the zone and pass to 3, if X3 comes up to stop the drive. Or, he can pass to 5 as shown in diagram 16.  If we pass to 3 in the corner, X5 must cover him, so 5 comes across the lane.  X3 is coming to 3.  X5 must either play 5 or 4 because of the high/low situation.

7.  We also like to screen in the block area (Diagram 17)  The defense is matched up, but when the ball is reversed, 4 screens the back of thd zone.  Then 4 ducks in.  Don’t flash to the ball unless you screen first (Diagram 18).  Have the wing dribble to the corner.  Who takes him?  4 comes up the lane.  5 comes behind in diagram 19.  Now, we have a box overload.  We back-pick with 5 as we step out the 4 and reverse the ball.  We send 2 across, but are really looking for 5 ducking in after the screen.  Ball goes 2-1-3-2-5.

8. Skip pass after a ball fake.  Stretch the zone.  You can’t telegraph it, you must freeze the zone.

9.  We send four men to the offensive boards because it is difficult for a zone to block out .

10.  Duck in and seal back move.  1 to 2 back to 1.  5 ducks in and 1 looks to get the ball to 5.  5 moves the defense by moving several steps along the baseline before ducking in.  If we can’t pass to 5, pass to 3.  3 dribbles hard to the baseline and 5 moves outside the lane to receive a bounce pass from 3.  The ball goes 1-2-1-3-5.

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Michigan State Basketball Rebounding Concepts & Philosophy

Mike Garland

 

1. In the Michigan State Basketball program, rebounding, without question is a top priority.  From the seasons’ beginning until its end, rebounding is a big point of emphasis each day throughout the entire duration of our practice sessions.  Everything we do either begins or ends with the rebound or attempt to rebound the chance (made shot).

2.  We coach rebounding on every shot taken in practice. One of our staff members and sometimes two assigned to coach rebounding only during practice.  Which phase of rebounding he will coach is usually determined before practice and will change in accordance to what we are working on during a particular drill or scrimmage situation offensively or defensively.

3.  Important point- we grade our players rebounding performance on effort not the number of rebounds they get in a game session.

• Offensive rebounding-we chart the number of times a player makes an all-out effort to get to the offensive boards (attempts) against the number of chances he actually had to go to the boards.  The percentage basis calculated by dividing the number of chances to go to boards into the number of times a player attempted to get to the boards.
• We also do the same collectively as a team the same way.
• Ours is to be 90% or above in our effort.
• We want to get back 50% or better of our missed shots

Defensive rebounding- we chart defensive rebounds in a similar manner except we calculate the number of chances to cutout (block out) by the number of time a player individually or our team collectively actually did cut out his offensive player when show was taken.

• Our goal is 90 %
• We don’t ever penalize a player for not making an unnecessary cut out (we actually discourage the unnecessary cut out.)

Offensive Rebounding

1. At Michigan State we believe the missed shot is our best offensive play.

2. We tell our players to always assume the miss when the shot is taken either offensively or defensively.

• We tell our players to pursue the ball
• Don’t go to a back-avoid contact
• Keep hands above the shoulders (don’t get arms pinned down)
• IF you can’t get the rebound try to tip it to someone else or keep the ball alive- get a hand on the ball or a finger-whatever-keep the ball alive- we do a better job of this that nay team in the country (War Drill)

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Principles:
“Hit, Find and Fetch” – this is Michigan State’s rebounding mantra.

Tom Izzo preaches stepping towards the player are boxing out and making contact to force them away from the rim.

Instead of holding your seal and letting the ball hit the floor; Michigan State players are taught to go find th
basketball and rebound it out of the air.

• Use 2 hands to go after the basketball
• Rebound ball above head = good rebound
• Low man wins when making initial contact

• Sends 4 t0 the offensive glass (Point Guard gets back). This forces the other team to adjust.
• Must be able to get back behind post player on shot attempt

Teaching Points
7O% of rebounds go in opposite direction from where they are shot
Important to contain basketball. Multiple help rotations lead to players being out of position to rebound
Weight lifting is a big part of rebounding.

 

Michigan State War Rebounding Drill

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Coach will shoot the ball to initiate the rebounding hit, find, and fetch.

I think it is important for all players to play one on one both during practices during the season and during out of season workouts.  I also think that it is important to make the one on one meaningful and as close to game-like as it can be.  Here is an idea to improve the way players play one on one and what they get out of it.

Continuous 1-on-1 Players need to play 1-on-1 in practice and in workouts.  In continuous  1-on-1 there is no “checking up top.”  Once a player scores, the other player who is now on offense, takes the ball out of the net and spins it out  anywhere behind the three point arc, goes out and meets the pass, squares to the basket and plays from there.  Even if the shot is missed, if the defender gets the rebound, he or she spins it out  behind the arc and  plays from there.  It is a good toughness and conditioning drill to finish a workout with  and it forces players to go from offense to defense and defense to offense in a more game-like way.

Another version of this drill is to play with the same rules, but make it “make it, take it.”  So, if you score, you get the ball out of the net and spin it out behind the three point arc.  You lose the transition from Offense to Defense, but it does reward the defense for a stop when they get one.

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