Defending Baseline Inbound Plays with 1-3-1

By Brian Williams on September 11, 2019

This video of Holy Cross Men’s Assistant Coach TJ Rosene discussing a 1-3-1 defense for defending underneath inbound plays.

At the time Coach Ferry gave this talk, he was an assistant at Monmouth.

The content is located on the Glazier Coaching Vault.

Sam’s entire presentation is available along with all of the basketball content in the Glazier Vault at this link: Basketball Glazier Vault Access

Coach Ferry gives credit to Kevin Stallings for teaching him how to coach this defense.

You will need to click on the image of the video to start it.

This is a YouTube video, so you will need to be able to access YouTube in order to view it.

Ball Screen Post Dive Shooting Drill

By Brian Williams on September 9, 2019

This shooting drill is provided by Dr. Dish Basketball.

The drill has been utilized at his past stops by TJ Otzelberger of UNLV.

You can take his thoughts and actions and apply them to your system so that you can have:

1) Drills that emulate shots your players get within your offense
2) Shots that come off of cuts and passes that your players make in your offense
3) Multiple players getting shots in the same drill.

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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Zone Attack Concepts

By Brian Williams on September 4, 2019

This post was contributed to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library by Randy Sherman of Radius Athletics.

You can also find out more about FastModel Play Diagramming software by clicking this link: FastDraw

Zone concepts demonstrated by the Oregon Ducks (NCAAW) from 3-Out/2-In hi-lo alignment.

There is also a short YouTube video at the bottom of this post to further illustrate the concepts.

Wing enters to High Post.

If no shot is available look Hi-Lo to the player behind the zone.

Wing enters to High Post.

If no shot is available look Hi-Lo to the player behind the zone.

If no hi-lo is available, look to fan it to the weak side.

Attacking a gap in the zone draws in two players and creates a 3 point shot for wing.

The pass from wing to point moves the defense. The zone anticipates the offense will fully reverse.

Throw a misdirection pass against the grain.

4 pins X2 and 3 skips to 1. This creates an advantage for shot/drive.

Gonzaga Swing DHO Double Screen

By Brian Williams on August 28, 2019

A couple of half court man to man plays are from Scott Peterman’s Gonzaga Bulldogs Playbook.

You can find out more about the eBook at this link:

Gonzaga Bulldogs Playbook

Take pieces and movements within the plays and adapt them to your needs.

The first play involves several actions: a baseline stagger, a slip ball screen, and a throwback.

#2 involves A ball screen into a dribble hand off and then a double on ball screen.

Set #1

2 receives pass from 1 off zipper cut.

4 sprints up to slip ball screen set for 2

5 fills weak side corner

3 lifts to wing

2 dribbles off ball screen and throws back to 1 lifting up to wing for shot

Set #2

2 & 3 X cut from block to wing

1 passes to 2 at wing

4 sets a ball screen

5 moves to opposite elbow

2 dribbles off screen set by 4 and passes to 3 at the wing

1 receives hand off from 3 and dribbles off 2 ball screens set by 5 and 4

5 rolls to the basket

4 separates on the pick and pop

1 has the option of passing to 4 on the pick and pop

5 is also open on the roll

Previous Providence College Head Coach and currently the head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas men’s basketball program, Ed Cooley takes some demonstration players through the first phase of his Defensive Fly Drill.

You can use this as the basis for your own similar drill to work on defensive rotations.

You can decide what the next movements that you allow are. One step, one dribble, all the way up to full freedom to move.

I hope it gives you some food for thought on what you can do to emphasize deflections and teach and practice defensive rotations.

The video is hosted on YouTube.

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There is narration with the video, so please make sure that your sound is on.

You can find out more about the Championship Productions video that this clip is from at this link: Using Pressure Defense to Get a Winning Edge

Wing Shift Scoring Progression

By Brian Williams on August 24, 2019

This wing shift scoring progression series is provided by Dr. Dish Basketball and their partner, Drew Hanlen of Pure Sweat Basketball.

Like all drills that you see, you can either modify it or take parts of the drill for your use and your needs.

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.

Click the play arrow so see the drill.