Combination Individual Defensive Skills Drill

The coach in the video is Frank Allocco, former University of San Francisco Associate Head Coach and former De La Salle (CA) HS Head Coach. In 2014 he was the McDonald’s All-American Game West Squad Head Coach. Coach Allocco is the only coach in California history to take two schools to a state title. He was the 2000 National High School Coach of the Year, the 2012 National Catholic Coach of the Year, California State Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2011. He is currently 2nd All-Time in the State of California in Winning Percentage (.868).

The video is to get ideas for isolating individual players and individual defensive skills.

The drill might not fit your exact defensive rules, but the best use of the drill is to tweak it to your needs.

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If you are interested in learning more about the DVD that this sample was taken from, click here: Frank Allocco: Competitive Drill Progressions for Creating Energy in Your Gym

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Defensive Energy Drill

This drill is from Mike Neighbors, Arkansas Women’s Basketball Coach. The drill is available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball YouTube Channel

Coach Neighbors got the drill from Mike Bradbury, Head Women’s Basketball Coach at New Mexico.

There are some really good teaching points that can be applied to your offensive concepts and drills, regardless of what transition system and shooting drills you use.

My takeaways from the video are:

1) Making every drill a passing drill
2) The terminology of “strike” for an on target pass.
3) Having more than one way to score competitive drills. I think variety for the players is good.
4) His Dragon spot fits his offensive rules, not just running a drill to run a drill
5) Sprint to the spot and then get feet ready
6) Giving players feedback on their performance in a drill from day to day throughout the season

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These Plays were contributed to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library by Randy Sherman of Radius Athletics.

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3-on-3 Guts is an excellent live drill for reviewing and polishing your team defensive fundamentals. Further, it is a live drill to teach players how to get through adversity. It stresses the importance of getting and stringing together defensive stops. This drill is also an opportunity for the offense to use motion offense principles

RULES:

• Defense must make four consecutive stops before going to offense
• Stops are defined as defensive rebounds, steals or out of bounds possessions
• If the offense scores or gets fouled, the defensive “stop count” goes back to zero
• Offensive charges count as four stops
• Offense goes down and back and a new offensive group comes on the floor
• Do not change directions until the ball touches the rim or offense scores (teams switch directions after Defensive rebound or Offensive Field Goal Made)
• Check the ball in after steals and fouls
• Offense must inbound the ball on all out of bounds situations

Phase 1

Defense must make four consecutive STOPS before going to offense.

STOPS are defensive rebounds, steals or out of bounds possessions. If the offense scores or is fouled, the defensive STOP count goes back to zero. Offensive charges count as four stops. Offense goes down and back, and a new offensive group comes on the floor.

The offense TAKES NO PRISONERS! The defense must earn its way off the court.

GREY team brings the ball up against the RED team.

Phase 1A

STAY. Do not change directions until the ball touches the rim. Check ball in after steals and fouls. Offense must inbound the ball on all out of bounds situations.

Offense: Play within motion offense rules.

Defense: Man-to-Man rules.

Phase 2

Switch Directions. Teams switch directions after a MADE shot or DEFENSIVE rebound.

Phase 3

New Offensive Group. Offense goes down and back, and then is replaced by a new group. Black team is now on offense.

Defense must earn its way to offense by making four consecutive defensive stops.

This drill is from Mike Neighbors, Arkansas Women’s Basketball Coach. The drill is available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball You Tube Channel

Coach Neighbors got the drill from Fred Castro, Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Eastern Michigan.

Coach Castro was an assistant with Coach Neighbors on the Washington staff before being named the Head Coach at Eastern Michigan.

Even if you don’t want to run the drill as is presented, there are some really good teaching points from Coach Neighbors in the video.

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The drill is a You Tube video, so you will need to be on a server that allows you to access You Tube to see the drill.