“Zone Offense Variety Pack” Facing a 2-3 zone can be challenging. At the end of the day, your players just have to knock down open shots when they come. It is really that simple. You move the ball, make skip passes, attack gaps, go inside-out, hit the short corner and hope that the shots fall.…
NBA Chin Series
The Chin set is useful across multiple levels of competition because it is so versatile. In the NBA, it is often used as a designed set to feature a particular scoring option on the floor. At the college level, such as we see with Tom Crean’s offense at Indiana, it can be used as a…
Scoring off your Baseline Out of Bounds and Sideline Out of Bounds Situations
The ability to execute and score off of your team’s half court sets is a crucial component to winning games. You practice your half court sets most days in practice and you constantly try to instill the importance of executing those plays in your players. Do you spend the same amount of time and place…
Plays of the Week – Jan 30, 2015
The flare screen is one of the best actions in basketball. Coaches spend hours drilling pick-and-roll defense and how to handle down screens. But I have found that covering flare screens is an under-taught aspect of basketball. Some keys to effective flare screens: The screeners back should be pointed to the corner of the court.…
Plays of the Week – Jan 23, 2015
Tug Motion is my absolute favorite zone offense. We ran this zone offense during my last season at Montana State and had tons of success. We often had too much success and teams switched out of 2-3 quickly. It did help that we the top 2 all time 3 point shooters playing 2 and 3…
Plays of the Week January 9
The Triangle Series by Nate Hill (@coachnatehill) Triangle #1 – Post Feed I would like to thank Coach Nick (@bballbreakdown) of bballbreakdown.com for posting a YouTube breakdown of the four basic Triangle actions (Part 1 and Part 2). After watching those videos, I searched and found a Tex Winter and Phil Jackson video. I used all…
Top Ten Drills for Youth Basketball
As the school year ends around the country that means one thing, basketball camp season is upon us. There are thousands of excellent basketball camps around the United States to attend. Below are five drills to start working on before hitting the hardwood this summer. Additionally, I have included five plays that work great for youth basketball…
2013 NBA Playoffs: Best Plays of the Night – May 11-15
This week’s best NBA plays diagrammed using FastDraw playbook software. Check them out and save your favorites to your FastDraw library. Golden State Warriors Elbow Flex While us coaches are all very familiar with the Flex, I have learned recently that many young players today are not familiar with how to run the play or guard…
16 Plays from the 2013 NBA Playoff Teams
Are you enjoying the first round? Below you’ll find the most popular plays from the 2013 NBA Playoff Teams. Take a look and save your favorites to your FastDraw library. Don’t have FastDraw basketball playbook software? Check it out here. We also have over 4,000 basketball plays and drills in our content library – free for everyone! Click any…
Taking Your Offense to the Next Level
All the talk among basketball gurus these days is about how the NBA game is now moving into the college ranks. Well, I agree to the extent that ballscreens are more prevalent in college basketball, but there are still some facets of the NBA that have not yet made their way into the college ranks.…