Stockton and Malone. Just saying the names of those two Hall of Famers bring to mind the beauty behind the pick and roll. Seeing the mastery behind such a simple play led me, along with input from my friends, to explore the possibility of installing a Complete Ball Screen System. The reasons for installing the…
Motion Offense – Reading The Defense
It is time to start reading the defense! You cannot practice reading the defense in a downscreen often enough. Think of every single downscreen like an at-bat in baseball. The hitter learns more about the pitcher. There are different ball and strike counts to learn from each time a batter goes to the plate. The…
Building a Mental Winner: The 8 C’s
One of the greatest things I learned working for Jim Larranaga and his staff at the University of Miami (FL) was how to build myself to be the very best that I could be. They taught me how to wake up on a daily basis with a fire to make today better than yesterday, and…
Disguised Conditioning Drills – Part 1
Coaches around the globe know that very few players actively want to participate in conditioning drills. If you need any proof, just tell your players to “get on the line” and watch their heads lower. While conditioning is not usually an enjoyable part of basketball for either players or coaches, it is unfortunately a necessary…
3 Drills to Start Practice
There are a variety of ways to begin a practice, and each team usually has an established routine to start off their day…a certain drill, a team huddle, a series of stretches, etc. With that in mind, below are a number of drills that might be a good balance between getting your players warmed up…
Motion Offense – Cutting And Screening Basics
In the premier of the FastModel Motion Offense Forum last week, we introduced the foundation of motion offense – the basket cut. Building the habit of basket cutting is essential to motion offense and it leads us to our next progressions. There are new concept to be introduced, but the basket cut will be referred…
Pregame Nutrition
Nutrition is one of the most critical keys to performance but for some reason it seems to be one that gets swept under the rug. It’s about time to pick up the rug and start focusing on this crucial ingredient to success. In high school before EVERY game I would go to Subway and get…
Motion Offense – Foundations
There has been talk among basketball coaches, observers, fans and analysts this season about how basketball is becoming unwatchable. Scoring is down at the NCAA level and bad offense is partly to blame. One college basketball expert offered the opinion that far fewer coaches are taking the time and trouble to really TEACH offense…
Mental Edge – Perceived Relevance
Nobody wants to be wrong. Players, coaches, officials or fans. Every person is entitled to their own opinion but yet everyone wants their opinion to be right. Think back to a time when you were corrected on something you cared about. The natural instinct is to rebut to defend your point of view because there…