Basketball: Building a Sequence

Chris Oliver emphasizes "basketball decision training" during practice. How can we inform a player's choices during practice? 

In the first panel, the player catches, faces up with a reverse pivot, and attacks to score off one dribble...ask for a layup or a pullup in the lane. 

In the second panel, add a defender (the coach can substitute and overplay to expose an opportunity. 

In the left panel, we add a short corner teammate and a help defender. The coach can help or stay. 5 starts back to basket and reverse pivots into attack/read. 

On the right, 5 has a pair of teammates. After the reverse pivot, she attacks and the coach chooses whether to help and whom to leave open. 

Lagniappe: 

Inferior Example - the combo of rounded drive and early rise from the corner
Superior Example - the combo of direct drive and holding the corner

One creates a low-risk help situation, the other a high-risk help situation for the corner defender #FindUseCreate pic.twitter.com/KwnH1AUiv7

— Radius Athletics (@RadiusAthletics) July 26, 2018

How much help (and how) do you give off the corner three? Via Radius Athletics

Lagniappe 2. 

We teach our players on a 2-on-1 advantage to pass head, but once they are in the attack area, to drive to score. If they draw the defender they pass. The off the ball player should slow down & become a trail to create a pass back, rather than a pass forward (Dunking optional!) pic.twitter.com/JC32HFYqIw

— Chris Oliver (@BBallImmersion) July 29, 2018

Chris Oliver shares concepts of 2 v 1 attack. 

Lagniappe 3. 



Box drills. "Low and wide." Moves off the jab, off the rip, and change of direction. Villanova's Jay Wright drills "basketball players."