Basketball: Fast Five: Addition by Subtraction AND by Addition

Teach advantages and disadvantages. Design practice accordingly. Input constraints (subtract space, time, dribbles, ball reversal or paint touch requirement) to refine offense. 

Quick five:

one good crossover and its bye bye basketball career 😂 pic.twitter.com/OgM8kw2hfP

— Nest’o (@ErnestTrecMmame) November 7, 2018

1. Crossover hard. Encourage execution in transition with an explosive speed move or crossover into a layup or shot. 



- ALWAYS dribble with a purpose. 
- The crossover is NOT just exchanging hands.
- "Crossover on the shoetops." Do not expose the ball.
- "Explode out of the crossover." 
- One of its best uses is hard penetration in space (getting to the middle in transition).
2. Improve decisions. We do 'box drills' with either front or reverse pivot into basket attack with a two-dribble limit. BUT provide players with an outlet (e.g. pass to coach), so they don't take bad shots because they've picked up the ball. 

3. "Attack the closeout."

We call this drill "rollouts." 

4. Simulate the game. O-D-O. Offense-defense-offense. 

 We seldom scrimmage, instead...we work on SPECIALS during O-D-O. 

 5. Spaced repetition. 

Free throw defense has made me crazy through the years. Do it right. Do it every time. EDIRRRRR...explain, demonstrate, imitate, repeat x 5. 

Sandwich the better rebounder. Make her life hard. Sometimes good players become frustrated when we take them away. That leads to poor decisions...bad shot selection and fouls. We work on this during O-D-O. 

Lagniappe: 

Need a 3. How about taking the ELEVATOR? Billy Donovan via Wes Kosel. 

Core principles: 1) ball reversal, 2) elevator (sandwich) screen