Sunday, March 3, 2019

Basketball: Ken Loeffler Spread Offense

The Basketball Offense Sourcebook (Krause and Pim, 2005) examines historical coaches and shares their approaches. 

 Spread offense isn't a new concept, offering spacing, screening, cutting, and passing to generate high quality offense against man defense. The chapter on Ken Loeffler, a law professor, writer, musician, and coach - shares his ideas on spread offense...

 Loeffler believed in keeping the middle open and taught that most basket attacks could complete in one to two dribbles. 

 After passing, the screener must quickly find and wall off their target. It's equally important for cutters to set up their defenders.

 The beauty of the Loeffler sets (he advocates for continuity offense first) is their simplicity. 







Lagniappe: Be aware of early effort in rebounding. Teach positioning and toughness in defensive rebounding and anticipation and aggressiveness in offensive rebounding. 
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