Coaching covers territory from organization to technical-tactical, physiology, psychology, and more. Today, I'll share a few ideas on tactics. Youth coaches remind ourselves, "if we can't execute, it doesn't matter what we run." Sacrifice fewer actions for more fundamental practice, hard cutting, and on-time, on-target passing.
"Great offense is multiple actions." They don't have to be conventional. Often simple works well. Reading defenses and cutting urgently separate ordinary from extraordinary actions. Here are a few:
Pick and roll
- High ball screen
- Wing ball screen (teach players to reject the screen)
- Elbow get
Adjust personnel to get the optimum scoring punch
DHO
- Baslc action
- Dribble at (wing backcut)
- Horns DHO PnR
Switch Everything action
Post entry options (e.g. 1-4 and others)
If the initial back cut isn't there, isolation action presents for the skilled big.
Celtics Horns around (creates flexish options as well)
Corner Rip
Multiple screens are hard to defend and create physical and mental challenges
Backscreen PnR (Spain)
Overplay defense (automatics)
Initiate "automatic" action (e.g. backcut) if defender's foot crosses "spacing line"
Iverson actions
Track what works for our team. If we constantly freelance into turnovers and poor shots, then revision of early offense and more sets might be solutions.
Pentucket "Iverson" classic action in postseason.
Lagniappe: spacing, player and ball movement, execution