High efficiency and fewer mistakes drive success. Here are five simple ideas that help teams win.
1. Develop solid inbounding. Why?
- Break the press. Good teams defeat pressure.
- Get the ball in safely close and late.
- Exert advantage in your special situations, e.g. BOBs, SLOBs, and ATOs. Passes must be on time and on target. Patience is needed to allow plays to develop. Have them on your game play sheet.
3. Don't give games away. What are three common ways teams shoot themselves in the foot?
- Poor shot selection. Have your sound byte like "ROB - range, open, balanced."
- Take care of the basketball. "Turnovers kill dreams."
- Be competent at the line. Bill Bradley recommended better targeting in John McPhee's "A Sense of Where You Are." Add pressure during practice. We allowed partners to say anything to the shooter in practice.
5. Practice 'close and late' situations. Be solid at offensive and defensive delay games. Thinking players will magically execute without practice is folly.
- Vary time remaining and score.
- Include offensive and defensive delays situations (e.g up/down by 6 with three minutes left).
- Adjust team fouls.
- Practice leading by 3 with 10 seconds left w/o the ball. To foul or not?
- Practice trailing by 2 or 3, with one free throw and five seconds left.
- Practice trailing by 2, five seconds left SLOB at midcourt.
Lagniappe.
Lagniappe 2. Plyometrics.A reason I like the 4-flat BLOB alignment...
— Matt Hackenberg (@CoachHackGO) October 15, 2023
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