Saturday, November 25, 2023

Applying Lessons from Red Teams

Be our best versions by applying lessons from any discipline. I recently wrote about the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies and Red Teams.

Teams knew certain teams would throw varying defenses at them:

UCLA/John Wooden: 2 - 2 - 1 three quarter court press

UNC/Dean Smith: Run-and-jump

Georgetown/John Thompson: full court pressure forced 17 Villanova turnovers in the 1985 title game, won by Villanova

VCU/Shaka Smart:  Havoc defense (Diamond)

UNLV/Jerry Tarkanian: Amoeba defense

LSU/Dale Brown: "The Freak" 

Temple/Jon Chaney: Matchup Zone

Key point 1: Youth coaches press because they know it bothers inexperienced players who often panic. 

Key point 2: Youth coaches play a lot of zone defense as young players don't shoot well, especially from distance. 

Key point 3: Youth coaches often prioritize winning over development so pressure and zone defenses yield more wins making them look 'smart'. 

As the "Red Team" coach, craft your plan to handle pressure. 

Advantage-disadvantage: 

  • 5 versus 7 full court... add constraints such as no dribbling
  • 4 versus 5 half court

Constraints 

  • Must have a paint touch and ball reversal before shooting
  • Must score in the paint
  • Everyone must touch the ball before a shot taken

Gauntlet (28 Special)


Offense must advance through 4 zones of defenders. One dribble allowed per touch, emphasis on passing and cutting to an open area. Offense goes to fourth zone and each defense advances a zone. 

Manmaker


Teach players to play, to apply and to defeat pressure. Add constraints to increase the degree of difficult. Hard practice, easier games. 

Offense fails because of lack of spacing, lack of hard cutting and screening, failure of on-time, on-target passing, and questionable shot selection. 

Lagniappe. Another Pannone share 

Lagniappe 2. Strength and flexibility matter. 

Post by @keto3537
View on Threads

 

at