Tool of the Day Archive April 2010

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April 30 The Dash

April 29 Corner Cut Set Play

April 28 On Ball Defense

April 27 Continuity Zone Offense

April 26 Twelve Tasks of a Leader is an idea for some daily to-dos for your team leaders

April 23 Double Triple Set Play starts out with an isolation in the post, then finishes with a double staggered screen into a triple staggered screen.

April 22 Six Qualities of Maturity is an idea to use in your notebooks or in your talks to your players as to what maturity actually is.

April 21 Perimeter Individual Development Workout is what Coach Steve Smiley at Sheridan College uses for his out of season workouts.

April 20 Perimeter Movement vs. Zone is a little different way to attack a 2-3 zone defense that you might not have seen before.

April 19 Competitive Basketball Drills is an idea to get more out of your skeleton or 5/0 offensive drills by making them into competitive situations.

April 16 Underneath Inbounds Play is a play that we run against man to man defense when we are inbounding the ball under our basket.

April 15 Man to Man Play is another set play to run from a 1-4 High Set. I like to use the 1-4 High Set because it communicates to all of our players that we are running a set play and not our normal motion offense.

April 14 2-3 Zone Set Play is a video from You Tube that can get a quick 12 foot bank shot when you run it against a 2-3 zone.

April 13 Defense and Conditioning Drill is an idea for coaches who like to condition with the basketball. The drill is at the top of the defense tab on our basketball drills page which has ideas for drills for several areas of the game.

April 12 Team USA Gold Standard is the standard set by the players on the 2008 USA Men's Basketball Gold Medal winning team.

April 9 Inventory of Success is an idea for bulletin board or for your team's player's notebook.

April 8 Competitive Closeouts is a video of Geno Auriemma running a defensive closeout drill that you can make into a competitive drill either for individuals or for groups of players.

April 7 Individual Development Drill This drill is a video of player going through a drill in an individual workout that involves working on a shot after receiving a handoff, a shot off a power dribble, and a two ball dribble.

April 6 Catch Up Offense this high ball screen set is what we go to when we are behind at the end of a game. It signals to the players that we are in catch up mode and is something that the defense has not had to guard yet in this game.

April 5 1-4 High Play These are two plays that we have run against man to man defense to get the last shot of the quarter. They are counters to each other.

April 2 Arizona Rebounding Drills are a few rebounding drills that were included in Sean Miller's Arizona Men's Basketball Newsletter.

April 1 Some April Fools Humor is just a little fun with how coaches and players in any sport should not handle the media. :)