Here is a segment from the new Dick Bennett Blocker/Mover DVD. We have some notes posted from his original VHS on his Blocker/Mover. The original tape was one of our favorites!
Bennett feels that in big games, the ability to score in the half court is often the determining factor in winning and losing.
Every offense should have a side top side mentality and movement of the ball because the ability to reverse the ball keeps the defense from establishing help side.
You can be deliberate and survey the floor with the ball at the top of the key and deep elbows because there is no help side defense. You need to wait and look down to allow the screens to be set.
When holding the ball at the top, look down, opposite, then back to where the ball came from. Having the ball up top removes defensive help.
A quicker decision and action must be made and taken when the ball is on the side wing or the baseline. If you hold the ball here, the defense has time to establish helpside and jam the middle.
Coach Bennett always practiced his offense 5/5 or 5/0 rather than breaking it down into 2 or 3 players drills. He did teach fundamentals such as sceening and cutting in a separate phase of practice. His reason was that the players must learn to react to 5 defenders, not to 2 or 3. The offense is usually not stopped by the direct defenders, but rather by the helpers who are not involved directly in the action.
In his Mover Blocker Motion offense, the blockers are each assigned one side of the floor in order for the movers to be able to locate them.
His four schemes with 2 blockers and three movers are:
Lane-Lane where both blockers stay on the lane.
Lane-Wide with one blocker on the lane and the other guying as wide as he/she wants to to screen.
Wide-Wide where both blockers can work from the lane to the sideline.
Top-Bottom where the floor is split vertically at the free throw line rather than horizontally .
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