WOU Practice

If you deny you cant rotate, you will be late.

Rotation allows player to play faster.

drives from the top hurt the most, don't rotate off the corner(its the exception to the rule), stay home (there's no rotation  in the world for it.)

any drive from the outer thirds you should have rotation help.

front posts because they will need to rotate.

5 on 4 drill to practice press and transition d

Defense starts with defensive trans

D Trans

we take a shot and get to floor balance spots

3 to reb triangle, one at top of three pt line, one at half court

When the ball is rebounded closest defender clamps the rebound tries buy 2-3 seconds

other guards fill 2 outlet spots looking to take away quick outlet and apply ball pressure

forward fills center at mid court

must fill home (low hole) at all times

Match up from there.

Point and talk, match up

1) floor balance
2) clamp rebounder
3) call home fill spots
4) point, talk, match up

Presses

Red 4 guys in back court 94 ft of pressure (c could be in a trap with f on deep corner pass)
Blue 2 guys in backcourt safer press( c never leaves home for corners)

Vertical/free traps are big part of both of them

once in the press must apply ball pressure
2-2-1 walberg ish

guards on ball must not get beat to the outside with a dribble
other guard in support position( trap blind or if other g is beat middle)

Everyone else is in the box(ballside of split line, slippage)

Player that can't move will become hole guys all the time.

for center= if no one deep move up you still have the hole covered

everybody talk everybody match up

Guards have everything lateral or backwards in the press except if were red.

Look to trap quick reversals if they dribble into quick sand

Rush call, r and jump middle

against a v formation guards shouldn't tandem because they will always be late getting to the ball reversal on the other side.  Instead if ball goes from side to middle, same guard should take it.

If the ball is middle third you have to chase cutters and show. (floppy set)

Switch everything weakside to stay in help.

Have to work on defending pick and rolls
Have to work on 1 on 1 defense in the middle third (giving ground, pushing back

One time they down pick and rolls on one side of the floor, and push it up on the other because a team was some right hand dominant.

4 on 5 drill 2 g' 1 f 1 c vs 5 off players (off 5 can only go block to block) after that 5 defenders press the 4 off players

(Ball must be dribbled over half court, only 2 dribbles, sometimes only 1 dribble after hc)

d trans off of 1 v1 pivots


Offense
Offensive stuff= want to run and fast break a ton

Attack elbows middle

offensively worked on pivoting to the middle of the floor always, did a warm up drill where the took shots all off that pivot

Carried into their offense where they talked about rip pivots, which is a middle pivot turned into a crossover step(helps reverse the ball).  Wanted players to pass with their outside hand

Offensively they run cutters which is 4 out set where they pass and cut to the rim, when they add the center he play hi for back screens and pinch actions, or low for post ups.
They want ball reversals, ball and player movement. Ran hand offs and called backdoors dives.

guard breaks were offensive cutthroat working on 4 out rules.

Big breaks were hit and finish against dummy d with medicine balls.
On scout they tell their guys who's drive first and who's shoot first.

Offensive Spots
Top slot wing and corner

set a lot of butt screens= flat screens

Shake set= slot slot corner corner, with the center coming from the rim.  Guard with ball bounces away, f runs into butt screen in the slot area.

5= roll replace  can be side or flat

replace man starts at the rim

On all pick and rolls guard must take two hard attack dribble

after pick and roll
1) throw ahead action
2) Reverse post action

Counters

Flip action your old pink
Guard takes 2 attacking dribbles to stretch the 5 then receives a re screen from 5
*do this if they're going underneath or soft hedging or tandem

Twist
Screener runs up and at the last second jumps to the other side of the screen
*do if the are trying to force the ball one way
*do that if you're playing against a good defender
*do that to mis-direct the hedge

Against tandem sag, Stretch the 5 then throw ahead or reverse post it.

Against downing, attack the big defender hard,have the screener pop.

be sure where and when you pass the ball "Do you know what double d's look like?  Are you sure you know what double d's look like? Well you gotta be that sure about the pass."


Constantly huddling to talk
Big on calling the ball on every rotation

Players have notebook's, coaches constantly watching film with them, puts guards in charge of getting guards and bigs in for film sessions.

Monday debriefings where they talk about what they stand for, what they're going to work on that week, and an evaluation of what they've been doing.