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Mark Few Gonzaga Ball Screen Continuity Offense

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Coach Mark Few’s Gonzaga just came off an incredible 37-2 run, only to lose to powerhouse North Carolina in the finals. Now, let me explain why this is incredible. College basketball is dominated by powerhouse programs with resources, huge followings and ability to attract great players. Then you have mid-major programs (not part of ACC, Big ten, Big 12, Pac 12 and SEC) that somehow manage to pull off upsets from time to time with less resources and Gonzaga ranks no.1 on the list of mid-major programs. Coach Mark Few has led the Zags to the NCAA tournament every year during his tenure. Racking up a 81% winning record and 7 Sweet 16 appearances. So if your high school team isn’t a traditional “powerhouse” team, you should look into Coach Mark Few.

  1. Coach Mark Few’s background
  2. Offensive philosophy
  3. Ball screen rules
  4. Ball screen offense
    1. Set up
    2. 1st ball screen
    3. 2nd ball screen
    4. 3rd ball screen

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Don Showalter’s 10 characteristics of a great point guard

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The point guard is arguably the most important position, especially in today’s guard centric play but very few players understand what it means to be a point guard and what it means to be an extension of the coach.

Coach Don Showalter has coached many talented point guards with Team USA and here are 10 points you should share with your point guard to become a true “floor general”: Continue reading “Don Showalter’s 10 characteristics of a great point guard” »

What’s new in Ver 2.9 – Add photos, links and more!

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Really excited about our new update for our practice planner app. As of this writing, all of you have created an astounding 31,397 drills inside our app. I know alot of you rely on this for your practices and I get daily emails asking:

  • How can I draw a play in coach’s clipboard and add it to my drill?
  • I have alot of PDF’s I’ve printed over the years, can I take a photo of a drill/play and add it?
  • How can I link to a youtube video?

Well, I heard you loud and clear so in this update we’re adding a powerful custom drill editor that does all those things. I’m sure you’ll love it.

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How the Dribble Hand Off Will Energize Your Offense

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The dribble hand off (DHO) is the most underused action in the US game.  Recently, teams like the Golden State Warriors and the Kentucky Wildcats have begun adding DHO action and we can see the success they’ve had from the ball movement, space and flow that it generates.
Why should you add DHO action into your offense? Here are 3 quick reasons:

  1. It’s a screen and a pass so it creates a ton of space, devastating vs man defenses.
  2. Defenses hate them because there are so many options.
  3. You can use this action for any age group or within any offense.

To prove that you can run DHO in any offense I’ve included several outstanding plays and principles that you can try with your own team.

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You Need to Be Recording these 4 Stats to Win More Games

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For each game of basketball we record dozens of stats- but which are actually useful to finding out “why” your team won or lost a game?  Fortunately for the high school or AAU coach there are just four measurements that really matter.  They are:

  1. Shooting, measured in effective field goal percentage (eFG%)
  2. Turnovers, measured in turnover percentage (TOV%)
  3. Rebounding, measured in offensive and defensive rebounding percentage (ORB% and DRB%)
  4. Free throws, measured in free throw rate (FTR)

In case you’re wondering, I didn’t just make these stats up- they were designed and tested by Dean Oliver, widely regarded as the creator of advanced statistics for basketball.  He was the first ever statistical analyst hired by an NBA front office (the Denver Nuggets in 2006) and also wrote the book Basketball on Paper, considered the equivalent of baseball’s Moneyball.  These four factors of basketball are based off his observations of thousands of NBA games.

Keep reading as I breakdown what these four factors mean and how you can apply them to make your team better.

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How to make play diagrams and drills using Coach’s clipboard for FREE

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I’m doing this special post because I’m getting alot of emails about how to share plays. In this post, I’m going to cover a few things related to our basketball coach’s clipboard which allows you to draw plays and drills for FREE. Yes, it’s free and you can even animate the plays like the ones on this blog!

FAQ

  1. How can I create videos on my PC?

Sorry, you can only create videos and GIF’s using a Mac.

2. How do I share an entire playbook?

We use to have that feature but we’ve since removed it. For now, you’ll need to share videos 1 by 1.

In this post, we’ll cover

  1. How to draw black and white play diagrams for printing
  2. How to create a VIDEO of your animated plays and then send it to your team
  3. How to create animted GIF’s like the ones on this blog

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