24_001 30-05-2007 9:59 Pagina 1 MAY / JUNE 2007 26 FOR BASKETBALL EVERYWHERE ENTHUSIASTS FIBA ASSIST MAGAZINE ASSIST sergio hernandez argentina’s offensive Zelimir Obradovic system lindsay gaze the shuffle offense peter webb-ray mcclure PANATHINAIKOS’ let the rules be the guide william sutton building a champion on and off the court OFFENSE jacques huguet injuries affecting the ability to play 4- 26_003 30-05-2007 13:14 Pagina 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2007 FIBA CALENDAR COACHES june 2007 FUNDAMENTALS AND YOUTH BASKETBALL 03 - 10.06 FIBA Asia Championship for Women in Incheon, Korea The Pick-and-Roll: All of the Solutions 4 29.06 - 08.07 FIBA U21 World by Ryan Krueger Championship for Women in Moscow / Moscow Region, Russia OFFENSE july2007 Argentina’s Offensive System 12 12-22.07 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men by Sergio Hernandez FIBA ASSIST MAGAZINE 26.07 - 05.08 FIBA U19 World IS A PUBLICATION OF FIBA Championship for Women The Shuffle Offense 18 International Basketball Federation in Bratislava, Slovakia 51 – 53, Avenue Louis Casaï 28.07 - 05.08 FIBA Asia Championship for by Lindsay Gaze CH-1216 Cointrin/Geneva Switzerland Men in Tokushima, Japan Tel. +41-22-545.0000, Fax +41-22-545.0099 www.fiba.com / e-mail: [email protected] august 2007 Panathinaikos’ offense 24 IN COLLABORATION WITH Giganti-BT&M, Cantelli 15 - 26.08 FIBA Africa Championship Editore, Italy for Men in Benguela, by Zelimir Obradovic PARTNER WABC (World Association of Basketball Coaches), Dusan Ivkovic President Cabinda, Huila, Huambo and Luanda, Angola 20.08 - 24.08 FIBA Oceania HOOP MARKET Championship for Men in Billy the Kid is Back (to Back) 28 Editor-in-Chief Melbourne, Sydney and Giorgio Gandolfi Brisbane, Australia by Raffaele Imbrogno 22.08 - 02.09 FIBA Americas Championship for Men in Editorial Office: Cantelli Editore, Las Vegas, USA REFEREES AND GAME V. Saliceto 22/E, 40013 Castel Maggiore (BO), Italy, Tel. +39-051-6328811, September 2007 ADMINISTRATION Fax +39-051 6328815 03 - 16.09 FIBA Europe E-mail: [email protected] Let the Rules be the Guide 30 Printed in Italy. Championship “EuroBasket” Copyright 2007 by FIBA. for Men in Alicante, by Peter Webb and Ray McClure The magazine is published 6 times per year. Granada, Palma de FIBA, Cantelli Editore and the Editor-in-Chief Mallorca, Sevilla and are not responsible for the opinions expressed Madrid, Spain Right or Wrong? 34 in the articles. All rights reserved. 20 - 30.09 FIBA Africa Championship The National Federation and their affiliates can for Women in Dakar, reproduce any part or all the magazine for their internal use, but not sell any part or all of the Senegal SPORT MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT magazine to an external publisher without the 25 - 29.09 FIBA Americas written permission of FIBA. Championship for Women executives and marketing in Valdavia, Chile Building a Champion on and off the Court 35 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 24.09 - 07.10 FIBA European Mirco Melloni, Corrado de Belvis, Lisa Championship for Women by William Sutton Cavallini, Gerald Couzens and Raffaele in Ortona, Lanciano, Vasto, Imbrogno; and the contributors Mirko Chieti, Italy Ocokoljic, Patrick Hunt, Radmila Turner and 26.09 - 29.09 FIBA Oceania FIBA RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTRE Marcos Michaelides. Championship for Women in FIBA at SportAccord 2007 40 Correction Dunedin, New Zealand The article, “USA Team Strategy in Japan” OCTOBER 2007 (January-February 2007, pages 18-23) 22 - 27.10 FIBA World League for DOCTORS, CONDITIONING incorrectly noted that Team USA Head Women Final Round in COACHES AND TRAINERS Coach, Mike Krzyzewski, was the author. 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For four years he has fight over the top of the screen. worked with the New Jersey Nets, at The first look in the pick-and-roll is first as a video coordinator and, begin- Waiting for the screener to be set is always the ball handler. I want him to ning last season, as assistant coach. He vital. If he does not, he will get the scoring or making a play 80% of the has written two books, "Yellow Brick screener called for an illegal screen. time. In any pick-and-roll the ball han- Basketball Drills", whose proceeds go The ball handler should be setting his dler's first thought is "attack the big toward the social campaign "Coaches defender away from the screen (with an man". His options are always drive first, vs. Cancer". He has also been an in-out dribble, a step across or rip-thru), shoot second, and pass third. If you do instructor at Five-Star Camp. exactly as the screener's feet are hitting not want the ball handler to shoot it, you the ground to set the screen. This should not be running the pick-and-roll PICK-AND-ROLL PHILOSOPHY insures that the big man is not moving with him. The ideal situation is to get the Guard Notes when the guard comes off and that the ball handler penetrating to the rim out of The guard must set up his defender. If he big man will be able to set the best pos- any pick-and-roll. wants to use the screen and get to the sible screen for the guard. middle, then his setup is to fake to the Pick-and-rolls "create offense". The ball baseline, the opposite if he wants to go He must "turn the corner" like he is run- handler must come off the pick-and-roll to the baseline. ning downhill, picking up speed and to score. He must go hard to the rim, With the dribble I like to teach the cannot be stopped. He must run off the with the chest facing the basket, as inside-out move to get the defender screen in attack mode!!! All he is think- opposed to the sideline: he must go leaning away from the screen. Now, ing is attacking that big man, getting into north-south, not east-west. If the ball with him off balance, I like teaching a the paint by either splitting the pick-and- handler has confidence in his reads, he quick crossover dribble to run the roll or getting around the screener's can overcome a lack of quickness. defender right into the screener in the defender outside shoulder. direction he wants to attack. I want my Big Men Notes players coming off "clean" in every pick- When he comes off the screen, the ball The key of a great pick-and-roll starts and-roll. handler must drive it at least two drib- with how the big man sets his screen. I If a player is coming off "dirty" (where bles. He "bails out" the defense, if he am a huge believer in drilling "screening his defender is able to stay attached to takes one bounce and picks up his drib- angles" into the heads of our big men. If him), the ball handler is now forced to ble. Even if the defense is "blitzing" him the center or the big forward attack two defenders (his defender and (trapping), he must "stretch" the defense "telegraphs" his route and saunters into the screener's defender, since he was by taking a minimum of two dribbles, it as a snail's pace, it makes the never screened), instead of one. and dragging the screener's defender defense's coverage very easy. What is as far as possible, so the distance he hard to guard is when the big man If the ball handler has not used his drib- must recover is greater. sprints into the screen and puts separa- ble, I teach two ways to set up his tion between himself and his defender. defender without a dribble. If the "Bingo" is a term I use to describe the It's hard to give an aggressive "show" at defender is crowding him, taking away ball handler beating his defender away the level of the screen, when you are his airspace, I teach the "step across." from the screen.