STAVANGER BASKET Practice drills, Plays & Tactics Coach Handbook Author: Villi Steinarsson, Head Coach Editor: Nils Henrik Eggen, Board Member © Copyright Stavanger Basket In Stavanger Basket we are “Glad I Basket”. This handbook shall enable the club to base its play around common systems. The aim is to make it predictable for everyone to be a part of the club. The handbooks guide you to how we practice and play as a team in Stavanger Basket across all ages and genders. Any changes to this document shall be approved by the Board. We welcome ideas from you. If you have an idea you think is good or that can help the way we go about play basketball in Stavanger Basket, please forward this to [email protected] Stavanger, 12.02.2014 ______________ ______________ Villi Steinarsson Nils Henrik Eggen Stavanger Basket Coaching Hand Book version 1.2 2 | Page Rev. Date: 12.02.2014 © Copyright Stavanger Basket Contents 1 PRACTICE .......................................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Plan the practice ......................................................................................................................... 4 1.1.1 15 key practice pointers .................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Practice Drills links – all age groups ........................................................................................ 6 2 OFFENSE ............................................................................................................................................ 7 2.1 When opponent team plays man to man defense................................................................. 7 2.1.1 Motion offence (from U 14 upwards) ............................................................................... 7 2.1.2 Flex offense (from U 14 upwards) ................................................................................... 8 2.2 When opponent team plays zone defense ............................................................................. 8 2.2.1. Zone 23 against 2-3 zone defenses ..................................................................................... 9 2.3 When opponent team plays full/half court press ................................................................. 10 3 DEFENSE .......................................................................................................................................... 12 3.1 Man-to-Man Defense ............................................................................................................... 12 3.1.1 Tips for man-to-man defense ......................................................................................... 12 3.2 Zone Defense ........................................................................................................................... 13 3.2.1 Zone defense 2-3 ............................................................................................................. 13 3.2.2 Zone defense 1-3-1 .......................................................................................................... 14 3.2.3 Full court diamond press (1-2-1-1 press) ..................................................................... 14 3.2.4 Advantages and disadvantages of playing zone defense .......................................... 16 Appendix A - Source List ......................................................................................................................... 17 Appendix B 1 – Example Practice planning template ......................................................................... 18 Appendix B 2 – Stavanger Basket Practice planning template ......................................................... 19 Stavanger Basket Coaching Hand Book version 1.2 3 | Page Rev. Date: 12.02.2014 © Copyright Stavanger Basket 1 PRACTICE 1.1 Plan the practice Don't come to the gym each day without a plan and think you can just "wing it". In Stavanger Basket we plan for success; plan your practices just like a teacher creates a lesson plan for his/her class. Your practice is a classroom and you are the teacher. You shall plan each practice by: Keeping a loose-leaf notebook (See template in Appendix A) of each of your practices that you can refer back to. After each drill or after practice, use the notebook for your practice plan from that day, things you have learned or that need special emphasis. Apply drills that have more than one level of difficulty: We see little progression and improvements if players are doing the same drill over and over, practice after practice. As we have a big age gap in some groups we use drills that have more than one level of difficulty. It is easy to change setup with a short instruction or teaching, so a player is always engaged in the drill. When teaching a new offense, defense, plays, press offense, press defense, and other team skills, select your drills and teach by progression. (see drills section 1.2). 1.1.1 15 key practice pointers Warm-up drills and stretching is done at the start of practice in order to avoid injuries. Our "hall time" is precious. We only have one hour and this is to be used for basketball. Older groups shall show up earlier to warm-up and do light drills before practice. Select drills that teach individual and team fundamental skills, as well as teaching what you are trying to accomplish, or trying to correct. Use the guidelines below. You might have a "core" of selected drills that you use all the time. But you can throw in other drills from time-to-time to teach specific skill, or just to avoid boredom and spice things up. HERE you can find good drills with description and execution notes. Move quickly from one drill to another: Do not spend half of your practice time on one drill. The kids will get bored and won't learn much after the first 5-10 minutes into the drill. If they mess up, they will get another chance to run that drill next practice. Make drills competitive: Whether you are doing 1-on-1 or 5-on-5 drills, shooting drills or something else, always make drills competitive, e.g. “first one to 10 baskets win”. It is ok to have losers do some kind of physical activity after a loss, just to keep them focused while doing the drill. In free-throw shooting drills, we will often have missed shots followed by running a lap, as this simulates the running and fatigue in game situations. Budget your time for each new drill: If you are introducing a new drill, play, offense, defense, you will have to allow more time the first time. If you are reviewing something, like a set of plays or your out-of-bounds plays (that they should already know), move quickly through these. You are reinforcing their memory (a brief repetitive exercise that can be done each day). Stavanger Basket Coaching Hand Book version 1.2 4 | Page Rev. Date: 12.02.2014 © Copyright Stavanger Basket Follow an up tempo exhausting drill with 5 minutes of something less aerobic. Practice is never about running the kids to the exhaustion. If you have a really physically tough drill, follow it up with a drill with less intensity. Free-Throw Shooting: Do free-throw shooting after an aerobic running drill when the players are tired in order to simulate leg and body fatigue that occurs in real game setting. Have every player do dribbling and ball-handling drills: Every player on the team needs to do ball handling, not just the guards. Big players benefit a lot from a good ball handling. The thing with young kids is that you never know who will turn out to be big and tall, so don´t put them in positions right away. Every young kid needs to be familiar with all positions. Break-down post/perimeter drills: If you have a good assistant, you can plan some time for individual skills with perimeter players on one end of the floor, and your post players on the other end. Do not show favoritism: Do not favor certain players in practice. Make them all work equally hard. Try to instill your star players that they must lead by example, and be willing to work harder than anyone else on the team to be a great player. Don't ignore your "role players" (a better term than "subs", or "bench players")... make them feel they are contributing and encourage them. Conditioning drills: Early in the season, you can run a lot of conditioning drills. Players and team will improve much more by doing conditioning drills than a lot of push-ups and running without the ball. If you are going to make your players run, make them do it with a ball... like full- court speed dribbling, using the right hand one direction and the left hand coming back. Rather than running a "gut buster", or a "suicide" (which is a terrible name), do a fast-paced aerobic drill like speed dribbling. The kids will get just as tired, will hate it just as much, but their dribbling and conditioning will both improve. Tournament time: Getting into tournament play, or a crucial game, you might spend most of your time on team skills preparing for the big game, working on any special situations necessary to play the upcoming opponent. For example, you might want to refine your press break, or your full- court press, or how you will defend a certain star player, or how you will attack their zone defense, etc. Later in the season during tournament time, we will often reduce our practices from 120 minutes to 90 minutes or less and focus on team skills and the upcoming game. 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