24_001test4.qxd 29-01-2007 17:09 Pagina 1 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2007 24 FOR BASKETBALL EVERYWHERE ENTHUSIASTS FIBA ASSIST MAGAZINE ASSIST Carlo Recalcati improving the team by improving the player UNIVERSITY mike krzyzewski USA team strategy in japan David Blatt special defense: OF FLORIDA 1-1-3 match-up zone chus bueno spanish basketball players association OFFENSE Ioannis papageorgiu agility drills ;4 24_003 29-01-2007 12:08 Pagina 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2007 FIBA CALENDAR COACHES march 2007 FUNDAMENTALS AND YOUTH BASKETBALL 31.03 - 02.04 NCAA Men’s Final Four in Atlanta, USA Improving the Team by Improving the Player 4 april 2007 by Carlo Recalcati 01-03.04 NCAA Women’s Final Four in Cleveland, USA OFFENSE june 2007 University of Florida Offense 12 03 - 10.06 FIBA Asia Championship for Women in Incheon, Korea by Billy Donovan and Donnie Jones 29.06 - 08.07 FIBA U21 World Championship for Women 18 in Moscow / Moscow USA Team Strategy in Japan Region, Russia by Mike Krzyzewski FIBA ASSIST MAGAZINE july2007 IS A PUBLICATION OF FIBA 12-22.07 FIBA U19 World International Basketball Federation deFENSE 51 – 53, Avenue Louis Casaï Championship for Men 24 CH-1216 Cointrin/Geneva Switzerland 26.07 - 05.08 FIBA U19 World Special Defense: 1-1-3 Match-up Zone Tel. +41-22-545.0000, Fax +41-22-545.0099 Championship for Women by David Blatt www.fiba.com / e-mail: [email protected] in Bratislava, Slovakia IN COLLABORATION WITH Giganti-BT&M, Cantelli 28.07 - 05.08 FIBA Asia Championship for Editore, Italy Men in Tokushima, Japan HOOP MARKET PARTNER WABC (World Association of Basketball Coaches), Dusan Ivkovic President august 2007 Back to the Future 28 15 - 26.08 FIBA Africa Championship by Raffaele Imbrogno for Men in Luanda, Angola Editor-in-Chief 22.08 - 02.09 FIBA Americas Giorgio Gandolfi Championship for Men in Las Vegas, USA REFEREES AND GAME September 2007 ADMINISTRATION Editorial Office: Cantelli Editore, 03 - 16.09 FIBA Europe V. 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He ▼ Balance the half court line without being touched then moved to Cantù, Reggio Calabria ▼ Reaction by 2, who, also dribbling, starts from the (winning an A2 championship), ▼ Skills three-point line and comes towards him Ambrosiana Milan, and then back to ▼ Transition (diagr. 4). Bergamo. In 1997 he signed with Varese, ▼ Ability to Read Different Situations. and two years later his team won the DRILL 5 Italian championship. He then moved to Improvment will come when drills are 1 moves from side to side and passes the Fortitudo Bologna, where he again won properly organized to stress several fun- ball, alternatively to 2 and 3, who act as the Italian championship. He has been damentals. These drills must always be supports. The drill goes on until an coaching Montepaschi Siena since carried out at game-speed. established time or an established num- 2003, winning the 2004 Italian champi- ber of passes are completed (diagr. 5). onship and the Italian Supercup in 2005. DRILL 1 He's also been coaching the Italian All the players are in motion on a half DRILL 6 Men's national team since 2002, win- court without the ball. The coach calls the The coach rolls the ball. 1, after making ning the bronze medal at the 2003 FIBA name of one player and he becomes the defensive slides, must recover the ball Eurobasket, the silver medal at the 2004 "hunter." The hunter must then try to touch and pass it back to the coach. This drill is Athens Olympic Games, and the gold another player. Once touched, this player run until an established time has elapsed medal at the 2005 Mediterranean becomes the hunter and continues the or an established number of passes have Games. chase. This drill helps players run and been made (diagr. 6 and 7). quickly change pace and direction while moving without the ball (diagr. 1). DRILL 7 The improvement of a team is directly The coach has two basketballs and alter- connected to the improvement of indi- DRILL 2 natively passes them to 1 who, moving vidual players. Daily workouts to The drill is the same as the previous one, quickly to the left or the right side, improve the fundamentals can enrich but now a basketball is used, continous- receives the ball and passes it back to the technical skills of each player, who ly kept in motion by dribbling and pass- the coach, using only one hand. The drill will then have more tools to use in vari- ing. The coach gives the ball to a player goes on until an established time has ous game situations. By the end of every and he will become the "safety." He can- elapsed or an established number of practice session, each player must not be touched while the designated passes have been made (diagr. 8). make some improvement in their skill "hunter" tries to touch another player level-even if it's just a little. And from without the ball. The aim of the drill is to DRILL 8 these little improvements will spring pass the ball to that player who is about The players are divided in two lines, with forth a better team. to be touched by the "hunter." (diagr. 2). each player holding a basketball. The To make improvements, players need: drill begins at half court, with 1 and 2 ▼ Will DRILL 3 dribbling at the same time. 1 decides his ▼ Sacrifice Every player has a ball. While dribbling, own direction of dribbling and the timing ▼ Courage the players try to knock each others ball of his shot. 2 must adjust, always main- ▼ Desire to work. out of bounds. Once a player loses his taining the initial distance from 1 and ball, he is eliminated from the game and then take the same shot 1 has taken WHAT TO PRACTICE leaves the court. As the number of players (diagr. 9). After the shot, 1 and 2 get their ▼ Running decreases, the playing dimensions are own rebounds and go to the end of the ▼ Change of Direction reduced as well. Part of the half court is line (diagr. 10). ▼ Change of Pace used,; then inside the three-point line, and ▼ Jumping Ability finally into the three-second lane (diagr. DRILL 9 ▼ Dribbling 3). Players are divided in two lines and each PAGE 04 | 24 2007 | FIBA ASSIST MAGAZINE 23_004_011 29-01-2007 16:43 Pagina 5 D.1 D.2 D.3 D.4 D.5 FIBA ASSIST MAGAZINE | 24 2007 | PAGE 05 23_004_011 29-01-2007 16:43 Pagina 6 FIBA EUROPE COACHES - FUNDAMENTALS AND YOUTH BASKETBALL has a basketball.