Defensive Presses
FDU Zone Overload
This 2-3 Zone Set was a part of The Coaching Toolbox’s Best Man-to-Man and Zone Sets playbook and was posted on their website. This set comes from Farleigh Dickinson and has one wing player cut through looking to get the ball reversed back to them for a corner shot. 2 runs to the corner and…
FGC Zone Flash
This 2-3 Zone Set was a part of The Coaching Toolbox’s Best Man-to-Man and Zone Sets playbook and was posted on their website. This set comes from Florida Gulf Coast and looks for a skip pass from the high post to the opposite corner for an easy shot or baseline drive. 4 moves in to…
5 Drills to Build a Suffocating Defense
This drill was presented at a Glazier Clinic by Carlotta Kloppenburg-Pruitt, head women’s basketball coach at Southern Oregon. Here she walks through her man-to-man pressure defense system. OVERVIEW A coach walks through her SOS Man-to-Man Pressure Defense system, introducing the core terminology and drills she uses from the first week of practice. The video is…
Skip Pass Closeout Shooting
This drill was shared on YouTube by Dr. Dish Basketball and features Coach Mike White. Coach White is currently the head coach at Georgia but at the time of the video was at rival Florida. This drill utilizes a Dr. Dish shooting machine to simulate game-like decisions. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
Whole Part Whole Teaching Method in Basketball
This article was originally posted on Winning Hoops and was included on The Coaching Toolbox. It was written by John Kimble, a retired high school and college basketball coach. There are countless fundamentals, skills, techniques, and concepts that must be taught to each and every individual basketball player as well as to the overall team.…
Aggie Elevator
This set was submitted by Vonn Read to The Coaching Toolbox. Coach Read has worked with teams in the NBA, WNBA, and NCAA in his career and just joined New Mexico State women’s basketball team as associate head coach. The 1 player passes to the wing and cuts to the opposite wing. The 2 player…
Fly Drill
This drill is from Ed Cooley (Providence) and was posted on YouTube by Championship Productions. This drill is designed to help work on defensive rotations and communication. Coach Cooley labels this as a warm up drill. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
Double Skip Pass
This is from the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library It was posted by Randy Brown. This drill will help you incorporate the skip pass into your zone offense for open threes or post shots. The idea is to shift the zone with the first skip pass, then skip back over the zone to the…
Sue Bird Shooting
This drill was posted on The Coaching Toolbox and comes from Mike Neighbors, who coached several teams at the NCAA and WNBA levels and is currently an assistant for the Dallas Wings. The link to their post is at the end of this post. The following is his description and diagrams of the drill that…
Tag Up Conversion Defense System
This video is from Barbara Nelson, a former head girl’s basketball coach at Myers Park High School in North Carolina. This was presented at a Glazier Clinic. The overview provided on YouTube is included below the video. Overview of the Defensive System The coach describes a containment transition defense built around a concept called “tagging…
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