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Welcome to the new coachdribbledrive.com
Over the past few months I’ve spent a lot of time on upgrading the site and you’re looking at the result.
Over the next several months coachdribbledrive.com will receive a lot more love. I’ll be providing a lot more information on the Dribble Drive Offense, including more drills, but I’ve also been busy writing a book on defense, and I’m looking to do some more reviews of coaching materials.
As I’ve been redesigning the site I’ve looked at reviews for the first time in maybe ten years. This one makes me proud!
This is an awesome book. The book offers more than just X’s and O’s – it has great drills as well as insight into how to build a practice, a program, and a mindset. At this price, I would recommend purchasing it even if you do not plan on running DDM
Review at Championship ProductionsFor now the brand new shop is open, so you can get the Dribble Drive Motion Offense and Zone eBooks, if you don’t already have them.
Want To Read a Book on Defense?
I like the Dribble Drive Offense – but I love defense!
For many years I’ve made defense the centerpiece of my coaching – and I’m in the process of writing a book about it. It’s not something from Walberg, Calipari or any other well known coach (even though I feel it compliments the Dribble Drive very well).
No, it’s something we came up with a number of years ago when we had a team that was offensively challenged, but sound in defensive fundamentals. It involved changing between five different defenses on pretty much every possession, which sounds confusing. It was, but more for the teams we played against, which usually led to a 6-8 minute stretch in the second half where they wouldn’t score.
Anyway, it’s early in the process, but I’ve reached out to a few coaches I respect very much and asked them to read through my material later in the summer of 2024, when I’ve written a little bit more.
I’m hoping it’s ready in the fall of 2024 – but until then the Dribble Drive books are still on sale.
Best drill in the world?
Transition is a continuous 3 on 3 drill that’s fun and challenging, with two teams competing against each other, while focusing on the Dribble Drive Break/Sideline Break and defensive transition.The drill continues the work started in the Scramble 11 man break drill, using the same tactics, but now requiring the wings to beat their man to force the outnumbered situation.
I can’t think of anything basketball tactics- or skills-wise you can’t do in this drill and it’s one of the fastest drills I’ve ever run.
(more…)Blood Series Drills
The “Blood” drills are the essence of teaching the offense. This is a simple breakdown of the principles of the offense. It’s fast paced drills to also help in conditioning.The drills can be anything from
- Blood 11: Pure player development
- Blood 22: 2-on-2, guards and post players
- Blood 32/33: 3-on-3, with guards, posts and the 2/3-man
- Blood 44: 4-on-4 (guards, posts and both O2 and O3)
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Big in Japan 2018
Wow, the book on the Dribble Drive Offense has been published in Japan!About six years ago someone approached me wanting to publish the book in Japan and bought the rights to do so. And then nothing happened, so I thought that it never materialized.
Then this spring Japanese coach Kohei Tsukamoto approached me on Facebook wanting a biography because the book was just about to be published in Japanese. That was a big, but welcome surprise to me so I talked to Kohei a bit and now the finished product is here!
I don’t know if it will make it big, but I sure am proud!
Attack Combo Drill With Rebounding
This is a fast paced drill that involves shooting, boxing out and quick decisions – on top of the full court attack skills of the Dribble Drive. I really like it because it incorporates all of the dribble drive skills in the full court, but at the same time you have to focus on rebounding, aggressiveness and make quick decisions.
Instructions
Full c
ourt drill. Two lines under the basket. Balls in one line. Players switch lines every time they’ve been in the drill.O1 passes the ball to O2. O1 then sprints over to O2 and taps the ball before he backpedals to his shooting range. O2 passes the ball to O1 for a shot. A made shot is worth one point.
The defender O
2 now boxes out and the two players fight for the rebound. Whichever player gets the ball is attacking to the other end. Points are awarded for making a basket.Next team goes when the rebound is secured. This makes the drill move very quickly.
Va
riations
You may vary the court size for this drill. If you want to make it difficult you limit the players to the space betseen the lanes. This forces the players to really attack to go by the defender.Je Suis Dan Uzan
Fellow coaches,We talk a lot about offenses, shooting and other technical things about basketball. Tonight I was reminded what basketball is (also) all about: Heart and love.
In the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen over the weekend we lost a cherished member of our basketball club, Dan Uzan. We had a game on Monday night and the outpouring of love from Dan’s friends and family was incredible. The crowd was full of people that the Gentle Giant had touched over the years. Friends who had grown up with him, teammates from the last 20 years, opponents.
We had players on our team who almost didn’t take the court because they were so emotional, but when they got there, they played their hearts out. The smallest player on the court took five rebounds, running in among the big men, throwing his body around, as he just willed the team to victory, playing for Dan. Nothing was going to stop those players getting that win tonight and that’s such a powerful reminder of what basketball is about.
To punish or not to punish?
Punishment or no punishment? To me it comes down to how you think about it.
Every time I have a competition at practice I like to have everybody run afterwards. Everybody. But… At the end the winners get to shoot a foul shot. If they make the shot they don’t run. If they miss they run half the distance.
To me that’s positive reinforcement. You do something well and good things happen. That means you want to do more things well. Also you know that if the game is on the line good things happen if you do well.
If you punish for mistakes you teach kids that bad things happen if they mess up. That makes them afraid of making mistakes. At the end of the game they are afraid to make the mistake and to have bad things happen – so they make the mistake because that’s all they can think about.
In general, in coaching you don’t want to coach mistakes. If you say “don’t throw the ball away” you create the image of throwing the ball away in the mind and that’s what the mind focuses on. If you say “take care of the ball” the mind focuses on that.
Could you have everybody run – but then REWARD the kids that do it right by giving them a free pass and some praise?
I know a lot of big time college programs use punishment a lot. Could you imagine the energy it would bring to the film sessions if you started taking away runs when good things happened? Wouldn’t they really want to do better, strive to be perfect? Instead of dreading mistakes?
You could still point out the same mistakes and just say “We have to keep this run in because…”.
I don’t know, but to me it makes sense…
Building a Defense – with Nenad Trunic
Today i went to a coaching clinic with Nenad Trunic who is heavily involved with the Serbian youth National Team program.
The clinic is on building a defense from 1-on-1 to 4-on-4 and I think it’s really worth seeing. I like coach Trunic’s thoughts on the shell drill which he always starts from a defensive disadvantage situation so the defense has to think and recover.
I apologize for the quality and the sudden jumps. I wasn’t there from the start as we had our one hour practice session with the National Team and I didn’t quite know how to use my new phone’s camera so it stopped by itself a few times. However it should certainly be viewable.
Also see the clinic notes from the same clinic held last year below.
