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Slow Break Automatic
The Dribble Drive Motion basically has the sideline break built into it, with the goal being to get the ball up the sideline as quick as possible (for more info check out the book on the right side of the site). For years I’ve run a sideline break that fits perfectly into the Dribble Drive, has lots of reads and will give you four scoring opportunities in about three seconds.
We have nicknamed it the “Slow Break”, because although it works great as a fast break, it is equally good after a made basket, or when your big has secured a rebound, and the other team have numbers back on defense. We have run it as an automatic after made baskets or when the big has rebounded the ball.
The Book is Ready
Look to your right – the Dribble Drive Motion Offence – An Instruction Manual – is ready.
It’s available on Lulu.com, paperback both color ($45 due to cost of print) and black and white ($16.99), or the PDF version ($15).
The first 10 (of 108) pages are available for preview if you follow the links.
Dribble Drive Book Almost Done
All of last week I spent editing the Dribble Drive book. Rearranging, and makings things clearer, along with writing a few new chapters. It is 100 pages exactly, with more than 300 color illustrations. Hopefully I’ll have time to read through it tonight, then upload Wednesday.
All that’s left to do for my book is to read through, correct a few things, do a cover and upload to lulu.com. There will be three versions – a full color printed version, that will be quite expensive, as color printing is expensive, a black and white printed version that will be very reasonable and a PDF e-book color version for self print at about the same price as the black/white printed version.
The only thing that can get in the way is my under 14 girls National School Championship Sweet 16 match and the preparations for it. They’re running a very simplified version of the Dribble Drive, allowing our star guard to get to the rim and find her shooters.
Rebounding
Recently I’ve watched a lot of old Memphis games, and one thing that strikes me is how they offensive rebound. It’s not that they’re aggressive, which they certainly are, but how they’re always first to the ball.
It comes down to the offense and all the tips that are in it. Players just get used to judging the ball and being near the rim all the time. Also players are naturally on a path towards the basket every time a shot goes up, which doesn’t hurt your chances either…
Book Update
Just a quick update on the Dribble Drive book I’m writing.
I’m about halfway through the book. The X’s and O’s section is 95% done, and I’ve started working on the section on how to teach the offense, the drills section, the entries and special plays, Dribble Drive zone offense and the complimentary offense.
It shouldn’t take too long to complete, as most of it is in a playbook already. All I need to do is copy it over, reformat and write additional comments.
I’ve been thinking about how to publish. It could be as an e-book, but it’s occurred to me that, say, Championship Productions might be interested. I’ll contact them and see. What appeals to me about the e-book solution is that it would keep cost down to about $10 per copy which is very reasonable.
The Dominant Post: Inside Screens and Pick-and-Roll
Having a dominant post player in the dribble drive poses some questions, most notably; How do you use them effectively in an offense predicated on guard drives?We’ve created several options for post-ups, but at the moment we’re focusing on creating pick-and-roll options.
We’ve combined a post-up and a pick-and-roll option out of the elevate: The guard elevates the 2 and passes to him. As 1 is cutting through he sets a screen for the post (5). 5 immediately looks for the inside option, then proceeds to ball screen for 2.
The Drop Zone Extended
I don’t claim that the way we’re running the dribble drive is much different than what other people runs – in fact most of it is just taking the best of Walberg’s and Calipari’s options and combining them. We do try to look out for new options, though, and a few of them end up being part of the way we run the offense.During preseason we’ve experimented with new options and one option is really standing out. As a part of the way we teach the offense we don’t teach the drop zone kick-up until we’ve put everything else in and can run it really well, as that option very easily becomes the primary option, and we feel the offense has much better options.
Because of this we’ve had a chance to really look at the drop zone back door options, and we’ve added a wrinkle inspired by Calipary, but which fits in really well with Walbergs original offense.
Preseason is underway
The team has been training for a couple of weeks although the foreign players will not arrive until early September. We’ve started putting in the Dribble Drive, although only very limited parts of it.
So far we’ve only done full court Dribble Drive drills and the players have yet do scrimmage 5-on-5 – although we’ve done a few full court 2-on-2 and 3-on-3 drills.
Welcome to the Dribble Drive blog
This blog is meant to provide some in-season information on implementing the Dribble Drive Motion offense with a team. Specifically the team is a semi-professional team in Europe – and as I hope to give readers some detailed information on how we run the offense, including how we run it, and how we counter what defenses do against it, the exact identity of the team will remain secret.
The dribble drive has received a lot of hype. In the spring of 2008 Sports Illustrated ran an article on the Memphis Dribble Drive motion offence. I read the article and so did my Director of Basketball. We pretty much immediately decided to go with coach Walberg’s offence as the main offence for the entire basketball club, from under 14’s to men, as we felt it provided not just tactical advantages, but also clear advantages when it comes to player development.
We were looking for an offense that would not only get us wins on the court, but also promote long term player development and basketball IQ. We believe we’ve found it in the Dribble Drive Motion, but it hasn’t been easy to get to a point where it’s easily run across all the teams.
Implementing the Dribble Drive as our base club offense was made harder by the lack of availability of good information on how to:
- Run the offense
- How to teach the offense to maximize skills and tactical development in players.
In the summer of 2008 several sources were available on how to run the offense; notes from clinics available from the internet, notes available in PDF-format, and a DVD on how to run the offense.
None of the sources offered a complete package on how to run and teach the offense, so we king of had to invent our own way. In some ways we succeeded, in some ways we failed.
In fact we didn’t succeed as well as we would have liked to in the first season of running the offense. We started out winning everything, but as the season wore on we faded.
That gave us very valuable experience in how to teach the offense, what counters other teams use against it – and how we can counter the counters.
Since the summer of 2008 a few more sources of information has become available – coach Walberg has got a set of DVD’s out and so does coach Calipari. We’ve taken this information and added it to the experiences we’ve had with the offense and last week when we started pre-season training it was with a whole new bag of tricks, and a very different intensity to last year.
During the course of the season I hope to publish an online book about the dribble drive offense. This book will be an attempt at providing the coach with not only a blue print of the dribble drive offense, but the entire package that will enable him him to run the offense well: ; the drills, the reads, the pitfalls and the advantages. I have made the mistakes – and I hope to allow others to not make them.