Basketball Coaching - Game Strategy, Coach's Clipboard Basketball Coaching and Playbook. By James Gels, from the Coach’s Clipboard Basketball Playbook, @ http: //www. First of all, realize that most games are won and lost by your players executing the fundamentals and plays that you have taught them in practice. But courtside coaching can greatly influence the outcome of a game, especially a close game. If you get blown out by 3. Game plan. First, prepare for the game through scouting, or reviewing game films of your upcoming opponent. Find out who their best offensive players are, what their style of play is, what they like to do, and what their weaknesses are. If you have played this opponent previously, review your old game stats, notes and films. Here is a good habit to get into: soon after playing a game, make notes of the game, your observations and impressions of the opponent and save them. Refer to these the next time you play them. Then you can develop a game plan that hopefully will favor your strengths and attack their weaknesses, and deny their strengths. But I would not change my game plan from what we usually do successfully to something else solely designed to stop our opponent. Let them change their style of play to try to stop you! Discuss in your practices and in your pre- game meeting your strategy for playing this team. Discuss the defensive assignments so each player knows his role exactly, and who he will be responsible for guarding. If you have never played this team before and have no prior information, try to learn early who their best players are and what style of game, what tempo, they like. Once you know this, you can make quick adjustments in a time- out, or at the end of the first quarter. Game tempo. Try to set the game tempo to the style that best suits your team. If you are a running, pressing team, and your opponent is a slow- down team, push the ball up the floor on offense, press on defense, and create havoc! Basketball's early adherents were dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United States, and it quickly spread through the USA and Canada. By 1895, it was well established.If you are better in a half- court slower paced game (less team quickness and only average ball handlers), then bring the ball up the court more deliberately, and get back on defense to prevent the fast break. If your opponent is a great fast- breaking team, prepare your team to stop the break by having one, or maybe even two, guards back, and have your big guys jam the rebounder with hands up so they can't get off the quick outlet pass. Type of defense. What does your team do best? Are they quick, good defenders (go man- to- man), or do you have a couple slow defenders (maybe go zone)? Most teams may try both at various times of the game. Only you can decide what is best for your team. Here are a few things that I look at. If the opponent has good outside shooters, use man- to- man to keep pressure on their shooters. If their strength is inside post play, you can play man- to- man and double team the post with your weak- side guard. In this situation, whenever the ball goes into the low post, have your low post defender deny him the drop step to the baseline, and have your weak- side guard slide down quickly to prevent the move to the lane. Or you can go into a 2- 1- 2, or 2- 3 zone to "pack the paint" with your defense. This leaves the outside more vulnerable. Major League Baseball is vowing to shorten the average length of its games. Officials have other ideas in mind in an effort to move things along. Everything that has anything to do with basketball on Long Island, including High School basketball, AAU basketball, youth basketball, CYO basketball, college. Synopsis. Michael (Steve Carell) comes in to work prepared to pit the office staff against the warehouse in a game of basketball, with the losers having to work on. When Does ‘Game Of Thrones’ Come Back? Season 7 Could Still Be A Long Way Off, And It’s Shorter Than Fans Will Hope. This basketball coaching article discusses coaching game strategies, tempo, defenses, offenses, pressing, timeouts, substitutions, late game strategies, etc. Women's basketball news, commentary, scores, stats, standings, audio and video highlights from ESPN. Who's taking the last shot for your top-25 team? With the game on the line, some players are better suited than others to have the ball in their hands. During the course of a game, if I realize that the opponent is getting most of their baskets inside, I may switch to a 2- 1- 2 zone to jam the paint and see if they can shoot from outside. If they can't hit the outside shot consistently, this may be the best way to stop them. If they are playing with a point guard and two wing players ("3- out, 2- in"), we may try a 1- 2- 2 trapping zone. Some coaches play only man- to- man and refuse to use zones. Others use only zones. As a coach, I believe I should use every possible tool or trick that I can to win a game. I personally favor pressure man- to- man, but will not hesitate to go zone if I feel it will give us an advantage, or a better chance of winning. One exception, teach kids in the lower levels to play good man- to- man, before getting into zones. So in practice, we will work on man- to- man defense, but also have the 2- 3 and 1- 2- 2 in our arsenal, and periodically review our zone coverage patterns. So when do you switch from man- to- man to zone, or vice versa? There are different ways of doing this. Some coaches will change defenses frequently, in order to confuse the opponent.. I personally like riding success until the opponent shows me that they can beat it. If we are doing a great job with our current defense, I will stay with it until it begins to fail. You might also change from man- to- man to a zone if one or two of your better players are in foul trouble, and you are trying to protect them from additional foul exposure. When to press, or stop pressing. Again, the decision to press depends on whether your team has quickness, stamina, and bench support, and whether the faster pace favors your team. Long Island's Home Court Advantage! Everything that has anything to do with basketball on Long Island. Nassau County, Suffolk County, high school, AAU. Some teams will press the entire game because it favors their quickness, and they have a deep bench. Some will press at the start of the game to get off to a quick start. Some will press the last few minutes before the end of a period, realizing they can rest at the break. Some teams will press after each made basket. Some teams only press when they are behind late in the game, but it's usually too late by then. My personal plan often is to start the game pressing. Once the opponent starts breaking down the press, or gets a couple lay- ups, I'll drop it. I'll put it back on later as a "surprise" tactic, or if I sense a critical time in the game where a couple quick steals and lay- ups could make a big difference. If I have a 1. 0 point lead with a just couple minutes left in the game, I would drop the press, slow the game down, get back on defense and make the opponent work hard in the half- court for their shots, working the clock down. Using time- outs. Coaches should use their time- outs wisely. In close games, if possible, I try to save two or three time- outs for the last few minutes of the game, when you may need to stop the clock, set up a play, discuss your team's strategy, etc. Sometimes it doesn't work this way. You get behind early, and must use your time- outs to hopefully break the opponent's momentum, and reset your own strategy. If you are trying to slow the game down, you might also use some time- outs early. If you are getting beat early, there is no point in saving your time- outs for the end of the game, when you are down 2. Sometimes I will look over at the opposing coach and notice that he is going to call time- out, and this may save one for me. Sometimes I see a coach call a time- out 3. Why?" Why waste a time- out then, when you can use the time at the end of the period as your time- out? Remember, that at the end of each quarter, you have a free time- out. Keep it simple in your time- out huddle. The kids will often only remember one thing you tell them in a time- out.. So use your time- out to make one important team point.. An example of an important "team" pointer might be stressing getting back quickly on defense and keeping one or two guards back if the opponent is fast breaking. Another example might be to change your defense, or your offensive plan, and another might be to simply prod the kids into increasing their defensive and rebounding intensity and overall hustle. But keep it simple. Substitutions. If you are coaching youth basketball, where everyone is supposed to play, or if you have a team with a deep bench and can do a lot of substituting, then I would advise relying on your assistant coach to help with the substituting. If you only play six or seven players, you can handle it. In the former situation, I have found that it's really hard to keep track of everyone's playing time, and still try to coach the game, set the strategy, etc. Before the game, I will discuss with my assistant who the starters will be for that game. We will then also talk about which substitutions to bring in for certain players and at what intervals.. Once the game starts, I have my assistant make most of the substitutions based on that pattern. He can see when certain players are getting tired and need a break. If we have a "hot" player on offense, we will ride that horse for awhile and not substitute until things "cool off". I will over- ride the assistant at any time, if I see a certain situation where I feel we need to have a certain player or two on the floor at that time. I also like to be aware of our players' fouls. I have a formula that I try to teach my players in regard to staying out of foul trouble: "your number of fouls should be less than the number of the quarter you are playing in." So you never get your 2nd foul in the first quarter, or your 3rd foul in the second quarter, or your 4th foul in the 3rd quarter. If any of these situations occurs with any of my key players, I may sit him/her down for awhile. If we are down 1. I may need to keep him/her in there, and have to take my chances with the fouls, and maybe try to protect him/her, using a zone on defense. On the other hand, I have seen coaches essentially foul- out their own players with four fouls, sitting them down for a quarter or more because of four fouls.. You might be better off letting him play carefully, than not at all! Another point on substitutions.. If you are willing to risk a couple losses early in the season, you may be a much stronger team late in the season if you develop that eight or nine- man rotation into a good team, with lots of bench support. This also creates more team harmony and team spirit. Yelling at players. Sometimes I see coaches screaming at kids. I don't think this helps the player, and is usually born out of frustration on the coach's part. It doesn't mean the coach is a mean person, and often the coach feels bad about it after the game. Personally, I think coaches should be vocal in encouraging their players, and yelling plays, strategy, etc.
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