Make it waste time.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...-make-it-waste-time/
A good article about using full court press to stop the offense from getting into their set quickly.
Thought @@MichiganPacker would like this. Link, Courtesy Coach.
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Good article.
I'd defer to FLPacker, who may not follow the Bucks threads, but he just recently retired as a very successful small college coach.
At one point in my life, I had planned to be a basketball coach. I went to several Dick Bennett camps growing up and my uncle (a prominent high school coach) hosted the Indiana assistant coaches (for example, Dan Dakich) for summer camps in the 80s. I asked everyone I could, why would you not press constantly? Why let the other team relax at all? Make them work as much as possible. I guess there are several good arguments not too.
1. You tire your own guys out.
2. Potentially increase the chances of foul trouble.
3. The other team breaks it and gets a layup (or these days a wide open corner 3).
However, if I was coaching I'd press every chance I got until the other team scored against it and made me take it off. If you are worried about foul trouble, try some type of 2-2-1 full court press just to make them work.
Holiday completely flipped the Finals two years ago picking up Chris Paul full court.
If you play the Celtics (who don't have a real starting point guard), I'd have someone on Marcus Smart every time he tried to bring up the ball.
For purposes of player development, I think if was a coach at the upper middle school or high school level, I'd go man-to-man full court press every practice and every summer league game. And I'd want the opposing team to do the same. I think too many of these AAU development games have guys sit passively in 2-3 zones.
Speaking of NBA offenses...check out this cool graphic on the evolution of Brooks Lopez in Milwaukee. Really an amazing transformation
@MichiganPacker posted:Good article.
I'd defer to FLPacker, who may not follow the Bucks threads, but he just recently retired as a very successful small college coach.
At one point in my life, I had planned to be a basketball coach. I went to several Dick Bennett camps growing up and my uncle (a prominent high school coach) hosted the Indiana assistant coaches (for example, Dan Dakich) for summer camps in the 80s. I asked everyone I could, why would you not press constantly? Why let the other team relax at all? Make them work as much as possible. I guess there are several good arguments not too.
1. You tire your own guys out.
2. Potentially increase the chances of foul trouble.
3. The other team breaks it and gets a layup (or these days a wide open corner 3).
However, if I was coaching I'd press every chance I got until the other team scored against it and made me take it off. If you are worried about foul trouble, try some type of 2-2-1 full court press just to make them work.
Holiday completely flipped the Finals two years ago picking up Chris Paul full court.
If you play the Celtics (who don't have a real starting point guard), I'd have someone on Marcus Smart every time he tried to bring up the ball.
For purposes of player development, I think if was a coach at the upper middle school or high school level, I'd go man-to-man full court press every practice and every summer league game. And I'd want the opposing team to do the same. I think too many of these AAU development games have guys sit passively in 2-3 zones.
Our high school girls team this year did that to some success, winning a regional championship before eventually losing to Los Osos, the eventual state champion.
Key was we had a decent bench, and you have to rotate to make it work. If you don't have the personnel, fatigue will beat you.
You need a deep team to make it work because it takes a lot of stamina to do it.
Our kids HS boys team made it to state this year employing that strategy but they went 8-9 deep and ran into a guy that scored 50 because he couldn’t miss.
In the pros it won’t work because everyone at that level can bring the ball up the court. Most college teams can as well.
