3-on-3 Sprint Pick and Roll Drill
UNF head coach Matthew Driscoll showed this drill last weekend on film at the FACA Coaching Clinic. Starts by a pass from a coach to either wing, on the catch, the picker sprints out into a side pick ...
Basketball Defense
Closeout-Slide-Rotate Defensive Drill
This is a drill I put in this Summer during our workouts to improve our lateral and rotational agility. You can start with a coach having the ball or having the defensive player (1) pass to the coach ...
How to Defend a Corner Fill
Recently I was fortunate to spend time with almost 20 NBA players for a week at the NBPA Top 100 Camp. One term that was used by one of them when defending a shooter in the corner with a potential win...
Florida Gators Press Defense
The following article is taken from current Florida Gators Assistant Coach Matt McCall‘s lecture at PGC’s 2014 Clinic in Atlanta. To press, you must be committed to it and work on it every...
4 Drills to Become An Effective Pressing Team
Circle Trap The Circle Trap drill is one of the best drills to not only teach your offensive players how to handle traps under pressure, but it also teaches your defense how to trap without fouling. O...
Film Breakdown Part 1: Post-Game Analysis
Upon several requests, I have put together a three-part series of posts discussing how to watch film as after the game, with your team, and with individual players. Today I am going to discuss the p...
Court Vision: The Trained Eyes of a Head Coach (Part 2)
If you haven’t read Court Vision: The Trained Eyes of a Head Coach (Part 1), make sure you jump over and read it first! Below is my mental checklist I go through on the defensive end of the flo...
Orlando NBA Summer League Recap
As many of you know I spent the last three days at the NBA Summer League in Orlando. First I would like to thank the Orlando Magic for putting together yet another successful and organized event. To s...
2 on 2 Double Contest
Need a drill to help teach your players how to move to and from helpside to closing out? This drill is perfect for just that. Keep bouncin…...
Closing Out with Urgency
The #1 key to closing out is knowing who you are closing out to. Many times players just focus in on who they will be guarding in the scouting report. However, through the course of the game it is pos...