Dana Altman High Post Offense Notes

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I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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November 20, 2014

Dana Altman High Post Offense Notes

These High Post Offense Notes are on Dana Altman who is the University of Oregon Head Coach, Former Creighton University Head Coach, and he has six NCAA Tournament appearances. If your team doesn’t have a dominant post player then the High Post Offense might be for you. You need an effective offense to use the players that you have. The High Post Offense is a great offense that uses the guards and undersized post players with great success and creates spacing, works against pressure defense, and has tons of options. Coach Dana Altman will show you his base set for running the offense and it’s correct spacing, movements, and cuts. You will also see different set plays that you can run out of the offense to use the strengths of your team and exploit the weaknesses of the other team. You will see different ways that they run their delay game and how to transition into the High Post Offense from a fastbreak.

I think that Coach Altman does a great job of teaching this offense and showing all the options. I have seen boys and girls teams use this offense when they had zero height. It works especially will against zones. The High Post offense will allow your least talented players a chance to score some buckets. You can run it against zones, mostly the 2-3 zone. I have seen teams run it against the 1-3-1 zone and their wing shooter was getting open looks from the three point line and mid-range shots.

The High Post Offense will allow you to use man offense principles to flow into your zone offense attack. You will learn how to cut underneath a zone and become hard to guard. You will learn how to alter the movements to play against an odd guard front zone and a number of quick hitters against the zone to get the ball to the shooter.

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