Flex Offense | Bob Schlosser’s Comprehensive Guide to the Flex Offense

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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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April 29, 2012

Bob Schlosser is the Head Coach at Elizabethtown college and he is going to help us master the flex continuity offense with counters in these basketball coaching notes. The Flex has been around for a long time and it is a time-tested offense that is easy to run. It’s based on flex screens and down screens. It takes time to get the screens and timing of the motion down. Coach Bob Schlosser will show us his way of teaching the flex offense without the down screen to create open shooting attempts.

Coach Schlosser will show us how to create open shots while adding different variations to the continuity by using a flare screen instead of a down scren. This variation will allow for dribble pentration and keep the defense honest in the passing lanes. He will show counters that will keep the

He also shows several counters to keep the defense guessing. By using these counters the defense cannot just go through the motions of the continuity or they will give up an easy open look. Coach Schlosser will give you some rules that he uses based on where the ball is passed and the counters to defensive pressure.

The breakdown drills of the flex offense will help you install and teach the actions of the offense. You will figure out how to get into the offense from different spots, backdoor cuts, and hitting the wide open man, and how to finish at the basket.

He will use seven entries into the Flex Offense to keep the defense honest. It will give you open looks early in the set play. By using different counters with the entries, it will make it extremely hard for an opponent to scout all the different actions. You will also get to see some different ways to use the sideline and baseline out of bounds situations into the flex offense.

Coach Schlosser will also show you how to utilize the transition offense into the flex by using stagger screens and screen-the-screener action. It will get your shooters some open looks early in the shot clock.

If you are looking to run the flex or just looking for a couple different flex sets then you should download these basketball coaching notes.

Click on the pdf link to download the basketball coaching clinic notes for your basketball playbook: