Basketball Coaching | Mike Brey Notre Dame Motion Offense

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August 21, 2013

Today’s basketball coaching clinic notes are on Mike Brey and his Notre Dame Motion Offense

We’ve talked many time about Mike Brey’s 3 out 2 in motion offense.

These basketball notes break down how Notre Dame Mike Brey runs his motion offense. You will have the breakdown drills and the actions of the motion offense. It’s something that you should check out.

Here’s an excerpt from the notes:

Our “Motion Offense” is basically:

-3 players outside

– 2 players inside In the halfcourt, with theball on top, we are in screening pairs with the two inside players working together with the perimeter players to get open.
These initial screens can be a variety of different angles.
We encourage the players to get to different spots on the floor toreceive screens. We want to get away from it always being a big player setting down screen for a perimeter player.
Once we get the ball to the entry (foul line extended) the perimeter players will work together as will the inside players.

WHY MOTION OFFENSE?

We love to be “hard to guard”. We’ve been fortunate to have versatile / multitalented players in our program that haveflourished within this system. Naturally, as a result of our success, we continue to recruit talented young guys who will fitus well. Teams that run motion offense are difficult to defend and difficult to scout. We teach our guys to read the defense andmake the right play. We have certainly instituted some rules but we try to give plenty of freedom. Whether they are esponsible enough to handle that freedom is something coaches need to work through. Defining roles with your group is st as important as where you are entering the ball. If your best perimeter shooter is not getting enough touches andhots then you have work to do.
Teammates need to understand their roles and then trust each other within their own assignments. Coaches need to have the ability to loosen the reins at first, then pull them back in as your team handles this freedom.

Click on the pdf link to download the basketball coaching notes:

Basketball Coaching | Mike Brey Notre Dame Offense