Basketball Coaching | NBA Teams Basketball Playbook I: The Chicago Bulls Playbook

Written by Coach Peterman

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.

February 3, 2012

What about reproducing an NBA team’s winning strategy through a Basketball Playbook?

You may not know it, but you can get your hands a professional basketball playbook that you can use for your own entertainment or to study and apply to your own team’s plays. It would probably take a long time to do on your own, but you can get analysis and explanation of all the plays some NBA teams run.  And while you could probably learn something from any NBA basketball playbook, you would naturally be more interested in one from a successful NBA team who has been making the playoffs lately and has great players and coaches at the top of their game.  If you want something like this, you should check out the 2011 Chicago Bulls Playbook.
Chicago Bulls Basketball PlaybookThe 2010-11 season was a successful one for the Chicago Bulls.  They had a 62-20 record and were one level short of the NBA Finals, after losing the Eastern Conference Finals.  They have some great players, including their talisman Derrick Rose, but every player knows their role and their basketball playbook shows this in detail.  The notes in this book come from Coach Peterman, who watched the Bulls and figured out their whole offensive basketball playbook.  Success relies on great players fitting into effective systems, so you can see what led to the Chicago Bulls’ success during the 2010-11 season and try to apply what will fit into your own team strategy.

That’s actually the main difference between PRO and amateur basketball: PROs basketball plays MUST/SHOULD/CAN be nothing else than PRO!

You see, all teams are different.  They all have a basketball playbook but some are effective at implementing and some are not.  But teams that are successful usually expand their plays and are able to adapt where other teams are not.  That’s part of the reason they find success when other teams try and fail.  A basketball playbook from a winning team like the Chicago Bulls has the basics, but it also shows how they were able to expand and show defenses new looks that they weren’t expecting.
All NBA teams look at a lot of film so they can try to figure out another team’s basketball playbook.  But the teams that have great winning records have such a large and adaptable number of plays it can be hard to figure them out when you actually play them.  If you would like a look at such a basketball playbook, you would do well to study this one which focuses on the Chicago Bulls.  The team road the great play of Derrick Rose and he is a great player and won the Most Valuable Player Award, but he would not have achieved that without their top record.

What about having your youth team implementing Chicago Bulls basketball plays?

It takes countless hours to develop a basketball playbook, but just a few to consume the information in one so you can be applying it to your group of players as soon as possible. Really, getting inside the workings of a successful offense is priceless stuff, and really should cost a lot of money.  But, when someone else has already done the work for you, you should take advantage.  The basketball playbook of the Chicago Bulls, as long as you use it, should improve your team’s play, without a doubt.

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