Basketball Coaching | Rick Pitino Full Court Pressing System | Rick Pitino Ball Defense

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.

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March 17, 2012

Basketball Coaching Legend Rick Pitino, the Louisville coach showed his personality and challenged his questioners throughout the final news conference before his team, champion of the Big East tournament and the No. 4 seed in the West Region, plays 13th-seeded Davidson on Thursday. You need to watch his basketball plays on defense.

Basketball Coaching Legend – Rick Pitino was pleased with the Cardinals’ defensive effort on Thursday, which limited the Wildcats to 35 percent shooting (21 for 60) — including 21.1 percent from 3-point range (4 for 19). They also held them to zero fastbreak points. Their goal was to wear them down. Louisville coach Rick Pitino knows that one way to slow down a team that likes to run is to wear down their legs.The Louisville Defense held the Davidson Basketball Plays down.

I think that you are going to enjoy these defensive basketball plays in these two basketball coaching clinic notes. Rick Pitino is the master of the full court press and you will be able to see his basketball coaching philosophy at work in the NCAA Tournament and follow along with this basketball coaching material. Louisville’s Press was amazing during the game. If you can record parts of the NCAA Tournament then I would do it.

Louisville won NCAA championships in 1980 and 1986 under Denny Crum. Rick Pitino is the only coach to have led three different teams to the Final Four. He also had two stints in the NBA.

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