Box and 1 Offense by Adam Short

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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October 4, 2013

“Tigers” Box and 1 Offense

All through my playing career, I was always one of or if not the best player on my team. Opposing defenses had to prepare for me because of my ability to score. Sometimes, I would have 6 to 7 different guys guard me throughout the course of a game. A lot of times, I would get face guarded. This would make it very hard for me to get the basketball from my teammates. For me to score, I would have to work for every bucket I got. I would force a ton of bad shots out of frustration because the defense would make it extremely hard to get the ball. I was always curious about an offense to run when one of your players is a threat and the opposing team feels in necessary to face guard him. I think this play could really help out a lot of high school coaches. They are the ones who usually have one star player that get most of the attention. I like this play because it gives you different options of how to run this play. Some teams that face guard a particular player pick him up full court without letting him get the ball out of bounds. This play has options for that. Some teams are able to get the ball to their star player who brings the ball up the court, this play has that option as well. Also, I like the staggered block up as well. It adds a different look of how you can hurt a team that face guards. I would like to hear some feedback from any coach that would use this offense.

Adam Short begins his first year as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Cowley College.

Short grew up in Indiana and was a First-Team All-Conference selection as a senior at Lake Central High School. He went on to attend Joliet (Ill) Junior College and helped the team to a NJCAA Division III national runner-up finish, while being named First-Team All-Conference and a two-time Region 4 Player of the Week.

After Joliet, Short spent his final two years of college basketball playing at NAIA school Avila University in Kansas City, MO. At Avila, he scored more than 1,000 points in his career and earned all-conference honors each year at the school.

He graduated from Avila in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in writing. Short then served as a graduate assistant coach with the Avila men’s basketball team from 2011-2013, and earned a Masters degree in Organizational Development in 2013.

He also spent the past two years working with MoKan Nike Elite Youth Basketball League out of Kansas City, MO. His job duties consisted of coaching, scouting, and breaking down film.