Bruce Weber Kansas State Motion 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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January 12, 2014

Bruce Weber Kansas State Motion Offense

*** Prepare to play and beat the best team on your schedule

Keys to success | Bruce Weber Kansas State Motion Offense
1- give your players high goals
– verbalize the goals
2- players focus on team goals, not individual goals
3- be willing to pass the ball – share the juices!
4- accept, take pride, and execute roles
5- use strengths, work on weaknesses
6- make the simple play
7- love to WIN and hate to LOSE
– competitive practices – reward the winners, punish the losers
8- coachable players
9- play DEFENSE
– do things people do not see everyday
10- work on individual improvement for the betterment of the team
– FUNDAMENTALS
11- compete at a high level everyday

Motion offense keys | Bruce Weber Kansas State Motion Offense
1- be flexible
2- spacing
– be wide, get away from each other
3- allow creativity
4- everyone is involved some way
5- rebounding balance
– be consistent with how many you send to the offensive glass
– reward offensive rebounds
6- defensive balance
– designate who gets back to stop the ball
7- commit to your offense
8- understand and study your offensive system
9- concepts must be part of individual workouts and team drills

* Fast break first – transition motion – constant, consistent pressure on the defense

Motion advantages | Bruce Weber Kansas State Motion Offense
1- hard to scout and prepare for
2- allows for freedom – players use their strengths
3- players recognize situations
4- teaches players how to react to multiple situations
5- improves all around game

Motion Disadvantages | Bruce Weber Kansas State Motion Offense
1- hard to teach – must have patience
2- coach has less control of players and offensive flow

Key teaching points
1- spacing

2- screening
– always stress the importance of screening
– screening is a dirty, unlikable job – praise or reward good screens
– setting screens
– down screens – screener must get his butt facing the ball
– flare screens – shoulders must face the ball
– screener needs to signal/verbalize he is setting screen
– sprint to set screens
– wide shoulders and wide base

3- cutting
– step off the cuts, sell the cut
– use the v-cut if the defender is guarding tight
– use the sprint cut, if defender is guarding loose
– shoulder-to-shoulder when coming off screens
– on the flare screens, get separation form the screener

Teaching points – Be hard to guard! | Bruce Weber Kansas State Motion Offense
1- down screens
2- flare screen
– flare to the corner, get away from defense
3- down screen into slip
4- flare screen into slip
5- back screens
– run into the open space – screener must find the defense
6- double screens
– down screen into flare
– flare into down screen
– back screen into down screen
7- penetration shooting – keep the rope TIGHT – dribbler moves, shooter moves
– banana cuts
– dribble hand off or dribble pitch back
– float to the corner
8- ball screens
– roll to the basket
– pick and pop – to the wing and baseline
9- double ball screens