Doc Rivers LA Clippers 1-4 High Set Play

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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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May 1, 2014

Doc Rivers LA Clippers 1-4 High Set Play

I got this play from watching the Clippers/Warriors series. They ran this Doc Rivers LA Clippers 1-4 High Set Play and also with one of the wings starting in the right short corner. The Clippers ran this play a little different than the way I drew it up. The Clippers had the right wing that cut back door set the first of the double back screen. Chris Paul was the second screener of the back screens and he came off the down screen set by Jordan. I made a change to this play. I made 2 the second screener when setting the back screens for 4. The play starts off with 1 hitting 5 at the elbow. 2 will immediately cut back door on 4 catching the ball. 5’s first look is 2 for a layup. The back door cut is extremely to guard when running a “1-4 High” look against a man to man defense. After 1 hits 5, 1 cuts to the middle of the lane. 1 will wait a second before he cuts. 4 will take one big step off the elbow towards 3. This will improve the screening angle for 1 and 2. 4 will set a screen for 3. 3 will come off of 4’s screen and will get a dribble handoff from 5. 3’s first look is turning the corner and getting all the way to the basket. As soon as 4 screens for 3, 1 and 2 will set a double back screen for 4. 4 will come off the double back screen looking for the ball. 1 will clear out to the weak side. IF 2’s defender helps on the last back screen, 5 will set a down screen for 2. 2 will come off the screen looking for a shot.

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Adam Short just completed 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.