Don Showalter USA Basketball | 3-Line Pick & Roll Basketball Training Drill

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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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October 9, 2014

Don Showalter USA Basketball | 3-Line Pick & Roll Basketball Training Drill by Wes Kosel

Here is a pick & roll basketball training drill from Coach Don Showalter. I was lucky enough to help out at the USA Basketball Junior National Team mini-camp this past weekend. The camp featured top players from across the country in the 2017 and 2018 classes. The coaches for the mini-camp included Don Showalter (Iowa City High School), Mike Jones (DeMatha Catholic High School – MD), Cory Alexander (ESPN – ACC Network Commentator), Sharman White (Miller Grove HS – GA), L.J. Goolsby (KC Run GMC – MO), & Eric Flannery (St. Edwards High School – OH). Coach Showalter has been coaching with USA basketball since 1998. That year, he served as the Head Coach for the Nike Hoop Summit team and was also the North Head Coach during the 1998 USA Basketball Youth Development Festival. He then took over the U16 & U17 teams from 2009-present. Since 2010, Showalter’s USA teams are 26-0 with 4 Gold Medals. Showalter has made his name as one of the country’s best high school coaches. After spending 29 years as the head coach at Mid-Prairie, he took over as Head Coach at Iowa City high school in 2012.

Don Showalter USA Basketball 3-Line Pick & Roll Basketball Training Drill
Option 1: In the first option, the guard passes to the wing then cuts through to the opposite corner and sets up for a shot. The post player moves up from the baseline to set a ball-screen for the wing. The wing player and post play a pick & roll with the wing hitting the post at the basket for a lay-up or dunk. The coach on the wing passes to the guard in the corner for a shot. Each player rebounds his own shot and moves to the end of the line.

Option 2: This option starts the same, but instead of the wing hitting the post on the roll, he kicks it out to the guard in the opposite corner. The post player setting the screen pops to the short corner and gets a pass from the second post player on the baseline. The coach passes to the wing at the elbow for a shot. Again, each player rebounds his own shot and moves to the end of the line.

Wes Kosel is an assistant coach for men’s basketball under Head Coach Andy Partee at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO. Kosel joined the staff at Colorado College after serving two seasons as an assistant coach at Texas Lutheran University and one season at Haskell Indian Nations University. Kosel has an undergraduate degree in Exercise Science from the University of Kansas, and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Physical Education from the University of Houston. The Bartlesville, OK native is also a NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), a certified personal trainer (NSCA-CPT), and taught weight training and aerobic fitness courses while coaching at Texas Lutheran. He has coached AAU programs, volunteered with elementary and middle school basketball teams, and has worked basketball camps for various programs including the Houston Rockets, University of Houston, Texas State, and Texas A&M Corpus Christi.

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