Game Winning Plays from Larry Brown
Coach Larry Brown, current Head Coach of SMU, is great at getting his players to play with discipline and unselfishness. Brown has also earned quite a reputation for transforming losing teams into winners, and is expected to have an improved team this season at SMU. Brown played at the University of North Carolina, and then began his coaching career as a freshman coach at UNC in 1965. A couple of Coach Brown’s mentors include Coach Frank McGuire and Coach Dean Smith. Taking from Basketball Offensive Sourcebook by Jerry Krause and Ralph Pim (2005), Brown states that Coach McGuire and Coach Smith always shared their ideas with other veteran coaches, and also states that the sharing of ideas by coaches is something that we do not see enough today. Fortunately, mensbasketballhoopscoop allows coaches to share ideas and knowledge. I hope this would make Coach McGuire and Coach Smith proud.
Here is a moving cross screen play from Larry Brown with two options for initiating the play. The initial formation allows this play to easily run out of transition, with the 5 trailing the play and the 1 dribbling up the floor. In Figures 1.1 and 1.2, the play starts with the 1 dribbling to the wing and passing the ball to the 5. In Figures 1.3 and 1.4, the play starts with a pick-and-roll from player 5. This can be used if player 5 is being tightly guarded and the swing pass cannot be made. This play uses movement and misdirection to get an open shot off of a moving cross screen. The movement and misdirection consists of a fake baseline flex cut which turns into a cross screen for the post. It is important for the guard making the fake flex cut to convince his defender and the post defender that the play is designed to get him a shot. Once the defensive players bite, the post man can come off of the cross screen for an easy inside score. If the post man catches the ball and cannot score, the play then has passing options to teammates cutting to the basket or filling to the wing. Hope you enjoy this play. Any feedback is greatly appreciated and encouraged.
Best of luck,
Coach Wes Kosel
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Wes Kosel is an assistant coach for men’s basketball under Head Coach Tommy Jones at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, TX. 2013-2014 marks the second year for Kosel at TLU. Prior to arriving at TLU, Kosel served as a student assistant coach under Head Coach Chad Killscrow at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS. 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), and teaches weight training and aerobic fitness courses 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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