Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
• Kevin Eastman (Boston Celtics) |
• Philosophy
• Consistently talk about success
• Trust
o Needs time
o Needs consistency
o Needs Proof (DELIVER!)
• Leadership
o Occupy seat or execute position
o Can build or destroy
o Talent (both physical and mental
• Culture | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
o Winning or success
o Personal sacrifice
o Accountability
• Standards
o Stay in the present
o No excuses
o Be a great practice team
• Make every decision through standards and culture!
• Success checks
o Playing time is your responsibility
Bring more value to the floor
o Big eyes, big ears, small mouth
o Success leaves footprints
o Investment vs. Entitlement
You are entitled to nothing!
Are you willing to invest?
• Do you want to leave a job or a legacy?
• Defense | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
• Defensive Priorities
o Transition
o Pick and roll
o ½ court D
• Defensive Questions
o What do we want to be?
o What are we?
• Defensive Goals | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
o Get back and get set
o Keep the ball out of the paint
o Intelligent pressure
o Only give up contested 2 point shots (hopefully off the dribble)
o Take care of the ball, paint and contest 3’s
o Be a great closeout and help team
NO DRIVING LANES
o Take away the highest % shot
o Keep the ball in front
o Recover to the 3
o No penetration
If so, no shot for the ball handler
No shot off the 1st 2 passes
• Focus and Effort
o Penetration kills us
Fouls by on the ball defender | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
Fouls by help defender
• Chart as fault fouls for person who doesn’t contain the dribbler
Offensive rebounding
• Alertness and Awareness
o Sniff things out!
• Making defensive adjustments
o How quick do you make them
If we are getting beat on D
• Do it harder
• Do it better
• If you can’t we will have to take you out of the game
• Change the scheme
• On rotations | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
o Bigs on bigs, guards on guards
• Every stop you make you lower your opponents field goal % by 2 percentage points
• Communication (say things (3) three times!!)
o Intimidate
o Prepare
o Gives the person guarding the ball confidence
o Wakes up a disengaged defender
o Catches a mistake before it happens
o Energizes
o The more you trust, the less you foul
• Multiple efforts (you need players who can make multiple plays in the same possession
• As a team you must have resolve
• You can’t make defensive personal
• Stay out of scramble situations and in rotations.
• Good Defensive teams have
o Sneakers squeaking
o Loud voices
• Winning on the road | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
o Defend
o Eliminate transition scores
o Rebound
o Defensive resolve (play through their runs)
o Eliminate turnovers
• Play simple vs. sophisticated
• Stick with your beliefs if you think they are right
• Play as if you were blind
o Low man wins
o No short closeouts
o FOULING NEGATES HUSTLE
o Defense is about commitment/Offense is about comfort
o Play defense with your feet, hands help occasionally
o Fight your instincts late
• KNOW THE NO’s
o Middle
o Lay-ups
o Uncontested shots
o Ball watching
o Big man buddy running
• Transition Defense | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
o Fools’ Gold=just getting back
o Need position with a stance
1 man back=a dunk for the other team
2 men back =a lay-up for the other team
3 men back =a contested shot
4 men back =we’re good to go
5 men back=DEFENSIVE STOP!
o 2 back =tandem
o 3 back =triangle
o Meet their bigs at the free throw line
o Post across, not up!
Step across the defender’s face into the mini lane
• Jeff Bedzelick (Wake Forest) | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
• Coaches greets and chats with at least 3 players before each practice
o Build a personal relationship!
• Defending the Ball Screen
• Drill
o Trap the ball screen @ different spots on the floor
o ROTATIONS!
o Be zoned up near the rim!
o Get the ball out of the players’ hands at all times
Their best player who the ball screen is usually for
• Stay away from RANDUMB things
• Offense
• Work on different finishes at the rim
o Creates awareness
o 2 foot lay up when even with defender
o Wrong foot lay up when slightly ahead
• Finishing with Contact Drill (Continuous Effort)
o See diagram
• 4 on 4 on 4
o Incorporate next game prep or skills you need to work on into the drill
Ex. no dribble, double the ball handler
• Competition sets the tone for practice
• Gary Williams (Maryland) | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
• Make sure your seniors deliver the program message to you younger players.
• You have to know what you are putting in as a coach
o YOU MUST OWN WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO SELL
• Get the ball inside early and often
• Flex | Garden State Basketball Clinic Notes
o 45 degree angle back screen
o On Forward to Forward skip pass run the normal flex cut
o Post sets diagonal ball screen for strong guard with the ball, weak guard spaces to corner for jumper. (see diagram)
• Defensively you must talk and communicate
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