Hubie Brown Techniques and Strategies Notes

These notes were shared by Coach Taylor Harris, who is an assistant coach for the Women’s Basketball program at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. These notes outline some coaching thoughts from the legendary Hubie Brown.

Hubie Brown:  Techniques and Strategies

What do you talk about during a timeout?

*Offensive timeout

1. Offensive play
2. How many TOs are left?
3. Are we in the penalty? – No fade away shots
4. What defense we are in if we make, or miss? (Do you trap or foul right away?)

*Defensive timeout

1. Who do we foul?
2. Who are their best offensive rebounders?
3. Who are their 3 pt shooters?
4. Are they in the penalty?
5. What is their favorite play?

General comments from Hubie

*Don’t leave the foul lane empty when ahead by 1, 2, or 3 points-match up man to man.

*Don’t inbound the ball with one hand-what happens if a defensive player slides in?

*Don’t slap the ball on inbound-go when the ref hands the kid the ball.

*Offensive rebounds-go behind the board, then box out on the weak side.

*Keep your terminology simple

*On any pick and roll, go at least 2 dribbles past the screen to maintain spacing

*On any screen, the screener should open up the shoulder you screen off of

*Offensive principle:  leave an area, replace an area

*In your press offense and ½ court offense, have a short pass and long pass option always

*If a post man is being double teamed and you are on the opposite block, flash to the middle of the paint (the dotted line in the paint)-DON’T just stand on the block

*When you set a screen, Hubie says to screen an area, not the defender because there’s a higher chance of a ref calling an illegal screen; also, the defender can’t feel the screen immediately

*He never makes players run suicides:  the only one who is happy in the gym is you, everyone else hates you

Offense

*Get your high % shooters shots from their spots, not your worst shooters-Who’s taking the shots in your offense?

*Evaluate your offense at the 1/3 and 2/3 point in the season, and at the end of the season-get rid of bad plays at end of season

*Vs. a ½ court trap, teach the back dribble to create a potential 4 on 3 situation when you get the ball out of the trap

*If trapped without the dribble, take the ball (and the defender) down near the floor

*Drill:  Have 2 lines of kids at half court, elbow extended location.  From half court, have the kids take 2 dribbles to a chair on the elbow for a shot.  Good for seeing the rim and keeping your head up on the dribble.

2 week program to get ready for the season

1. Conditioning (exercise program)
2. Lay-ups (4 dribbles)
3. Stutter-explosion
4. Crossover
5. Through legs
6. Wrap around

***He has guards and posts do these

Shooting-5 spots on the perimeter

-3 shots from each

-guards shoot from three, bigs one step in

10 minute shooting

Guards

-3 man shooting-1 shooter, 1 passer, 1 rebounder

-3 stations-corner-elbow, elbow-elbow, other corner-elbow

-Rotate every 55 seconds

-Can get 50-60 shots each

Bigs

-Post moves

1. Drop step
2. Sikma
3. Jump stop
4. Up and under

Defense-10 minutes (NO SPECIFICS HERE)

Offense-Hubie’s necessities

• Transition offense-misses, blocks, TOs
• Fast break off of FTs
• Out of bounds vs. types of pressure
• Vs. the ½ court trap
• Zone offense
• Stall
• A north/south offense
• An “angle” offense-more east/west
• Motion offense
• Under basket out of bounds

A big thanks to Coach Taylor Harris for sharing these notes. You can follow Coach Harris on Twitter here: @TheTaylorHarris

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Hubie Brown Strategies and Techniques Notes