Larry Brown MBCA 2011 Notes
Keep it simple like Norm Stewart!
Play hard, play smart, take great shots, defend like crazy
Values of quality coaches:
Get guys in great shape
Best coaches are best teachers
Love your kids
How do you get your team to accept
roles and let your players be who they are the
best players?
Call it “passing game” not motion so the players realize they are supposed to pass
first.
What gets guys in shape?
1) wind sprints when disrespected or selfish
2) to condition, use skill drills
3)To find out if a kid can play, go 94 ft. 3 on 3 in 11
What’s a good shot?
1) One you can make
2) One you can get fouled
3) One that can be rebounded
4) One that allows you to get back on defense
Running Game | Larry Brown MBCA 2011 Notes
1) Wants to run on every play (does your opponent want to ?) Opponents can’t send as many men to the board
2) Kids love to run
3) Keeps you from being pressed
4) Easy to coach if your players understand shot selection
Transition Drills | Larry Brown MBCA 2011 Notes
Full Court Drill: 3 lines wide on baseline, 3 man weave
5 passes to get to opposite end, then return, must meet the pass
Ball MUST never touch floor
2:00 min, 21 without a mistake
4 on 0 Carolina Break
Ball doesn’t hit floor
Down/back, down/back
Forward rebounds, outlet, pass to one wing, pass to other for shot, trailer forward
must get ball out of net and start process again.
Trailer gets last shot
MUST run wide
5 on 0 Carolina Break
Forward is added to drill, Outlet to 1, guard throws ahead to big, both guards must
touch. Get the ball out of the net and pass back up the floor. Bi
gs are forced to
handle the ball in transition.
2 trips Full
Philosophy | Larry Brown MBCA 2011 Notes
Take all the good stuff you have and shrink it down.
Take the things you run and make them GREAT.
How we guard Pick & Roll
Side P & R
Hardest time to guard pick & roll is in transition
We pick up early in Full Court shell
We pressure the ball as soon as we can pick it up.
1) Never show your best pick & roll defense early
2) Change up how you are going to guard things that are hurting you
Staple defense:
1) Hard show & back (force the dribbler into the screen, hard hedge, on ball defender gets over screener,
under hedge man
2) ?
3)Late in clock: we switch 6 seconds and under
You MUST get your kids to guard the ball, find drills, get it done
MUST communicate
Off the ball screen, your other 3 must be very active in a zone (help covers nail, box,and elbow)
If we switch, take something away from someone….on switch, go in direction of the help
Engage 2 on the ball, get other 3 very ready to help
(after timeout, could DOUBLE all side pick & rolls)
“move on the direction of the pass, not on the catch”
FOOD FOR THOUGHT | Larry Brown MBCA 2011 Notes
Dean Smith, “if you are not going to trap it, switch it.”
Go back and watch Vianney video (how was our defense
against ball screens?)
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