Check out the Lon Kruger Secondary Break Drill by Will Bryson! It’s a great conditioning drill that helps set up the Carolina Secondary Break!

Check out the Lon Kruger Secondary Break Drill by Will Bryson!

Transition offense is an essential part of basketball. The transition game can be the difference between winning games and losing games. During my short coaching career, I have had the opportunity to learn from Dan Hays and Lon Kruger; both have been very instrumental in my career as a young man and as a young coach. These two coaches preached every day the importance of transition offense.

The Carolina Secondary Break, developed and implemented by Coach Dean Smith of North Carolina, is one of the most used early offensive attacks in the country. We used this as an early offense as well as using it to get into our offensive sets while I was at The University of Oklahoma. I also use this with my High School team as we run the “Flex Offense” from the secondary break.

Below is an Lon Kruger Secondary Break Drill, we used at OU, Coach Kruger has been using it for years, the drill is called “2 ½ “ this drill is good for conditioning, it is also an excellent drill to help set up the Carolina Secondary Break. This drill simulates and allows you to hit all five spots on the floor.

Grab the free download drill here! Click this link.

The secondary break allows you to run your offense early and beat your opponent down the court if your opponent gets back on defense it also allows you to get some early offense or to go into your base offense, whether it is four out one in or something else. I use this with my team here at Mingo Valley as we are not very big, but this allows me to utilize the quickness that we do have.

This break gives players numbered position and gives the players assigned to those numbers a designated place to be. This helps eliminate players not knowing where to be on the court. Each player has a responsibility, and with that it allows the offense to free flow.
The one guards job to handle the ball and keep the ball out of the middle of the floor, that way it kept the floor open and spaced for the 4 and five man.

The two guards job is to be a shooter and to run the wing.
The three guards job is to also be a shooter and to run the wing.
The 4 and the five-man are trailers, the first trailer goes to the ball side block by filling the elbow on the opposite side, and the other trail man is to fill the weak side elbow or to initiate the play if you run a four around 1.

In this link is a  little bit of an example of North Carolina running Secondary Break and getting many different looks from sets that they can run when they get down the court

I hope that this is something you people can use in your program moving forward.
Will Bryson
Head Coach Mingo Valley Christian School (Oklahoma)