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Coaches, I am back tonight to try and finish up most of the basketball questions that I received from your replies. I hope that you find these basketball coaching answers useful. If I don’t have a answer then I will try to provide some basketball clinic notes to help you out.<\/p>\n
Basketball Questions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>We are struggling in finishing game. Lost 3 close conference games in the last seconds or in the final minute. Players are losing their poise and teasing up in the final minutes. Any advise?? I am coach a varsity team with good athletes but not great basketball IQ<\/p>\n Answer:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>My first question would be if you are practicing special situations at least twice a week?\u00a0 Here is a late game checklist that might help you out:\u00a0 Late Game Checklist<\/a><\/p>\n Here is another check list:\u00a0 Don Meyer Late Game Checklist<\/a><\/p>\n Another suggestion for you would to go through this checklist and have some time of competition.\u00a0 I would just keep trying to keep their heads up and try to stay positive with them.<\/p>\n Basketball Questions<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0Playoff through end of game situations and having the right offense to run to milk the clock<\/p>\n Answer:\u00a0 I think that end of game situations are crucial at the end of the year especially when the play-offs are so close.\u00a0 I would spend some time going over your end of game situations.\u00a0 Here are some Jerry Wainwright Special situations Notes<\/a><\/p>\n I also have some delay offenses for you:\u00a0 Dean Smith 4 Corners Delay Game<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0and\u00a0 \u00a0Hank Iba Delay Game<\/a><\/p>\n Basketball Questions<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0Zone offense and press break.<\/p>\n Answers:\u00a0 I have always had a continuity zone offense and some special zone quick hitters<\/a> to mix up the defense.\u00a0 I really like this ball screen continuity zone offense<\/a>. I think that you will get a lot of looks with this action.\u00a0 Here are some Tom Izzo Zone Quick HItters<\/a> that I use too.<\/p>\n Here is a Jim Crews Press Breaker<\/a> for you too.<\/p>\n Basketball Questions:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0BLOB against a zone and EOG\/Quarter sets.<\/p>\n Answers:\u00a0 Here are six BLOBS against a 2-3 zone<\/a> for you.\u00a0 Here are some Morgan Wooten EOG Special Situations<\/a> and Set plays.<\/p>\n Basketball Questions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>4th grade boys…developing court awareness…B.B. IQ<\/p>\n Answers:\u00a0 I would just have patience with that young group of kids.\u00a0 I would try to give them some youth basketball drills where they have to make choices to improve their court awareness.\u00a0 Patience is the biggest thing.<\/p>\n Basketball Questions:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Can\u2019t contain the dribbler!<\/p>\n Answer:\u00a0 My first question would be what type of defense are you using?\u00a0 Pack-line or Pressure defense.\u00a0 I am a pressure defense coach and always push my dribbler to the outside.\u00a0 I never let them in the lane if possible.\u00a0 Are you getting beat in Dribble Handoffs?\u00a0 Here is a dribble handoff post<\/a> that might be useful.<\/p>\n This Quin Synder Missouri defense packet<\/a> has some great stuff that will help you with containing the dribbler and give you some new ideas.<\/p>\n Basketball Questions:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Struggling against 2-3 and 1-2-2 zones.<\/p>\n Here are some zone quick hitters versus a 2-3 zone<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is a Keith Dambrot Zone Offense \/ Quick Hitters<\/a> that I really like too.<\/p>\n Basketball Questions:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Scoring the ball. We play well, get great shots, but camera finish at tre rim or from behind the line<\/p>\n Answers:\u00a0 I would go find some football pads and beat on them when they are shooting layups.\u00a0 I am not talking about hitting them hard, but they need to get use to contact.\u00a0 I have found that pounding them with football pads works really good.<\/p>\n Basketball Questions:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Number 1 thing….. we have a short team, attacking zones has been a challenge.<\/p>\n Coach, I have put an number of zone offenses in this post.\u00a0 If I was you with a short team, I would attack the short corners and high post.\u00a0 Zone offense is about moving the ball and having the defense make a mistake.\u00a0 I wouldn’t try to shoot them out of a zone defense.\u00a0 I prefered to attack the gaps and have the defense break down.<\/p>\n If I haven’t answered your questions then I will wrap them up tomorrow.\u00a0 I am going to go watch Kansas vs. Kansas State right now.\u00a0 I will wrap them all up tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Basketball Questions Volume 2: What is the number one thing that you are struggling with right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n