Nike Clinic

Las Vegas

May 6, 7, 8 2011

SPEAKERS COVERED:

  1. Alan SteinConditioning
  2. Mike RiceRutgers Defense
  3. Scott SchumacherHalf court defense
  4. Jamie DixonDefending sets
  5. Sean MillerAttacking pressure
  6. Buzz WilliamsWords that you use
  7. Dana AltmanDrills
  8. Stew MorrillSets
  9. Steve FisherDrills and sets

Note:

Janka screwed the schedule up since Frank Martin couldn’t make it. Matt Painter spoke in the last spot on Friday night and I had already scheduled something else. I skipped Lorenzo Romar as he burned me the last year the clinic was at the Paris.

COLLEGE COACHES:

One thing to remember when listening to these guys is that they have all fall to condition, work on individuals, and do their install. As a high school coach we have to figure out how to do everything in 90-120 minutes and 15 practices prior to your first game.

Alan Stein:

He is DeMatha’s strength and conditioning coach. I don’t think any of their players play football. He works with them all year. He is high energy and a lot of what he showed could be done during indys in the summer or a 10-20 minute period of practice throughout the season. He showed a couple of really good things to do with a basketball including some 5 v 5.

Drills:

  1. Euro pass: This requires 8 players and is a drill that Kevin Eastman has talked about. Great drill to start practice.
  2. Chaos passing: Teams of 5 on half court each team with a ball. Both teams pass and run around and try to complete 2 passes in a row. Start each team with one ball and and then add a second ball. Rules: Passes must be 15 feet , you cannot pass back to same player, and each player must move.
  3. 5 v 5 pass plus two coaches as outlets. True 5 v 5 pass drill first team to complete 20 passes in a row. Deflection or steal the other team gets ball.
  4. Conditioning drills:
  • Tennis balls
  • Races where you chase a teammate
  • Chasing around the circle with and without a ball
  1. Full court tip drill like everyone does but he adds an extra ball that must be passed.

Note: He is 100% on email: Tell him you went to clinic and want his drills

Also he has a lot of drills on utube. He will sell you a workout program for a discount: use the following code: vegas-ten in the coupon box.

RICE/RUTGERS: Very energetic and coached the kids hard.

DEFENSE STUFF:

  1. Switch positions 1-4 in gap
  2. CLOSE OUTS: chin to top shoulder
  3. Create chaos when ball goes to post

FINISH DRILLS and 1 v 1:

I really got a lot out of this and will use in individuals for summer

  1. He had two posts on blocks outside lane and would throw the ball to one and the other would play D. Keep shoulders square etc.
  2. Screening concepts into 1 v 1: Set a screen shoulder to shoulder and then the screener becomes defense. He covered the following screens: flex/flare/down/curl etc.
  3. Used a term called carving where you post the helper.
  4. EMAIL:

Schumacher North Dakota College of Science juco

  1. 3 consecutive close out drill that was good.
  2. He always starts his shell drill in ¾ court and has players switch positions before starting. He yells go when it becomes live.
  3. He runs a 5 v 3 with a trailer drill that is really good. It turns into 4 v 5 at end.

Jamie Dixon: Defending sets:

This was really good and I learned a lot of teaching terms. Of course once it got to ball screens he showed about 5 ways to defend them.

Here are some of his basic rules for defending plays. He showed the following plays: USA, cross screen down screen, shuffle cut, flex, ucla and then a ton of ball screen stuff.

Rules:

  1. Go under all cross screens
  2. Man guarding the screener steps in path and changes route of cutter
  3. Down screen after a cross: the big is an EXTENDER and puts his hand in the passing lane and takes away a curl cut.
  4. Guard the feeder and then jump to the gap and defend the drive.
  5. They trail shooters and go ball side on non shooters.
  6. They jump lane side on a UCLA cut so that the guard cannot pop back on a re-screen.
  7. When trapping a ball screen the biggest problem they have is the man guarding the ball not pushing up and applying pressure.
  8. They teach switching of ball screens for late game situations.

SEAN MILLER attacking pressure:

I learned a lot from him about how I coached in the past. You have to give your kids a method of breaking pressure as well as getting open in late game situations.

  1. Getting open in full court on inbounds:
  • Run and get as close to ball as possible.
  • If you have baseline have in bounder run under basket so cutter has two way go and you can throw him a bounce pass.
  • All his press breaks end with 3 near outlets
  1. Plays to get open in full court:
  • Box
  • Box cross
  • L
  • Stack
  1. He really wants to attack half court traps and uses what he calls diamond which is a 1-3-1 offensive formation. The point guard must keep ball in middle of the floor. He pulls them if they pick up their dribble.
  2. He likes to flood the baseline v extended 2-3 zones.
  3. A couple of good ¾ and full court plays to score.

DANA ALTMAN:

He showed some stuff for individuals that we all do. We was big on rebounder/passer/shooter drills with posts doing jump hooks.

DRILLS:

  1. 3 player 2 ball shooting
  2. Morningside drill: a great 2 v 2 rebound and tuff drill.
  3. Power out is what post wears if he rebounds and is going to dribble down middle.
  4. Check hand out in your PDF.

One thing that he emphasized was that once they did a couple of pre-practice fundamental drills then they went into defensive stuff early in practice.

Stew Morrill:

He runs set plays into PNR. He is very inside oriented. He got through quite a few sets and some counters to the sets. He showed two of his zone offense sets as well.

Simple rules:

  1. He starts his point guard behind the jump circle and the players start their action when the point clears the circle or “logo.”
  2. At the end of a play when the guard wants the post to come out for PNR he brings the ball above his head.
  3. In zone offense they do not throw the ball inside on the first side.

Steve Fisher:

He started with some good quotes and what is important in coaching etc. He showed some individual drills and then sets.

INDY stuff:

  1. Around the world drill: Make 10 before you miss 5. Start on first spot with a make.
  2. Money ball: On team shooting drills to 10 you must end with a money ball which is 2 in a row.

SETS:

  1. SHUFFLE: They set up a triangle and swing the ball. After the swing they set a stagger for the corner man and then another double screen for the shuffle cut player. He showed a lot of counters.
  2. SCISSORS: It start in HORNS and is a post entry. They have some good action off of it.

WHAT I LEARNED:

  1. You must guard the ball.
  2. Close out drills should be run every day.
  3. You need to have a plan to guard ball screens and pick and roll.
  4. Good shooters can make up for a multitude of sins.
  5. No matter how hard you work on defense you better run shooting drills so that you can score.

WE ARE COACHING THE GREATEST GAME IN THE WORLD.