Coach Culley and Coach Preheim: Variations to the Horns Set Playbook

Coach Troy Culley and myself put together this playbook on different actions that can be ran out of the Horns / A Set.  These plays are a combination of things seen directly from game footage as well as things that have been passed along from various great coaches.  Our goal was to simply combine them into a single free resource for other coaches.

Variations to the Horns Set Playbook

High Low Entries and Sets Playbook

Here is a playbook that I compiled a while back just that just focuses on entries and sets for the High Low offense.  Many other coaches shared a number of these sets and actions with me.  I just simply compiled them into 1 resource for other coaches.

High Low Entries and Sets Playbook

Russia Flip Set: 2012 Olympic Games

I have been watching and dissecting a lot of Olympic basketball lately.  It is amazing the unique actions that you see in international style of play.  Some amazing stuff.  Here is a Flip action set ran by the Russian team that gives a variety of different scoring actions.  Hope it helps.

Russian Flip Set

2011-2012 Spurs Playbook

Here is a short playbook that I put together on the San Antonio Spurs from last year's playoffs.  Gregg Popovich is a master at offensive play design for getting the ball into the post.  I hope you can find something in this playbook to help your team this year.

2011-2012 San Antonio Spurs Playbook

2012 NCAA 24 Hour Marathon Schedule

Tuesday November 13, 2012 the NCAA 24 Hour Marathon will begin.  The scheduled games will be as followed:

Midnight: West Virginia at Gonzaga


2 a.m.: Davidson at New Mexico

4 a.m.: Houston Baptist at Hawaii

6 a.m.: Stony Brook at Rider

8 a.m.: Northern Illinois at Valparaiso

10 a.m.: Harvard at Massachusetts

12 p.m.: Temple at Kent State

2 p.m.: Detroit at St. John’s

4 p.m.: Butler at Xavier

7 p.m.: Michigan State vs. Kansas (Champions Classic, Georgia Dome — Atlanta)

30 minutes following MSU/KU: Duke vs. Kentucky (Champions Classic)


This is one of my favorite times of the year as there looks to be some great match-ups.  Last year I compiled a playbook, called 2011-2012 NCAA Marathon Playbook, with different plays used in the games from all of the teams participating in last year's event.  I plan on releasing another playbook this year as well.

Being On Top - Kevin Eastman

"The most successful people in life control the controllable things in their life. Those that stay on top of these have a chance 2 be on top!" ---- Kevin Eastman

Preparing for the 1st Game

As we all begin to develop practice plans for the upcoming season, there are always a certain amount of items that we need to get in before that first game. Granted, these items can vary from team-to-team, but there are some definite constants. I have generated a list of items that you can keep in mind when preparing for your first game.


Offense

1. Base man offense

2. Base zone offense

3. Primary break

4. Secondary break

5. The number of sets and/or quick hits (Man/Zone)

6. The number of BLOBS (Man/Zone)

7. The number of SLOBS (Man/Zone)

8. Man/Zone counters / reads

9. Delay game

10. End of game full court specials

11. End of game ¾ SLOB specials

12. End of game ½ SLOB specials

13. Dead corner SLOB specials

14. End of Game FT transition special

15. End of Game FT Miss, offensive rebound, and put back

16. Jump Ball Tip (offensive / defensive)

17. End of game rebounding

18. Come back game approach (when to start shooting 3’s to make a comeback, quick 2’s)

19. Approach to a Triangle-2, Box-1

Defensive

1. Base defense

2. Complimentary defense (man, zone, match-up, junk)

3. Press defense

4. Trapping / stunting schemes

5. Defending off ball screens (narrow pins, wide pins, double staggered, doubles, cross, back screens, flex, shuffle, away…)

6. Defending ball screens (flat, wing, points, corner, staggered, double, hand-backs, drag…)

7. Delay defense

8. Defending with the lead

9. When / how to foul?

10. Pick up points

11. Verbals

12. BLOB defense

13. End of game rebounding

14. End of game foul court defense situations (lead/behind)

15. End of game ¾ SLOB defense situations (lead/behind)

16. End of game half court SLOB defense situations (lead/behind)

17. Post defense (front, 3/4, full front)

This is just a generic list and a lot of it depends on your philosophy to the game. The important thing is to plan with your coaches and figure out in detail what it is that you MUST have in for the first game. It is our job as coaches to do the planning and preparation to equip our players with the skills they need to succeed.  I have attached a planning resource that you use to input your items in an organized manner.  Hope it helps you prepare for that first game.

1st Game Checklist

BLOB Playbook

A while back, I was contacted by a coach, Troy Culley (@troyculley), to see if I would be interested in collaborating with him on a free playbook focusing on nothing but Baseline Out of Bounds plays.  I am always interested in collaborating and helping other coaches so I took him up on the offer.  We compiled a playbook together and started sending it out to coaches.  Coach Culley posted it in a basketball forum and I sent it out to my listserv.  Coach Wayne Walters, SWARM Enterprises, then contacted me and asked if he could contribute some BLOBs that he has used over the years. 

I have posted the link to the playbook.  Hope it is of use to you as you begin to plan for the upcoming season.

BLOB Playbook

Both Coach Culley and Coach Walters are great about sharing information and helping other coaches.  Their contact information can be found on the front cover of the playbook.