Offensive Efficiency Sheet

I am in the process of designing some efficiency sheets to track some specific things during basketball games that our stat software does not record.  Therefore, I thought I would start sharing different evaluation forms that you can all use throughout the season to help analyze your players and your program efficiency.  A fellow coach shared this efficiency sheet with me a while back.

Offensive Possession Efficiency Play-by-Play

Stressing the Little Things

One of the ways that we stress a particular skill in drill work is by using a ball rack.  We will place X amount of balls on the rack.  When a specific skill is executed properly, we take a ball off of the rack.  For example, we do a daily drill called 3 on 4 Rotate and Communicate.  The basic set-up of the drills is there are 4 offensive players, and 3 defensive players.  Our defensive rules are:

1. Have to have a defender on the ball applying ball pressure
2. Have to have 1 defender in the high hole (high post)
3. Have to have 1 defender in the low hole (rim)

The offense works the ball around the perimeter working on triple threat, ball rips and passing.  When a defender is on the ball, X1 for example, and the ball gets passed to another perimeter player, X1 CANNOT guard the next pass.  The next pass needs to be covered by either the low hole or high hole defender.  This forces the players to communicate and rotate.

When players do not communicate, have a poor closeout, do not apply good ball pressure or do not fill the high and low hole, we will take off a ball from the rack.  When the rack has no more balls, we do some form of conditioning.  It has been something that has worked great for our team in terms of focus and effort.

Don Meyer: A Playbook for Winning Basketball

These notes I took while watching a Don Meyer video called A Playbook for Winning Basketball.  As always, Coach Meyer provides a wealth of basketball information in a simplistic form that any coach can apply to his/her system.

Don Meyer: A Playbook for Winning Basketball

Rick Majerus: Rules For Dribbling

When teaching players to dribble, Coach Majerus used these 3 rules.

1. To acquire balance (spacing)
2. To go somewhere (passing angle, scoring...)
3. To break a 5 second count

Rick Majerus: Beating Teams That Switch

Here are some ideas from Rick Majerus on how to attack teams that switch screens.

1. Continue to pass and cut
2. Get a big on little switch and then post up the big
3. Tight curls, slips, back cuts and drives off of flares

Rick Majerus: 4 Out 1 In Motion Offense

Rick Majerus is widely known for his 4 out motion offense.  He was a very detailed motion coach.  Here is a good resource that breaks down his motion offense.

Rick Majerus 4 Out Motion Offense

Coaching Quote #11: Best Seat

"Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game."

--- Rick Majerus

Offensive Post Play: Rick Majerus

The coaching community lost a great teacher of the game this weekend with the passing of Coach Majerus.  I was fortunate enough to listen to Coach Mejerus talk at clinic a few years back at a Don Meyer Coaching Clinic.  He was a great presenter and was very particular on the little things to teaching offensive post play.  I have attached my notes that I took at the clinic.  Hopefully you can learn a little more about this great coach.

Rick Majerus Post Play

John Beilein Coaching Thoughts

Here are some great thoughts from John Beilein who has really done great things at Michigan.

John Beilein Quips

Coaching Quote #10: Practice

"You can do anything you want in practice but not everything you want- simplify"

--- John Beilein