Troy Culley: Diamond BLOB

Coach Culley shows a baseline out of bounds play called Diamond.  I think you will like the different scoring options you will get out of this play.

Troy Culley: Diamond BLOB

Pick'n'Roll. Baloncesto; táctica y entrenamiento.

Coach Troy Culley shared this web resource with me.  It has tons of information including a bunch of X and O items.  An amazing resource.

Pick'n'Roll. Baloncesto; táctica y entrenamiento.

Troy Culley: Valencia - Quick Hitters for a 3

As a Coach one of my main loves is actions out of a Horns or an A-Set. Attached is two quick hitters from a Horns set that looks to create space for perimeter catch and shoot.

One involves a slight flex action whilst the other uses double screens to free up the shooter.

Valencia - Quick Hitters for a 3

Troy Culley Torbay, Devon, United Kingdom Torbay Tigers Basketball Club

Inside the Serbian Basketball Federation

Recently our Governing Body England Basketball ran an educational visits for Coaches to go to European Powerhouse Serbia to find out about their system and how it is different from various other countries.
England Basketball

One of the coaches and a friend of mine Alan Keane, England U16 Assistant Coach provided this notes:

Serbia Trip 2013

Meeting with Dejan Mijatovic of the Serbian Basketball Federation
Notes;

• Serbia has 700 players in National Teams (NT) system aged from 1993-1999 born

• Year Round Programme inclusive of regional development areas

• 8 regions underneath national development programme. National tournament in May between 8 regions (100 players are watched) per age group (under 12, under 13, under 14). The Serbian Federation and Dejan travel each month to work on fundamental skills for each age group in each region.

• These sessions are only 2 hours per day (compared to our RPC of 6 hours per day). This is because all of the Serbian Club Coaches watch these sessions and maintain the development work when they return to the clubs.

• Only individual focus throughout these sessions. They will progress to no more than 3 vs. 3

• All individual focus

• All buy in from clubs as each individual is 'systems priority' and not clubs priority

• Any coaches not buying in, simply federation work with that club directly to bypass the coach.

• 2007 Serbian junior teams won 5 gold medals, not happy as there were no players for senior national team. Therefore they developed system again and changed some processes

• Not selecting players for now to win, select for the future to develop and play on senior national team. This is how they judge success.

• 22 players (each age group) researched by government each year to see who has best developmental potential (bone density, speed ect) results compared for next year

• All players kept on file

• 6 ages per year

• 1st Assistant Coach works with Tactics when involved in NT system

• 2nd Assistant working with scouting and individual development

• Characteristic of NT coaches;

-First must be teacher

-Must control egos from all clubs

-They choose NT Coaches on how they develop players and specific positional coaches

-Club coaches who develop their players and a higher number of players will be included in national system

I feel that this could be useful for various American Coaches to see how a top level European Country operates and give you something to compare with your own National Programme.

Troy Culley: Spanish Full Court Lay-ups

Spanish Full Court Lay-Ups Drill

I use this drill to start every practice with any team that I coach. I picked it up from the Olympic Spanish Men's National Team. It is great at getting everyone moving and focused. Here are some of the variations on how you can run the drill.
- Set period of time 2/3 minutes left hand and then repeat on right hand.

- Score 20/25 on each side - every layup counts as 1 point.

- Score 20 on each side - player has to make both layups at each end to get a point.
Use two balls, second group starts when the first group has taken their first layup.
Emphasis:

- Ball shouldn't touch the floor throughout the duration of the drill.

- Passes on time and on target.

- Sprint from one spot to the next.

Spanish Full Court Lay-Ups

--- Coach Culley

Chris Hacket: 2010 Off-Season Plays

Troy Culley - Chris Hacket: Frank Phillips College

No doubt your regular season is coming to a close, just like mine, and you are in the process of preparing for the post-season. This is a playbook I picked up from Chris Hackett of Frank Phillips College, Borger, TX whilst he ran a clinic here in England. Have a flick through and you might find something special to add to your arsenal come playoff time.


Chris Hacket: Frank Phillips College - 2010 Off-Sesason Plays

Coach Culley

New BLOG Contributor: Troy Culley

I am happy to announce that, Troy Culley will be contributing some of his basketball thoughts to the BLOG.  I have worked with Coach Culley on some basketball projects.  He has a great mind for the game and we will all learn from his contributions.  Below is some more information about Coach Culley

My name is Troy Culley and I'm from a small seaside resort in the South West of England, United Kingdom. I have recently just turned 22 and have been coaching since I was 16, the last 3 as a Head Coach. I currently coach Torbay Tigers Basketball Club U16s Boys and Men as well U13/U16 Boys at Churston Ferrers Grammar School.

Alongside this I have been very fortunate to Head Coach a Regional select team at tournaments in Czech Republic, Estonia, Sweden, Poland and Belgium. I, like Coach Preheim spend alot of time diagramming X's and O's as well as attending National Team training camps and coaching clinics. I live by the simple concept "Be better than you were yesterday"