Ahmet Dedeoğlu
06-14-2008, 02:18 AM
What is Most Important When Teaching an Offense/Bir Hücumu Öğretirken En Önemli Şey Nedir?
While these offensive types are very diverse, there are common threads between all of them.
Spacing
The most valuable commodity in any offense is space. Proper spacing provides operating room for offensive players, good opportunities for screening and allows you to control matchups. In addition, good spacing forces the defense to make decisions and adjustments that are contrary to good defense. It limits help possibilities, creates bad matchups and switches and allows time for the offense to study the floor when making decisions.
Angles
Passing angle, screening angles, cutting angle and driving angles are critical to the success of any offense. It is more important to the success of the offensive play than the pattern of play itself. A perfectly constructed play is doomed to fail if players don’t make proper and efficient movements.
Timing
Having a player open at time when he cannot receive the ball is useless. So is making a cut or coming off a screen when the ball is not ready for delivery. Coming off a screen before the screen has a chance to be set will not accomplish its purpose. Proper timing is essential to offensive success.
Role Definition
Your players have to know what they are expected to do within their offense and what their abilities and talent can bring to the team. This is an area that more coaches fail to address than any other. Do you want your 5-man to dribble and shoot 3’s? If not, you have to tell him, if you do, you have to tell him that, too. Do you want your 4’9” point guard to post up on their 6-8 center? If not, you have to tell him. We have all had players who are great people, work very hard but could not hit water if they fell off a dock. Do you want him shooting 3’s when the best shooter in the state is the next pass? If not, you have to tell him. Coaches have trouble telling players not to shoot “that” shot. They are concerned about their player’s confidence or running the risk of not being liked. It is impossible to steer a player toward his strengths without pushing him away from his weaknesses.
Objectives
Every offense has to have an objective. You should not run your “#2” play without teaching your team that the objective is to get the ball to John on the block. You might think that this is readily apparent due to the nature of the play, but it is not. Remember, you as a coach, developed the play and can see the big picture, players live pass to pass.
Cuts and Screens
The Laws of Learning teach you that one of the biggest obstacles to learning is the lack of a common language. Terminology is important and has to be consistent through your team.
All offenses involve cuts and most involve screens. Each must be defined so you speak, your team understands. Below are some cuts and terminology that I use. You might call them something else, and that’s okay, as long as your terminology is the same every time you use it with your team.
Basket Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Back Door[Only Registered Users Can See Links] V-Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Flash Post[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Flash[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Screen Down[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Across[Only Registered Users Can See Links] New York Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Flare Screen and Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Up[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Zipper Screen and Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] UCLA Screen and Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Double Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Curl Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Wing Ball Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Ball Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links]
These are just examples and are my terminology and I use it so you might better understand the offensive examples in this section. In other sections we will discuss the specifics of each but in this offensive section they are intended to help with the overall big picture of constructing an offense.
While these offensive types are very diverse, there are common threads between all of them.
Spacing
The most valuable commodity in any offense is space. Proper spacing provides operating room for offensive players, good opportunities for screening and allows you to control matchups. In addition, good spacing forces the defense to make decisions and adjustments that are contrary to good defense. It limits help possibilities, creates bad matchups and switches and allows time for the offense to study the floor when making decisions.
Angles
Passing angle, screening angles, cutting angle and driving angles are critical to the success of any offense. It is more important to the success of the offensive play than the pattern of play itself. A perfectly constructed play is doomed to fail if players don’t make proper and efficient movements.
Timing
Having a player open at time when he cannot receive the ball is useless. So is making a cut or coming off a screen when the ball is not ready for delivery. Coming off a screen before the screen has a chance to be set will not accomplish its purpose. Proper timing is essential to offensive success.
Role Definition
Your players have to know what they are expected to do within their offense and what their abilities and talent can bring to the team. This is an area that more coaches fail to address than any other. Do you want your 5-man to dribble and shoot 3’s? If not, you have to tell him, if you do, you have to tell him that, too. Do you want your 4’9” point guard to post up on their 6-8 center? If not, you have to tell him. We have all had players who are great people, work very hard but could not hit water if they fell off a dock. Do you want him shooting 3’s when the best shooter in the state is the next pass? If not, you have to tell him. Coaches have trouble telling players not to shoot “that” shot. They are concerned about their player’s confidence or running the risk of not being liked. It is impossible to steer a player toward his strengths without pushing him away from his weaknesses.
Objectives
Every offense has to have an objective. You should not run your “#2” play without teaching your team that the objective is to get the ball to John on the block. You might think that this is readily apparent due to the nature of the play, but it is not. Remember, you as a coach, developed the play and can see the big picture, players live pass to pass.
Cuts and Screens
The Laws of Learning teach you that one of the biggest obstacles to learning is the lack of a common language. Terminology is important and has to be consistent through your team.
All offenses involve cuts and most involve screens. Each must be defined so you speak, your team understands. Below are some cuts and terminology that I use. You might call them something else, and that’s okay, as long as your terminology is the same every time you use it with your team.
Basket Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Back Door[Only Registered Users Can See Links] V-Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Flash Post[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Flash[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Screen Down[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Across[Only Registered Users Can See Links] New York Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Flare Screen and Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Up[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Zipper Screen and Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] UCLA Screen and Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Double Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Curl Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Cut[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Wing Ball Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links] Ball Screen[Only Registered Users Can See Links]
These are just examples and are my terminology and I use it so you might better understand the offensive examples in this section. In other sections we will discuss the specifics of each but in this offensive section they are intended to help with the overall big picture of constructing an offense.