Finding Ways To Win--CompeteCoach Meyer always stressed to us not to think about winning, but think about ways to win. One of the biggest challenges we face is to get our players to compete in everything that we do. We use a variety of ways to compete in practice. One of the best is simply going against our male practice players. However, there are class conflicts at times and we do not have them at practice. Also, at the high school level it's not realistic to have male practice players (though going against your boys JV is often a good test).
Therefore, we have to compete against time and score. We compete in our breakdown drills. For example, in our 3/3, 4/4 defensive and offensive breakdown drills we play to a certain score or play for a time and keep score.
We always put what we emphasize to the disadvantage. In our defensive emphasis period, the defense gets one point for a stop and the offense gets 2,3 or And 1's they get whatever basket they score and we have been playing to 10. Losers run suicides for the difference in score.
When we go to our offensive breakdowns--we flip it around--offense gets one point for a score and defense gets two points for a stop and again losers run for the difference.
This creates the best competition (game speed) in our breakdown drills, as opposed simply going through the breakdown drills with no consequences.
Now this drill would definitely get the team going hard every day. I like the way you have come up with this drill Coach. Thank you for your willingness to share your insight.
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