Showing posts with label Cutting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cutting. Show all posts

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Getting Players To Cut Hard


Getting players to understand how to cut "HARD," is often difficult to do. Of course, all players think that they are cutting hard, but we know it's not hard enough.
Our general rule is that coaches don't pass in drills. However, one quick drill we do is to have our coaches start with the pass to make them go after the ball. To make them get a feel for how hard we want them to cut. Then add players passing.
Otherwise, they are passing and cutting at their own speed.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Cutting & Screening Thoughts


We scrimmaged our practice players in a live 2nd half scrimmage today. The most glaring part was our lack of movement and spacing. Here are a few thoughts:
Three things you can do in basketball:
1. Move the basketball
2. Move people—Johnny Orr used to run motion w/o screens.Screening—negative to screening is that you momentarily destroy spacing