This is a great shooting drill to use in your individula shooting workouts or if space permits to use as part of your team practice. The key is shooting at game speed from game spots. The 4 shots are: lay-up, elbow jumper. flare jumper and transition jumper. The footwork and speed of the drill make this a great drill to add to your workout. See More
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Here is a great quick hitter that can be run right out of transition that Iowa State used numerous times throughout this past season. The quick hitter is tremendous because it flows right out of transition and seeks to put the ball in the hands of your best players (2 and 5) multiple times. Also, this play creates great spacing for your trail man (5 in this play) to get the ball in an isolation scenario if the other options are not available. See More
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Here is a play that Utah State ran during the 2010 season. This is a great play to run out of transition and if it is exectued well, you can get many quality looks at the basket. See More
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This is a transition look by UCONN Women's basketball that ends in a hi-low look. There are multiple opportunities to score with the player movement, cutting, screeing, and ball reversals. See More
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This play is run from a 5 out set and is a great option to run right out of transition. This play gives you multiple opportunities to have the ball in the hands of your best player (1 in this play) and also gives you numerous scoring options going towards the basket. The play ends with a wing ball screen with the ball in the hands of 1 so even if things break down you are still in a good position to get a quality possession. See More
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Louisville ran this play throughout the tournament, but executed it to perfection in the second half of the NCAA Championship vs. Michigan. Siva takes advantage of a great back screen by Dieng and Hancock delivers the perfect lob. Even though it it shown in transition phase here, it can also be effective if run from a 1-4 high or box set. See More
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Aside from having an extremely talented offensive player like Carmelo Anthony, the biggest reason that the Knicks rank third in the NBA in scoring efficiency is the beautiftul playbook that Mike Woodson has assembled. Granted, a lot of the stuff the Knicks run today comes straight out of Mike D'Antoni's scheme - in fact, I think New York runs more of D'Antoni's stuff than the Lakers do - but Woodson deserves a ton of credit for how he has handled the offense this season. Here is a play that New York occasionally runs in semi-transition or in the half-court. It is a high staggered triple screen that takes advantage of New York's staple offensively: a stretch four. Usually, that player is Carmelo, but in this particular example, with Melo out with an injury, Steve Novak assumes the role of a stretch four. The staggered triple screen action has a pair of pick-and-pops and a pick-and-roll to cap it off that can send the defense scrambling to find their assignments and put them in a poor position to defend in the case of a mismatch or good ball rotation. When the Knicks ran it against the Cavs a couple of days ago, Cleveland got all out of place following Novak at the three-point line and left Amare wide open on the roll for an easy dunk. See More
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Mike D'Antoni said something very interesting about his up-tempo offensive philosophies. He said that if you have the best team, why not try to give your players the most possessions possible. The theory being that the more times that Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash have to execute their offensive brilliance, the better it will be for his team since the opposition's talent won't be able to match them. If the game slows down, all of the sudden your margin for error shrinks and a handful of mistakes can cost you a game. D'Antoni also said that he expects the Lakers to average around 110-115 points per game, which are numbers that haven't been reached since the Nash/Amare combo in Phoenix was broken up. Those two things tell us that the Lakers will be playing at a very fast pace from now on, and despite the popular belief that their roster is too old to run, a free flowing offense is exactly what a veteran team wants in favor of a methodical offense like Boston runs which requires a lot of physical screening and post-up attempts. And having playmakers like Nash and Kobe together only makes this team more dangerous offensively because of his versatile they are coming off of pick-and-rolls. Nash is perhaps the greatest to ever operate a screen-and-roll and Bryant, because of his propensity to shoot, is a very underrated passer. Throw-in the most skilled big man in the league at power forward in Pau Gasol and the best finisher the league has seen since Shawn Kemp in Dwight Howard and we could have the makings of Showtime 2.0. This play that I have designed would make good use of the cavalcade of skill players that the Lakers have. Because of the up-tempo offense the Lakers will be running, the play starts in semi-transition with Kobe handling the ball at the start. I have inserted Jodie Meeks into the line-up for Metta World Peace to add a true floor spacer. The shots that this set produces are all optimal ones based on these players career hotspots and you can run it several different ways with different players on the floor. It is best with this set up, though, with Kobe initiating the action, Nash bringing a ton of secondary concerns and Howard acting as the league's best roll man and lob catcher. See More
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This secondary action from the NHSBCA Playbook is a quick way to score with a ball screen in transition. See More
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This is the perfect disadvantage drill to get your team to compete in transition on both ends of the ball! See More
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This set is used by Coach John Brady at Arkansas State University. He uses it as his Transition Offense. I included so options at the end and will post Part 2 soon. See More
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Louisville used today's FastDraw Play of the Day against the Syracuse zone to get a 3 after passing on a high-low option. The action put a weakside rebounder in great position to clean up the glass as shown in the video below, reminding us that sometimes the best offense against a good zone lies in transition and offensive rebounding: See More
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Today's FastDraw Play of the Day is "4 Back". Get a Lob in Transition! See More
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Today's FastDraw Play of the Day is "Elbow 5 Chest". Get a quick Lob in transition! See More
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PLAY IS SET UP COMING DOWN IN TRANSITION. #2 ACTS LIKE HE IS SETTING A PIN DOWN SCREEN FOR #3 BUT AT LAST SECOND CUTS HARD BETWEEN #4 & #5's ELEVATOR SCREEN. #1 PASSES TO #2 FOR 3 PT SHOT OR LOOKS FOR #5 OR #4 ON A SLIP. #4 POPS TO BALLSIDE CORNER TO SET UP POSSIBLE WPR BETWEEN #2 & #5 WITH HIMSELF SHAPING UP BEHIND THE P&R FOR SHOT. #2 CAN PASS TO #5 OR TO #4. ON PASS TO #4, #5 GIVES #2 A BACK SCREEN FOR POSSIBLE LAYUP. WHEN #5's DEFENSIVE MAN HELPS ON #2, #5 PUNCHES IN FOR BETTER POST UP POSITION. #4 TAKES 1 OR 2 DRIBBLES TO SET UP PASSING ANGLE TO PASS TO #5 IN LOW POST. 3 PERIMETER PLAYERS SPACE OUT FOR WEAKSIDE 3. See More
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