Invitation Screens – Players in the Post
The post principle that was talked about in the post called “Real Estate with Players in the Post” and is part of Read & React Layer 6: Post Screens states you must have a good reason to change sides of the lane. One of those reasons would be an invitation screen from a cutting teammate. […]
Real Estate With Players In the Post
In the last 3-part post called “Intelligent Drives : Training Dribble Penetration,” we discussed what “Real Estate” is, Reading “Real Estate”, and two ways to create “Real Estate”. But what if you have a player in the post, do you lose the opportunity to create and use “Real Estate”? The answer is no you do not, but you do have to veer away from traditional post player thinking.
Intelligent Drives : Training Dribble Penetration : Part 3
A clever ball handler that wants to drive to the basket can create “Real Estate” for themselves by simply Dribbling-At a teammate. The teammate cutting to the basket, creates the opportunity for for the ball handler to “Draft Drive”. By training ball-handlers using the “At-At-Draft” drill, ball-handlers can learn larger than normal “Real […]
Intelligent Drives : Training Dribble Penetration : Part 2
When your players move the ball, cut, and move their defenders and have good spacing, you are going to create open space where you can train your ball-handlers to drive called “Real Estate”. With the “Click-Click-Draft” drill, we exaggerate the amount of space normally created so your players can begin to see intelligent driving areas […]
Intelligent Drives : Training Dribble Penetration : Intro
As a coach, I have experienced frustration many times when a player drives to the basket at the most inappropriate time, drives at the correct time only to drive in the wrong direction and directly into a helping defender, or freezes, and does not drive, when there is a clear path to the basket to […]
