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Teams of all levels spend many hours working on their offense, but often without having shot selection clearly defined. Defining basketball shot selection within a…
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Conceptual Offense within a Complex System
The concepts of ecological dynamics are not solely confined to the practice environment, but should also shape how coaches design their offensive and defensive schemes.…
TQ Senkungu and his team
“The offense and concepts for language and a curriculum have been great. It gives me and the players a plan for the season. It is a great tool for us.”
- TQ Senkungu, Plano, Texas
“The course was amazing. I learned a lot about the BDT Offense and how to coach players in new concepts. I will definitely use many pieces of the course.”
- Nastassia Taels, Belgium
One of the key benefits of the conceptual offensive framework is how it develops the players’ knowledge in and of their environment. Knowledge in the environment is more important and this means players can demonstrate an understanding of how to be adaptive and act upon the relevant affordances. Knowledge of the environment is the ability for players to describe some of these actions with particular terminologies, coverage solutions with particular terminologies, and more.
Knowledge of is not as important as knowledge in because a player may be able to describe something but then not be able to act upon this within a practice or game. However, using a glossary can be critical to help players place attention on the right things at the right time. As long as there is a healthy balance and coaches prioritize players participating in task representative activities at practice, having a common language can only accelerate the players’ development and ability to connect within games.
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Same Offense vs Zone and Man
“I have more success vs. Zone with BDT than any other offense I have run. We relentlessly attack and then move the ball - my teams have often gotten stuck in perimeter passing from stationary spots. So BDT has been successful in teaching better play. Triggers I use include Blast Cuts, Gets, Ball Screen and some Screen Away. I will be making Flare Screens a priority next year. Coverage solutions are definitely useful - I use simple solutions with U12 kids and they have begun to play with eyes up a lot more and I see a lot more rim attacks with confidence. It is conceptual, not comprehensive. I adapt it to U15 Boys and Girls and U12 boys differently. I have had to identify spacing strategies and roles for each team, but in general, it is flexible enough to transfer to each level, and structured enough to guide offense effectively.
- Jon Ellsworth, North Davis Junior High, Clearfield, Utah
Many coaches have completely different offensive systems when the task constraints change, most notably the adjustment of the defense from man-to-man to zone. This is because their pattern-based offenses are not compatible against the zone.
Again, this is another one of the main advantages for the conceptual offense. Nothing changes. Players keep playing with the same concepts, just adapting to the task constraints at-hand to create an advantage. Easy!