Making Sense of the Constraints-Led Approach in Basketball
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This blog was co-authored by Alex Sarama and the team at Emergence. Check out the great work our friends at Emergence are doing by clicking…
The use of basketball training equipment such as cones, tennis balls and training mats in work-outs and practices is a frequently debated topic. If a…
Have you ever seen a shooting drill where very few shots are actually taken? I have. I have seen some pretty impressive drills. Players moving…
I originally started writing this blog as a summary of a FIBA Coaching Library video on Defensive Transition by Andrej Lemanis. Coach Lemanis is the…
Defensive transition is always messy. It rarely unfolds perfectly the way we teach it. That is why we do no breakdown drills to develop transition defense. We use a games approach to coaching where we play a lot of 5-on-5 and 4-on-4 with multiple trips. This creates natural transition defensive situations to coach. One of the problems with breaking down transition defense is that it often creates unrealistic scripted situations that do not happen in a game. Here is a sample games approach 5-on-5 drill we use to start three trips. 5-on-5 Closeout ReboundingRegardless of what I teach in our transition defensive system, it never happens perfectly that way.