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Re:Choosing an offense - 2008/02/01 17:14
Choosing an offense depends on the level and personnel. The higher the level, the more competition matters and therefore, the more the personnel influences a decision. The lower the level, the more development matters and therefore the less the personnel matters as each player should be learning a wide range of skills.
I like to run offenses which are tough to defend and which use the entire court. However, honeslty, I don't even have any plays this year. We talk about very basic things like spacing and focus primarily on passing under pressure, dribbling and lay-ups. It is amazing, however, as we have no press break and no zone offense and we faced a team that killed my team with its press last year and in 2 games, we have made them take their press off. Yesterday, they switched their defense three times because we did not really have any problems with their pressure. Unfortunately, we struggled to shoot the ball and finish, but against by far the best press we have seen all year, it did not really affect us. When they switched from a diamond press to a 1-3-1 to some other press, our principles stay the same. I don't have to call a timeout every time they switch their press to run a different press break. Sure, it takes time to teach these principles and we look unorganized at times because there is no definitive script, but these girls are starting to understand how to play basketball rather than how to run plays.
We basically do the same thing if they switch from zone to man in the half court. I focus on their spacing. Once we understand spacing and court awareness, then we can implement things like screens. However, I think many coaches go straight to screens or a set offense without teaching and players lack an understanding of what to do. It's frustrating to watch us play sometimes because we are still learning and can look really bad, but we are learning and learning from mistakes. It'd be easier to watch if we ran the flex and spent an hour of every practice memorizing the flex offense. but, would they learn anything? and for youth players, if they aren't learning, what will happen when they move to the next level?
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