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This website was started while I was coaching in Switzerland at Versoix Basket and Ecole Internationale de Genève. The offensive and defensive systems, tactics, skills and drills will hopefully be useful to basketball coaches and players too. Systems and drills in bold are among my favourites (including drills used with kids at summer camps), and bold red shows select favourites (staples of practice). More-recent revisions and additions are highlighted (e.g., try-outs), and below is a rolling list of latest additions. See the Index to find drills or systems by source (e.g. a DVD).

Eric Johannsen
Technical Director, Nepean Blue Devils
Coach, Ashbury College Junior Boys & Junior Girls
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

What's new

Post play - Tom Crean ball reversal
Dribbling - Danny Hurley fullcourt
Dribbling - Halfcourt moves
Dribbling - Halfcourt drives
Shooting - 5-spot series
Fast break - Transition finishing
Post play - Fullcourt tip and finish
Defence - 1-1-3 Huggins
Defence - Diamond and 1
Attack/defend - 2 on 1 penetrate-finish
Inbounds - Sideline Frankston stack
Inbounds - Sideline CSKA under 2
Inbounds - Sideline 52 skip
Inbounds - Sideline Phoenix lob
Inbounds - Sideline Slip to hand-off
Inbounds - Sideline St. Francis
Defending - Pistons post 1 on 1
Defending - Calipari box close-outs
Transition - Calipari transition defence
Defence - 1-3-1 breakdown drills
Defence - Gapping screens
Defending - Circle the wagons
Post play - 1 on 1 circle
Defending - Jacobson alley
Layups - Jacobson 2-minute
Dribbling - UMass
Transition - 5 down 3-on-2 back
Layups - Auriemma backdoor
Shooting - Auriemma zone
Attack/defend - Pistol action
1 on 1 - Fill cuts
Press breaks - In the flow
Defending - Zig-zag closeout
Fast break - UConn 3 on 0
Passing - Auriemma 3-line
Rebounding - Izzo 1 on 0
Shooting - Kelbick quick shot
Shooting - Duke halfcourt 3-ball
Defending - Gauntlet screening
Post play - Terps rebound explode out
Tactics - Teaching basic 4-out motion
Press breaks - Xavier
Defending - Dematha K-State close-outs
Layups - Dematha speed
Shooting - Dematha 4-corner jumpers
Layups - Primary-secondary moves
Layups - Blast cuts
Transition - 2 on 2 delay
Shooting - Pre-game
Shooting - 3-ball
Defending - Close-out 3x
Dribbling - Partner
Shooting - Procopio game shots
Shooting - Procopio wing workout
Post play - Procopio post workout
Defending - Procopio 3 on 3 shrink
Shooting - Procopio ballscreen series
Fast break - Procopio 4 on 0 ballscreens
Defence - Procopio ballscreens
Zone set plays - Hurley Sacramento
Zone set plays - Hurley delta
Zone set plays - Hurley X play
Zone offence - Hurley cutters vs matchup
Zone offence - Hurley rotation
Zone offence - Hurley basic set
1 on 1 - 3-player rush to 1 on 1
Press break - 5 on 5 trapping
Shooting - Hurley 5-3-1
Shooting - Hurley curl-pop-fade
Defence - Hurley 2-1-2
Defending - Hurley naked post
Press breaks - Hurley flood
Scrimmage - Hurley 11-pass drill
Scrimmage - Hurley 3 on 3 line of the ball
Scrimmage - Hurley 4 on 4 on 4
Scrimmage - Hurley overplay
Defending - Hurley 5 on 5 command
Defending - Hurley command
Passing - Hurley figure-8
Passing - Hurley weak link
Shooting - Hurley
Layups - Hurley fire
Inbounds - Sideline Hurley
Fast breaks - Xavier
Offence - Xavier middle ballscreens
Tactics - Lawrence Frank ballscreens
Shooting - Mike Procopio post-perimeter
Scrimmage - Hurley 3 on 3
Defence - Help rotations
1 on 1 - Zig-zag to transition
Offence - Carleton Ravens
Free throws - Lokar rotate baskets
Shooting - Lokar Trojans transition
Passing - Lokar slide & pass
Passing - Lokar meet the ball
Rebounding - Tauer 1 on 1 box-out
Rebounding - Tauer pivot and pass
Rebounding - Tauer shooting
Fast breaks - Duke down series
Passing - Tauer monkey in the middle
Passing - Tauer partner
Passing - Tauer 3 on 3
Passing - Tauer 4 on 3
Dribbling - Tauer stationary
Dribbling - Tauer halfcourt
Shooting - Tauer form
Shooting - Tauer triple-threat
Shooting - Tauer on the move
1 on 1 - Tauer
Zone set plays - Auriemma vs 1-2-2
Zone set plays - Auriemma vs 2-3
Defending - Face cuts
Passing - Raytown
Shooting - 4 on 0 dribble-drive
Defending - Memphis shell
Defending - Memphis stance
Dribbling - Run rabbit run
Inbounds - Baseline Memphis #1
Inbounds - Sideline Memphis A
Defending - 2 on 1 wall-ups
Shooting - Triangle elbows
Offence - Portland ballscreen
Offence - Corner ballscreen
Inbounds - Sideline Villanova
Inbounds - Sideline Villanova butter
Inbounds - Baseline Izzo chips
Inbounds - Baseline Izzo special
Inbounds - Baseline Izzo special-special
Inbounds - Sideline Izzo play 1
Inbounds - Sideline Izzo wizard
Inbounds - Sideline Bill Self
Offence - 5-out youth motion
Tactics - 5-out youth drive and kick
Offence - Perkins post options
Offence - Perkins specials
Offence - Perkins open-post
Offence - Perkins open-post entries
Offence - Perkins open-post ballscreens
Inbounds includes new end-out and side-out plays
Transition - Greenvale 2 on 2
Defending - Greenvale off-ball screens
Defending - Greenvale ballscreens
Defending - Greenvale four quadrant
Defending - Greenvale Duke close-out
Defending - Greenvale turkey in the ring
Post play - Calipari dribble-drive
Post play - Florida off the block
Offence - Passing game
Tactics - 5star pick and roll
Tactics - 5star post feeds
Post play - Calipari catches
Post play - Calipari close crab score
Post play - Calipari rim runs
Quick hitters - Celtics single-double
Defending - 1 on 1 wing
Shooting - Penetration
1 on 1 - Calipari
Rebounding - Calipari snatches
Shooting - Calipari one-ball
Shooting - Calipari two-ball
Tactics - Calipari pick and rollup

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