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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., tryouts), and below is a rolling list of latest additions.

Eric Johannsen
Technical Coordinator, Nepean Blue Devils
Assistant Coach, Ashbury College Senior Boys
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

What's new

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 roll
Conditioning - Calipari shuffles and hops
Quick hitters - Pecora slash
Dribbling - Calipari warm-up
Layups - Calipari
Transition - Calipari 11
Transition - Calipari 22
Post play - Kevin McCleery
Layups - Calipari perfection
1 on 1 - Combo
Defending - 4 on 3 cover down
Defending - 4 on 4 circles
Passing - Celtic
Post play - Weakside 1 on 1
Post play - Wichita 1 on 1
Shooting - Tennessee 5-ball
Offence - Calipari dribble-drive
Passing - Calipari 3-man weave
Passing - Calipari Michigan
Transition - Calipari 32
Defending - Close-out 4x
Defending - Shuffle and pass
Dribbling - Corridor
Dribbling - Line tiggy
Dribbling - Tip-over
Layups - Cincinnati
Layups - Thomas
Passing - Bull in the ring
Passing - Crossfire
Passing - Three-corner
Notes include a section on Try-outs
Tryouts - Physical testing
Tryouts - Kris Treat
Tryouts - Kris Treat 4-minute war
Tryouts - Kris Treat defence
Tryouts - Kris Treat dribbling
Tryouts - Kris Treat hustle
Tryouts - Kris Treat passing
Tryouts - Kris Treat physical evaluation
Tryouts - Kris Treat shooting
Footwork - Pasquali pivoting
1 on 1 - Pasquali progressions
Shooting - Pasquali 5-ball
Notes include external links to articles
Offence - Matt Painter motion
Scrimmage - Matt Painter 60-point game
Quick hitters - Butler ballscreens
Offence - European
Offence - Leitao 4-out 1-in motion
Offence - Double exit
Tactics - Nail pick and roll
Offence - Kowalczyk ballscreen
Conditioning - Early time
Footwork - Bigelow pivoting
Dribbling - Bigelow
Passing - Bigelow wall
Passing - Bigelow partner
Shooting - Bigelow 13 spots
Layups - Bigelow
Scrimmage - Bigelow 3 on 3 with passers
Offence - Bigelow 5-out youth
Dribbling - Nash ballhandling
Shooting - Nash form
Fast break - Hubie Brown 4-man break
Tactics - Hubie Brown - How to win with less talent
Horns - Horns 45 Duke
Offence - Kelbick 1-4 high
Fast breaks - Unicaja Junior
Quick hitters - Portland ballscreen
Quick hitters - Duke ballscreen
Quick hitters - Cornell ballscreen
Quick hitters - Cavs pistol series
Quick hitters - High and wing
Quick hitters - Lob options
Offence - Youth
Offence - 1-3-1 cutters
Offence - High-low
Offence - Break 1
Offence - Break 2
Offence - Break 3
Defence - Black and grey
Defence - 40
Press breaks - Ashbury halfcourt
Press breaks - Ashbury fullcourt
Pressing - 3 on 3 Black
Defending - Lane close-outs
Fast break - 4 on 3
Defending - 3 on 1 closeout
Offence - Cornell
Attack/defend - 3 on 3 UCLA-ballscreen
Rebounding - Ball-toss toughness
Fast break - First big
Fast break - Post sprint
Passing - Pangos double-line exchange
Passing - Pangos square-up
Passing - Machine gun
Defending - 5 on 5 shell double down
Shooting - 3-on-0 kick-out
Shooting - Rick Torbett
Shooting - J.J Redick
1 on 1 - Both ends
1 on 1 - Machine-gun close-out
Free throws - In the bank
Offence - Flex specials
Quick hitters - Flex - point thru
Quick hitters - Slice
Fast break - Princeton
Passing - Five-spot
Shooting - Fade
Quick hitters - PG shallow cut
Quick hitters - C
Quick hitters - Canes
Quick hitters - China handoffs
Quick hitters - CSKA Moscow diagonal up
Quick hitters - CSKA Moscow flex
Quick hitters - Czech scrape cut
Quick hitters - Iverson
Quick hitters - Maccabi Tel Aviv
Quick hitters - Pitt
Quick hitters - Seahawk
Quick hitters - Shallow cut to ballscreen
Quick hitters - Trail
Quick hitters - Triple stagger
Scrimmage - 6 on 6 Basquette
Quick hitters - 42 handoff
Quick hitters - Diagonal zipper
Quick hitters - Staggered zipper
Quick hitters - Shuffle-double-double
Offence - 1-4 dive series
Attack/defend - 3 on 3 kick-out
Pressing - Dead-ball presses
Quick hitters - Dribble up to flarescreen
Quick hitters - Hand-back to flarescreen
Defending - 4 on 4 ballscreens
Rebounding - 5 on 5 box out
Shooting - 2-shot flex screens
Press breaks - Middle
1 on 1 - Dematha
Offence - Tennessee playbook
Offence - Niagara weave ballscreen
Quick hitters - Fist cross
Attack/defend - 3 on 3 flexscreens
Attack/defend - 3 on 3 motion ballscreens
Attack/defend - 4 on 4 ballscreens
Scrimmage - 5 on 5 downscreens backscreens
Defending - Forcing left shell
Shooting - 3-man 2-ball using screens
Shooting - 4-man 2-shot screens
Transition - 5 on 4 continuous
Attack/defend - 3 on 3 downscreen cross-screen
Attack/defend - 3 on 3 back-down-UCLA screens
Scrimmage - 4 on 4 cutters
Fast break - Chaser layups
Post play - High-low passing
Defending - 3 on 3 kick-out
Free throws - Two and move
1 on 1 - Touch the cone
Transition - Vance Walberg St. Anthony
Transition - Vance Walberg Oregon State
Transition - Vance Walberg Carolina 32
Zone offence - Villanova
Defending - Vegas close-outs
Layups - 3-line backdoor
Dribbling - Fullcourt zig-zag
Shooting - Drive and kick
Shooting - Sidescreens
Offence - Flex variationsup

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