re: Would like some basketball help for those who can

We've got 4 set plays but we don't run them very often. I guess that's on me but I figured we should save them for a time when we really need a bucket

What's been happening Is they switch but then my guys either dont finish the cut or they jog to the corner and come back up to reset the offense and they switch back so we can't take advantage of the mismatch idk what to tell them other than tho just finish your cut

I don’t get basketball either. I think only people that went to public school like it

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should my screener try to pin his guy and spin to the basket

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sometimes

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would he sandwich the guy hes screening for who is curling

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sometimes

You have to mix it up and start teaching the screener and the player coming off of the screen how to read and react to the defender to know whether screen and roll, pin screen to use your terminology, pick and pop, slip screen, etc.

Nooo. Junior high. Grades 7-9

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dont finish the cut or they jog to the corner

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Have you taught them the basic cuts? V-Cut, L-Cut, UCLA-Cut. Do you drill them in their cuts and impress upon them the importance of doing the cuts correctly and not being lazy or jogging through the cuts? It doesn't matter what you're running. If they're lazy and don't put effort into it it won't work.

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No shite. We scored less than 35 points last night because I'm coaching a bunch of 5'4 white boys who think they shoot like steph and refuse to attack the basket.

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If you want to score more and get easy buckets at the rim (which is where the vast majority of your points should come from at the middle school level), you should run the fast break like crazy and run a simple press.

The 1-2-2 press is a simple press that middle schoolers can run, yet it's extremely effective and it's used at all levels. Villanova runs it, for example.

It's a full-court zone press and you will create a LOT of turnovers for your team and get easy buckets in transition. Middle school kids get flustered easily under pressure, and it will create a lot of turnovers.

You can search google for it and get a million results on how to run it.



Also, have your team run in transition and push the ball like crazy. This is also extremely effective at the middle school level and you will get lay-up after lay-up. As soon as you get the rebound, push it and look to score in transition. Middle schoolers will not have good transition defense because defending the break is difficult at all levels, and at the middle school level the offense will have a huge advantage there.

I'm assuming you have a transition offense to get your guys out and running their proper lanes for a clean fast break.



Doing those two things, you won't even need to run your half-court motion offense all that often and you'll get a bunch of easy buckets.