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Basketball Coaches eBook Encyclopedia of NBA, College, and High School

Basketball Coaching Encyclopedia - 600 Pages on Every Topic

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This is over 600 pages of different clinic presenters diagrammed and typed to present to you this ebook. It has some of the most well known coaches from the NBA, college, and high school showing what makes their teams successful. This covers the basics of practice drills, to team offense, defense, and individual improvement. There really is no other ebook like this one that includes everything from individual defense to triangle and two offenses.

Develop your coaching philosophy from over 120 different coaches showing you their special situation defenses and free throw break organization. All the different defenses are diagrammed with teaching tips as well as the most popular offenses from the dribble drive, to the Princeton, to the old Flex and Swing offenses. This really is the total package for basketball coaches and I am offering it cheap to help out other coaches learn from some of the veterans of the game.

This ebook is only $20 and you wont be able to read it in a month. It has a ton of sections, each divided by the particular coach and their specialty.

Coach Better Basketball Practice Drills & Clinic Notes

Basketball Conditioning Drills & Best Practice Drills
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344 PAGE eBook!! This is a collection of the best PDF files and scanned clinic notes ever assembled on conditioning, weight training, jump training, practice plans, practice schedules, and practice drills. A single DVD can often cost $45 and we are offering this for much less and it combines the best practice drills and conditioning drills.

Basketball Conditioning Drills - includes Duke's Agility & Defensive Drills, the Chicago Bulls Training Regimen, a high school program's complete workout, a spreadsheet workout plan, HIT conditioning, 2 sets of Alan Stein notes, and more. Over 250 pages of notes and plans...

Best Practice Drills Collection - includes 150 pages of the Memphis Coaching Retreat, Larry Brown Practice Ideas, 4 Seasons High School Complete System from man to man, zone, practice, UOOB, everything, 37 Essential Skills for Coaching by Eric Mussellman (NBA), Don Meyer Practice Planning 60 pages, Brian Gregory's 10 Best Practice Drills, Vance Wahlberg's Practice Drills for the Dribble Attack Offense, and many other team practice plans.

Also included on this DVD are notes from Greg Brittenham the renowned Chicago Bulls trainer, a dynamic flexibilty presentation, and Olympic weight training workout...more notes than you could read in a month.

Common Sense Basketball Coaching

Here's a good excerpt from the new book "The Dandy Dons:"

It chronicles the University of San Francisco basketball teams from the mid-1950s that were coached by Phil Woolpert and featured Bill Russell and K.C. Jones. USF won the NCAA championship in 1955 and 1956.

When practice opened in the fall of '53, Woolpert was ready. So were the players, but they didn't know what the coach had in store for them -- in practice or during games. Woolpert had a plan: First he was going to use defense to break up the opposition's attack before it could get set. On offense he wanted to use a balanced floor, with his players working the ball around the court until they got the right shot.

Woolpert had always been a strong advocate of defense and he saw an opportunity to develop his players into an aggressive defensive squad.

"I can't see just standing around and letting the other fellow shoot. To me, it's common sense to try to stop him from scoring. There is a science and a skill to defense. It's what makes the game interesting, not a race from one end of the court to the other for one more basket."

He was also fond of saying, "We figure to have the ball only about half the time in a game, so in practice, we work on defense half the time."

Woolpert was without a doubt a defensive-minded coach. In Woolpert's system, if you couldn't defend, it was unlikely you would get much playing time. He disdained "jackrabbit basketball," once remarking about the up-tempo offense becoming popular then: "It just isn't good basketball. I wouldn't know how to go about coaching it. You can't expect to execute scoring plays when you're running up and down the court like madmen."

Practice included what Woolpert called the "hands-up" drill. The players would line up with their feet in position, bend their knees, and put one hand high above their heads and the other one out to the side. Then they moved quickly forward or backward, to the left or to the right, at Woolpert's direction.

It was the same drill that Hall of Fame coach Pete Newell used when he was at USF and in 1959 when his Cal team won the NCAA title. Most players introduced to the hands-up drill lasted about three minutes before they begged for mercy, but eventually they could go twenty minutes nonstop. That kind of stamina paid big dividends during the season.

Woolpert was also a stickler for making his players pick up the fundamentals of the game -- dribbling, passing, footwork, and shooting. "A basketball player sent on the court with rusty fundamentals," he said, "is a good bet to fail in his operations."

In addition to sound fundamentals, a team needed talented players and a simple offense and defense. Woolpert believed that regardless of what offense a team used, "the essentially important need is for simplicity and efficiency of operation. If the players know what they are doing, and why, and are impressed with the importance of each move in an overall pattern, the chances of that pattern creating good shot opportunities are excellent."

Basketball Coaching Secrets of the Princeton Style Offense Revealed

We recently put this eBook together that outlines our entire offensive package. We include the Princeton offense and its breakdown sets along with our under out of bounds, side out of bounds, quick hitters, press breaks and more. This is the total package.

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The "Terrific Twenty" Rules for the Princeton-Style Offense

1) If you can pass, dribble, and shoot well, you will always dictate to the defense what they do. If you can't and are not fundamentally sound, they will dictate what you do.
2) You must always see and think on the court, in that order.
3) Don't ever become stationary(stop moving) for more than one second, even if you have the ball, unless you are in the post. Think continuous movement.
4) If overplayed by a defender, don't wait to burn him- go backdoor immediately.
5) If defense is playing you inside, go outside. If the defense is playing you outside, go inside.
6) Hard cuts to the middle will open up the perimeter - cut with conviction!!
7) Make sure you look at the ball when you cut -- be ready for a pass.
8) If you cut through and don't receive the ball, get outside to the perimeter as quickly as possible.
9) Do the opposite of whatever the defense does. :
10) The purpose of the dribble is to get a defender out of position, so dribble with a purpose and in one direction.
11) If you are dribbled at by a teammate, look to go backdoor if played tightly.
12) Be ready to roll back or to the basket on all screens -- go opposite of wherever the cutter goes.
13) Keep good spacing (15-18 feet).
14) If you see there is weak-side help on defense, look to skip opposite and make them pay.
15) Don't go to the ball when closely guarded--go backdoor.
16) With few exceptions, cutters should go opposite of where they came from when going through.
17) Lay-ups and three pointers are what we want to get, in that order.
18) It doesn't matter who scores, as long as someone does.
19) Shots are missed because they are bad shots or the shooter doesn't think they can make them - take good shots!
20) Work hard to make things easy.

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Memphis Dribble Drive Motion Offense eBook

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This is an e-book that contains a wealth of information on Coach Walberg's system of dribble drive offense. Over 150 pages on one eBook that contains all the breakdown drills for this offense. This is the same offense that John Calipari used at Memphis this season to reach the National Championship game. This is the offense he will be using at University of Kentucky.

It includes all of the notes, diagrams, build up drills, breakdown notes, and full court press philosophy to help implement this system. It also includes a section on set plays to use in this offense. A great package to understand this new style of offense.

3000 Page Basketball Skill Development eBook

Offensive and Defensive Skill Development eBook $15

With over 3000 pages of basketball information and more than 190 coaching clinic notes, this has all the information you need for perimeter or post players. Memphis breakdowns, Herb Welling notes, Nike, and Adidas Clinic notes are provided.

Listing of Coaching Notes:

2 annual central iowa 2007 clinic notes
37 essential skills to be a successful coach
Adidas Clinic coaches notes
Alan Stein: Clinic offseason strength and conditioning
Alan Stein: Active Warmup
Alan Stein: Pre-hab
Baylor Individual development
Ben Braun: 30 Fundamentals
Ben Braun: Cal Offensive Concepts
Ben Howland Notes
Bill Self: Hi-Low Offense Adidas Clinic
Billy Donovan: Individual Skill Development
Billy Donovan: Post Development
Billy Donovan: Perimeter player workout
Bo Ryan: Adidas Clinic: Swing Offense
Bob McKillop: Myrtle Beach notes
Bob McKillop: Springfield 2008: Program philosophy
Bob Huggins: Hutch 1996
Bob Huggins: Nike Vegas 2005
Bob Huggins: Nike Vegas 2007
Bob Huggins: Nike Vegas 1997
Bob Knight: Notes 2004
Bobby Cremins: Myrtle Beach Notes
Bobby Cremins: Notes
Bobby Hurley: Notes
Bobby Knight: Offensive clinic
Bobby Lutz: Myrtle Beach notes
Bobby Lutz: Myrtle Beach: Quick Hitters
Bobby Knight: Baden Clinic 2005
Brad Stevens: Coaching clinic 2006
Brad Stevens: Coaching Clinic
Brad Stevens: TABC Clinic
Bruce Pearl: Adidas Clinic: Uptempo Transition
Bruce Weber: Nike Vegas 2006
Calipari, Larry Brown Coaching retreat
Caroline McCombs: Individual player development
Chris Fleming: Germany Clinic Notes
Coach K 1998 basketball clinic
Coach K: Zone Offense and Lou Henson Legends Clinic
Coach Meyer: Fall 2006 notes
Coaches Notebook
Coaching Clinic in Texas 2004
Coaching Notes: May 2005
Coaching Retreat Notes: 2007 Tunica
Cotton Fitzsimmons: Memorial Basketbal Clinic
Dave Leito: TABC clinic: Building your Profile
Dave Odom Coaching Clinic
Dave Odom: Nike Springfield 2008: Zone offense
Dave Thrope: Skills overload
Dave Leitao: Notes from NABC 2007
Dick Bennett, Bobby Gonzalez, John Kresse, and etc.
Dick Davey, Steve Smith, Todd Lickliter, Tom Crean notes
Dino Gaudio: Nike Clinic 2008: Rebounding
Don Meyer: 1999 Coaches Academy
Don Meyer: Graceland Clinic: Whole system
Don Meyer: Nike Clinic: Our game sheet of special situations
Don Meyer: Coaching Academy 2007: Rick Majerus
Don Nelson: Bellgrade 2002: Notes
Don Meyer: Building a program
Don Meyer: Fall 2006: Notes
Don Meyer: Post man notes
Don Meyer: Oak Ridge 2006 clinic notes
Double Pump: Coaches clinic notes 2007
Eastman: Chair Series
Eddie Sutton: Notes
Eric Musselman: Motivation and coaching
Evan Pickman: Five Star Basketball: Post development
Gary Pinkel: Baton Rouge Clinic: Buiding a program
Gator Fundamentals
George Raveling: Nike practice planning clinic
Georgia Tech: Individual workouts
Greg Brittenham: Individual Conditioning drills
Greg McDermott: Individual Improvement
Herb Livsey: Teaching Shooting
Herb Livsey: Warrior Drills
Herb Sendek: ASU fundamentals
Hubie Brown: Coaching notes
Hubie Brown: Notes
Individual Techniques and techniques on offense and defense
International NBA Belgrade clinic 2002
Jay Wright: Myrtle Beach 2008: Plays for Players
Jay Wright: Myrtle Beach 2008: Plays for Players 2
Jay Wright: Attacking Footwork drills: Perimeter Players
Jay Wright: Competitive Shooting
Jay Wright: St. Bendict’s Prep notes
Jeff Van Gundy: New York Knicks Clinic
Jeff Young: Concentration and Conditioning drills
Joe Scott: Denver Clinic
John Beilein: Coaching articles
John Beilein: Nike Clinic 2002
John Beilein: WV Practice drills
John Calipari: Adidas Clinic notes
John Calipari: Coaching retreat notes 2007
John Thompson III: Nike Clinic 2007: Georgetown Zone Offense
John Calipari: Individual Improvement
Kelvin Samspon: Coaching Clinic
Kelvin Sampson, Skip Prosser, Lon Kruger, Renee Portland
Kelvin Sampson: Notes
Kevin Eastman: Boston Celtics: Individual Instruction
Kevin Eastman: Individual workout camp
Kevin O’Neill: Nike Clinic 2008: My defensive concepts
Kevin O’ Neill: Post Skill Development
Kevin O’ Neill: Skill Development
Kevin Stallings: Developing a successful program
Kevin Stallings: Vanderbilt Practice Oct. 2007
Kevin Stallings: Vanderbilt Practice Nov 2007
Kevin Sutton: 26 Skill Development drills
Kevin Sutton: Fatigue shooting, 2 ball drills, shooting basketball dvds
Kevin Eastman: Boston Celtic workouts
Kevin Eastman: Nike Hoop Jam
Kevin O’Neill: Individual development
Larry Brown: Myrtle Beach: Early Offense
Lisa Stone: 2007 clinic notes
LSU: Women’s Structure and Sean Miller Xavier clinic notes
Mac Petty: Wabash Coaching Clinic
Mark Few: Big Man Clinic
Mark Few: Individual Improvement
Mark Few: Gonzaga Individual instruction
Matt Brown: UMKC Individual Offense Fundamentals
Matt Driscoll: Baylor Individual Improvement with diagrams
Matt Painter: 2007 clinic
May 2007 Nike Clinic: Vegas
MB Clinic 2001
Mike Brey: Notre Dame coaching clinic 2004
Mike Dunlap: Australian Clinic
Mike Dunlap: Metro State Clinic
Mike Montgomery: Myrtle Beach 2008: Notes
Mike Moreau: Five Star Basketball: Individual Improvement
Mike DeVillivis: Mini Clinics
NABC Final Four 2008 clinic notes
NCAA special situations
Nike 2008: Oliver Purnell, Gary Williams, Billy Gillispie
Nike 2006: Lorenzo Romar, Tubby Smith, Roy Williams
Nike Myrtle Beach 2008 clinic
Nike Pittsburgh 2001: John Chaney, Coach K, Gary Waters, etc
Nike Robinsonville: Roy Williams, Chris Lowery, Lorenzo Romar
Nike 2006: Vegas clinic notes with diagrams
Nike 2006: Coaches clinic
Nike Clinic: 2005
Nike Clinic: 2005 plays
Nike Clinic: 2006
Nike Coaches Academy from Europe
Nike Skills Academy 2005
NYS Coaches Clinic
Pat Summitt: Definite Dozen and strength training
Pat Summitt: Lady Vol clinic
Pat Summitt: Lady Vols Practice Organization
Pat Summitt: Strength Training 2006
Pat Summitt: Baden Clinic
Pete Newell: Mike Dunlap Clinic
Pete Stricland: DC clinic 2007
Phil Martelli: High tempo drills
Phil Martelli: Fundamentals
Phil Martelli: Practice Organization
Rick Majerus: OCA basketball clinic
Rick Pitino: Boston Celtics: Predraft workout and practice plan
Rick Pitino: Louisville Individual workouts
Rick Pitino: Louisville Basketball clinic
Rob Evans: Arizona State Program stuff
Rob Jeter: IBCA 2006 clinic
Roy Williams: TABC 2005
San Jose State coaching clinic 2008
Scott Adubato: Five Star: Perimeter Player Drills
Sean Miller: Offensive Improvement Drills
Seth Greenburg: Nike Clinic 2008
Sherri Coale: Little things that matter
Skip Prosser: Coaching clinic notes
Slyvia Hatchell: Nike Clinic 2008: Winning Carolina Way
Stan Van Gundy: AIA 2006
Steve Alford: Hot to build a Program
Steve Alford: Iowa Individual workouts
Steve Fisher: SDSU Funadmentals and shooting
Steve Smith: Oak Hill Drills
Steve Nash Workout
Thad Matta: Clinic notes
Thad Matta: Nike Clinic 2008: Player Development
Tim Grgurich: Instruction development
Tips for coaching shooters
Tod Kowolczak: WBCA 2007
Todd Lickliter: Iowa Offensive fundamentals
Tom Crean: Individual workouts
Tom Crean: Individual workout drills
Trent Johnson: Nike Vegas 2006
UCLA May 2007 clinic
UNC Wilmington Clinic notes
USA coaches clinic in St. Louis 2008
Vance Walberg: Rocklin 2008 notes

Best Basketball Workouts for Individual Improvement

Offensive and Defensive Skill Development eBook $15

With over 3000 pages of basketball information and more than 190 coaching clinic notes, this has all the information you need for perimeter or post players. Memphis breakdowns, Herb Welling notes, Nike, and Adidas Clinic notes are provided.

Listing of Coaching Notes:

2 annual central iowa 2007 clinic notes
37 essential skills to be a successful coach
Adidas Clinic coaches notes
Alan Stein: Clinic offseason strength and conditioning
Alan Stein: Active Warmup
Alan Stein: Pre-hab
Baylor Individual development
Ben Braun: 30 Fundamentals
Ben Braun: Cal Offensive Concepts
Ben Howland Notes
Bill Self: Hi-Low Offense Adidas Clinic
Billy Donovan: Individual Skill Development
Billy Donovan: Post Development
Billy Donovan: Perimeter player workout
Bo Ryan: Adidas Clinic: Swing Offense
Bob McKillop: Myrtle Beach notes
Bob McKillop: Springfield 2008: Program philosophy
Bob Huggins: Hutch 1996
Bob Huggins: Nike Vegas 2005
Bob Huggins: Nike Vegas 2007
Bob Huggins: Nike Vegas 1997
Bob Knight: Notes 2004
Bobby Cremins: Myrtle Beach Notes
Bobby Cremins: Notes
Bobby Hurley: Notes
Bobby Knight: Offensive clinic
Bobby Lutz: Myrtle Beach notes
Bobby Lutz: Myrtle Beach: Quick Hitters
Bobby Knight: Baden Clinic 2005
Brad Stevens: Coaching clinic 2006
Brad Stevens: Coaching Clinic
Brad Stevens: TABC Clinic
Bruce Pearl: Adidas Clinic: Uptempo Transition
Bruce Weber: Nike Vegas 2006
Calipari, Larry Brown Coaching retreat
Caroline McCombs: Individual player development
Chris Fleming: Germany Clinic Notes
Coach K 1998 basketball clinic
Coach K: Zone Offense and Lou Henson Legends Clinic
Coach Meyer: Fall 2006 notes
Coaches Notebook
Coaching Clinic in Texas 2004
Coaching Notes: May 2005
Coaching Retreat Notes: 2007 Tunica
Cotton Fitzsimmons: Memorial Basketbal Clinic
Dave Leito: TABC clinic: Building your Profile
Dave Odom Coaching Clinic
Dave Odom: Nike Springfield 2008: Zone offense
Dave Thrope: Skills overload
Dave Leitao: Notes from NABC 2007
Dick Bennett, Bobby Gonzalez, John Kresse, and etc.
Dick Davey, Steve Smith, Todd Lickliter, Tom Crean notes
Dino Gaudio: Nike Clinic 2008: Rebounding
Don Meyer: 1999 Coaches Academy
Don Meyer: Graceland Clinic: Whole system
Don Meyer: Nike Clinic: Our game sheet of special situations
Don Meyer: Coaching Academy 2007: Rick Majerus
Don Nelson: Bellgrade 2002: Notes
Don Meyer: Building a program
Don Meyer: Fall 2006: Notes
Don Meyer: Post man notes
Don Meyer: Oak Ridge 2006 clinic notes
Double Pump: Coaches clinic notes 2007
Eastman: Chair Series
Eddie Sutton: Notes
Eric Musselman: Motivation and coaching
Evan Pickman: Five Star Basketball: Post development
Gary Pinkel: Baton Rouge Clinic: Buiding a program
Gator Fundamentals
George Raveling: Nike practice planning clinic
Georgia Tech: Individual workouts
Greg Brittenham: Individual Conditioning drills
Greg McDermott: Individual Improvement
Herb Livsey: Teaching Shooting
Herb Livsey: Warrior Drills
Herb Sendek: ASU fundamentals
Hubie Brown: Coaching notes
Hubie Brown: Notes
Individual Techniques and techniques on offense and defense
International NBA Belgrade clinic 2002
Jay Wright: Myrtle Beach 2008: Plays for Players
Jay Wright: Myrtle Beach 2008: Plays for Players 2
Jay Wright: Attacking Footwork drills: Perimeter Players
Jay Wright: Competitive Shooting
Jay Wright: St. Bendict’s Prep notes
Jeff Van Gundy: New York Knicks Clinic
Jeff Young: Concentration and Conditioning drills
Joe Scott: Denver Clinic
John Beilein: Coaching articles
John Beilein: Nike Clinic 2002
John Beilein: WV Practice drills
John Calipari: Adidas Clinic notes
John Calipari: Coaching retreat notes 2007
John Thompson III: Nike Clinic 2007: Georgetown Zone Offense
John Calipari: Individual Improvement
Kelvin Samspon: Coaching Clinic
Kelvin Sampson, Skip Prosser, Lon Kruger, Renee Portland
Kelvin Sampson: Notes
Kevin Eastman: Boston Celtics: Individual Instruction
Kevin Eastman: Individual workout camp
Kevin O’Neill: Nike Clinic 2008: My defensive concepts
Kevin O’ Neill: Post Skill Development
Kevin O’ Neill: Skill Development
Kevin Stallings: Developing a successful program
Kevin Stallings: Vanderbilt Practice Oct. 2007
Kevin Stallings: Vanderbilt Practice Nov 2007
Kevin Sutton: 26 Skill Development drills
Kevin Sutton: Fatigue shooting, 2 ball drills, shooting basketball dvds
Kevin Eastman: Boston Celtic workouts
Kevin Eastman: Nike Hoop Jam
Kevin O’Neill: Individual development
Larry Brown: Myrtle Beach: Early Offense
Lisa Stone: 2007 clinic notes
LSU: Women’s Structure and Sean Miller Xavier clinic notes
Mac Petty: Wabash Coaching Clinic
Mark Few: Big Man Clinic
Mark Few: Individual Improvement
Mark Few: Gonzaga Individual instruction
Matt Brown: UMKC Individual Offense Fundamentals
Matt Driscoll: Baylor Individual Improvement with diagrams
Matt Painter: 2007 clinic
May 2007 Nike Clinic: Vegas
MB Clinic 2001
Mike Brey: Notre Dame coaching clinic 2004
Mike Dunlap: Australian Clinic
Mike Dunlap: Metro State Clinic
Mike Montgomery: Myrtle Beach 2008: Notes
Mike Moreau: Five Star Basketball: Individual Improvement
Mike DeVillivis: Mini Clinics
NABC Final Four 2008 clinic notes
NCAA special situations
Nike 2008: Oliver Purnell, Gary Williams, Billy Gillispie
Nike 2006: Lorenzo Romar, Tubby Smith, Roy Williams
Nike Myrtle Beach 2008 clinic
Nike Pittsburgh 2001: John Chaney, Coach K, Gary Waters, etc
Nike Robinsonville: Roy Williams, Chris Lowery, Lorenzo Romar
Nike 2006: Vegas clinic notes with diagrams
Nike 2006: Coaches clinic
Nike Clinic: 2005
Nike Clinic: 2005 plays
Nike Clinic: 2006
Nike Coaches Academy from Europe
Nike Skills Academy 2005
NYS Coaches Clinic
Pat Summitt: Definite Dozen and strength training
Pat Summitt: Lady Vol clinic
Pat Summitt: Lady Vols Practice Organization
Pat Summitt: Strength Training 2006
Pat Summitt: Baden Clinic
Pete Newell: Mike Dunlap Clinic
Pete Stricland: DC clinic 2007
Phil Martelli: High tempo drills
Phil Martelli: Fundamentals
Phil Martelli: Practice Organization
Rick Majerus: OCA basketball clinic
Rick Pitino: Boston Celtics: Predraft workout and practice plan
Rick Pitino: Louisville Individual workouts
Rick Pitino: Louisville Basketball clinic
Rob Evans: Arizona State Program stuff
Rob Jeter: IBCA 2006 clinic
Roy Williams: TABC 2005
San Jose State coaching clinic 2008
Scott Adubato: Five Star: Perimeter Player Drills
Sean Miller: Offensive Improvement Drills
Seth Greenburg: Nike Clinic 2008
Sherri Coale: Little things that matter
Skip Prosser: Coaching clinic notes
Slyvia Hatchell: Nike Clinic 2008: Winning Carolina Way
Stan Van Gundy: AIA 2006
Steve Alford: Hot to build a Program
Steve Alford: Iowa Individual workouts
Steve Fisher: SDSU Funadmentals and shooting
Steve Smith: Oak Hill Drills
Steve Nash Workout
Thad Matta: Clinic notes
Thad Matta: Nike Clinic 2008: Player Development
Tim Grgurich: Instruction development
Tips for coaching shooters
Tod Kowolczak: WBCA 2007
Todd Lickliter: Iowa Offensive fundamentals
Tom Crean: Individual workouts
Tom Crean: Individual workout drills
Trent Johnson: Nike Vegas 2006
UCLA May 2007 clinic
UNC Wilmington Clinic notes
USA coaches clinic in St. Louis 2008
Vance Walberg: Rocklin 2008 notes

NBA Honors Longtime Piston Mentor

The NBA’s coaching fraternity is dedicating this Playoff season to the legendary Chuck Daly: “The National Basketball Coaches’ Association announced today that it will dedicate the 2009 NBA playoffs to former Pistons coach Chuck Daly. NBA coaches throughout the playoffs will wear a lapel pin emblazoned with the initials ‘CD’ as a show of support for Daly, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February and is currently undergoing treatment…In addition to honoring Daly throughout the 2009 NBA playoffs, the NBCA also announced that it is developing the ‘Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award’ to honor a current or former NBA coach (head coach or assistant).”

Some famous Chuck Daly coaching axioms - more well known as "Dalyisms"

1. Offense is spacing and spacing is offense
2. The defense cannot guard two good things in a row
3. You are most open when you first catch the ball
4. Get to the free throw line to stop a fast break team
5. Defense doesn't break down on help, it breaks down on recovery
6. The first shot won't beat you

Basketball Plays and Individual Workout Notes from the Best

We have an eBook that is over 200 pages for purchase and direct download for only $12 which includes the following notes from the best in the NBA. Just look below at what is offered in this set and learn from the world''s best coaches.

Phoenix Suns Offense - 8 pages
1974 Laker Playbook - 43 pages
Greg Poppovich Favorite Drills & Motion Offense
SOS Defensive System - 31 slides Powerpoint
NBA Pre-Draft Camp Notes
Utah Jazz Philosophy
Charlotte Bobcats Scouting Report of Utah Jazz
Chicago Bulls Training Camp
Detroit Pistons Training Camp
WNBA Indiana Fever - 2 Practice Plans
Boston Celtics Practice Plan
Larry Brown Myrtle Beach Clinic Notes
Jeff Van Gundy - Knicks Defensive Philosophy - 15 pages
Bullets Open Post Offense
Steve Nash Shooting
Golden State Warrior Out of Bounds Plays
NBA Eurolive Tour Notes
Kevin Eastman Individual Improvement Notes
Kevin Eastman - 26 Skill Development Drills
Hubie Brown Special Situations
Hubie Brown How to Win with Less Talent
Hubie Brown Playbook for Success
Eric Musselman - Motivation and Coaching
Mike Dunlap Defensive Philosophy

eBook on Kentucky Dribble Drive Motion Offense - Formerly Memphis Dribble Drive by John Calipari

Kentucky Dribble Drive Motion Offense by John Calipari

$12

Coaches, this an e-book that contains a wealth of information on Coach Walberg's system of dribble drive offense. Over 150 pages on one eBook that contains all the breakdown drills for this offense. This is the same offense that John Calipari used at Memphis this season to reach the National Championship game.

It includes all of the notes, diagrams, build up drills, breakdown notes, and full court press philosophy to help implement this system. It also includes a section on set plays to use in this offense. A great package to understand this new style of offense.

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The "dribble-drive motion offense" is the latest, popular "hot" offense seen at the college, pro, and high school levels. The original innovator was Vance Walberg of Fresno City College and Pepperdine, and he called it his "AASAA" offense... meaning "attack, attack, skip, attack, attack". John Calipari, with his highly successful Memphis Tigers, has popularized it, modified it, and renamed it the "dribble-drive motion offense".

Guard dribble-penetration is the key, and dribble-penetration is one of the most difficult things for a defense to stop... plus it exposes the defenders to picking up fouls. This eBook contains a wealth of information on this offense.

This is the same offense that Calipari is bringing with him to Kentucky after being highly successful with it at Memphis. The offense focuses on individual improvement and is becoming one of the most popular offenses in use today. I hope you enjoy this eBook and it helps you implement this offense. for only $12.

John Beilein West Virginia or Michigan Style 2 Guard Offense

John Beilein's West Virginia Style 2 Guard Offense

This is a $15 eBook that diagrams this great offense that Coach Beilein and used at West Virginia and at Michigan. It includes the Chin set, the Shuffle set, and the Motion set. The best thing about this eBook is that it has a ton of sets and quick hitters that any coach could install. Also, it includes all of the breakdown drills and quick hitters that make this a successful offense. This is a great ebook to help you understand how to use this offense and its motion concepts. Each play is broken down then shown how they can flow from one set to another.

You must play with effort to play in the NBA

According to Kenny Natt, head coach of the Sacramento Kings, the guys that will play over the next 20 games are going to be the effort guys. "What I need to do is pull guys out of the game that don't want to play. Guys who don't play with effort, that's who I'll start pulling out of the game. I've made it very clear to them that that's where we're going from now on. You can't stay in a basketball game if (they're) not going to play. If you think that you're going to stay in the game (without playing hard), you're going to be sitting over there with me." The NBA has trouble with young players in the league that sometimes act like they are too good to work hard while NBA vets understand the value of hard work. They know it is the perserverance and work that will keep them employed in the league.

Defense is about Desire and Focus on Fundamentals

NBA head coach of the New Orleans Hornets Byron Scott reminded his team recently about the basics of defense and the importance of focusing on defensive fundamentals. "Defense is all about desire and wanting to do it. It has nothing to do with skill. So we've just got to get back to our defensive principles and understanding what we need to do on every play. We were trying to rely too much on our offense, trying to outscore people. There's going to be nights when we're not going to be able to make shots or throw it in the ocean. We've got to be able to rely on our defense a lot more.Right now, we're having a lot of trouble on the defensive end. Specifically, guarding guys off the dribble, number one, and protecting that paint, number two. The third thing is when we're getting beat, we're fouling too much. We've got to do a better job, maybe go back to the drawing board, think about some of the things on our defensive concepts that we talked about and get better at it.The focus on that end has to be better. As far as us understanding what our principles are, I think we understand them. We've just got to get back to doing them on a day-to-day basis. This is not the time to lose desire to play defense; this is the times we've got to pick it back up." Perhaps no one on this team understands the importance of this focus like Scott who played on NBA championship teams during his tenure on the LA Lakers.

Toughness on Display in UCONN and Syracuse Record Breaking Big East Game

Amazing Toughness and Heart on Display in the Big East Quarterfinal

It is 1:10 am and I was just about to go to sleep - oh 2 hours ago - and I thought I would catch the end of this game. It goes to OT, so I thought good this is exciting, I will be in bed soon. Now it is going into the 6th OT and these kids have played almost an entire second game. Syracuse just hit a three point basket to take their first lead of any of the overtimes. The toughest kid in the game has to be Johnny Flynn who has just completed his 50-some odd minute of play and making free throws. He is 10-10 right now and always seems to find a way to explode to the basket with no legs. How could he have legs? Trying to guard some of the quickest guards for UCONN in a future #1 seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament. The walkon for Syracuse - Justin Thomas - has been huge with his rebounding in this game. He just got his first rebound of the season...after watching Harris unable to finish inside all night with the future lottery pick Hasheem Thabeet in the middle, it was odd to see him miss from 3' with no shot blocker in the paint. He just now completed a 3 point play to take an 8 point lead for UCONN.

Well, UCONN just scrapped together to cut the lead to 6. All these things going on and I cant help but be impressed with the toughness and resolve of both teams. Neither of these teams deserve to lose. Devendorff hit a buzzerbeater '3' in regulation, but with one-tenth of a second, the ball was still in his hands, and it sent the game into OT. The crowd and both teams thought the game was over. Most teams aren't tough enough to overcome a setback where something has been taken from them - or so they think - to come out and compete. Syracuse had not taken a lead in the first five overtimes and just took the lead in this 6th overtime. The difference in the game has been the attacking nature of Johnny Flynn who came down with his team down 2 points and instead of settling for the jumpshot, he attacked the rim and was hammered. Then he stepped up to make the 2 free throws to force the 6th overtime.

I just found out that Johnny Flynn in the last two games has played 100 minutes combined in the two games. The coaches are looking tired, the players are looking tired...the referees are wishing they would have just counted the Devendorff shot in regulation. Flynn is a kid that any coach would love as he keeps encouraging his players, making shots, and - maybe most impressive - he WANTS the ball in crunch time. He would not be denied. The game started at 9:36 pm ET and it is now 1:20 as Syracuse has just taken a ten point lead with a minute and a half to go. Game over and the record has been broken for most overtime games in Big East History - regular season or tournament. This has just been mental toughness all game long from both teams as cramps, foul trouble, battling inside with Big East post men, and just diving on the floor from 7 foot lottery picks...just an amazing game.

There can't be a winner or a loser in this game. I think there is just going to be a SURVIVOR. West Virginia and Bob Huggins is waiting in the wings for the winner later on today. The walk on just had a blocked shot - yes, his first of the season. The crowd is rising to its feet to celebrate the great courage on both sides. Only one game in the history of the sport at the major college level has been longer than this marathon. Both teams have laid it on the line and are totally spent in their love of the game. Two hall of fame coaches with NBA players on both teams have just competed in the greatest game I have ever been a witness to...this was an instant classic.

Jim Boeheim said immediately after the game, "We had nothing. Connecticut had their best players. The heart we showed. I have never been prouder of a team. I cant say enough about them. This kid next to you has the biggest heart I have ever seen. I dont know how he could last that long. Where did he get it from? These kids were unbelieveable tonight."

Johnny Flynn, playing 67 minutes this morning, had 34 points 11 assists and 17 pts in the OTs....responded with, ""First and foremost I want to give the glory to God. I told my teammates, we have played this long and this hard, we might as well get the win."

New Princeton DVD

Coaches, we have a new Princeton Offense DVD available from Championship Productions. Winning with the Princeton Offense is a DVD our team put together with the help of Championship Productions that outlines the 6 interchangeable sets that comprise the Princeton Offense. We felt it was important to put this DVD out since NONE of the current DVDs available show a coach how to run the offense. Most of them show you parts of it like the CHIN set and act like the rest of the offense is a pure motion based offense. Nothing could be further from the truth and they are all sets based on the pass/dribble/cut that the player with the ball makes. We show all the sets and more importantly how the sets progress from one to another. We also include the teaching progression because while the sets are important to learn, knowing how to put the offense in with your team in invaluable. We will show you all the sets and diagram the offense here in this Princeton Offense eBook. Let me know if you have questions on the DVD and continue to ask me for requests.

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Free Download of Boston Celtics, San Antonio Spurs, Hubie Brown, Mike D'Antoni Coaching Notes

As the NBA season comes to a close, I wanted to offer some special sets and coaching notes from the NBA's best coaches. You can download any and all of these notes for free.

Boston Celtics Pre-Draft Workout & Practice Notes - http://www.blogger.com/

Spurs and Poppovich Favorite Sets and Drills - http://www.mediafire.com/?kojiygzzno2

Hubie Brown Coaching eBook - Download this coaching legend's playbook and gameplan for success. http://www.mediafire.com/?2nniyz0njcz

Mike D'Antoni Coaching Offensive Sets - These are some of his favorite sets that he runs with the NY Knicks in his uptempo European style offense. Download the notes for free: http://www.mediafire.com/?5jmdmogm1zy

How to Coach The Princeton Offense eBook

The mystery of the Princeton Offense is unveiled in this masterful eBook! The star of the offense is the "back door cut," which Princeton has used for years to slay bigger opponents. The eBook shares the key drills that the Princeton team works on, every day, to perfect the offense and also teaches concepts such as the dribble handoff, fake handoff, weak side exchange, freeze dribble, butt screens, pick and roll and many more. How to execute the offense using the Point to Wing Series, the High Post Scissors, the Chin Series and the UCLA Series are all diagrammed and dissected.
Each series contains a number of options to maximize versatility, including combo plays such as Chin Series to UCLA Series. Never again will the Princeton Offense be seen as an intricate system! This eBook shows how to incorporate the game''s finest fundamentals into an exciting, potent offense. Piece by piece you will see why this offense has struck panic into teams for years.



Once you have mastered the building blocks of Princeton's offensive system, you will be able to create easy scoring opportunities for your team! This eBook gives you the insider's view of how practice is structured to develop individual and team skills, discipline, court-vision, and court-awareness.

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Team Tougheners & Warrior Drills

These are a few of the team toughener drills included in the collection. The one shown is one of 17 pages of Herb Livesey's Group Warrior Drills. Go here for more information on this collection: http://store.payloadz.com/go?id=175824

Don Haskins & the NBA's Best Plays and Individual Workouts

Don Haskins was a legend in his own time for starting five black players while the head coach at Texas Western when they played Adolph Rupp's team for the 1966 NCAA National Championship. Disney made his story into the movie entitled Glory Road. I found this article and was amazed at the life of this man even after he had retired.

Check it out here: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=dw-haskins090808&prov=yhoo&type=lgns


This is an article that includes quotes from Bobby Knight on Coach Haskins:
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Also updated to our coaching notes is a collection of NBA plays and individual workouts. Included is a collection of the Phoenix Suns offensive sets (8 pages) and a dozen other NBA coaches. This is a fantastic set of notes that includes the Boston Celtic's Individual Skill Development Guru Kevin Eastman as well as Kloppenburg's SOS Defensive System. Also included is the 1974 LA Laker Playbook at just over 43 pages. Just look below at what is offered in this set and learn from the world's best coaches.

Phoenix Suns Offense - 8 pages
1974 Laker Playbook - 43 pages
Greg Poppovich Favorite Drills & Motion Offense
SOS Defensive System - 31 slides Powerpoint
NBA Pre-Draft Camp Notes
Utah Jazz Philosophy
Charlotte Bobcats Scouting Report of Utah Jazz
Chicago Bulls Training Camp
Detroit Pistons Training Camp
WNBA Indiana Fever - 2 Practice Plans
Boston Celtics Practice Plan
Larry Brown Myrtle Beach Clinic Notes
Jeff Van Gundy - Knicks Defensive Philosophy - 15 pages
Bullets Open Post Offense
Steve Nash Shooting
Golden State Warrior Out of Bounds Plays
NBA Eurolive Tour Notes
Kevin Eastman Individual Improvement Notes
Kevin Eastman - 26 Skill Development Drills
Hubie Brown Special Situations
Hubie Brown How to Win with Less Talent
Hubie Brown Playbook for Success
Eric Musselman - Motivation and Coaching
Mike Dunlap Defensive Philosophy

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