Coach Rick
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Nelson,
If you ever get a chance to video this game for a few minutes, I would love to see it and perhaps share it if it’s OK with you.Love the innovation!!
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If your opponents are trapping, then you must break it the same way you would break a full-court press. You can do it using what you’ve already taught in the first layer of the Read & React. Find the course “PRESS BREAK” which I released a few months ago in the spring. If your opponents stop trapping and just play a straight up 1-3-1, “ZONE ATTACK” will help, but you must keep it very, very simple for 5th & 6th graders. I would suggest 4 OUT with a permanent Short Corner. Find that chapter in the ZONE ATTACK course.
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We’re shooting for Sept 15th.
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Check out the R&R 5-player Rehearsals that make up the FUSION PRACTICE PROJECT. There are 32 of them located in the REFERENCE chapter. I’ve listed them below. Not all of them are combinations, but many of them are. These are combinations that I’ve drawn from watching successful game possessions.
Many of the combinations (starting with #16) begin with a Dribble-At, but you could replace the Dribble-At with a Pass & Cut and accomplish the same combination. You simply have to figure out where the cutter goes, but that’s usually obvious.
1. Pass & Cut for a Lay-Up
2. Pass, Cut, & Back-Screen
3. Pass, Cut, & Draft Drive
4. Read Line Reads + WILD SCRIMMAGE
5. Real Estate
6. Killing Close-Outs + WILD SCRIMMAGE
Extra: Oops Screen Draft Drive
Summary of Pass & Cut + How long does it take for my team?
Intro to Layer 2 Feed the Post
7. Pass, Cut, Post-Up, Laker Cut
8. Pass, Cut, Post-Up, Post Move
9. Pass, Cut, Post-Up, Inside-Out shots
10. Post up & Choose + WILD SCRIMMAGE
Intro to Layer 3 Dribble-At
11. Dribble At lay-up
12. Dribble At Draft Drive
13. Double Dribble-At
14. Double Dribble-At Draft Drive + WILD SCRIMMAGE
15. Shuffle the Deck
Intro to Dribble-At-Post-Up
16. Dribble-At-Post-Up: Clear the Corner: feed post & choose
17. Dribble-At-Post-Up: feed the post & X-cut either direction
18. Dribble-At-Post-Up not open, pass uphill, post-screen-shape-up
19. Dribble-At-Post-Up not open, pass uphill, post-screen + downscreen & shape-up
Defensive Note regarding Screens and Defensive Situations
20. Dribble-At-Post-Up-Weak-side-Mid-Post: pass uphill & set Invite screen
21. Dribble-At-Post-Up-Weak-side-High-Post: pass downhill & set Utah screen
22. Dribble-At-Post-Up-Weakside-Short-Corner, pass, cut & set Invite Screen
Intro to Layer 4 Dribble Penetration Circle Movement
23. Dribble-At-Post-Up not open; wing drives middle and choose
24. Dribble-At-Post-Up not open; wing drives baseline and choose
25. Bounce Off Circle Move – Escape from failure without turnover
26. Multiple Back-Screens
Intro to Pin & Skip
27. Dribble-At-Post-Up not open – Pin & Skip to the weak-side
28. Pass-Cut-Post-Up-ball-side: Feed the post + Pin Screen & post skips the pass
Extra: Dribble-At-Post-Up: Pin & Skip followed by Pin & Skip by the post player
29. Dribble-At either wing & Pin & Skip for the cutter
30. Double Baby Pin & Skips: choose side and choose how to score
Intro to Ball Screens
31. Reverse Dribble Ball Screen & Choose Your Pass
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Hey Corbin,
I tend toward the simple actions because the players usually have more reps with it which means they are more confident which means there is a smaller chance of a turnover. One of my favorite “go-to” actions is a Rhythm Draft Drive: Pass to your right and cut; receiver passes to their left (the player filling the empty spot) and cuts; this second receiver catches and Draft Drives off the tail of the second cutter without hesitation. Most of the time there will be a fourth player who begins to fill the empty spot of the second cutter. This fourth player must change direction and go back to the spot from which they came when they see the Draft Drive occurring. This will create a Natural Pitch for the Draft Driver if the defender of the fourth player helps on the Draft Drive. The fifth player on the floor (if you’re 5 OUT) will be filling the Safety Valve of the Draft Driver. This is an easy action to put into a drill. Name the drill and you can call the action like a set play when you need it.
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Excellent drill!
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No, you’re not being thick! 🙂
#29 is about Circle Movement when the ball dribble penetrates.
#30 is a situation that sets up Dribble Penetration into the middle which triggers Circle Movement. That’s how they are tied together. -
The answers to your questions are in ZONE ATTACK. Ultimately, against zones, you have to teach what you know and attack the zone with what you know.
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Bob – I would go with the most TEACHABLE kids who will BUY-IN to your vision. Athletes would be next in line because you can’t teach athleticism, but I would not choose it over TEACHABILITY and BUY-IN. Skills can be taught, especially at such a young age. The same goes for I.Q. It will be developed as you push them through the Read & React.
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Hey Bob! Good to hear from you and I’m glad you like the Fusion method. In the very beginning, I would probably begin the first part of practice with some 3 player drills that reflect the rehearsals that you’re going to do in Fusion. But I would follow the drills with Fusion immediately. If you can’t get the rehearsal that you need, stop and do some more drills and then go back to Fusion.
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From my standpoint, the way to make the Reaction Drills more interesting (besides the things you have pointed out) is to take a look at the 3, 4, and 5 players drills on the website. The ultimate way to make it as interesting and game-like as possible is THE FUSION PRACTICE SYSTEM.
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Yes.
If you watch YOUTH READ & REACT OFFENSE, you’ll see that I introduce BACK-SCREENS as my second layer. Actually, I introduce it at the same time I’m teaching PASS & CUT. The rule is: “If you pass from a wing or corner, don’t come back to this side – seek an empty spot on the other side. If there’s not an empty spot, then create one by setting a BACK SCREEN for a teammate.”
With very young players I don’t call it a BACK-SCREEN. I call it a REPLACEMENT SCREEN to make the point that they can REPLACE any teammate that they want with this screen.
Another way to say it is that they can TAKE anyone’s spot by (1) calling their name and (2) yelling “BACK SCREEN”. If they say nothing, the teammate won’t see them (they’ll be looking at the ball). RULE: If someone calls your name and says “BACK SCREEN”, you MUST take the screen and cut to the basket. There’s no choice.
The main reason for this cutting rule of not returning to the same side, is so that I can begin to teach the players two DRIVING OPPORTUNITIES: (1) Real Estate Drives and (2) Draft Drives. You can find those inside Layer 1 menu.
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Yes – if the two players see it in time. Sometimes the drive can be so quick that it’s difficult, but neither player has their back to the ball, so they should be able to react.
The backscreen is different. The screener will often have his/her back to the ball and will not see the drive. The would-be-cutter can certainly Circle Move. Most of the time, we lose the screener, but don’t worry too much about it. The screener has occupied two defenders with the back-screen. This is probably one of the reasons the ball can be driven – there’s space (real estate) to drive because the two defenders are not in helping positions – they are in “how do we navigate this back-screen” positions.
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I would love to hear from other coaches as well! Personally, I would train as much as I could in Full Court Trips, but some of the situations would have to be set up. I have found it difficult to gain a quick advantage on the defense is I have a designated outlet – except on made shots and certainly on FTs.
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Hey Corbin,
1. They must talk. I require both of them to talk. “I’ve got you, come on”, etc. That way, if one of them does not see it, the odds are the other will and will communicate who’s setting the screen and who’s using it.
2. Yes! I would teach backscreens the same day I teach Pass & Cut. This allows a better flow and sets up driving opportunities that you will want to teach almost immediately. See Real Estate Drives and Draft Drives. I tell the players that if they cut from a wing or a corner, they are not to come back to that side – keep going and fill an empty spot on the other side or backscreen a teammate on the other side.