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The Championship Practices segment provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Coach K and his staff plan and conduct their practice sessions to produce powerhouse teams. From overall season objectives to specific player teaching points, you’ll see exactly how you can transfer the blueprint for success to players. Each element of practice is broken down into modules of instruction as Coach K teaches, corrects, reinforces, and attends to all aspects of the game in his classroom on the court.

Championship Practices Outline

1. Coach K Open
2. Goals & Philosophy
3. Planning Process
4. Pre-PracticePractice
5. Game Preparation
6. Coach K Close

Coach K takes you through a series of questions to ask yourself at the beginning and throughout the year in the Planning Process of practice. Topics covered include: Players, Your System, Teaching, Time Management, Utilizing Resources, Practice Time and Practice Schedule.

Coach K gives you the details of how runs his practice in the Practice section.

Coach K shows you how he prepares for games from video review of previous games. He also covers scouting, practice, and team readiness.

Duke is known for its tough team defense, and five Blue Devils have been chosen as Defensive Player of the Year during Coach K’s tenure. The Team Defense segment shows how you can transform five individual players into a single, basket-denying unit. From the trademark floor slap to the half-court trap, this DVD offers three complete clinics on the techniques required to fulfill individual position responsibilities and the tactical adjustments required to stop offensive attacks of all kinds.

Team Defense Outline

1. Coack K Open
2. Principles
3. Changes
4. Drills
5. Coach K Close

Coach K takes you through his defense principles by breaking down the half court defense.

Teaching Points are used to show important points that come up during the drills. The drills start out 1 on 1 and work up to 5 on 5. If you want to play strong denial defense then this DVD is for you. Coach K will teach you the entire help side defense necessary to play a strong denial defense.

You’ll get great man to man defense drills that Coach K uses in his practices. Coach K does a lot of teaching on the drills as well. He just doesn’t show the drills but breaks down the how and why.

Coach K shows the improvements he has made in his man to man defense in how to defend the wing on the ball side. When guarding the ball, his players use a non-traditional stance that will make them as big as possible so the offensive player has less room to the hoop.

Duke’s emphasis on beating their opponent in switching from defense to offense and from offense to defense has become a hallmark of their success. Very rarely do they give up an easy fast-break basket, yet they score many breakaway buckets themselves. The Transition Game segment shows that this advantage is developed on the practice court by design, drills, and desire; and it describes how you can achieve this advantage for yourself or your team.

Transition Game Outline

1. Coach K Open
2. Goals and Principles – Learn what Coach K wants to accomplish good transition offense and defense.
3. 2-Man Drills
4. 3-Man Drills
5. 4-Man Drills
6. 5-Man Drills
7. Defense
8. Coach K Close

Coach K's transition drills will teach the following:

2 Man Drills - Value the ball, develop the instinct to pass ahead on the break.

3 Man Drills – Learn to flatten out defense and utilize the secondary break.

4- Man Drills – help teach change of speed necessary to convert from a fastbreak situation into motion offense.

5 Man Drills – Spacing and communication are the key factors with 5 man drills.

The transition offense drills do a great job of simulating game situations on the break. Coach K wants the drills to be as game-like as possible.

5 on 5 Random Movement with Change is a terrific drill for those practices that are dragging or when your practice needs some energy.

Coach K covers offensive and defensive transition on this section of the DVD.

Coach K gives you variations of the Zig Zag drill that will teach your players more than just turning the offensive player.

With Coach K's help you'll have your team playing winning transition basketball in no time.