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The basketball community around the world recognizes Geno Auriemma. This clinic will show Coach Auriemma 14 drills on the court for defense and offense. Auriemma believes that a focus on passing, catching, dribble shooting and reacting is key to building a strong offense. The session starts with basic ball handling drills, with or without defenders. These drills are focused on speed, post and perimeter skills, as well as hand-offs, on-ball screens and other fundamental ball handling skills. Auriemma uses three on three offensive breakdowns to show the post feed, spacing and cutting of the floor. This simple approach to offense building promotes team play and saves practice time. 77 minutes. 2008.

25 Basketball Offense Drills If you’re looking to improve your team’s offensive game, this video featuring 12 iconic coaches can help with skill development, breakdowns, transition drills, and overall scoring ability. Build a team that can pass, cut, and shoot in any situation. Learn how to teach players to use screens, play off penetration, attack off dribble handoffs, and more. You will find a number of half-court and full-court drills to develop your offense’s execution. Half-Court Offensive Drills Fourteen different half-court basketball offense drills are presented from some of the most recognizable names in the sport. You will see everything from dribble handoffs to wing screen and rolls as these coaches strive to help you and your players develop an understanding of the game of basketball. Geno Auriemma (3-on-3 DHO to Shake Option): Players learn proper spacing for best results and learn different actions based on how a defense plays. Sean Miller (3 Around 1): Posts work continuously to get open while guards work on drives to the rim, catching and shooting, or making the extra pass to an open shooter. Mark Few (Ball Swings 3-on-0, 3-on-0 Post Entry, & Ball Screen Breakdowns): Teach perimeter players to pass, maintain spacing, and play off dribble penetration. You also work on scoring options off of side ball screens. Steve Prohm (Kansas Shots & Hammer Pass to Rover Screen): These drills work on getting shots in a ball screen offense. Guards work on attacking the basket and posts work on duck-ins. Ben Jacobson (Feeding the Post): Works on using the off-ball elbow screen to feed the post and work off the post to create offensive spacing. Jay Wright (Catch & Shoot, Ball Screen, & 2-Ball Shooting with Low Cross Screen): These drills emphasize footwork and reading defenses. Guards work to catch and shoot and attack the basket using different finishes. Gary Waters (Guard Shooting & Contest Shooting): Both are shooting drills that give players numerous reps in a short amount of time. Don Showalter (Partner Passing Drills): This passing series develops players’ weak hand passing skills. Full-Court Transition Offense Drills Here, you will find 11 full-court transition drills to install an up-tempo attack in your offense. Concepts like hitting the outlet player, communication, and more are all on display. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski provides three drills – 3-Man Passing, 415, and 3-on-0 Catch and Face – that have helped his teams to numerous ACC and national championships. This basketball offense drills video is loaded with drills that will help any program improve its ability to score in the half-court or in transition. 

Geno Auriemma Practice Video - Go to a Connectiut Practice The Basketball coaching world has never ever seen a prestigious program like that before. In this great basketball DVD from Geno Auriemma you are going to learn a great deal. Coach Auriemma will make you learn everything and will walk you through the first four practices of the 2008-2009 season. The Coach Auriemma will narrate everything which will include the tone-setting circle to the last made free throw. You will go through all these extensive practices from start to the end. Geno Auriemma Practice Video features over 40 Drills The amazing coaching knowledge, experience and intelligence of the Coach Auriemma gets brighter through the aid of more than 40 drills and hundreds of possessions. From passing to ball handling to shooting to transition to half-court offense to the skill development, these practices drills will be full of these. You will understand the tricks and methods that helped Auriemma build the nation’s highest scoring offense. In half and full court drills you will learn the defensive transition and rebounding secrets. You will also learn how the coach puts everything in place during the practices, how he designs his drills and how each drill fits perfectly into the larger picture. You will learn all this when you will go through the four-day stretch. The deep details of the on-ball screen and roll in half-court and full court play will be shared with you. Rent this Geno Auriemma Practice video today.

You have the chance to get full advantage of the seven-time NCAA Championship coach Geno Auriemma. You will get to learn the skill development and also his offensive and defensive systems to a new set of young players. There are 13 hours of intense practice that will improve your overall game and performance. There are more than 30 drills and different variations shown by coach Auriemma and his staff in order to improve your passing, ball handling, shooting, transition and also the skill development. Offense In order to improve offensive skills and create good team defense the coach Auriemma and his staff will execute half-court and full-court offensive drills. From ability to pass to catch and dribble and shoot all areas of your offensive skills will be covered. From coach’s 2-man passing full court drill to 2-line layup drill to the 3-man weave half court and full court drills, he will make you go through different drills that will improve your overall performance. The coach full focus on building his full court transition offense and for that purpose the coach will run 3-man transition drill that will progress to 4-on-0 and 5-on-0. So what these drill will do? Well, the drills will replicate a game-like atmosphere and will really work on pushing the defense for a lay-up or it will also get them to back up that will ultimately leave you with a 3-point attempt. Not only this, but these transitions will also improve team communication and conditioning. The half court offensive attack is also explained in the best way possible by the coach Auriemma. He makes use of player positioning, spacing, methods of entry, selected plays and many of the passing and scoring options for the offensive set. In order to work on paper timing, cutting, screening, reading the defense, spacing, getting open and shooting, the coach will run several breakdown drills. Defense Good defense is all about knowing your opponent strategy and anticipating his moves and then blocking it and taking it away. You will learn how coach Auriemma and his staff will teach the players to defend the baseline drive, close out on the shooter and defend on-ball screens, rebounds and also the communication factor.

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  Rental Term Highlights  We only rent DVDs in the USA.  No rental DVD orders will be mailed outside the USA. This DVD is for rent only and is not for sale.   Before you can rent a DVD, you must download and submit a Rental Membership form. This is a one time requirement. No monthly subscription fee is required. 5 Day (Single Titles) or 10 Day (DVD Sets) Viewing Period FREE Shipping! The price of the rental includes shipping and return shipping. There are no shipping charges added on either way.

  Rental Term Highlights  We only rent DVDs in the USA.  No rental DVD orders will be mailed outside the USA. This DVD is for rent only and is not for sale.   Before you can rent a DVD, you must download and submit a Rental Membership form. This is a one time requirement. No monthly subscription fee is required. 5 Day (Single Titles) or 10 Day (DVD Sets) Viewing Period FREE Shipping! The price of the rental includes shipping and return shipping. There are no shipping charges added on either way.

  Rental Term Highlights  We only rent DVDs in the USA.  No rental DVD orders will be mailed outside the USA. This DVD is for rent only and is not for sale.   Before you can rent a DVD, you must download and submit a Rental Membership form. This is a one time requirement. No monthly subscription fee is required. 5 Day (Single Titles) or 10 Day (DVD Sets) Viewing Period FREE Shipping! The price of the rental includes shipping and return shipping. There are no shipping charges added on either way.

How to Be a Great Basketball Coach with Bob Knight This program is all about to the two of the most successful and legendary coaches of the basketball world who will share their thoughts and ideas on the game and how it should be taught to the players and some of the amazing drills that have made their teams super successful. Coach Knight will take a start with a detailed analysis of his coaching style and he will then hold a discussion on how to use your beliefs to your advantage and how to develop your own philosophy for the game. He will make you understand things in a fairly new manner and he will help you create strategies in order to learn the concepts used by other coaches to fit your team. So, you will be learning a new way of approaching the game that will help you get great results for sure. You will be learning how you can build a solid offense around getting to the free throw line. Coach Knight will also make you understand and be able to use the concepts of pass, cut; and screen as your basic building rules. The coach Knight gives huge importance to small areas of the game as these small areas play a vital role such as the effective use of managers, filming practice, and practice time can add a lot to the overall success of the program. How to Be a Great Basketball Coach with Geno Auriemma Coach Auriemma has his own way of approaching the Basketball philosophy. He focuses on the importance of team's formation and the value of their playing style and how it effects the overall game of the players. After this, he will show you how he starts his practice and the kinds of drills he thinks are important for the growth of the team. You will be learning lots of things in this program as the coach will make you go through the drills that will help generate a culture of trust, hustle, and being fundamentally sound on the offensive end. The coach Auriemma will be putting a lot of effort in all this and will be giving you a mixture of basketball concepts so that you can get a great amount of knowledge and he will then give you these concepts in the form of a one comprehensive drill that will give power to the skills. Furthermore, the coach will also give you simple yet effective drills that will make you learn the art of passing, cutting and shooting within the offense. In the end, the coach will also discuss numerous techniques that he uses on regular basis in order to build his fast break. Rent this How to Be a Great Basketball Coach DVD today.

Bob Knight Basketball Drills The way Coach Knight teaches his players to play Basketball is very unique and exciting. Advantage/Disadvantage is a big part of his basketball philosophy and the team which is disadvantaged will have to work really hard on the defense and smart on the offense. You will get the inside story that the coach will share with you that he used on daily basis in his practice. These daily habits help the players improve their overall skills and make them be successful in real life. With the use of on-court demonstrations, the coach will explain the hardest disadvantages players will go through like the 4vs.5 and 5vs. 4, 5 man change, 6vs. 4 and no dribble. These techniques are very helpful and these techniques will make you the players become the best version of their selves and it will make them harder than ever. The team will be able to prepare better and more effectively if they make use of these techniques. When the players learn how coach's disadvantage situation works, then they will certainly get better. They will also be able to master offense, defense and conversion. Bob Knight Basketball Drills for Coaches & Players In order to teach drills and skills that are required to develop a motion offense in your practice session, the coach will make use of the on-court demonstrations. The coach will make the players work on their passing, catching, dribbling and shooting of the ball on regular basis. In order to work on attacking the defense and finishing variety of ways at the basket the coach will make use of the Dribbling Drill. The players will also go through a shooting drill that will help to create better scoring opportunities. The shot fake is probably the most undervalued move in the game and the coach will make use of it in the best way possible. With the help of this you can blow your defender and can create an advantage situation for your team. The session will come to an end with the coach Auriemma making the players work on passing into the post with live defense. When in these drills, the coach will make you understand the art of how the defense should defend the players passing the ball into the post. Rent this Bob Knight basketball drills DVD today.

Geno Auriemma Basketball Drills for Shooting Shooting is one of the most vital skills in Basketball and you are going to learn skills like these in this instruction sets where the coach Knight will share the right way of shooting. You will learn lots of things about shooting like when to shoot, how to shoot and how to improve your shooting abilities quickly. There are some basic shooting drills that the coach will make you perform and this will set the stage for more exciting drills. These basic shooting drills will cover basic parts of shooting like passing and catching. The coach will take a start with a very basic catch-and-routine and will then build up to level two shots in which the players will catch and give a shot fake that will help to create a great scoring opportunity. There is a use of an offense philosophy to the players what to expect in ever shooting routine. In order to improve all aspects of coaching the coach will make use of several ideas and concepts. The screen to the motion offense is very important if you have watched the teams of Coach Knights over the years. The coach will make you understand the art of making use of the motion offense in the right way within your half-court offense. There are different aspects that are being covered like the basic down screen and cross screen. The coach will also show you the proper technique to use and the cutting options for both players. Geno Auriemma Basketball Drills for Screening and Defense You need a great defense to beat a good offense. So, you will learn how you can build your amazing philosophy of defense by the coach Auriemma. The man-to-man defense will be given priority in it. The coach will make use of the on-court explanations and he will also use the breakdown drills in order to make you understand an aggressive approach to man-to-man defense. The way coach explains everything is really amazing like in order to force your opponent into poor offensive shooting angles he outlines how to guard the 1-on-1 while being in the half-court. The coach Auriemma does a great job in understanding and learning different aspects of defensive techniques. The coach will also make you learn the simple transition between guarding the ball to moving off the ball when your man will cut through the lane. You will be entertained with the six drills to strengthen the defensive attack. The push to the sideline drill is very good too and this drill will push the ball handles to the sideline or baseline and this can be used as another defense to cut off the ball handles. So, every drill has its own role and if you follow everything with proper focus and dedication then you can certainly take your game to the next level. There are some drills that will empathize on jumping to the ball after pass, guarding cutters and defending the post. Rent this Geno Auriemma Basketball drills DVD today.

Geno Auriemma: Building the Perfect Offense A great defense is definitely needed to win a championship, but true champions have to have the ability to score too. In today’s game, the ability to put points on the board is crucial. Legendary Connecticut women’s head basketball coach Geno Auriemma details the concepts, drills, and plays he has used for years to help the Huskies dominate against man and zone defenses. Offensive Breakdown Drills Coach Auriemma stresses the importance of building individual skill development with offensive progressions. He shows you the drills that he has used on a daily basis to improve the basic skills of dribbling, passing, shooting, cutting, and screening. Watch as he demonstrates two drills that teach players to attack the basket with as few dribbles as possible. Players learn to make different types of layups as well as short jump shots. The UConn offense is based on Coach Auriemma’s 1-4 high set, so he prepares his players to learn it with seven breakdown drills. Using two and three players at a time, they work on UCLA cuts for layups, scoring off of down screens, and getting post players involved in the offense with handoffs and backcuts. 1-4 High Offense Coach Auriemma details the actions of his 1-4 high offense and how it can flow right into side ball screens, get open shots off of down screens, and make plays using off-ball screens at the wing. You will see how to make adjustments to counter a defense that denies the high post. Coach Auriemma also reveals how to take advantage of mismatches. In addition to the different actions, Coach Auriemma shares four set plays from the 1-4 high alignment. Attacking Zone Defenses The 1-4 set is also used by Coach Auriemma to attack zone defenses. He likes to use the alignment to create 1-on-1 matchups. In this segment, you will hear Coach Auriemma’s philosophy on zone offense and how he likes to attack both the 2-3 and the 1-2-2 zone defenses. This video offers up several offensive strategies any coach can use to get easy baskets against both man and zone defenses and it is brought to you by one of the most successful basketball coaches of all time.

Your team's ability pass, catch, dribble and shoot can be improved. Practice drills can help you build your offense Conditioning can be incorporated into offensive drills Make sure that you transfer your drills from practice to the field. Geno Auriemma teaches half- and full court offensive drills as part of his daily practice. These drills demonstrate the key to team offense: Being able to pass, catch and dribble. He then shows his 2-man passing drill, 2-line layup drill and 3-man weave half-court and full court drills. Then he begins his full court court transition offense with his 3-man drill. Next, a player is added to make it 4-on-0 before finally making it 5-on-1 transition. These drills create a game-like environment and push the defense to lay up or get them back up. Finally, he adds a player to go 4-on-0, finally reaching 5-on-0 transition. These drills will not only improve your team's ability to pass, catch and dribble but also help with communication and conditioning. Auriemma is now able to use this drill to help with his secondary offensive ideas. He concludes with questions about practice setup, inbounds plays and facing full court pressure defense. These proven drills by Geno Auriemma will help you improve your offense this season. 75 minutes. 2010.

A defense that is good at defending your opponent's interests and takes it away is called "good defense." Coach Auriemma shows you the four cornerstones for half court defense. These areas include defending the baseline drive and guarding and trapping post, closing out the shooter, and protecting the pick and roll. Two key components of the half court are ball pressure on the point guard, and wing denizen. Defensive players can use the three-point line as a guide to help push the offense past the line. For good offensive players, it is necessary to double the line on the pass. Auriemma instructs his defenders how to react to the pass, trapping the post aggressively. To demonstrate the importance of proper close-outs on the ball, a 2-on-2 drill is shown. There are many different ways to pick and roll. You need to consider the abilities of both your opponent and your players when designing a defensive strategy. Auriemma's main goal is to encourage good players to take difficult shots. 75 minutes. 2007.

Geno Auriemma: Coach Q&A Up and coming coaches love to learn from the best and now you can too with this Q&A session with legendary Connecticut women’s head coach Geno Auriemma. Auriemma has over 1,000 wins and a remarkable 11 NCAA women’s national championships. He’s already in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and now you have the rare opportunity to hear Auriemma talk about such topics as attacking zone defenses, beating a press, teaching shot selection, and much more. In this unique video, Coach Auriemma answers questions from audience, which includes a number of up and coming coaches. Listen as Coach Auriemma answers some of the most pressing questions from young, inexperienced coaches. Beating the Press Coach Auriemma shows you how to beat any press using something he picked up from Tex Winters and the Chicago Bulls. An action within the Triangle Offense forces a defense to load one side of the floor. This gives a ball handler plenty of space to attack an extended defense. Coach Auriemma will also share some of the most likely defensive pressure adjustments and how to beat them as well. It doesn’t matter what the defense throws at you; it can be defeated with intelligent spacing and quick ball reversals. Quality Shot Selection One of the most crucial aspects of winning comes down to the quality of the shots your team takes. Bad shot selection can be a cancer causing selfishness and, ultimately, ruin an offense. Coach Auriemma explains proper shot selection and gives you two basic rules. These rules create accountability without causing players to hesitate when in game situations. There is a balance between being aggressive and understanding your role. Auriemma helps players find that balance. Offense vs. Zone Defense Coach Auriemma shows you how to use dribble entries to attack a 2-3 zone. You will see how to use a diamond alignment to free up shooters against a 1-2-2 zone and how to get the ball to the post versus a 1-3-1. Coach Auriemma even shows you how free up your star player against a gimmick defense like the Box-and-1. In all, Auriemma shows you a multitude of ways to improve your offense against any type of defense. Open Q&A Session In addition to the Xs and Os of the game, Coach Auriemma also provides some insight into his philosophy and how he has maintained one of the nation’s most successful programs. Topics include: How to maintain success over time Characteristics of players you should recruit How to overcome a “defeated” mentality Reflections on Coach Auriemma’s biggest coaching mistakes A tactic used to get his most recent teams to minimize fouling on defense What Coach Auriemma shares in this video can be implemented into your program to improve its culture. Learn more than just basketball from one of the game’s true greats.