Break down

This is probably the area of the game that I have neglected the most. I realize now that it's essential to develop the one-on-one skills off the dribble that let us take advantage of poor postioning and mismatches. We have to be able to beat people off the dribble and force a rotation. In the past my teams would spend some, but not enough, time playing one-on-one. We always started from a standing position and I usually put a restrition on the number of dribbles.

The unintended result was that we didn't develop the ability to beat players off the dribble. It also made things easy for the defender who only had to defend for three dribbles. This year's team will work on crossovers, back-up dribbles, power lay-ups and pull-up jumpers starting with a driblle from the wing. Not exactly rocket science but it will help us both on offense and defense.