I received this suggestion on greatest basketball plays for free from Bob, one of my subscribers. If you’re looking for basketball drills and plays to use with your team, give these a try!
From Bob…
I coach basketball at the grammar school level, and I’m a firm believer that out-of-bounds basketball plays are absolutely essential to winning at this age; so I employ a ton of them…It’s the idea of controlling the outcomes you are able to control.
There are virtually a ton of things to run out of a box set under the basket. My favorite zone basketball play is one I saw years ago, used by the coach at Berkeley High (Berkeley, CA)…(Remember this adage, coach?“ “You steal ONE play, it’s stealing, you steal TEN plays, it’s research!”)
Box set under the basket, let’s say the ball is on the right side as you look from the top of the key down to the baseline…#1 player, Low post right goes hard to the right corner–gets the pass; high post on the right side, the #2 player (at the same time as player #1) goes to the right wing–gets the”up” pass from player #1; player #2 from his now-wing position, returns the pass to the inbounder who has now received a down screen from player #1 on the right-low defensive zone player….The inbounder shoots a “3”…
Just for the sake of movement, I will sometimes “exchange” the low and high post players on the side OPPOSITE the ball during all the action on the other side (with the left high post player being the better rebounder) since, as Dennis Rodman has said 9 times out of 10, that “3 Ball” shot will go to the opposite side. By showing some movement from high to low, that player may get himself in better position to rebound the miss.