Ben Jacobson: Fundamental Drills for Basketball Practice

Ben Jacobson: Fundamental Drills for Basketball Practice

•Improve your team's shooting by getting shots out of your offensive action

•Guard the ball more effectively this season

•Improve your team's rebounding with the numbers rebounding drill

Watch sample video footage here: Ben Jacobson: Fundamental Drills for Basketball Practice - Basketball -- Championship Productions, Inc.


with Ben Jacobson,
University of Northern Iowa Head Coach;
2010 NCAA Sweet Sixteen team;
2x Missouri Valley Coach of the Year (2009 and 2010);
back-to-back MVC Champs (2009-2010)
Improve key basketball skills and concepts in your program using 14 of Ben Jacobson's best offensive and defensive drills.

SHOOTING & SCREENING:
He shares a few of his team's effective shooting drills by incorporating his motion offense screening actions to get his players to develop communication, reading screens and working on screening while getting shots. In these 3-man shooting drills, the players are getting two shots out of each screening action including the diagonal down screen and elbow screen. Coach Jacobson demonstrates his screening philosophy as well as the options his players have after reading the defense.

He then goes into his 2-minute layup drill, which is a full court drill used to work on passing and catching as well as conditioning.

DEFENSE:
In the defensive drills segment, Jacobson shares his defensive philosophy which is 80 percent Pack-Line defense and 20 percent ball denial-push, sideline-rotate baseline.

He takes you through the alley drill, which is used to work on defending the ball without fouling and containing the dribble.

He moves into his 3-on-3 defensive shell drill that his teams work on every day and focuses on the early help position and guarding up in the gap to stop dribble penetration. He uses this drill to build his defensive fundamentals including angle of approach, closeouts, guarding the dribble and help rotation. Train your players to set the defense in all situations and force the offense to play into a set defense as often as possible.

REBOUNDING:
In his numbers rebounding drill, Jacobson shows you how your players can ride with the opponent away from the basket to create space to gather a "clean" rebound.

The session ends with his defensive disadvantage drill which puts all the fundamentals worked on earlier together in a scramble situation.

Improve your practices this season with this excellent selection of drills and concepts!

Chris Mack of Xavier University : Continuity Pick & Roll Offense

Chris Mack: Continuity Pick & Roll Offense

•Limit turnovers and make more plays

•Gain rebounding advantages and get to the line more often

•Force your opponent's post players to defend away from the basket

Watch sample video footage here: Chris Mack: Continuity Pick & Roll Offense - Basketball -- Championship Productions, Inc.

with Chris Mack,
Xavier University Head Coach;
2009-10 Basketball Times Rookie Coach of the Year,
2010 Sweet 16; tied the school record for the most wins ever by an Xavier rookie head coach (26).
Ball screens are becoming a huge part of basketball and can be a successful tool for your team if they are executed properly. This ball screen DVD will give you the tools you need to install this system into your program.

In this on-court clinic presentation, Chris Mack gives you a comprehensive look at the inner workings of a successful ball screen offense.

Coach Mack will show you how a ball screen offense can:

•Limit turnovers and make plays by keeping the ball in your best players hands
•Force your opponent's post players to defend away from the basket
•Gain rebounding advantages, get open shots, get to the free throw line more often and create mismatches using rotations

Learn the most important concepts you must teach the dribbler and the screener: Creating separation, getting to the level of the screen, how to hold the screen and the three types of screens.

Using a 2-on-2 demonstration, Mack shows you the five defense attacks most commonly used to defend the ball screen. For each of these scenarios, Mack takes you through two ways to attack the defense and provides the ball handler and screener reads and passes.

To help you incorporate ball screens into your offense, Mack delivers ball screen plays in a 5-on-0 setting.

Using this effective ball screen offense, Coach Mack was the winningest first-year head coach in Division I in 2009-10 and the only rookie head coach to lead his team into the 2010 NCAA Tournament field.

Homer Drew's 15 Favorite Practice Drills

Homer Drew's 15 Favorite Practice Drills

•Keep your players focused and attentive with these drills and practice ideas

•Bring out the most in your players by encouraging competition and intensity

•Discover successful coaching philosophies and techniques that have produced over 600 wins

Watch Sample Video Footage here: Homer Drew's 15 Favorite Practice Drills - Basketball -- Championship Productions, Inc.

with Homer Drew,
Valapariso University Head Coach,
Over 600 career wins,
4x Mid-Con Coach of the Year,
7 NCAA Tournament appearances
Keep your practices fresh and enjoyable for players. Homer Drew leads you through 15 of his best practice on both sides of the ball.

Coach Drew starts by demonstrating four different shooting and free throw drills that encourage competition and focus from your players. These drills will allow you to focus on the area of the floor where your teams needs help or in the flow of your offense.

Push your players to work hard and compete during conditioning using Drew's timing system and drills.

One key to great defense is staying in your stance. Drew shows how you can build strength into your athletes legs to help them maintain a defensive stance throughout a game. He uses simple defense-oriented drills to condition the legs and shows how to adjust the drills to compliment your defensive system and improve footwork.

Teach your team to fight for rebounds with Drew's competitive rebounding drills. Drew delivers four of his best rebounding drills for creating competition in practice and getting more second shots in a gem.

To keep players fresh throughout the season, Drew mixes in a "Special Day" once a month where players don't even touch a basketball, but work hard and compete in other ways such as playing kick ball or dodgeball. This allows them to relax and refocus during the season.

Drew concludes with a brief overview of his his 4-on-4 Shell drill and discusses five ways to guard a ball screen.

Add variety to your practices this season using these drills and concepts from Homer Drew!

Brad Brownell: Gap Attack Zone Offense

Gap Attack Zone Offense

•Teach your players how to "play" against the zone instead of just running set plays

•Distort any zone to create scoring opportunities for every player on the floor

•Learn how to attack the gaps in any zone defense

Watch Sample dvd clip here: Gap Attack Zone Offense - Basketball -- Championship Productions, Inc.

with Brad Brownell,
Clemson University Head Coach;
former Wright State University Head Coach,
2x Colonial Athletic Association Champion,
2x CAA Coach of the Year, 3 NCAA Tournament appearances
Attack any zone you might face using Brad Brownell's Gap Attack and Quick Change Zone Offense.

Coach Brownell highlights 10 zone principles. These principles will allow your team to score on any zone defense without having to rely on set plays. Following are a few of Brownell's principles:

•Attack the Gap Position - See how to create gaps in the zone within your shooting range
•Quick Change Ball Reversal - Open up shots by moving the defense
•Pass Fake and Shot Fake - Use fakes to become a threat and open up teammates
•Distort the Zone with the dribble - Give the defense a different looks using the dribble

Brownell shows you how to teach these principles in a manner that will make sense to your players. He utilizes perimeter player drills and post drills to breakdown the principles and make them easier to teach.

Brownell also includes one of his favorite set plays that can be run against a zone or in the continuity of the motion zone offense.

With these principles and drills, you will be able to successfully attack any zone defense you face!

Brenda Frese: All Access Maryland Women's Basketball Practice

All-Access Maryland Women's Basketball Practice with Brenda Frese

Sit in on over 8 hours of practice with Brenda Frese and her 2010 WNIT Tournament team

Get an "All-Access" look into Coach Frese's program including coaching philosophy, warm-up drills, practice drills, team offense, transition play, and team defense.

Get an insider's look at Maryland's strength and conditioning basketball specific workouts both with weights, abdominal work, and improving functional body movement.

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with Brenda Frese,
University of Maryland Head Coach;
2006 National Champions
Learn the essentials of running a successful practice from one of the top coaches in women's basketball. Brenda Frese has won 72.9 percent of her games since taking over the Maryland program. She has two Elite 8 appearances along with winning the 2006 NCAA Championship. Now you can watch three practices of her daily practices, a strength & conditioning/shooting workout, and presentations from the entire staff at their annual coaching clinic for the 2009-10 season.

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING
Assistant Coach David Adkins guides you through an in-season weight training workout. You will see the team performing an active warm up, incline press with lat pull down, power pulls with thera leg band extension, medicine ball drop with tricep pull downs, team abdominal workout with medicine ball. After completing this 30 minute segment, they head to the court for a 30 minute shooting workout. They focus on shooting technique while working out the soreness from the weight room, then they go into power jumpers, partner shooting using the Gun, and end the shooting workout with free throws.

PRE-PRACTICE
Coach Frese begins each practice with a team warm-up and dynamic stretching segment that leads into "finishing school" where they emphasize finishing shots around the basket and footwork. They also work on transition offense by running 5-man weave back to 3-on-2 back to 2-on-1 as well as 5-4-3 flawless, transition recognition and position work. These drills are designed to improve communication, footwork, ball handling, passing, and shooting.

OFFENSE
Get an in-depth look at Coach Frese's offensive system including transition offense, zone offense, press offense, and her half court offense-thumbs down and thumbs special. Each area of the offensive system is worked on in great detail. You will see how Frese builds her drills adding components and progressions while working on feeding the post. She also emphasizes the importance of getting shots up from spots in your offense.

DEFENSE
Coach Frese shows you the defensive drills she uses to build her defensive system, as well as her match-up zone. See how Frese teaches stance, guarding your yard, closeouts, jumping to the ball, dribble contain, denial, defending ball screens, post defense and rebounding. See the build-up drills from 2-on-2 to 3-on-3 to 4-on-4 into the shell drill working on defensive principles in every segment. You will also get a look at their "22" press, which is a 2-2-1 press back to their match-up zone defense.

COACHES CLINIC
In these classroom presentations, Coach Frese talks about "Being a Leader." She highlights 11 components she feels are important for a head coach in becoming an effective leader. These traits include being yourself, creating energy, work ethic, building confidence, setting goals and more. A Q&A session covers a wide variety of topics including picking captains, working with a young team, the mid-year crunch of practices and more.

Assistant Coach Marlin Chin talks to the coaches concerning the Maryland post player philosophy and development. He also takes you through some of their offensive set plays. Assistant Coach Tina Langley serves as the programs recruiting coordinator and talks to the coaches about the NCAA Recruiting rules and the "what and when" of student-athlete contacts. She also highlights phone calls, permissible recruiting mailing materials, official visits and the NCAA clearinghouse.

Coach Adkins finishes with another look into the strength and conditioning work they do during the season. This basketball specific workout and exercises were developed to give the players a total body workout while building the core using body weight movements.

Bruce Weber : All Access Practice

All Access Basketball Practice with Bruce Weber

Discover first-hand the drills, systems and coaching philosophy of Bruce Weber

Get a side line seat to over 6 hours of Illini practice from the 2010 season

Improve your practices and your game day preparation

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with Bruce Weber,
University of Illinois Head Coach;
2x Big Ten Championship Coach;
2005 Naismith Award National Coach of the Year
Learn the essentials of running a successful practice from one of the top coaches in college basketball.

Bruce Weber has earned a solid reputation in the college ranks and with NBA personnel. He is a coach who stresses player development and fosters an unselfish brand of basketball where the most important facet is team chemistry. Weber strives for an up-tempo motion offense coupled with hard-nosed man-to-man defense. Experience is what makes Coach Weber one of the top coaches in the game and now you can incorporate his concepts into your program to give your team the edge for next season.

TEAM WARM-UP
Coach Weber begins each practice with a team warm-up and stretching segment, followed by individual development and team development drills. These drills are designed to improve communication, footwork, ball handling, passing and shooting while incorporating Weber's offensive and defensive philosophy. You will see the break down drills for post and perimeter players, transition build-up drills and competitive games.

OFFENSE
Get an in-depth look at Coach Weber's offensive system including his transition offense, out-of-bounds plays, zone offense, press offense and his motion offense. You will see how Weber builds up his drills adding components and progressing from 1-on-1 up to 5-on-5. Each area of the offensive system is worked on in great detail and shown in this all-access DVD set.

DEFENSE
On the defensive side of the ball, Coach Weber shows you the drills he uses to build his defensive system and his match-up zone. See how he teaches defensive transition, stance, closeouts, jumping to the ball, dribble contain, denial, defending ball screens, post defense and rebounding. See the build-up drills from 2-on-2 to 3-on-3 to 4-on-4 into the shell drill working on defensive principles in every segment.

GAME DAY
In the final segment, Coach Weber takes you through his team's Game Day set-up including a team shoot around involving opponent analysis, free throw shooting, spot shooting, motion shooting and position shooting. See how he keeps his players active on game day by having them go 5-on-0 through their transition offense, motion offense, press offense, as well as their in bounds plays.

Coach Weber has won over 70 percent of his games while at the helm of the Fighting Illini. He owns the highest winning percentage of any coach in Big Ten history who has coached at least six seasons in the conference.

Now you can discover the drills, systems and coaching philosophy that have led to Weber's success.