Joe Scott: The Princeton Offense - Essential Building Blocks

with Joe Scott,
University of Denver Head Coach;
former Princeton University Head Coach

Once you have mastered the building blocks of Princeton's offensive system, you will be able to create easy scoring opportunities for your team! In this excellent instructional DVD, former player, assistant and now Princeton's head coach, Joe Scott discusses the philosophy of one of the most storied basketball programs of all time! Having been mentored by former Princeton coaches Pete Carril and Bill Carmody, Scott explains in detail the Princeton offensive philosophy, why they adhere to it and how they implement it. He gives you the insider's view of how practice is structured to develop individual and team skills, discipline, court-vision, and court-awareness. Along with practice structure, Scott teaches basic offensive principles such as player movement, cuts and screens, spacing, reading, back door versus front door and making choices with and without the ball. Scott finishes with a demonstration of how they set up their offense. Coach Scott also provides extensive game footage to help reinforce the basic principles of the back door offense.

75 minutes. 2005.

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