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Coaching Middle School Basketball: The Wheel Offense

Item Number: YBD-04500D

  • Currently 3.50/5 Stars.
3.50/5 Stars (4 Reviews)

  • Learn an easy-to-teach offensive system that puts perimeter players in position to attack zone defenses
  • Discover the skills players need for running the Wheel Offense
  • Get breakdown drills for teaching the Wheel
  • Learn three quick-hitting scoring opportunities to counter a zone defense

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  • Learn an easy-to-teach offensive system that puts perimeter players in position to attack zone defenses
  • Discover the skills players need for running the Wheel Offense
  • Get breakdown drills for teaching the Wheel
  • Learn three quick-hitting scoring opportunities to counter a zone defense
with Nick Cammarano, Frank Antonides (NJ) Middle School Boys' Basketball Coach;
career winning percentage (.715), eight 20 win seasons, 2 undefeated seasons (including 30-0 in 2003), 1 Run for the Roses Championship, 284 career wins in 15 seasons;
Founder and Director of the Quality Basketball Instruction (QBI) Basketball Camps

The zone defense is a tool that lower-level basketball teams like to use to offset their players' ability and understanding of the game. With great movement and multiple scoring options, the Wheel Offense gives players good shots all over the court. Nick Cammarano has been coaching at the middle school level for the past 15 years and has become an expert at teaching and implementing offense at this level. In this DVD, he shows the ins and outs of the Wheel Offense that he has used for years when facing zone defenses.

Coach Cammarano uses on-court demonstrations and whiteboard diagrams to provide detailed instruction on how to effectively run, install, and teach the Wheel Offense. He starts with the basic set-up and philosophy on why the wheel offense is so successful against zone defenses. As he explains, your post players will get involved and create scoring opportunities for your guards as they look to dribble penetrate gaps in the zone. Coach Cammanaro demonstrates how spacing within the wheel offense is the most important thing you can teach your players.

Coach Cammanaro progressively builds the wheel offense with a variety of breakdown drills. From the give-and-go, cut-to-swing, and shoot-to-penetrate and shoot, your players will learn how to cut, fill, and attack in the wheel offense. You'll learn the ins and outs to the wheel offense as Coach Cammanaro demonstrates how to apply cuts used during drills into game-like situations. He uses 5-on-5 settings to demonstrate where gaps and driving angles will be. Players will pass right around any defense with these instructions.

Any coach knows that you must have counter calls to keep the defense on their toes. Coach Cammanaro gives you three sets that can be run against a zone defense for a quick-scoring opportunity. If the offense starts to get stagnant, then looking to post players for scoring opportunities or overloading the zone are just a few of the options that can be used against any zone defense.

If you're looking for an offense to attack zone defenses, no matter of the age group, the wheel offense delivers an effective system that is simple to learn but with enough options to be unpredictable.

49 minutes. 2014.


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Coaching Middle School Basketball: The Wheel Offense
on July 4, 2022
  • Currently 1/5 Stars.
1/5 Stars

by JasonW

This video actually never shows you how to run the actual offense! It starts with drills--which, though easy drills themselves, make no sense, because you don't know how they fit in the offense, because you haven't been taught the offense.

There is not one section where the coach says in the wheel, these are the base movements/reads, this guy will go here, this guy will go there, this is how the base offense runs, this is the option if XYZ happens, etc (either on a diagram or on the court). He just gives drills, then tells his team to run the wheel, yet you as the viewer haven't even been shown what it is.

I'm puzzled how nobody watched this and noticed the actual offense advertised, isn't ever taught or explained in the video.

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Coaching Middle School Basketball: The Wheel Offense
on February 12, 2014
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
5/5 Stars

by Anonymous

I am a new middle school coach. This DVD, and the others in the series, have been extremely helpful in teaching a good basic offense. We implemented the drills and the players picked this offense up with much ease. I have purchased the others in this series and am more than satisfied with the product!

Thanks Coach,

Gregory "Coach Rashid" Cheek

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Coaching Middle School Basketball: The Wheel Offense
on December 27, 2013
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
5/5 Stars

by Anonymous

Nice job coach. I appreciate the drills that help implement the offense.

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Coaching Middle School Basketball: The Wheel Offense
on December 21, 2013
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
3/5 Stars

by Crafty

This DVD does not show the original Wheel Offense and therefore is misnamed IMHO.

"The Wheel Offense is a version of the shuffle. Coach Garland Pinholster of Oglethorpe University probably did more than any other coach to perfect this particular pattern. The wheel also begins with an overload, but it differs from the shuffle in that the first cutter has a double-screen instead of a single-screen."
Source: Fundamentals of Coaching Basketball by Dr. Glenn Wilkes, former Stetson University head coach, page 153. Copyright 1982 by Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers.

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