Dribble Drive Offense

with Nate Oats,
University of Alabama Head Men's Basketball Coach;
2024 Final Four;
2x SEC Regular Season Champions (2021, 2023);
2x SEC Tournament Champions (2021, 2023);
2021 SEC Coach of the Year;
University of Buffalo Head Coach from 2015 to 2019;
2x MAC Regular Season Champions (2018, 2019);
3x MAC Tournament Champions (2016, 2018, 2019);
2x MAC Coach of the Year (2018, 2019);
2x NABC District Coach of the Year (2018, 2019);
Buffalo Assistant Coach from 2013 to 2015;
Romulus HS (MI) Head Coach from 2002 to 2013;
2013 State Class A Championship (MI);
3x Michigan State HS Coach of the Year (2005, 2008, 2009);
Wisconsin-Whitewater Assistant Coach from 2000 to 2002;
Played college basketball for Maranatha Baptist

This video will help you teach your own athletes how to use quick decision-making skills to play fast and keep opposing players on their toes.

Disadvantage Shooting

The ability to attack closeouts and defensive rotations is an essential skill players must develop to play at a high level. In 2 on 1 into 3 on 2 Shooting, offensive players are put into an advantage situation where they must read the defense and be shot ready. The defender must pick a player to closeout to and force them to react. Once players have a shooting rhythm, they build up to 3 on 2 Shooting and finally 4 on 3 Live, in which players can attack the over-closeout and hit the open player.

Transition Shooting

Players demonstrate a series of transition decision making drills that will work on both offense and defense. In Cincinnati 1 v 1, offensive players learn to attack the basket and the defense with a full head of steam, getting downhill in seven seconds or less. In turn, the defense must learn to decide how to level out an offensive player that's trying to get downhill as fast as possible.

In the Cardinal Drill, your players will continue working on getting downhill on offense, but will be put into a 2 on 1 situation where they must make quick and easy passes that will lead to an easy bucket.

Blood Series

The 'Blood Series' is used to teach players to read the defense while playing in game situations. These drills are tailored for the dribble drive motion offense and have helped some of the best programs to create scoring opportunities by learning to attack gaps and get into the paint.

In Slot Reads, athletes hunt for the paint and work to get an easy score or hit the lift players rotating behind them. Players create gaps and driving angles through multiple drives into the paint. In Corner Reads, players attack baseline and make reads off the baseline defender closing out to them. With post players lifting to the middle of the paint, drivers create multiple scoring opportunities using the drift pass, post dump pass, or kick out pass for an open 3-pointer. In Wing Reads, players get between the top two defenders and are able to create a lot of havoc once they get into the paint.

The drills provided in this video will help you develop a complete offensive attacking team. Your players will enjoy getting downhill and in between gaps on offense as they hunt for the paint and read what the defense gives them!

90 minutes. 2019.