Lamont Paris Open Practice: Team Offense/Team Defense Drills & Skills

with Lamont Paris,
South Carolina Head Coach;
2024 SEC Coach of the Year;
Chattanooga Head Coach from 2017 to 2022;
2022 SoCon Coach of the Year;
2022 Regular Season Champions;
2022 SoCon Tournament Champions;
Wisconsin Associate Head Coach from 2015 to 2017;
Wisconsin Assistant Coach from 2010 to 2015;
2015 NCAA National Champion Runner-up;
2014 Final Four;
Akron Assistant Coach from 2005 to 2010;
IUP Assistant Coach from 2001 to 2004;
DePauw Assistant Coach from 1999 to 2000;
Wooster College Assistant Coach from 1997 to 1998;
played collegiately at Wooster

Lamont Paris has come up through the collegiate ranks with a terrific reputation as a dynamic coach who knows how to build winning, competitive programs. One of the foundations of building a program with sustained success, comes through organized, purposeful and efficient practice sessions.

In this fantastic video production, Coach Lamont Paris opens his gymnasium doors and invites you in to attend two of his practices; he shares a highly detailed, inside look at his staff's teaching methods and the most-important elements critical for preparing his team for intense competition against some of the best teams in the country. In these practice sessions, you will see Coach Paris and his staff cover a wide variety of skills and drills for both the offense and defensive ends of the floor.

Throughout two fast-paced and highly structured practice sessions, Coach Paris also coaches his team through a wide variety of shooting drills and offensive and defensive work that showcases his schemes on both ends of the floor. 

Practice Session # 1

Coach Paris begins his first of two practices that feature a wide variety of offensive and defensive 'daily vitamins' that helps to build your team's techniques in both a half-court and full-court setting.

Players begin their work with a series of chair drills that showcase moves and variations - done both with and without defenders. Coach Paris places an emphasis on other stations being worked on as well, such as walling-up and rebounding the basketball. 

Breaking into a full-court drills segment of practice, Coach Paris unveils a '5-Player Weave Drill' that flows seamlessly into advantage and disadvantage scenarios for your team - with goals specified for both offensive and defensive players.  

Ending the first day's practice, Paris focuses on the defensive side of the court while also working in some of his offense half-court actions. Players participate in a '4-Player Shell Drill,' while the offense maintains a goal of attaining a 'perfect possession,' which builds into 5-on-5 scenarios. Coach Paris finishes the practice with a cool down shooting routine that focuses on taking shots from multiple perimeter locations. 

Practice # 2 

Coach Paris begins the second practice with his players' stretch routine. This is a terrific pre-warm up routine! Paris then flows into his position breakdown drills and full-court drills that build to his transition and half-court skills work.

The next segment is Coach Paris' 5-on-5 offense and defense half-court work. Paris shares a wide array of coaching nuggets that will help the communication of what you are trying to get done in the practice of your half-court defense and offense - especially in terms of stressing the minute details and points of emphasis that means the difference in successful execution. 

Coach Paris concludes with a focus on executing 'Horns Action' and as in day one practice, finishes with shooting drills. 

Enjoy an insightful deep-dive into Lamont Paris' practice sessions to learn how to develop a strong, seamless flow to your practices with an emphasis on excellent teaching details that build better players individually, while also reinforcing team offense and defense tools! 

156 minutes. 2024.