Mike Neighbors: Offensive System Skills & Drills for Shooting, Execution & Team Development

with Mike Neighbors;
Dallas Wings (WNBA) Assistant Coach;
Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA) Assistant Coach (2025-2026);
Arkansas Women's Head Coach (2017-2025);
Washington Women's Head Coach (2013-2017);
2016 NCAA Final Four;
Washington Assistant Coach (2011-2013);
Xavier Assistant Coach (2007-2010);
2008 Elite Eight;
Has had 11 players drafted in the WNBA;
2009 BasketballScoop.com/ONS Performance Rising Star Award

In this detailed offensive coaching video, longtime NCAA head coach and WNBA assistant Mike Neighbors shares his proven system for building elite shooters and developing efficient, modern offensive teams through competitive skill work and practical offensive principles.

Coach Neighbors brings a clear, tested approach to improving offensive performance at every level. His teaching is centered on one core idea: great shooting and offensive efficiency are built through intentional, competitive, game-speed practice habits.

This video is built around a series of highly effective shooting drills designed to evaluate, develop, and challenge players in realistic game conditions. Coach Neighbors not only demonstrates the drills but also provides variations that increase difficulty, add pressure, and simulate fatigue situations that players must learn to execute through.

You will see how to build shooting confidence and consistency through structured repetition combined with competitive scoring environments. The drills progress from fundamental skill work to advanced shooting situations that require decision making, movement, and execution under pressure.

Key training areas include competitive shooting drills that develop rhythm, range, and confidence in game situations, Green Light Shooting concepts that encourage confidence while maintaining accountability, passing and shooting drills that connect ball movement to offensive efficiency, and game-speed shooting variations that include fatigue, time constraints, and pressure scoring.

Coach Neighbors also introduces a set of Three Questions every coach should use to evaluate their offense. These questions challenge coaches to think critically about whether their system can consistently compete with top-level opponents and how well their current approach translates to game success.

Beyond shooting development, the video expands into broader offensive concepts including practice principles, transition defense considerations, turnover reduction strategies, and the importance of teaching players how to execute within a structured offensive system.

Additional concepts include practice principles that define team identity and offensive structure, transition defense teaching that connects offense to defensive accountability, turnover reduction strategies that improve decision making and possession value, and shell drill applications that reinforce both offensive and defensive system understanding.

Throughout the video, Coach Neighbors emphasizes that offensive success is built through consistent skill development, competitive practice environments, and a clear understanding of how individual drills connect to team performance.

This instructional video provides coaches with a complete framework for developing better shooters, improving offensive efficiency, and building a more cohesive and effective offensive system through practical, game-based training methods.

Customer Review: 5 Out of 5 Stars!
"This is an easy-to-rate five-star video; it contains so many great drills and Coach Neighbors delivers excellent coaching tips throughout!"

47 minutes. 2026.