Open Practice with Chris Crutchfield 4-Pack

with Chris Crutchfield,
University of Nebraska Omaha Head Coach;
2025 Summit League Regular Season Champions;
2025 Summit League Tournament Champions;
2025 Summit League Coach of the Year;
University of Oregon Assistant Coach from 2021 to 2022;
East Central University Head Coach from 2020 to 2021;
Arkansas Assistant Coach from 2019 to 2020;
University of Oklahoma Assistant Coach from 2011 to 2019;
2016 NCAA Final Four
Was an Assistant Coach at Oral Roberts, TCU, New Mexico State, Tyler Junior College, UTSA from the span of 1996 to 2011;
Played college basketball and football at Omaha

Master Defensive Fundamentals & In-Game Execution
In this excellent Open Practice video, you’ll experience firsthand how Omaha’s Chris Crutchfield trains his team to excel on the defensive side of the ball.

With an emphasis on game-speed execution, this video is packed with drills and team-focused strategies designed to elevate your players’ defensive intensity and IQ!

What You’ll Learn

• Defensive Fundamentals: Begin with proper charge-taking techniques and vertical jumps to neutralize offensive threats.
• Pick-and-Roll Defense: Learn hard show coverage and trapping mechanics for effective defense against ball screens.
• Transition Defense: Watch as Coach Crutchfield teaches how to defend in transition and avoid easy fast-break points.
• End-of-Game Scenarios: Improve your team's focus and communication with key drills like free throw box-outs and defensive rotations.
• Live Scrimmages & Adjustments: See real-time corrections and coach-player discussions during 5-on-5 half-court play.

Defensive Drills and Team Stations:
Throughout practice, Coach Crutchfield leads the team through individual drills and team stations, focusing on both perimeter defense and rebounding techniques.

You will see the players trained in defensive slides, 3-on-3 rebounding and closeouts, while building the mental toughness needed to excel defensively.

If you want to build a tough, defensive-minded team, this is the video for you!

With proven methods and drills that challenge your players to improve and compete, Coach Crutchfield will help you instill a winning defensive mindset into your practice and game-day routines.

86 minutes. 2025.

with Chris Crutchfield,
University of Nebraska Omaha Head Coach;
2025 Summit League Regular Season Champions;
2025 Summit League Tournament Champions;
2025 Summit League Coach of the Year;
University of Oregon Assistant Coach from 2021 to 2022;
East Central University Head Coach from 2020 to 2021;
Arkansas Assistant Coach from 2019 to 2020;
University of Oklahoma Assistant Coach from 2011 to 2019;
2016 NCAA Final Four
Was an Assistant Coach at Oral Roberts, TCU, New Mexico State, Tyler Junior College, UTSA from the span of 1996 to 2011;
Played college basketball and football at Omaha

One of the critical skills needed for all players and teams to be as successful as they can is solid passing. As a team and as a coach, having practiced a solid set of inbound plays that are ingrained in the players, can be the difference in the outcome to any game.

In this video, Omaha’s Chris Crutchfield, the 2025 Summit League Coach of the Year, opens the door to a live action practice session where you will see his team working to advance their passing acumen and become familiar and highly successful at performing inbounds plays to perfection! In this outstanding “Open Practice”, you will see:

• Multiple passing drills
• Full and half court drills
• Baseline and sideline out of bounds plays

Great passing = success on critical inbounds plays!

Passing Drills
Throughout the video you will learn many passing drills and see games that emphasize the pass; these include warm-up drills to get players talking as well as full and half court drills. Many of the drills have a time and a goal attached to keep players focused and competitive.

The three-man weave drills and the Overhead and Baseball drill make players get a certain number of perfect passes to complete the drill before moving on. Other drills include fast break and secondary break drills where you can pick up new sets and actions.

Half-Court Offense and Half-Court Baseline Plays
Throughout the video you will also get numerous baseline out of bounds plays as well as some half court offensive actions. Coach Crutchfield runs multiple drills to get his players going live against a defense to understand the reads available to them. You will get:

Half court actions:

• Lob play
• Pick and roll
• Play for 3-point shot

• Iso play
• Lob play
• Flare action
• Screen the screener

To finish out the practice you will get to see how Coach Crutchfield incorporates the plays into full and half court mini games. Get your team to the next level with this terrific insider’s look at some outstanding passing drills and out of bounds plays!

67 minutes. 2025.

with Chris Crutchfield,
University of Nebraska Omaha Head Coach;
2025 Summit League Regular Season Champions;
2025 Summit League Tournament Champions;
2025 Summit League Coach of the Year;
University of Oregon Assistant Coach from 2021 to 2022;
East Central University Head Coach from 2020 to 2021;
Arkansas Assistant Coach from 2019 to 2020;
University of Oklahoma Assistant Coach from 2011 to 2019;
2016 NCAA Final Four
Was an Assistant Coach at Oral Roberts, TCU, New Mexico State, Tyler Junior College, UTSA from the span of 1996 to 2011;
Played college basketball and football at Omaha

Omaha’s Chris Crutchfield leads his team in a spirited practice focused on shooting and scoring.  With an emphasis on game-speed execution, Crutchfield directs his players in both live 5-on-5 games as well as several game-action drills.

The players start with a competitive 2-team drill emphasizing perimeter shooting and passing. By introducing a competitive scoring system, Crutchfield demonstrates how to increase the intensity level among players in this standard move-and-shoot drill.

Throughout the video, players work on actions that mimic the two-man actions that occur in the game and that are featured in the team’s offensive sets. Most drills feature both players getting shots out of cutting and pick-and-roll actions.

Some of the key shooting and scoring concepts that Coach Crutchfield goes over include:

• Post-up finishing and shooting from both the high and low post for bigs
• Screening and DHO actions involving bigs and guards
• Attack and scoring opportunities in transition

By interspersing 5-on-5 special situation and ODO (Offense-Defense-Offense) scrimmaging, Coach Crutchfield emphasizes the importance of practicing at game-speed so that players are consistently putting out a high-intensity effort to improve their shooting and scoring.

In this video, coaches will learn different drills and methods to challenge their players to raise the level of their shooting and scoring and improve their offensive efficiency both individually and as a team.

Customer Review: 5 Out of 5 Stars!
“An excellent, up-tempo video showing a variety of different ways to help shooting!

76 minutes. 2025.

with Chris Crutchfield,
University of Nebraska Omaha Head Coach;
2025 Summit League Regular Season Champions;
2025 Summit League Tournament Champions;
2025 Summit League Coach of the Year;
University of Oregon Assistant Coach from 2021 to 2022;
East Central University Head Coach from 2020 to 2021;
Arkansas Assistant Coach from 2019 to 2020;
University of Oklahoma Assistant Coach from 2011 to 2019;
2016 NCAA Final Four
Was an Assistant Coach at Oral Roberts, TCU, New Mexico State, Tyler Junior College, UTSA from the span of 1996 to 2011;
Played college basketball and football at Omaha

Master Offensive Execution in a Live Open Practice with Chris Crutchfield!
Step into a live practice session with Omaha’s Chris Crutchfield as he takes you inside a real-time offensive development session. This video provides an in-depth look at zone offense principles, half-court sets, spacing techniques and key coaching points that will elevate your team’s offensive efficiency.

Break Down the 2-3 Zone – Learn how to attack different areas of the defense using Zip Punch, X 45 Punch, Angle and 4 Game plays.

Fine-Tune Offensive Spacing – Implement Spread, Floppy Twist and 4 Game actions to keep defenders occupied and create high-percentage shots.

Coach's Tips & Insights – Get expert teaching points on drawing defenders, screening the inside of the zone, staying shot-ready and maximizing post-entry actions.

See Offensive Sets in Action – Watch live 5-on-5 execution of offensive schemes like Circle, Double and 43 Strong with real-time player adjustments.

Develop Decision-Makers – Learn how to guide players toward instinctive play and structured offensive execution in competitive practice settings.

Whether you're looking to refine your zone offense, improve player spacing, or install high-level offensive sets, this Open Practice will give you a clear blueprint and how to run an efficient, high-scoring offense!

70 minutes. 2025.