Open Practice with Chris Crutchfield: Passing Drills, Half-Court Actions and Out of Bounds Baseline Plays

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.