Open Practice with Dusty May: Establishing Principles of Play with High Intensity Drills

with Dusty May,
University of Michigan Head Men's Coach;
2026 NCAA National Champions;
2026 Big Ten Regular Season Champions;
2026 Big Ten Coach of the Year;
2026 Henry Iba Award;
2025 Sweet Sixteen;
2025 Big Ten Tournament Champions;
Florida Atlantic University Head Men's Coach from 2018 to 2024;
2023 Final Four;
2023 CBS Sports Coach of the Year;
2023 C-USA Coach of the Year;
2023 C-USA Tournament Champions;
2023 C-USA Regular Season Champions;
Coached as an Assistant for Mike White from 2015-2018 (Florida) and at Louisiana Tech (2009 - 2015);
Assistant coach for Mike Davis at UAB from 2007 to 2009;
at Indiana (his alma mater) - was student manager for Bob Knight from (1996 - 2000)

Michigan's Dusty May is one of the rising stars in the game today - and in this fantastic, front-row-seat capture of his live practice session (at FAU), you will witness, firsthand, the skill, precision, purpose and excellence that have catapulted FAU to an elite level of NCAA Men's Basketball programs!

Here's a glimpse of what you will learn, what Coach May reinforces and some of the great coaching ideas, pearls of wisdom and observations you will be able to immerse yourself in - for your own program - with this Open Practice video:

• Let your players play through mistakes - It allows the players to talk and work things out!

• Teach disadvantage situations for the defense - as defenses will often have to guard with the numbers being in the offense's favor.
• Breakdown and teach offensive basics - taking an offense and breaking it into its parts before building it back up is proven to be the best way to teach offense!
• A great passing drill - 'Bocce passing' is a drill working on passing, driving, relocating and delivering a good pass to a teammate  - figuring out angles to pass to and pivoting to move defenders and create openings!
• 2 v 1 shooting - Defense starts on block, offense is in the corner and slot receives a pass then has to make a decision to shoot, drive or pass  - working on reading the defense! Love this shooting drill because it puts decision making pressure on it!  Offense receives the ball in the slot, the defender is closing out from the block to force a quick decision/read from the offensive team. Competitive between teams with consequences for the losing team.
• 5 v 0, 5 v 5 - 5 v 0 transition to work on different sets -  if you don't get anything out of the primary break, then going 5 v 5 full court to run those sets against defense - to allow players to learn how to read and what to read during the game!
• Advantage/Disadvantage Drill - A 4 v 3 and a 5 v 5 . send defense to half court scramble drill, offensively looking to use the advantage to create open shots and high percentage plays, defensively looking to being able to handle the disadvantage to get the offense to have a bad possession through communicating, anticipating, and understanding where the weakness and how to scramble effectively. 
• 3 Minute/2 Minute Games - Be able to play with time and score  - and learn how to get good positions offensively  - and . to learn to get stops defensively -  with losers having consequences for losing  . always making sure his team is competing!

Watching Coach May 'coach' his team is, in itself, the beauty and value found in this Open Practice video! Dusty May exudes great energy and passion in his coaching and guess what? - his players give great energy the entire practice! May coaches with passion. You will definitely use some of the drills and sets shared here in your practices. Make the decision today to invigorate your practice sessions by adding some energy and great concepts found in this 5 star instructional video!

109 minutes.  2024.