Rob Senderoff: Coaching Special Situations & End-of-Game Plays - Details That Make a Difference!

In 2022, Coach Senderoff earned MAC Coach of the Year honors for leading his team to a career-best 23-11 season and finishing the season with 12 straight wins, the longest winning streak for Kent State basketball since 2002. In 2023, he followed that up with the MAC Tournament Championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

In this highly valuable video, Coach Senderoff covers a comprehensive array of sets and actions that can help your team win games in the closing minutes or seconds of a game.

Coach Senderoff walks you through different sets that can be used whether you need either a 2-point or 3-point score in the final minutes or seconds of a game. 

Special Situation Plays, End-of-Game Plays

By utilizing different actions out of the same set, Coach Senderoff illustrates how to counter the defense who is taking away a particular option out of each set. He shows you how to disguise and set up motion that takes advantage and opens up whatever the defense is giving you.

Just some of the special, end-of-game situations that Coach Senderoff covers in this detailed instructional video are:

• A press break set that is designed for when the defense is aggressively face-guarding.
• Plays for when your team needs to foul and get a quick basket.
• 2-point or 3-point plays to go to with 10 to 12 seconds left.
• 2-point or 3-point plays coaches can use with :02 to :04 left on the clock.

Preparing For Special and End-of Game Situations

Coach Senderoff emphasizes the importance of being ready for late, close-game situations. He showcases and highlights how he helps prepare his team for these situations by developing a late-game situation chart and detailing the two key ways that his team works on end-of-game simulations in practice.

Coaches also learn different ways to score when they need to go the length of the court at the end of the game or when they need to intentionally miss a free-throw to get an opportunity to tie or win a game.

Coach Senderoff’s high energy presentation helps coaches at all levels be prepared for the approximately one-third of games that you’ll play that are decided by 5-points or less in the last few minutes of the game.  With this must-own video, you’ll have comfort in knowing that you have a developed, well-prepared plan in place for virtually any end-of-game situation your team might face. 

Customer Review: 5 Out of 5 Stars. ‘Awesome video – the breadth of material covered and the concise way that Coach Senderoff presents everything makes this my new favorite!’

81 minutes. 2023.