Sue Phillips Gold Medal Basketball System

Coach Sue Phillips takes to the floor in this live demonstration to share effective plays you can use out of a 1-4 box set. These are the same plays that Coach Phillips used to win a gold medal with the U17 Women's National Team at the 2014 FIBA World Championship in Spain.

She breaks down all of the intricate parts that make the 1-4 offensive box sets so special, giving you the keys to offensive success.

Keys to Offensive Success
Coach Phillips begins by explaining the keys to offensive success such as floor balance, spacing, creating high-low situations and easy reversals. Executing these keys will improve your shooting percentage and put your team in optimal position to grab offensive rebounds and play transition defense. This model easily translates to quick hitters.

Quick Hitters
Coach Phillips breaks down quick hitters out of the 1-4 box set. You'll see everything from spacing to using the painter's dot for precise positioning. Each play creates a high-low situation and options for the inside and outside game. The basic sets feature the following alignments and formations:

• UCLA/High-Low action
• Flash to Elbow Backdoor with Flare Screens
• Stagger-Curl Screens
• Baseline Entry to corner
• Flex Action

These quick hitters give you greater control of who's taking shots and they can play to your strengths and hide weaknesses. No matter what the defense throws at you, there's a play with multiple counters here. You'll be able to exploit backdoor cuts, lobs, ball screens, and so on to score the long ball or layups. There are many different options - add the ones you like immediately and add the rest over time.

Zone Offense and Out of Bounds Plays
Coach Phillips breaks down her zone offense sets. Both of these zone sets (Circle and Square) create high-low opportunities with built-in screening options for creating looks both inside and out. Phillips addresses how to prepare for and attack a zone or match-up zone defense.

Out-of-bounds plays are demonstrated versus man and zone defense from a 1-4 low set.

The 1-4 Box Set Offense presentation is packed with plays and options to dismantle any defense.

Produced at the Fall 2014. Phoenix (AZ) clinic.

71 minutes. 2015.

Over the last two decades at Archbishop Mitty High School, Sue Phillips has had incredible success with her multiple defensive system, winning five state championships.

In this on-court presentation, she demonstrates 10+ drills you can use to teach the concepts of her "black" and "white" man-to-man defenses.

• Black - An aggressive, denial-style defense.
• White - Players back into the gaps to support the ball defender.

Individual Defense
Coach Phillips explains how she teaches basic defensive movements, on-ball defense, helping on penetration, rebounding, denying passes and defending the on-ball screen.

Any style of defense will struggle or excel based on whether players can properly execute these universal defensive techniques.

Coach Phillips shares five warm-up drills that develop the defensive mechanics players use when sliding, boxing out, and closing out. These drills include:

• Push-pull - fine-tunes proper slides and develops explosiveness
• Push-back - a box out drill
• Recover Runs - teaches players how to cover the entire court
• Full Court 1-on-1 - a competitive drill to "turn and stop" the ball handler
• Closeout Drill - a competitive drill to cement fundamentals

Team Defense
Discover a progression of team drills starting with a 2-on-1 match up and building up to 5-on-4.

Any defense will occasionally have breakdowns and your players need to practice these situations in order to know how to successfully handle them.

In the "Dribble-Drop Triangle Shell" drill, players learn how to rotate to help on penetration from the weak side. Coach Phillips only allows players to stunt and recover on the strong side. Help in this defensive system must come from the post stepping up to stop the ball. This rotation requires team coordination, as another defender must drop to help cover the post.

The 3-on-3 Penetration Progression expands this concept to dribble penetration from the sides and works on negating middle penetration, closing out, helping outside the paint and recovering with crossing defensively.

Coach Phillips also shares two drills that she uses to teach players how to deny the passing lanes. Players practice denying on the perimeter and shutting down cutters in the 4-on-3 Circle Chug drill. This drill improves physicality, not allowing face cuts, defensive court awareness and team defense principles. In the 4-on-3 Two Post Shell drill, players learn how to deny the post and quickly switch from help defense to on-ball or post defense as the ball moves in the drill.

Lastly, you see two different ways to defend ball screens in the 4-on-4 shell drill. Black will have players trapping the ball and looking for the interception. White is a vertical hedge at the screen to deter the attack of the dribbler. Coach Phillips also shows a variation of the drill she uses to develop her transition defense in full-court play.

Coach Phillips' on-court presentation covers all elements from philosophy to individual skill to team strategy. With this knowledge you can build a defensive system that will frustrate any opponent..

Produced at the Spring 2014 Pittsburgh (PA) clinic.

57 minutes. 2015.