Teri Moren: Daily Vitamins & Chin Series Breakdown Drills

with Teri Moren,
Indiana University Women's Basketball Head Coach;
2023 AP National Coach of the Year;
2023 Kay Yow Award;
2023 Big Ten Regular Season Champions;
2x Big Ten Coach of the Year (2016, 2023);
2021 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight;
2018 WNIT Champions;
All-Time Winningest Coach in IU Women's Basketball History;
2023 USA Women's U19 National Team Assistant Coach (Gold medal);
2022 USA Women's U18 National Team Assistant Coach (Gold medal)

Indiana’s Teri Moren has built a culture centered on strong relationships, high standards, and taking care of the basketball.  Focusing on fundamentals has become their ‘daily vitamins’.  These vitamins are the perfect preparation for the Chin Series Moren’s team uses to dominate a tough Big Ten Conference.  In this video, Coach Moren goes in depth into sharing her program’s Daily Vitamins and introduces the basics of the Chin Series showcasing what contributed to Indiana winning the Big Ten Conference in 2023.

Daily Vitamins 

Every team needs to work on their fundamentals.  Turning fundamentals practice into Daily Vitamins will shift the mindset of your players into working on fundamentals as a positive.  An excellent passing drill that Coach Moren showcases is their practice opener that emphasizes perfect passing and talking.  Players will work on the passing and catching to improve their transition game.  In ‘6 minute shooting’, you can add various actions and spot shooting to help build players confidence.  Using basket cuts, players can work on their finishing.  Using a sweep you players will blow past their defender for a pull up jumper.

Chin Series 

Popular Chin Series action is sweeping across today’s game.  Every team wants an advantage using back door action and creating direct drives.  Coach Moren outlines the basic Chin Series alignment, spacing, and actions that will help create easy buckets in your offense.  Combine the basic details with a transition game that will get your players looking for hit aheads, deep post touches, and rhythm 3’s and you have the making of an unstoppable offense.  Moren shows how players can make plays happen in the open court, look for post buries, and hunt for rail drives.   

Chin Series Breakdown 

With the basics under your belt, you can focus on breaking down the details for your players.  Helping them understand actions will only improve your offensive efficiency.  Using a simple 4 line progression, you can have your players run through each option at game speed.  Using Progressive Build Up, your players will get rep after rep working on each option.  You will create great habits with your players as they learn when and where to look for scoring opportunities and still have the freedom to create their own shot.  Throw in 2 wrinkles that you can build in a high ball screen off of ball reversal in the Chin Series and you can get everyone involved in your offense. 

How you do one thing is how you do everything.  This has been the basis of building the fundamentals with Coach Moren and her Indiana Hoosiers.  Daily Vitamins give your players the fundamental boost they need to be crisp in the little things.  With Coach Moren guiding you through the Chin Series and breakdown drills you’ve got the makings of a high powered offense that your players will love to play within.  This is a must-have video to add to your collection and build your offense!

Customer Review 
5 out of 5 stars

“Great video! Coach Moren does a great job explaining her daily vitamins and the chin series in detail!”  

57 minutes.   2023.