The Phoenix Offense: 7-Seconds or Less - Set Plays, Screens & Secret Strategies for Unleashing a High-Octane Attack!

with Phil Weber,
veteran NBA Assistant Coach;
Phoenix Suns (with Mike D'Antoni) 1999 - 2008;
New York Knicks (with Mike D'Antoni) 2008 - 2012;
New Orleans Pelicans (with Alvin Gentry) 2015 - 2017;
Head Coach for the Sioux Falls Skyforce (NBA G League) from 2014 to 2015;
In 2012 and 2013, served as an Offense Advisor/Consultant (for Eric Spoelstra) with the Miami Heat (2x NBA Champions);
India's Men's National Basketball Team Head Coach (2017);
Assistant college coach at Florida (1984 - 1989), Chaminade (1990 - 1991) and Iona (1991 - 1995);
Played collegiately for Norm Sloan and Jim Valvano at NC State

As an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns, Phil Weber had a front-row seat to an offensive style of play called The Phoenix Offense - but known widely as : ‘7 Seconds or Less,’; he helped refine and coach this high-octane, up-tempo system that relies on spacing the floor with shooters and implementing innovations in the pick-and-roll game.

In this video, you will get an in-depth breakdown of this explosive Phoenix offense system that includes both whiteboard lecture and on-the-court demonstrations to help you learn the philosophy behind the offense including critical details for executing the fast break and a highly valuable presentation of over 30 sets utilized within this system.

Playing Fast, Quick-Hitting Transition PlaysPlaying fast is more than just a mindset. Coach Weber starts things off by sharing valuable transition details that will shave seconds off your fast break through white board lectures and on-court demonstration. By using these explosive principles, your team will become better at sprinting the floor, sharing the ball and seamlessly flowing into initial quick-hitting actions. 

You’ll learn coaching points on effectively utilizing the trailer and see why the trailing players play a critical role as decision-maker in this offense. Plus, Coach Weber unveils four components for setting effective ball screens that kill any type of defensive coverage when properly executed.

Coach Weber explains how and why defenses are more easily exploited with actions early in the shot clock and showcases five quick-hitting series of plays that can be run in transition.

Up-Tempo Sets, Maximizing Ball Screens

Next up, is an informative presentation on how to unleash your team’s playmakers with ball screens in drag, dribble-drag, and double-drag actions. Coach Weber covers multiple wrinkles off these main actions and shows how these plays further confuse defenders by changing things up by utilizing handoffs and a variety of cuts. 

Coach Weber follows up with several proven techniques that cause headaches for defenses by using multiple screening actions and highlights four explosive options from the ‘21 Series.’ He then shows how you can activate your weak-side offensive players by executing a wide pin-down screen and showcases five different plays from the ‘Quick Series’ that takes advantage of these actions. Weber also shows how ‘Quick’ can be used as an effective tactic for getting an early look for an elite shooter.

Any great offense must also possess the ability to execute in the half court as well. Coach Weber offers an inside look at 17 set plays that can be used any time the possession is slowed down including three different ways to space the floor for ball screens.

The ‘Angle Series’ alone offers four different options for attacking defenses with an empty corner ball screen, as well as six plays from the ‘2-Down Series’ that integrates multiple screening options for post ups or shooters.

Coach Weber also shows a variety of options from the Horns alignment with five additional calls in the ‘Elbow Series.’ These plays are ideal for transforming your post players into a playmaker while occupying nearby teammates in actions such as flex screens, pin-down screens, and staggered screens.

This video is jam-packed with terrific plays and strategic coaching information that can be easily merged into your own fast-break or secondary break systems, as well as your half-court attack. 

But, if used as a full-fledged, high-octane style of up-tempo basketball, the information Coach Weber provides in this video, hands coaches ‘the keys to the sports car’ of offensive systems, an offense that has pioneered the way modern basketball is played!

This is a must-watch coaching video for basketball coaches at all levels of play!

1 hour, 44 minutes 2023.