29 Billy Donovan (Indy): A Motion Pick and Roll Series You re only as good as a coach of the people you are around and who you associate yourself with. Raveling to Billy Donovan s Olympic Team: 95% of this country never gets the opportunity to represent your country. The 5% that do, do it on two venues either they are representing our country in the military or their representing our country in athletics. If there is one thing you need to do offensively as a coach when you start to think about your style of play on the offensive end of the floor... How do you want to play? What do you want to do? Do your players understand what to do? For me personally, I give up a lot of freedom as a coach-i don t control every single play. I would like there to be some spontaneity, some creativity, difficult to scout... In order to do this, you need to teach guys how to play. When transition is over with, we are going to flow on offenseconcepts, rules. I don t want my PG looking back at me looking for a play call-i try to get away from calling plays all the time, I try to get into a situation where we can flow in and out of concepts. Transition on a made basket - our 4 man takes the ball out of bounds every single time. Our 2 man always runs right, our 3 man runs left, our 5 man runs to the center of the rim. We are trying to get the ball out of the net and up the floor as fast as possible. Miss or make we are fast breaking, we are pushing the ball. In practice, we have a 4 second rulewhatever we are doing in practice, the ball has to get across within 4 seconds. Never walking the ball up. Our 2 and 3 have to run to at least the first marker extended on the lane-must be wide-we want the middle of the floor open so that our PG has the opportunity to put the ball on the floor to create and make plays. I will tell you this as it relates to spacing, the more shooting you have on the floor the better spacing you have-the less shooting, the less spacing. When we come down the floor, our automatic rule for our PG is to immediately lead the ball to either side-our 1 man always cuts through opposite corner-our 4 man is trailing, our 3 man lifts.
30 ***After passing to 3, 4 has three options... Dive to Duck-in (or Space), Spread PnR, Double Ball Screen...
31 We talk to our guys a lot about angles on pick and roll... A lot of times you ll see players set pick and rolls with their shoulders square to the sideline-we don t want this... very easy to go under. Important for big to sprint into screen... Almost setting back-screen on the ball-forcing on ball defender to go over-top. We teach our bigs to open up on the roll-we want the roller to maintain vision of the ball. Our big rolls right to the center of the rim. If the dribble penetrator kicks back to corner lift, we look to post the ball. ***On the pass from 4 to 2, 4 has three options (reads)... Screen the ball (Roll/Pop), Slip, or Shallow Cut ~~~~~~Will drill in 2on2 (3 reads) in practice, will watch video to get a better feel for doing this.
32 Here is why I like pick and rolls... Hardest thing to do on defense is transition defense-players aren t in the right spots, etc... So we want to fast break as much as we can. The best defensive teams go from having two guys on the ball whether it be a baseline drive or a pick and roll or into the low post and trapped and then scramble back out and match-up to me are the best defensive teams. With that being said, we want to try and put two guys on the ball as much as possible. ***There are three options when 3 cuts... Option 1 (Cut Through and Replace) - For teams that trap, tough to rotate (because you are post feeding with your big)... Forces 4 to absorb roll and then closeout to the 3pt line.
33 Rule for shooters who cannot come off ball screens... Always send shooter through to double side. S = Shooter If 4 cannot enter to 4 after fill behind, 4 dribbles at 1 initiating double high ball screen...
34 Successful counter versus Ice or Down pick and roll coverage... Ice counter - Bump back to Dribble handoff...
35 Ice counter continued... After throwing back to 4... I may call something in the game to create a situation for our team based on how we are being guarded in pick and rolls... Examples include: Floppy Curl - Calling Floppy Curl to get into the Big Fill Behind Action...
36 Floppy - Guard Fill Behind We have a call in the game where if someone is bumping or tagging hard, it becomes a screen... Good defensive teams will look to tag or bump roller at the elbow area.
37 Teams that blitz, we will off-ball screen into the ball screen-either down screen or back screen... Here are two different calls...
38 Against the switch... Look to get to third side of the floor... Duck-in against guard. Flat Screen Roll Replace against Switch
39 Against Jump-Switch... Floppy Action-Corner Lift Late clock situations... Prefer to stay away from pick and roll. Rather go 1-4 flat against weakest defender. Switching Back-cut...