Pre-Camp Technical/Tactical Plan

Attached below is the original camp proposal sent to the coaching staff. Since our staff was located in different areas across the country, we tried to complete a plan ahead of the camp through email and phone calls since we were unable to get together in person prior to the start of camp. This plan is copy and pasted exactly as sent out to the staff. Even at the start of camp there is still lots of items in question, as with a 5 day camp it is very difficult to determine what the learning curve will be and how the athletes body will manage the physical and mental demands of such an intensive camp.

*Unfortunately the play diagrams were not able to be copy and pasted as the text was...also, highlighted sections are those which were left for discussion for our final week before camp.

Technical / Tactical

Strengths	Weaknesses
· Size, length, athleticism · Rebounding – both ways · Ability to disrupt, deflect and annoy defensively	· Consistent outside shooting presence · Point guard position · Ability to handle full court pressure · Guarding 1 on 1 on the perimeter
Opportunities	Threats
· Pressure defense in the full and half court · Offensive transition / fast break · Creating scores off of defense	· Full court pressure defense · zone defense from opponent ·

Defensive Philosophy

Calls:
1 – player to player
Double Fist – zone pressure full or three quarter court
X – half court zone pressure
2 – 2-3 zone

General principles:
Force outside – keep the ball out of the middle
Cutters must “remember the trip” when we are defending them
No ball side help – stunts and fakes
Active hands
Communicate every action

Half and quarter court for 1:
On ball position – keep the ball out of the middle. “Nose on shoulder”, and chest in front
One pass away – full denial while in drive line and be prepared to stunt at dribble penetration.
Two passes away – help position
Defending the post – keep it out! Drive line position.
Off Ball Screen defense – switch, muscle/tail, slide,
On ball screen defense – switch, squeeze?, over under?

Full Court for 1:
Same half court principles apply

· Scenarios for defending ball out of bounds: on in bounder and off in bounder front and back on guard (“Cookie”)

Zone Pressure:

Full & ¾ court zone pressure: 1-2-2. Fall back to 2-3 zone.

Transition:
Rebounding spots – below the foul line extended = crash
Safeties – above the foul line extended fall back. Smaller guards - Safeties whenever possible.
“Protect the rim” and “contain the ball” – funnel ball to the sideline

2-3 Zone:
standard 2-3 zone. We won’t spend much time teaching it, but we will be prepared to use it if need be. Could be a good weapon with our length.

Offensive Philosophy

Fast Break:
Sprint the floor, attack advantage situations.

Transition:
Move the ball on the pass, push to wing attack spot. Primary options include:

· First big running to the rim

· Attack with dribble penetration from wing attack spot

· Post entry, cut and play. Load to 2^nd cuts (Agnes).

“Motion”: ball side low post, 4 out (Renato standard motion offense)
a. Post Entry : 1) Basket cut and secondary cut (when/ if necessary). 2) Up screen with weak side dive
b. Pass and cut principles:
c. Penetration principles: movement by post dependent on positioning. Perimeter circle cuts

d. Back screen: on top-top reversal pass. Visual (fist) and verbal cue (teammates name) when screening.
- reads off screen: Basket cut, ball cut, fade cut (least used and emphasized option).
- Load: “Screener” has option to back screen or cut block to block (primarily to keep “5” player inside).

“Basic”: weak side mid post, 4 out (from Renato phone call)
-pressure releases: dribble entry to wing. On reversal 4 can back cut is over played and 3 fills.

“Quick Hits” and “Special Situations”: ** Reminder: Be sure to include pressure release entries

Looking for input on last second plays from sideline inbounds. Need to decide on our go-tos if we need a 2 or 3 at the end of the game. This might be sorted out as we continue to get a better feel for our players.

We will not necessarily implement all of the following. Please provide any feedback you have on the following…We will also be able to find some other quick reads out of motion and basic.

Fist (out of motion set):

Five (out of basic set):

Shooter: two options – let me know if you have any comments on which would be a preference if we are to implement…

Zone offense attack:
- See how we run basic and motion vs zones…and/or….

BLOB:

Suggestions here? Do we need two baseline plays? Renato shared a good one on our call, should we use that in addition to what we have already sent out to the girls (as shown below)?

“2”:

SLOB:

I am open for suggestions for slideline out of bounds… do we use plus, or a different set?

Press Break: