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    16 Simple Concepts to Improve Your Full Court Offense Against Pressing Defenses
    16 Simple Concepts to Improve Your Full Court Offense Against Pressing Defenses
    16 Simple Concepts to Improve Your Full Court Offense Against Pressing Defenses
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    16 Simple Concepts to Improve Your Full Court Offense Against Pressing Defenses

    By Kevin Sivils

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    Attend a coaching clinic or an informal gathering of basketball coaches and ask the question "what three things give your teams the most difficulty?"

    Usually full court defensive pressure will be one of the three responses.

    16 Simple Concepts to Improve Your Full Court Offense Against Pressing Defenses addresses some of the most common concerns of coaches including:

    -- how to get the ball to your best ball handler on the inbounds pass.

    -- selecting an effective alignment to inbounds the ball.

    -- how to get the opponent to stop pressing.

    -- how to create a way to not turnover the ball when the ball handler is trapped.

    This short book also covers why teams press and what the defense hopes to achieve by pressing.

    The objective of 16 Simple Concepts to Improve Your Full Court Offense Against Pressing Defenses is NOT to provide detailed press break offenses. Those can be scouted by the opponent and plans developed to defend a set play.

    Instead, the objective of this book is to teach principles that defeat pressing defenses, allowing the coach to develop his or her own flexible system of beating pressing defenses.

    Players who understand principles and do not rely on set plays are always able to adapt during games and take advantage of what the defense gives up.

    This book is meant to help coaches develop players who can adapt when faced with a full court pressing defense.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Sivils
    Release dateAug 11, 2014
    ISBN9781502208767
    16 Simple Concepts to Improve Your Full Court Offense Against Pressing Defenses
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    Kevin Sivils

    A 25 year veteran of the coaching profession, with twenty-two of those years spent as a varsity head coach, Coach Kevin Sivils amassed 479 wins and his teams earned berths in the state play-offs 19 out of 22 seasons with his teams advancing to the state semi-finals three times.  An eight time Coach of the Year Award winner, Coach Sivils has traveled as far as the Central African Republic to conduct coaching clinics.  Coach Sivils first coaching stint was as an assistant coach for his college alma mater, Greenville College, located in Greenville, Illinois. Coach Sivils holds a BA with a major in physical education and a minor in social studies from Greenville College and a MS in Kinesiology with a specialization in Sport Psychology from Louisiana State University.  He also holds a Sport Management certification from the United States Sports Academy. In addition to being a basketball coach, Coach Sivils is a classroom instructor and has taught U.S. Government, U.S. History, the History of WW II, and Physical Education and has won awards for excellence in teaching and Teacher of the Year. He has served as an Athletic Director and Assistant Athletic Director and has also been involved in numerous professional athletic organizations. Sivils is married to the former Lisa Green of Jackson, Michigan, and the happy couple are the proud parents of three children, Danny, Katie, and Emily.  Rounding out the Sivils family are three dogs, Angel, Berkeley, and Al.  A native of Louisiana, Coach Sivils currently resides in the Great State of Texas.

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      16 Simple Concepts to Improve Your Full Court Offense Against Pressing Defenses - Kevin Sivils

      Copyright © 2014 by Kevin Sivils.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Sivils, Kevin/KCS Basketball Enterprises, LLC

      Katy, Texas

      www.kcsbasketball.com

      Book Layout ©2013 BookDesignTemplates.com

      Eight  Simple Concepts To Improve Your Press Offense/ Kevin Sivils. —1st ed.

      Contents

      Using This Book.....................................................

      What Does the Press Hope to Accomplish?...

      Types of Pressing Teams.....................................

      Consider Fast Breaking Against Full Court Pressure Defense................

      Inbounds the Ball Quickly...................................

      Use a Designated Inbounder.............................

      15-18 Foot Passes.................................................

      Play Inside the Volleyball Court........................

      Always Know the Baseline Situation...............

      Keep a Player on the Centerline.......................

      Opposite and Behind............................................

      Avoid Danger Areas..............................................

      Use the Pullback Crossover...............................

      Four Across.............................................................

      Four Around One...................................................

      Attack the Rim........................................................

      Post Up Your Guard..............................................

      Reverse the Ball.....................................................

      Have a Plan For When You Beat the Full Court Press................

      Contact Coach Sivils.............................................

      If you want to know how to beat something, ask a coach whose teams are really good at that. Want to beat a press? Ask a pressing coach. He knows exactly what he doesn’t want you to do.

      ―COACH DON MEYER

      Chapter one

      Using This Book

      If you bought this short book looking for some trick press offenses guaranteed to defeat any full court pressure defense you will be disappointed. You won’t find such an offense in the material included.

      What you will find is eight (actually fifteen, I always try to deliver more than I promised) concepts that will help your teams execute your press offense with greater effectiveness.

      There are a lot of press offenses out there that work. They all work better when the principles in this book are applied. Basketball is a simple game and as coaches we often make the game more difficult than it needs to be.

      Nearly 30 years in the coaching profession have taught me the hard way that teaching players how to play is a better approach to the game than forcing players to fit into a mold that may, or may not, be the right approach to dealing with the situation that player faces.

      It is important to understand WHY

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