Hello again. Since our last newsletter in the spring we have worked diligently preparing for the upcoming Fall League. Hard to believe this will be our 19th Annual Fall league. Since the spring we have experienced three consecutive sell out clinics and camps. The Dave Hopla shooting clinic and our summer camps directed by Jonathan Sanders were outstanding successes.
Jam Basketball continues to service our valuable customers with many basketball needs. Often corporations mission drift from their vision, despite the fact that the customers keep these systems relevant to their business needs. JAM will continue to make a vital contribution and improvements to their client base. We are all often challenged with delivering inspirational material and messages for our children and players.
This edition of the newsletter focuses on preparing teams for critical winning in the crunch time of games. Players are certainly working hard during the off-season. Coaches need to be doing the same through the areas of clinics, reading material, and professional development.
- Mark Sharpley
We found the idea for this from Coach Creighton Burns and the coaching tool box. Here are a few suggestions for ways that you can adapt the drill to your team.
The purpose of the drill is to simulate end of game situation where the team with the ball is playing ball control. The philosophy is that the team is either going to shoot wide open layups, free throws (if the opponent wants to foul in their attempt to catch up), or run time off the clock.
In the drill, teams alternate possession of the ball as in a game with the ball changing hands on a basket, a defensive rebound, or a turnover. If the offense misses the layup and gets the offensive rebound, they maintain possession of the ball. First team to 60 points wins. Scoring for the drill is as follows:
Made Lay-up = 5 points
Each pass = 1 point
Each foul = 1 point (for the offense and offense retains possession)
Turnover = 2 points for the defensive team
It encourages the offense to work to get open, and the defense to work on pressure and denials.
To start the drill, the player with the ball tries to beat the defender off the dribble. After that player makes a pass, there is no dribble, or it is a turnover. There is also no passing back to the same teammate who just passed you the ball, unless it is a give and go for a layup.
Depending on your philosophy of using timeouts to save possession, you can give each team a timeout or two to call during the drill to save possession. That teaches them to make sure that they are aware of and ask to find out how many timeouts they have remaining. Our rule is that we don’t call timeout to save a possession until the final two minutes of the game.
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