SCRIMMAGE TECHNIQUES
How much time do you spend going 5 on 5 full-court? Do you usually just go so many possessions or go extended times? Whether going 5 on 5 full or half court, do you have some favorite things you do to produce focus on something or to increase competitiveness?
Jay Hatch- Riverdale
Generally, we go 3 possessions at a time. Offense, defense, offense for 10 minutes with one group on offense, then 10 minutes with the other team on offense.
We change it up occasionally when we are working on a defense (Defense, Offense, Defense) with the same procedure.
To increase competitiveness we rarely go first 5 vs. second 5.
- We divide the teams up as evenly as we can and play it that way.
- We also will give each group a certain number of possessions and keep score and have a winner.
- We will do a scrimmage where we can only get points in transition when we want to work on playing faster.
- We will do a scrimmage where one team can only score on defense and we have different ways to score, for example = 3 points for a post feed basket or 5 points for drawing a charge or 2 points for an offensive rebound or 4 points for getting a stop vs. a 2 on 1.
Jon Palicki- Resurrection
Everyday in our 2 hour practice window we will go:
7 Minutes Daily Vitamins
Daily Vitamins are our daily warm up. This is no contact drills or stretches that allow the athletes to get warmed up using basketball movements. For example this may be x-out layups, dynamic stretching, elbow jumpers, free throws, etc.
25 Minutes- Fundamental 5
Fundamental 5 is a set of 5 drills that last 5 minutes each. This is our skill breakdown session led by the assistants. They are the head coaches of their skill set area and will create a unit plan for the season. Each Assistant is in charge of 3-4 sets of skills.
17 Minutes- Shooting
The remaining time outside of water & pre/post circle is 5 on 5 time. That 5 on 5 time is broken up into Transition Offense, Transition Defense, Half Court Offense & Half Court Defense. -60-65 minutes of 5 on 5 each practice.
Some is broken up into 5 on 0, some of this is broken up by coordinator (Offensive, Defensive, Special Teams). We do an abundance of Constraints Based Scrimmages to promote or enhance what we are looking to accomplish. Things like…
1- Score in 7 seconds or it is a turnover.
2- Trap on defense every possession
3- Only shoot threes or offensive rebounds- each is worth 3 points.
4- Only shoot paint shots.
5- Can only shoot on left side of the floor.
6- Once you cross half-court, can only throw a bounce pass.
7- No dribbles
8- Can only score on a ball screen.
9- Designate one player to stay on offense and one to stay on defense.
10- Play with 35 second shot clock.
Henry Hall- Rock Island
learned my favorite scrimmage technique from my coaching mentor and old college teammate Jay Hatch. He always used a concept called ODO, which stands for Offense-Defense-Offense. I have tinkered with it, but the concept works well for us. We will start with 5 on 5, red vs. gold. Usually I have one coach working with red, and the other with gold. Red will get two offensive calls, Gold one. Red starts on one end half court, runs their set, play or situation, then make or miss gold is fast breaking down to the other end. They will score on an advantage or run their set play or situation. Then make or miss, red will go down and score in transition or run their play, set or situation. We then stop there. Depending on the day, what we are working on, we may keep it with red starting again, or we may have gold and have the O-D-O advantage...I think this is great because it gives you some flexibility on what you can do. We even sometimes go D-O-D and just reserve what we are working on.
In the 1/2 court, sometimes we will do 5,4,3,2,1. red gets 5 possessions,then gold, then red gets 4, gold 4, and so on. Another good variation to give some flexibility and work on multiple things.
Just a couple of options to allow you to scrimmage stop when you need to and teach as well
Dave Feeney- Normal Comm.
This has really depended on our team and schedule. Our schedule now has so many games that we are often trying to save our kids physically. My goal is to get to each game healthy. That said, I like to do O-D-O where we go an offensive half court possession and then a transition down and back...and then change which team started with the ball. I also like to do live pressing sequences to build a toughness mindset in our teams of continuously pressing and/or of running press-break stubbornly. We also like to have our JV or freshmen teams play defense on us but then have five more of them spread down the floor for an instant fast break...so that after we shoot we have to emphasize transition defense at a faster pace than it would ever be in a game (I hope).
Mike Jaskoski- Indianapolis Cathedral
COMPETITIVE MOTIVATION SYSTEM
This is something I picked up from Tom Cooper former coach at Normal Community and later at Parkland CC where he won a national championship. He started presenting at clinics and eventually started doing one man clinics where he would cover the Competitive Motivation system. He put out a booklet that has all the different drills and rationale behind it. I looked on the internet but couldn't find a copy of it there.I have a copy somewhere buried among all my old coaching files!
The essence of it is by putting competition on something (keeping score) you get your players to give maximum effort in practice and drill situations. In the booklet he has everything from rebounding to shooting to defensive drills, all being scored in some way where there is a winner and a loser. In all the competitions there is always a consequence (sprints, pushups, etc. for the losers).
So for the 5-5 he had a scoring system for both offensive and defensive points.
OFFENSE: 1 pt for 2 pt shot, 2 pts for 3 pt shot, 2 pts for off rebound, 1 point for assist. DEFENSE: 2 points for steal, 1 point for defensive rebound, 3 points for a charge, 1 point for deflection. That was the basic scoring. You can obviously add or subtract categories depending on what you want to emphasize. Back in this time motion offense was "in" so we would add categories such as number of passes or scoring off a certain screen such as a backscreen. In this day and age I'm sure you could do a lot with pick/roll or pick and pop from both an offensive and defensive point of view.
The 5-5 could be run until you hit a certain score or you could put time on the clock and have winners/losers at the end. It really did get kids to play hard and be accountable.
A couple points to mention. One, you need a good manager(s) or statistician who would be able to keep up with the scoring. I typically had our managers keeping track on the scoreboard with the clock. Secondly, Cooper spends some time in his book talking about how to deal with the competitive nature of the scrimmage and drills. There can be some issues with physical play or just sportsmanship in general when you get into those types of situations. He advises talking to the players up front on how to handle this.
It really was an interesting way to get players to compete. I learned after doing it for awhile that you needed to pick and choose your drills where you would put competition in. For example, if you're teaching a new technique on defense or some offensive sets it's not applicable. I found that there was teaching time and then once the skills were learned by everyone you could go to competitive drills. The nice thing about the system is that you can really adapt it to your own needs and goals.
Evan Massey- Galesburg
90% of the time, we scrimmaged what I called “Three Trips.” If we started on offense (1st trip), then went back on defense (2nd trip), then transitioned to offense (3rd trip).
Usually after we did defensive breakdown drills, we did Defense-Offense-Defense. Then later we did Offense-Defense-Offense.
Three times a year we would break from the 3 possession scrimmages. Early in the year for conditioning, pre-Christmas (if we had a break with no games), and after last regular season game (if we had long break before tourney)- in these cases we would do continuous scrimmages to either develop conditioning or maintain conditioning. In pre-season, we might do a series of 8 minute scrimmages (continuous clock) or 4 minute scrimmages.
When I spent several years experimenting with the “System,” a valuable thing that I picked up from their practice design was to sometimes start scrimmages from different situations-
*** Free throw
*** Deadball press
*** OB, Side OB
One half-court scrimmage technique that I liked was “Baseball.” If our white jerseys were on offense, they got the ball for “3 outs.” And out was a turnover or a missed shot the defense rebounded. Once they got three outs then the black jerseys got the ball. They also had three outs. Points were- 2 points made 2 and 3 points made 3. We would usually play “3 innnings.”
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