Massey Basketball

  This is a simple shooting drill to provide some competition for the team. The team is divided into two “teams”- one team at one end and th...

  Scrimmage Game 1- 5 on 5 playing to 11 points.  2- +3= 3 pointer, +2= 2 pointer, +1= offensive or defensive rebound 3- Defense gets steal ...

  William Allen was a 1939 graduate of Knox College. While at Knox, he became a political activist. He was part of a large group of students...

  This simple play that we ran in 1998 and 1999 produced more points and more free throws than any other play we ran in my 46 years of coach...

Triangle Delay- The basic concept of this delay is to have the three players at the top exchange and pass back and forth to each other.  Thi...

Any of you have followed my blog, realize I have been doing research on past boys and past girls basketball teams. To do the research, I hav...

Years and years ago, I attended a clinic where Sam Alford (Steve Alford’s father) of New Castle, Ind gave a talk on developing a program. On...

  The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association had been organization for boys basketball only. At the end of the 1984 season, the IBCA took i...

  1999 Girls 2nd in State 33-2 (State Rank- #2) The 1998 Streaks lost in the Elite 8 game, but had no seniors on their roster. The entire st...

What A Run!- In 1999, the Streaks were in the middle of a great run (and it wasn’t done yet). The Last Word- Coaches always say that your “s...

If we had the lead with under 10 seconds left, usually we wanted to play what we would call our “Soft MM Press.” We are wanting to just slow...

We were in a battle with Machesney Park Harlem in the Supersectional at NIU’s Chick Evans FH. Late in the game, we down three with the ball....

“Old School Coaches” are veteran coaches who look at some of the tough questions that all coaches face. In the group we have HOF coaches fro...

I always asked our players to do an organized “Prepractice” at the beginning of practice. Doing this served several purposes: 1- It concentr...

There are fewer students choosing to play both boys and girls basketball in Illinois and also nationally. Traditionally most schools have of...