Coach Steve Prohm talked about all things offense during his presentation with NABC. He touched on Man, Zone, Transition and Half Court offensive principles. Coach Prohm has been known for his time as a coach for his offensive philosophies, and shared some great information. I’ve compiled my notes from the presentation.

• 4 pillars – Faith, family, socially, academically
• Always look to learn and get better – clinics, twitter, video
• Leadership, motivation and culture at ISU – everyone in the program is part of the leadership team (have a theme) there has to be more than one leader in the program – trust people, in order to love you have to trust – motivational, be where your feet are, how motivated are you to make ISU better? Make you and the program better – culture, it’s about what you do every day – what you allow and what you accept – represent the program and impact people within the community
• Transition – end up in 4 out 1 in, slots, corners, and rim run – end up in 5 out – we tell our guys we’re in 4 or 5 out on makes with the 4 man inbounding
• Whoever rebounds the ball 1-4 is leading the break – if the 5 man rebounds it then the PG gets the catch, 4 rim runs, 5 sets the drag screen – 4 goes opposite and corner lifts
• Big with kick ahead and pull up 3’s, rim run
• Want the ball handler to attack opposite elbow in transition to reverse the floor
• 1-2-5 up the floor, up the sideline
• Drag series – when the big is ahead and the 5 man is in front of him, crack back into middle ball screen – in the PR read the screeners defender
• Drag vs. the hedge – “waffle pass” pivot and kick to same side wing for pass to the big – other option is a retreat dribble cross and then re-attack the opposite side of the screen
• Drag screen thru – sent the trail man and opposite slot guard both thru to the corner, leaves a man in the corner
• Drag corner – corner gets through, slot spaces for double gap

Ball Screen Offense Concepts

• Reject – read the screeners defender – if he comes up the hard hedge reject – if he sits back attack or shot
• Slip – get the on ball defender to open up his hips
• Re-screen – anytime the defender goes under, automatic re-screen action
• Twist – flip the screen depending on the side of the screeners defender
• 3 man side – overload ball screen with a corner, wide slot, middle PR to attack double gap
• Rub screen – anytime we push we want our first big rim run, second big will butt screen – PG come right off bigs butt – rim running big duck in seal
• Anytime we can create a double gap and get into 2 on 1 skilled action we want to do it
• HS adjustment, if you only have 1-2 ball handlers then number your break, have 3 and 4 run corners and put your most skilled players in the top 2 slots

• How to decide whether to use the corner or thru cut? Dependent on how the defense is aligned on the elbows – mix it up, same action minor tweak
• High rub screen – against teams that show a lot of pressure – spread people out and get downhill
• Cyclone – slip the initial drag, DHO with wing into a PR to attack double gap – could also flare the slip
• Backcut terminology = burn
• Weave mason – weave into Spain action
• Iverson re-screen – Iverson out of the 1-4 directly into step up screen into re-screen into 2 man game with 3 man side opposite – do it out of horns action
• Iverson UCLA – hit the UCLA cut PG to get a mid post up, same side big dive opposite with opposite big coming to set a short corner ball screen
• Thumbs up – ran against the ice, let the defense get to the ice – set up for double screen – reject and have the top screen pin the bottom screeners defender for the three ball – both screeners staggered at the elbow, corner shooters
• Splits on post entries – opposite side flares
• Post entry flare screen re-screen
• Zone offense – middle slot ball screen downhill and attack – Horns action HP pop for catch for throwback right to PG into ball screen and attack