Coach Fran Fraschilla shared offensive concepts from around the world during his time presenting on the NABC Championship Basketball Webinar Series. This has been an incredible learning resource and opportunity for myself this offseason. I’ve compiled my notes from the presentation.

5 Skills Every Successful Coach Needs

1. Teaching Skills
2. Communication Skills
3. Organizational Skills
4. Motivational Skills
5. Under Pressure Skills

• If you’ve coached 10 years have you coached the same season 10 years? Evaluate, learn and grow.
• Boomerang against a switch to get the defense to stand up
• Dictionary of terms for your players, use the same terminology at the beginning of the season to the end
• Are you designing offense to accommodate your best players strengths?
• Anytime a hard hedge is used by the defense, immediately swing the ball and get rid of it in the direction I’m dribbling it, send the roller to the basket as quick as possible – slot to slot to the roller inside
• If there’s no boomerang drive on the mismatch outside, run the offense and work to exploit the mismatch inside
• If the defender is going under the DHO or PR on a non-shooter, immediately get into a re-screen action – adjust to the adjustment
• PR gets trapped, offense run a short roll
• 3 screen levels – 1. Get by the defender 2. Read screeners defender 3. Read other 3 defenders/help side
• Stretch the defense and give yourself time and space to find the open man with a 2 retreat dribble on the hard hedge
• Snake dribble against the drop coverage to create a 2 on 1 with the big
• Defensive tag – the perimeter defender slides low to take away big and pops back out to perimeter
• Train PG to read all 3 levels of the defense – simulate the coverages, stationary, coach, etc.
• Necessity is the mother of invention – progressive drills 1 on 0, 2 on 0, 3 on 0 – create drills beneficial to your team
• If teams are not switching, bigs to little and littles to bigs are great options
• Are you teaching the dagger 3? Best time to get a 3 is off an offensive rebound kick out
• If you get 2 feet in the paint on an offensive board shoot it – if not, kick out for the 3 ball
• First 20-25 minutes of practice the same thing every day called perfection – ball handling, shooting, passing drills – don’t get bored if you’re getting better – you can run great plays but if you can’t dribble, pass and shoot it won’t work