Summer Bash

We have an attack, attack, attack mentality

5:30 game
Destroyers I      17
Sting Belles      39

Yesterday nine of the 13 players who made the game attempted shots. We had 43 attempts and 6 makes. One player was 2 for 2 from the 3 point line. Three players scored from the floor.  Two players made it to the foul line.  We had 31 rebounds with 12 players being active on the boards. We had 6 blocks, half by one player.

6:30 game
Destroyers II            43
Natick                      39

Eleven of the 14 players made attempts on the basket. We had 64 attempts and 18 makes. We were 2 for 5 on 3 point shots. Three players scored from the floor. We had 43 rebounds with 13 players being active on the boards. Six players made it to the foul line. We had 4 blocks, one by 4 different players.

It was an exciting game. Tayja tied things at 35 at the end of the game with a 3 pointer. She then stole the game with 7 points made on 4 shots in the over time period. Celine got to the line during OT and split her free throws to net an extra point. This gave Group 2 their first "score board" win of the summer season. Sofia B. was the defensive star in overtime.

7:30 game
Destroyers I             12
Natick Bearcats        50

Ten of the 13 players made attempts on the basket. We had 29 attempts and 5 makes. Three players scored from the floor.  Four players made it to the foul line. We had 16 rebounds and 1 blocked shot. Nine players were active on the boards.

8:30 game
Destroyers II            49
Sting Belles              19

Thirteen of 14 players made attempts on the basket. We had 74 attempts and 19 makes. We were 0 for 7 on 3 point shots. EIGHT players scored from the field. Three players made it to the foul line. We had 47 rebounds and 2 blocked shots. Twelve players had rebounds.

These four games tell me that there are still holes in our defense large enough to hide a herd of elephants. We are getting better, slowly. The girls are starting to talk to each other a little bit on the floor. I am hopeful for the future.

In Other News
I am delighted that we hosted a shooting clinic on July 26. The girls who attended made 42 out of 156 attempts for 27 percent. The girls who missed the clinic were at 6 percent and made 4 out of 60 tries. When I look at free throws, clinic girls are 10 for 32 or 31%. That is terrible, I know, and we do not work on foul shots yet at practice. The girls who missed the clinic are 1 for 8 or 12% during yesterday's games.

The Bay State Games happened just before the shooting clinic. In 3 games Tayja was 15 for 46 from the floor (33%), 0 out of 3 from the 3 point line and 2 of 7 on foul shots (29%). Yesterday in 3 games she was 22 for 40 from the floor (55%), 1 of 3 on 3 pointers (30%) and 3 of 8 on foul shots (38%).

Let's look at all the players who played in 3 games yesterday and played all 3 games during the Bay State Games.

Brooke in the 3 Bay State games was 0 for 2 from the floor. Yesterday in 3 games she was 1 for 8 from the floor (13%).

Nilijah in the 3 Bay State games was 0 for 13 from the floor. Yesterday in 3  games she was 1 for 13 from the floor (7%), and 2 of 6 on foul shots (30%).

Britney in the 3 Bay State games was 2 for 9 from the floor (22%) and 0 for 3 from the 3 point line. Yesterday in 3 games she was 2 for 18 from the floor (11%), and 3 of 4 on foul shots (75%).

Celine in the three Bay State games was 3 for 16 from the floor(19%) and 0 for 6 from the 3 point line. Yesterday in 3 games she was 4 for 37 from the floor (22%), 3 of 11 from the 3 point line (27%) and 1 of 2 on foul shots (50%).

One of the things that Tommy Freeman, the shooting coach, preached seems to have stuck with the girls:

"Believe that the next one is going in and keep shooting. The only shot that you are guaranteed to miss is the one that you did not take."

Another change that I noticed is that most of the clinic girls will now drive to the basket. All are attempting more shots. These girls had 86 attempts at the Bay State games compared to 116 attempts yesterday.

We will host another shooting clinic in the fall. I LIKE this new attack attack, attack mentality.

Robin

3 on 3 Update

 

I LOVE 3 on 3 basketball for youth players. I am glad that we had 8 players in two teams play in Mass Premier's first 3 on 3 Tournament on August 3.  Each team played about 12 games non stop from 9 am to 12:30 pm. We came home with the championship for our age group.

It was a great day to be a Destroyer. Our players each touched the ball much more often than they get to playing 5 on 5.  There was room to operate and practice their budding basketball skills. 

Players tried new things like screening, posting up and cutting to get open. The girls did not have to worry about breaking a press to get the ball in play. They saw how to "help" on defense. 

They practiced their one on one moves. Every player scored. Every player improved on every aspect of her game over the course of the day. Every player (and parent) enjoyed the day. 

I wish we had more chances to play in organized 3 on 3events and or leagues. One parent suggested that the Destroyers organized something. It is worth looking into it.  

Robin

3 on 3 Championship Game

Destroyers Black vs Destroyers White (with a little Green thrown in)

Jomi Makes Her Destroyers Debut

Jomi, a raising 3rd grader, joined the Destroyer's 6th grade team in the 3 on 3 tournament at Mass Premier Courts to day in Foxboro. Over the course of her 12 game day, she made 10 baskets and had 4 steals. In these photos she is playing against 8th graders.

Pactice Plan Summer 2013

Summer 2013

I have three weeks to teach 32 players the Read and React offense to play in the summer league. I split the girls into two groups based on how much of the offense they have been exposed to. Practice group 2 is made of the more experienced players, including my fall travel team.

We practice on Thursday nights. Of the 32 girls, 14 will miss one or both of the first two practices because of other youth sports obligations and two will miss the three practices. (As of July 2, I have two players to have yet to make it to a practice.) I had one make up practice scheduled where I spent two hours on strictly teaching the first 6 Layers of the Read and React.

Week 1 Thursday June 6

Practice group 1
Layer 1 – Pass & Cut
Layer 2 – Post Pass & Cut
Layer 3 – Dribble At
Scrimmage

Practice group 2
Layer 1 – Pass & Cut
Layer 2 – Post Pass & Cut
Layer 3 – Dribble At
Layer 4 – Circle Move
-drives only
Layer 6 - Baseline Drive
-corner come back
3 on 3 stay in lane no dribble live at three point line

Week 2 Thursday June 12

Practice group 1
Review pass and cut, dribble at.
Review post pass and cut
-add laker cut high
-add laker cut low
Layer 4 – Circle Move
-right and left drives
-bounces off
-driver calls out the direction
Layer 6 - Baseline Drive
-corner come back

Practice group 2
Review pass and cut, dribble at.
Review post pass and cut
-add laker cut high
-add laker cut low
Review layer 4 – Circle Move
-right and left drives
-add bounce offs
-driver calls out the direction
Review layer 6 - Baseline Drive
-corner come back
-add post slide up
Layer 5 - post slides
Layer 17 - Bingo
5 on 5 on 5 scrimmage

Sunday June 20 Make Up Practice (Mixed Experience Group)

Group One (5 low experienced players including one player who never played basketball before.)
Layer 1 – Pass & Cut
Layer 2 – Post Pass & Cut
- laker cut high
- laker cut low
Layer 3 – Dribble At
Layer 5 - post slides

Group Two (5 experienced basketball players for which most of it was a review)
Layer 1 – Pass & Cut
Layer 2 – Post Pass & Cut
- laker cut high
- laker cut low
Layer 3 – Dribble At
Layer 5 - post slides
Layer 4 – Circle Move
-drives only
Layer 6 - Baseline Drive
-corner come back
-equal spacing at top
-post slide up
Layer 17 - Bingo

Both groups:
Dribbling drills including suicides (so I could see their ball handing.)

Week 3

Thursday June 20

Practice Group 1
-add post slide up
Layer 5 - post slides
Layer 17 - Bingo

Practice Group 2
Stress peak at the rim every time upon receiving a pass.
Dribble with the outside hand on dribble at.
Dribble with the right hand on a right drive. Dribble with the left hand on a left drive.
Read line.
Layer 15 - Power Dribble

Sunday June 23 Full Roster Practice (Mixed Experience Group)

Ball Handling
Reviewed all layers except Layer 15
Bingo with defenders
Havoc (man to man deny)
Scrimmaged.

Week 4

Tuesday June 25

Practice Group 1
Ball Handling on the move
Dribbling drills including suicides
Bingo with defenders
Havoc (man to man deny)
Scrimmaged.

Practice Group 2
Ball Handling on the move
Inbounds play - Stack
3 on 3 stay in lane no dribble live at three point line. Reviewed ways to get opens
Dribble moves balloon game

Thursday June 27 GAME DAY

Friday June 28 Open Gym

Hesitation dribble with step back cross over
3 on 3 games using read and react rules. Team choice of defense regular or havoc.
1 on 1 defense game (1st player plays defense 1 on 1 with every one in line one after the other and then goes to the end of the line)
2 on 2 defense game (1st 2 players play defense 2 on 2 with every one in line in sets of 2 one set after the other and then goes to the end of the line)

Week 5

Tuesday July 2

Practice Group 1
Hesitation with step back cross
Review with combos
Defense 1on1 lanes, 2on1, 1on2, 3on2, 3on3
Bingo with havoc defenders
Read line
3 on 3 stay in lanes drill
Inbounds: Stack
Inbounds: Stack - with defenders

Practice Group 2
Hesitation with step back cross
Two ball dribbling
Review with combos
-Stress square to basket every time upon receiving a pass.
-Dribble with the outside hand on dribble at.
-Dribble with the right hand on a right drive. Dribble with the left hand on a left drive.
Shell - regular
Shell - havoc
Read line.
Bingo with havoc defenders
Bingo with regular defenders
Layer 15 - Power Dribble
- make the dribbles slow and deliberate
Defense 1on1 lanes, 2on1, 1on2, 2on3, 3on2, 3on3

Friday July 5 Open Gym

5 on 5 scrimmages with referee

Week 6

Tuesday, July 9 GAME DAY

Thursday July 11

Practice Group 1 
Review with combos
Defense 1on1 lanes, 2on1, 1on2, 2on3, 3on2, 3on3
Bingo with havoc defenders
Read line
Under the basket
~1. Quick feet up back up back spin lay up
~2. close out, slide, back pedal, slide
~3. Star passing to a layup (Three basic passes – chest, bounce and overhead
~~◦Step to meet the pass and shorten the pass
~~◦Show a target)
Set Plays
~◦Inbound "Stack"
~◦Inbound Press Break "Flat-line"

Practice Group 2
Review with combos
~Stress square to basket every time upon receiving a pass.
~Dribble with the outside hand on dribble at.
~Dribble with the right hand on a right drive. Dribble with the left hand on a left drive.

Shooting
Layup loops with a move first from each side of the hoop at high speed.

Read and React
Bingo with Defenders
--READ LINE
--On the ball, stay between your man and the hoop
--Nose to Ball
--Point your pistols (Ball, you, man)
--Don't reach
◦Close Out
◦TALK ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B71rLswB30Y )
◦A man with a ball in the paint is EVERYONE'S MAN.
◦NO LAY UPS

Friday July 12 Open Gym

5 on 5 scrimmages with referee

Week 7

Tuesday July 17

Practice Group 1
Review with combos
Bingo with havoc defenders
Read line
Defense  3on2, 3on3
Set Plays:
◦Inbound "Stack"

Practice Group 2
Review with combos
Bingo with havoc defenders
Read line
Defense  3on2, 3on3
Circle Trapping
Pass, cut, pick

Tuesday, July 18  GAME DAY

Friday July 19 Foot Work and Conditioning Clinic