3 Helpful Tips in 3 Minutes

Good day to all of you smart, tough and clever people. It’s a great day to be alive. Here’s three quick tips you can incorporate today.

1 - Shooting Check

Simplicity wins.

Shooting is propelling the ball into the rim. The goal is to do that in the most repeatable way possible.

One of the quickest ways to eliminate misses is to make sure shooters are stacking their body on their LOAD point.

Stacking means that hips are over feet, shoulders are over hips. Just have them stand up straight and normal, with no ball, then load their hips to jump, they will stack. Most players who aren’t consistent shot makers, are twisted, they aren’t stacked when they load their hips, that additional variable causes misses, especially at speed or under pressure.

Sit back and be amazed as you eliminate many of the bad misses that come from not stacking on load. Do you want to see examples and learn more? Here’s the deep dive in our Shooting System.

2 - How to Attack a Zone

At SAVI, we call the short corner the PORCH.

Why?

Because your language should be clear and communicate a principle, not just a location. You SIT on a porch, so our intent is to hold space and not creep into the paint and block.

Against a zone, you want to play through the porch - we call this a FLANK action. So quick tip, put your most skilled, passing bigger player as the porch against the zone. If they can step out from porch to the corner on flank action and stretch the zone out on the baseline it will create more space to burn cut the zone. Move your best player there and you’ll find more success against any type of zone. For more examples of Zone Actions, check out our Zone Layer here. 

For my Race and Space teams, often the Dragon can just drag right down to the porch in our 11 second flow from our 7 second race. You can use an 11 second drag screen right into your porch action.

3 - How to Get More Ball Movement

Introduce the Boomerang action to get them to feel the rhythm of alternating currents. If player 1 hunts with the dribble, and kicks to player 2, then player 2 needs to switch the current and pass immediately. That’s the boomerang, the ball comes right back to the dribbler, to take advantage of the “jump to the ball” habit taught to defense on a pass. This creates a bigger advantage on the catch - Boomerang.

When you introduce it, remember our 3 step SAVI teaching process.

1. Standard - How we do what we do

2. Why - Clarify the objective

3. Plus 1 - Load them with a challenge

For Example, our standard was precision of AirDrop catches so we could read the defense at speed. Our objective was to play .5 basketball and alternate between dribbles and passes. Our Plus 1 was to extend advantages on our Boomerang catch by spacing to the 4pt line.

If you want more in depth teaching on this action or want video, just check out the Action Layer of our Race and Space course in the SAVI Coaching Membership.

I’m Tyler, this is SAVI and we’re here to help coaches.