The origins of the Rose Series

Coach,  

As an assistant coach, Mark heard his players constantly asking for more freedom on offense.

We need to play faster.

We need to shoot more threes.

As an assistant, Mark knew he couldn’t enforce wholesale changes, especially since his team was winning.

But, when Mark became a head coach, he realized there was a better way.

"So I was running motion. I started running dribble drive. I loved motion in the sense that it had really good ball movement. It had really good player movement. It was conceptual because you're giving players choices.

You're guiding behavior. You're not dictating behavior.

But I wanted to have more space, more room to shoot the three, more room for drive and kick, all that stuff. And that's what dribble drive gave us. But it didn't give us the ball movement. It didn't give us the player movement. It was ISO ball.

So I started looking for solutions of how can we blend what I love of motion and what I love of dribble drive into an offense."

This led him down the path of discovery… and eventually to the Rose Series.

"With new actions and new concepts to incorporate in there. But I wanted to have like a name of the series so my players knew what we were in because that is such a key element of offense.

One, recognizing we're neutral. Two, when we're neutral, we need to get to an action. How do we know what action to get into?

So I just wanted to put all these actions underneath one umbrella, and we called it the Rose Series, named after Derrick Rose, and it's been just the foundational piece of our offense.”

If you want to go deeper into what the Rose Series is and how you can create more space for your players (so they leave your assistant coach alone 😄), check out our recent The Hours podcast:

Stay SAVI,

—Tyler

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