Happy Holidays Coach, so I run a 1-3-1 as a curveball. I’ve tried porch series and rose series, so far I like the Fan action. 1-3-1s tend to give my guys a hard time but running Fan creates triangles and opens up driving lanes for guys. The bottom guy is forced to cover a lot of movement opening up burn cuts and exit screens that the kids have to apply when the read requires it. There’s been times where in practice my scout offense struggles vs our zone defenses making the defense look way better than it truly is. So far this has been the best way to challenge my 1-3-1 in practice to force my guys to communicate and think defensively. https://thehoopsgeek.com/play/OnElFspNn3

@Mitch Carlson we have up and down days matching up after the ball crosses half. Mainly due to lack of communication. Also we’ve explored 2-2-1 as our shape to keep the wolf and sniper up front. Adding 5v5 flow game to our practices has helped guys slowly understand where they need to be in the gaps or on the wall/nail in transition

@Mitch Carlson I have varsity boys. I will say this year we are getting 18 steals per game through our first 4 games. Rebounding has been down due to lack of role clarity with rebounding and us being pretty undersized. But I enjoy that we are more disruptive within our lock left principles. Shaping in a 2-2-1 helps also.

@Brandon Michalec Thanks for sharing, I am having similar struggles. either my nail isn't active covering middle, or my sniper is too late to get back to the inbounder to snipe passes. Everyone and then my kids decide to randomly reach or trap which I ask them not to do in order to keep the ball in front of us and prevent dominos on the other end. I am starting to find success out of the 2-2-1 shape. I am encouraging them to not think about trapping unless the ball is on the jail side corner or jail side right after crossing half court. When we play teams that outmatch us in skill or size I am planning to have our lock left 2-3 ready for playoffs. I am hoping a film session today will help them understand the patience we need in the full court. My main goal is blue pressure with 1-2 traps after crossing half. ultimately relying on the shot clock to force them into bad looks.

@Brandon Michalec we are alike in the 1% better everyday. That’s on our shooting shirts. Thats all I ask of them. Thanks again for sharing. I will start adding some game film on here as we finish up playoffs but you can see the intention to LL picking up for us as games go on, rebounding is our biggest obstacle so I will continue to build that affordance for them to chase and use their instincts.

I am assuming the high nail is responsible for the high post once we have the ball in neutral after the first 5-7 seconds of transition defense?