Wondering if anyone has any tips on going from a 3-2 Zone Press dropping back to half court LL man. I've heard it said that it's easier to drop back to a half court Zone defense but we need to keep bodies on them. We're also planning on going full court man but some of our girls are too slow to do so.

Do you all run anything special against a “Box & 1”? Or do you just continue to run the same triggers as you do against man? Our last two district opponents are going to go to it against our best guard.

Hello fellow coaches. Just a coach here who’s seeking some type of answers. Started off the year 5-0. 2nd leading scorer gets hurt and has missed the passed 7 games. We are now on a 5 game losing streak. Without bias, I can honestly say we have beat ourselves in each of every one of the losses. My best player, when the ball is out of his hands, no one can seem to produce or get a quality look. I’ve tried Rose series, and a couple other flowing sets with good spacing but offensively guys just stand there and have no sense of urgency on cuts, screens, etc.. Getting out rebounded every game off pure effort and lack of pursuit. Have tried different drills, different approaches, and me and and my staff cannot seem to light a spark under these guys. Our defensive intensity will look great at times and others hand down, dead silent, no real activity. It’s like something took the air right out of my team and we are beating ourself up trying to figure it out. Has anyone gone through this ? What has worked for you? Practice intensity we have to BEG them to give max effort.

We identify an eraser and we identify who we want to erase. The issue we keep running into is that the player we want to erase isn’t always being guarded by our eraser — often that matchup belongs to someone we want in a chase role. When we try to adjust it on the fly, it gets messy. Do you require your eraser to always be guarding the player they’re erasing, or have you had success doing it a different way? If different, how do you keep it clean and executable under pace?

We recently had a scrimmage and the kids played well. There are definitely things we need to clean up. One area I had a question about is an end of game situation. (I know I need to practice this more.) However, I wanted to know how you all might handle this. If one of our principles of play is to Race first Race always, what do you do or how do you handle the final 2 or 3 minutes if you are up by only 2 possessions? In PA we still don’t have a shot clock. What would you all do? Thanks!