Offence has ball at the top, player at the wing, Strong side corner, and high post. (5th offensive player on weakside wing but irrelevant for my question) Scenario: The ball moves quickly from point to wing to corner. Question: do we close from the Nail? If yes, who takes Nail coverage? If Wall, who takes the Wall coverage? If it’s Nail drops to Wall, who is the new Nail? Do we want to overload the court defensively on the strong side?

I have an inexperienced team this year with less skill than a typical varsity team. We spend a ton of practice time on what I consider “skill development” such as priming start and stop moves, 1v1 games with constraints, shooting, advantage games, and team concepts such as 4v2 or 4v3 dominoes. My team is still really struggling to find the big advantage after creating a small one (usually by one of my better players getting to the world). Any advice, games, or teaching for improving quickly at this?

Hi Coaches, I am wanting to do a period today in practice on spacing rules with drives. Would you recommend starting the ball in the action spot and having the defender trail the play to give a small advantage? I want to focus on the half court as opposed to doing the full court/outlet/race zone. We have all 3 Rose Actions in.

We are not full Lock Left this year. I took this job in late spring and we focused on Race and Space and making fa aster pace our friend. This team's previous coach was a 2-3 zone or 1-2-2 soft press back into a 3-2 zone. Needless to say much slower pace on defense and on offense it was a lot of swing it, drive it and then vomit up a shot. Now, for the last 2 weeks of practice we have been focused on learning man 2 man concepts: 1. Force the ball to one side of the floor (we try to say push ball handlers to their weak hand but we miss it quite a bit because they have not fully learned to think this way...yet) 2. Try to lock the ball on one side of the floor- this means we really flood the helpline (we call it the wall) 3. If the ball is skipped- we run offense off the 3-point line and forcing them to shoot contested and crowded 2's or challenged layups. (slipping LL concepts in there) So, I am not a rookie (29 year of coaching high school men's basketball) but asking for some peer feedback here @Tyler Coston @Mark Cascio @Clare Murphy or any one else, Question: slowly implement Lock Left over the course of the season or stick with the established principles I have started teaching from the start of the season? I don't want to give contradictory info and I want them to really embrace man 2 man defense ( I love it ) but worried that we will get overwhelmed or confused with too much change. What do you guys think?

Lock Left D -- coaching 6th grade boys. Does anyone have thoughts on how the wolf should address 2 guards on the inbounds in the full court? I'm tempted to have him sit back and wait to see which guard advances the ball and just force left as usual...but the guards could simply pass it back and forth as they advance, exhausting my wolf. Alternatively, I could bring up the gap/snipe for the 2nd guard but that could result in my gap/snipe player becoming wolf (less desirable from a personnel/skillset perspective).