Lock Left.... kinda · SAVI Coaching

Lock Left.... kinda

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:

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)
Try to lock the ball on one side of the floor- this means we really flood the helpline (we call it the wall)
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?

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