Yes, dribble penetration and posting up put pressure on the rim.
But so too do curling around a screen, rejecting in a split, cutting backdoor when overplayed.
Cutting puts pressure on the rim too! Take it just as seriously! #MotionOffenseTips
Hardest habit to break when installing motion concepts and teaching players to read screens:
Become less ball conscious and more man conscious so you know how your defender navigates the screen and thus what cut to make.
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Watched this video several times as a young coach. Full of #MotionOffenseTips. Reverse action when it arises organically in a true motion offense is a thing of beauty. Majerus was on another level cerebrally. Basketball intellect was off the charts.
Four cuts to master off the diagonal down screen
Inside Cuts:
- curl
- back
Outside Cuts
- Straight
- Out
Goal is to develop cutters who can score with all four of these cuts.
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Motion Offense - #MotionOffenseTips
🔑Key Element: The Off-Ball Screen
🔑Key Skill: Reading the screen and countering
Objective: To assess how the defense is choosing to defend the off-ball screen, select the proper counter and score.
Horns Alignment into a staggered screen concept
IF the cutter rejects THEN we screen for the first screener.
Read: Trail = Curl
(#MotionOffenseTips imbedded into a set play ft. Lucy Olsen, a straight up bucket getter)
Iowa hunts for Caitlin Clark with screens early in possession
Three elements of an off-ball screen - passer, screener, cutter - are all "on plane"
Clark attacks the space b/w her and her defender to set up screen
Read: trail =curl
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Whether it is motion offense or another style, when we make context based decision we get easier shots.
When we just do what we want without regard for the context we end up taking tougher shots.
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