A Coach's Diary

The video below is a great interview where Coach Nick from BBall Breakdown speaks with Steve Kerr about the GS Warrior offense, his coaching influences, how he teaches and practices what they do, and his philosophy on sharing the ball and movement. His offense came from many different coaches and mentors:  Phil Jackson and Tex Winter triangle actions with the split cuts out of the post, Motion strong and weak from Coach Pop, 21 Action from Mike D'antoni and Alvin Gentry, and Rick Adelman's corner offense. Kerr likes to introduce and teach concepts more than plays, which gives the players freedom to do what they do with structure.  He talks about the importance of repping what they do so that the players know their options and how to read and react with pace. Coach Kerr also talks about how the ball has energy and needs to be shared and the importance of keeping everybody involved in the offense. Catch the full video below:

Buzz Williams, the head men's basketball coach at Virginia Tech, talks about icing the ball screen.   At the end of the video, around the 5:30 mark, he talks about how important it is to teach and coach toughness and playing hard everyday for basketball and for life. - Any time a rotation is forced you are at a disadvantage.   So, they use ice so they don’t have to have an extra defender to rotate over.   You have the handler and the screeners man to contain the ball so that the other 3 guys can stay on their other 3 guys.   - The more simple and precise you can make anything, the better.   You get slippage any time you make stuff personnel specific, so having a set system or plan helps with consistency and limits mistakes and game slippage. - Make sure you spend time on other coverages that are different than what you do.   The % of icing the ball screen, even in college, is still low.   So he has to work on the other coverages.   ...