Inside Out

[SoonerNorm]

If you played or coached where inside/out basketball was a prominant part of your offense, how much was it emphasized during practice?

Next question- did players have a difficult time applying inside/out during the games?

 

[rocjunkie]

Part of our fundamental teaching was passing to the post almost every practice. We would work on passing high and low post offense, and kick outs to the guards and wings. We also would emphasize during scrimmage to go inside first and move with out the ball. I was very fortunate to have four solid kids during the years I coached and my kids did a nice job of sharing the basketball. It made it easy on the offensive end. We also stressed rebounding and the kids loved to crash the boards.

I know during the time I coached there were a lot of high school coaches during that time that had good post kids on their teams but they became more guard oriented in their offenses and wasted good post talent on their teams.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Part of our fundamental teaching was passing to the post almost every practice. We would work on passing high and low post offense, and kick outs to the guards and wings. We also would emphasize during scrimmage to go inside first and move with out the ball. I was very fortunate to have four solid kids during the years I coached and my kids did a nice job of sharing the basketball. It made it easy on the offensive end. We also stressed rebounding and the kids loved to crash the boards.

I know during the time I coached there were a lot of high school coaches during that time that had good post kids on their teams but they became more guard oriented in their offenses and wasted good post talent on their teams.

We worked on the inside/out game everyday as well because our coach believed that was the best way to pick up a fairly easy score inside or find an open shooter outside. I don't get the feeling this team spends much time on an inside/outside game.

 

[rocjunkie]

We worked on the inside/out game everyday as well because our coach believed that was the best way to pick up a fairly easy score inside or find an open shooter outside. I don't get the feeling this team spends much time on an inside/outside game.

I don't think they do either. Game after game I watch McKenna work her butt off getting open and in position to receive a pass and we don't pass the ball inside. Granted she needs to work on her foot work after she receives the pass, well she can't get better if they don't get her the ball. The same with Kaylon, she normally will get the ball off a dribble drive, very seldom do the girls do a good job of passing to the post. Most time it is a stupid bounce pass at the posts feet or into double team traffic. I really think these kids could be even better offensively if they would do more inside/out type of passing. JMHO.

 

[SoonerNorm]

I don't think they do either. Game after game I watch McKenna work her butt off getting open and in position to receive a pass and we don't pass the ball inside. Granted she needs to work on her foot work after she receives the pass, well she can't get better if they don't get her the ball. The same with Kaylon, she normally will get the ball off a dribble drive, very seldom do the girls do a good job of passing to the post. Most time it is a stupid bounce pass at the posts feet or into double team traffic. I really think these kids could be even better offensively if they would do more inside/out type of passing. JMHO.

I completely agree!

 

[KCRuf/Nek]

We would begin practices with ballhandling. Included were chest, bounce, and overhead passes. Step to pass and step to catch. While running offense we'd stress having the ball go through the post while making sure they'd get proper position.

I've been frustrated with OU throwing poor passes to a post that easn't getting open. For some reason we were in love with the bounce pass when Nicole needed the ball up high. This year I like the way we've created the proper spacing and made good entry pssses. Maybe it's the players we have.