BASKETBALL OFFENSE
You want to learn offense? Study, learn, and practice one-on-one, pick-and-roll, and give-and-go offensive plays until you can make Carl Malone and John Stockton feel guilty about not being good enough. Every offense designed by every coach is an offshoot of these three basic offenses and what all basketball players are attempting to play on playgrounds, driveways, backyards, dirt, sand, and asphalt courts around the world. If you players really understood the theories and branch theories behind these simple basketball offenses, that same understanding would afford you the knowledge to properly defend any basketball offense with a simple and effective basketball defense.
Basketball players, ask your basketball coaches to teach you basketball defensive drills. Defense is the best offensive teacher. Search online for defensive drills or find books in the library written by successful basketball coaches about the defensive drills they teach and the theory behind why and how they teach these specific defense drills. What's the difference between plays and drills? Plays condition your mind. Drills condition your body and your mind. You can practice these defensive basketball drills on your own so you'll be able to perform the awkward moves a defensive basketball player must be able to execute, i.e. running backwards and quickly shuffling sideways.
However, you players waiting for coaches to teach you these basic basketball offenses and waiting for coaches to condition you are destined to "ride the pine." All players are not, but all players can be, superstars. You must take responsibility for yourself. "With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." --T.F. Buxton. "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." --Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States, 1932. Observe Larry Bird, a basketball player of the highest degree. His only natural talents are a basketball mind, persistence, and determination.
When NCAA basketball coaching staffs spend as much time training and educating high school basketball programs (coaches) and AAU basketball programs (coaches) as they do retraining high school graduates, within 4 years they can be reaping the fruits of their labor. AAU and high school basketball programs trained by the NCAA will be capable of properly training the local grade school programs. A system like this allows elite NCAA coaching staffs to indirectly coach young basketball players to develop proper basketball skills in a logical, progressive, supervised program.
When basketball players and basketball teams are deluged with, and extremely well coached in, executing one-on-one, pick-and-roll, and give-and-go offensive basketball plays until reaching college basketball age, the already stellar play in NCAA basketball will become absolutely mind boggling. This basketball training process is akin to students mastering addition and subtraction before attempting multiplication and division or tackling advanced mathematics and physics. Too much time is being spent nurturing NCAA basketball players' basic basketball skills and education. These basics should be second nature by the time basketball players reach NCAA basketball programs. NCAA basketball coaching staffs should be teaching and coaching advanced basketball theory instead of wasting precious time retraining basketball players' non-existant, poor, and/or under developed basic skills and education. Who's to blame when these gifted yet underdeveloped basketball players reach the ranks of the NCAA? The NCAA basketball program itself.
Basketball teams are allowed only so much organized practice time, as laid out in the rules for grade school, high school, and college basketball teams. As a player, if you're not in "game shape" on the first day of practice you're causing your team a disservice. The last thing a basketball coach wants is to lose a basketball game because of a lack of conditioning. Your coach is obligated to spend valuable practice time on conditioning drills if you report to practice physically out of shape. You leave your coach no choice because physical conditioning is the major deterrent to sports injuries.
I'm telling you, basketball is a simple game. An offense designed around one-on-one, pick-and-roll, and give-and-go basketball, and a defense designed to defend a one-on-one, pick-and-roll, and give-and-go game.
