A Future Team

By Mario Blasone

Coach Blasone reaches with this book a beautiful balance between knowledge and experience. Any show of culture even if he could do it easily.He designs many offensive anddefensive drills with clear ideas. He looks to be teaching on the floor like running a practice,with good advices in order to have a good job from his players.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Een13
• Release date: Nov 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9783955776152

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(Orazio)

A Future Team

Mario Blasone is our most succesful coach with our youth program National Teams, but it remains mainly a teacher, an educator.

Blasone contributed to build many players at national level, not only onto the court but mainly outside of court.

Coach Blasone reaches with this book a beautiful balance between knowledge and experience. Any show of culture even if he could do it easily. He designs many offensive and defensive drills with clear ideas. He looks to be teaching on the floor like running a practice with good advice in order to have a good job from his players.

OK Coach Mario! Well done

Giovanni Petrucci

Presidente Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro

A Future Team

• SUMMARY •

1. AGGRESIVE MAN TO MAN DEFENSE

• 1 on 1 side

• Bagdad Drill

• Malaga Drill

• Summary Drill

• Madafen Drill

• 2 vs 2 cooperation on baseline

• The Wall

• Defense on Big Guys

• Help inside

• PYCE

• Inside - Outside cooperation

• Shell Drill

• Defense against blocks

• Defense against pick n’ roll

• Final Solutions

2. COMBINATION DEFENSE

• Combination Defense

• 1-4 offense Low baseline

• 2-3 offense High

• 3 vs 3 Excercise

• 4 vs 4 Excercise

• Aquelarre

3. MY OFFENSE AGAINST ZONES

• My Offense against zone defence

• Ball Reversal

• Skip Pass

• Bridge

• Mario

• Unpredictable Offense

• The Next Step

• Inside Gaps

• Outside Gaps

• 5 vs 6

• 6 vs 6 Full Court

• 5 vs 5

• Triangle and two

• Box and one

• Diamond and one

• Match Up Zone

• Offensive rebounding

• Dribbling

4. MAN TO MAN OFFENSE - 3 readings

• man to man Offense - 3 readings

• Special warm up drills for guards

• Warm up drills for Big Guys

• Extra drills for Big Guys

• Regular offense

• Any Post offense

• Feed the high post

5. SPECIAL SITUATIONS

• Special situations

• side inbound

• Regular inbound

• Inbound half court

• Baseline inbound

• Shooter inbound

• Free throw situations

6. FUTURE BIG MAN POSITIONING

• Future Big man positioning

• We want a quick shot

• Penetrator can have different solutions

• Summary and details

7. MAN TO MAN OFFENSE

8. BREAKING FULL COURT DEFENSES

9. PLAYING INBOUNDS

• side inbounds

• Main principle

• Baseline inbounds

• Last but not least

10. TRANSITION GAME

• Defensive conversion

• Gap drill

• Naismith drill

• Indiana drill

• Offensive conversion

© MARIO BLASONE Via Monrupino n° 7 33100 UDINE – ITALIA

TEL. [phone] – Cell. 0039-333-2408000

Mail: [e-mail]

• AGGRESSIVE MAN TO MAN DEFENSE •

• We want to change the idea of defense – We want to attack opponents.

• We teach defense every practice for 50% of time.

• Everybody can learn defensive techniques, but you must hammer your players every day.

• Man playing the ball handler is the most important on defense

• 1 on 1 on defense is a must, for every practice.

• OUR RULES ARE •

1. One arm distance, bothering ball (Down up!);

2. Electric feet;

3. We force on the weak hand;

4. Mirroring basketball;

5. Target is basketball, not the body of our opponents;

6. Arms work; one forcing on th weak hand, another hand bothering an inside pass;

7. We must force our opponent where we want and we are responsible for 4 meters (two dribbles). Players not able to do this job will be sitting on the bench with me!

8 SMALLER is the most important rule: the defender (even if bigger) becomes 30 cm smaller then the ball handler!!

1 1 on 1 SIDE.

Even if we teach defense we don’t forget offence. (diagr. 1) wing goes low, up, and out, and shows ten fingers.

Middleman passes to wing and follows (diagr. 2)

Hand off, but bouncing ball onto floor and we start 1 on 1 side (diagr. 3)

Defensive player must hold 4 meters. Don’t make stupid fouls like grabbing, holding, pushing! Let him shoot. If a basket occurs, make an in bounds pass to the left