In a post from this weekend I talked about some great ideas I got from Mike Saylor. One that really got a lot of the coaches attention was a simple drill that I had never seen before. During the preseason he has his players play 3 on 3 shooting only 3 pointers. They play with no out of bounds and look to make as many as they can in a set period of time. There philosophy is to stroke the 3 so they want guys to be thinking move the ball and shoot. They only have one defensive rule which is that you cannot switch on defense. They look to outlet and shoot as quick as possible off makes or misses.
I'm looking forward to trying this out sometime either as a preseason drill or a drill for my guards when we need something fun to break up a practice. Looking to go 3-4 minutes and keeping records of how many makes 1 team can get.
He made several comments throughout his presentation about coaches not liking his style because Bob Knight would never do that. I thought this was a pretty funny way at looking at coaching styles. Coach Saylor has found a style that works for him. His teams beat better teams all the time because they have bought in to this style. What do we do as coaches to create our system?
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