Your Thanksgiving Mailbag from Breakthrough Basketball

 Welcome to our special Thanksgiving edition Mailbag!  We have 8 of our latest articles below to help you level up your coaching just in time for the 2023-24 season…  Plus we go behind the scenes to answer some of your most pressing coaching questions….  And finally, remember that we’re currently running a 30% storewide Black Friday & Cyber Monday discount that expires on Monday.  So if you’d like to take advantage before it expires:  [Go here to explore our programs and claim your 30% Black Friday discount](  Coaching Articles, Drills & Videos:  [A "Viral" Zoom Offense Drill - 4v3 Drive-Kick-Swing Advantage](  [Is This Offensive Action Better Than Ball Screens? 7 Reasons the Zoom Action Might Work Better For You!](  [This Improves Effort, Offensive Rebounding, Transition Offense, & Transition Defense](  [Ball Screen Defense - Ice, Drop, and Switch]( YOUTH Coaching Articles, Drills, & Videos:  [Speed Dribbling With Only One Basket? No Problem!](  [Average Youth Team Transforms Into High School Powerhouse! Here’s How]( Training Articles, Drills, and Athletic Development Tips:  [My Favorite 1v1 Drill for Skill Development](  [A Great Athletic Development Variation To Add To Your Basketball Drills - Improves Speed, Balance, and First Step Acceleration!](  Your Questions & Our Responses Last week, we launched [Coach Steege’s innovative Zoom Offense]( and it’s been a huge hit so far. This offense is dedicated to helping you create big advantages and score more points with easy shots, while fighting against players’ tendencies to become robotic instead of attacking the basket. One coach who purchased the product reached out to Coach Steege and asked a great question about running this offense against a variety of defenses:  Hello Coach Steege:  I hope you don't mind me contacting you regarding your Zoom Offense offering on Breakthrough Basketball.  I purchased your offering today and although I have not watched all of it, I watched the first video and read through the ebook.   Do you have any suggestions/experiences to share regarding running the offense against a variety of zone defenses or do you run some other offense when faced with an opponent's zone defense?  Thank you for your time.  Here was Coach Steege’s response:  Hey Coach,  This is how we handle it...  In transition, we tell our guys we're going to get at least 1 action before we worry about what defense the opponent is in. A lot of times our pace and/or action will get us a good shot before we have to worry about zone offense. This offense can confuse a zone just as easily as it does a man defense. NOW, with that being said, we have never run our man offense against zone dead ball, or after an FT if we know they will be in zone. For example, if we are walking it up and they are standing in a 2-3 or 1-3-1, the defense is set, we will run our zone offense. For us, it's because we think our zone offense is going to be more effective than Zoom, but if I'm being honest, I've never really tried running it against a set zone either :)  Against a 2-3, I would imagine running your actions with a switching D/slip mentality could be very effective.  A girls coach from the area who used to be my assistant talked about trying 2 post flow against 2-3 this year...on the whiteboard, it looked pretty good, but you don't know until you try.    I will also note that over the past couple of years, we have incorporated more Ball Screen, DHO actions in our zone sets.   Hopefully that helps!  Always feel free to ask questions.  Coach Steege  Next, we also had a coach reach out who's hungry for more skill development programs with the season almost underway. Here was this coach’s question:  Good afternoon,  I'm reaching out to you this afternoon looking for guidance on what product I should be looking at?  I recently purchased ['How to Run A Championship Practice']( honestly, I was happy that I did. Coach Ryan introduced many new drills that have been beneficial to our team's development. Now,.. I'm seeking more.  I'm searching for videos that will showcase competitive drills and that will teach solid defense. Defense drills can also fall into this category. Essentially, I just want to keep up the intensity and energy that my team has been giving through competitive drills and such.  Can you help? Regards, Luc  And here was Coach Brase’s response:  Hi Luc-  Glad you enjoyed Coach Schultz's practices and the benefitted you and your team.  The two products below are a great place to start if you are looking for competitive and intense drills from a great coach.  [The 12 Skill Drill Video]( provides great drills, offensive and defensive, that are intense and high energy. [The Outer ⅓ Defense video]( provides a lot of excellent defensive drills (as well as a defensive philosophy with the Outer 1/3 Product)!  Note: Both products are available for 30% off as part of our sitewide Cyber Monday sale if you’re interested.  Just FYI- we will be releasing more products in the future with other great coaches. We are filming their practices and will have a ton more great drills.  Any questions, please let me know.  Thanks and good luck!  Mark Brase Product Development Director Breakthrough Basketball  Closing Notes Thanks so much for reading this edition of the Breakthrough Basketball Mailbag! Stay tuned for upcoming editions, featuring more of your questions and comments. We value your input and look forward to helping you on your journey to success. If you have any thoughts on the type of content you’d like to see more of in upcoming mailings, please feel free to shoot us a reply and let us know! All the best, Joe Haefner Breakthrough Basketball         This email was sent to {EMAIL} because you indicated that you'd like to receive emails and updates from Breakthrough Basketball on 2016-12-16 05:42:39. If you don't want to receive such emails in the future, please [Change Your Email Preferences]( or [Unsubscribe All]( Copyright © Breakthrough Basketball, LLC. All rights reserved. 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