BYU Practice Notes

COVID and the start of the NCAA season has been a dream for coaching junkies like me, the chance to get behind the curtain and see what is happening on the first practice session is fantastic. 

BYU compared to other programs have used a high production team and commentators to obtain interviews with assistant coaches and comment on players and drills. 

VIEW SESSION HERE:  https://www.byutv.org/player/faeba95f-5503-4a6a-b59c-0bb980ea5722 

Notes from the session:

Warm-up was based on body movement and flexibility, you can see the coaches are heavily interacting with players, including throwing a football around and talking to players. 

5-0 to 5 v 5 Offensive Structure 

1 on 1 from the wing, pass comes from coach, player leads out no cuts and must play off two dribbles.

Losers in all drills do diagonal slides up the court and sprint back down the side line. 

BYU SHELL DRILL

The scout team is on offence

Key areas:

• No Middle Offered
• Pressure, force the ball to make a play
• Force everything baseline

If Defence get a steal or block they can run the floor on offence. 

OFFENCE 

2 v 1 from half court with guards and wings in a closeout situation

3 v 4 post players against a zone, working on finding seals.

Full Court 3 v 2 + 4 v 3 - 5 v 4 adding a player each time. 

Pass ahead, secured the disadvantage early.

3 v 3 with first action rules; they play games out of certain actions first. Below is the diagrams for each starting action. 

Another area of note was a large whiteboard at practice that charted WINS, an individual win or a team win, everyone got a win and competing was a big part of practice.