Hi Coach,
It takes a lot of good coaching to get your team to run an effective motion offense.
While it might be easier to just run a few set plays...if you are patient and adopt a sound philosophy you can be incredibly successful utilizing a motion offense.
It's difficult to scout. versatile, allows you to control tempo and in my opinion, your players will grow and develop more in this offense.
Motion offense can take many forms each with different rules, alignments and player responsibilities.
We have selected five teams that have all used a version of motion offense and we broke down their systems for you and created this motion offense package.
Virginia, Villanova, Michigan (Beilein), Purdue and Davidson are all known for their effective motion offenses.
Not coincidently, they have been five of college basketball's best and most successful offenses.
Here is what you get:
Encyclopedia of Motion Offense
This playbook (140 pages) is contains everything you need to know about motion offense:
- Philosophy, Rules, and Organization
- Reads
- Screening Situations
- Concepts vs the Switch
- Playing off the Post
- Secondary Actions
- Sets
- Drills, Drills Drills
Encyclopedia of Virginia Blocker-Mover Offense
This is the offense that won last year's National Championship. This 82-page playbook will help you to better understand and teach this effective version of the motion offense
Villanova Playbook
It's hard to argue with the Wildcats success. Very few, if any, teams have been as successful in recent years.
This motion-based offense thrives on movement and spacing. It's perfect for "small ball" lineups.
Learn the simple rules for spacing and cutting that will help you create both vertical and horizontal spacing.
Michigan Two Guard Front Offense
Coach Beilein has long been known for this offense. His reputation as an offensive guru landed him the head coaching job with the Cleveland Cavaliers but not before he made the Wolverines contenders for a national championship.
This 127-page playbook will detail both his man and zone offense and includes multiple drills
Purdue Playbook
Coach Matt Painter has quietly done a masterful job at Purdue. His motion offense is consistently one of the Top 5 Offenses in college basketball.
In this 92 page playbook, you see the following:
Swivel Series
Horns Series
Special Series
Baseline OB Series
Sideline OB Series
Davidson Playbook
Bill McKillop is the winningest coach in Southern Conference history and his motion offense is one of the reasons why.
This is the offensive concept that allowed Steph Curry to blossom while at Davidson.
Here is a taste of what is included in this playbook:
- Transition & Motion
- Davidson 5-Out (this is really good)
- Davidson Sets
- Davidson Zone Sets
- and much more
Individually these 6 playbooks would cost slightly over $100 but you can get them right now for only $37 if you purchase the collection here.
This special pricing is available until Sunday at midnight.
Talk to you soon,
Brian Williams
The Coaching Toolbox