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Conceptual Playbook
Shared principles to help your team create, maintain, and convert advantages.
Learning pathway
Build Your Conceptual Offense
Identify what your team needs, choose your starting principles and build a practice to introduce them. Use what happens in games to develop the offense over time.
- Who it's for
- Coaches introducing or developing a conceptual offense with their team.
- Outcome
- Choose starting principles for your team, build a practice to introduce them and develop the offense from what happens in games.
Stage 01 of 04
Assess Your Current Offense
Review game possessions. Where does your team struggle: creating an advantage, maintaining it or converting it? Identify a rate limiter.
Coaching task
Select several possessions showing the same difficulty. Write down what happens and the situation you want to address in practice.
Stage 02 of 04
Choose Your Starting Principles
Select spacing templates and one or two triggers suited to your players. Define the coverage solutions you will introduce first.
Coaching task
Choose a trigger, the defensive coverage you will begin against and the solutions you want players to explore. Use the conceptual-offense guide for the detailed principles.
Stage 03 of 04
Build Your First Practice
Choose activities and constraints that address the rate limiter.
Worked example: If your team struggles to create an advantage against a switch, play 3-on-3 using a ball screen, with the defense constrained to switching. Allow the ball-handler, screener and off-ball teammate to explore the available coverage solutions. Then let the defense switch or use another coverage so the offense must recognize which solution is available.
Coaching task
Record the activity, defensive constraint and what you will observe. Include an adjustment for players who need a different challenge.
Stage 04 of 04
Review and Develop the System
Observe how players respond in games. Decide which solutions need more practice and what to introduce next.
Listen· Episode 7 · 21 minEP7: Why You SHOULDN'T Run Pass and Cut OffenseListen to episodeCoaching task
Return to the rate limiter from Stage 1. Review whether players recognize and use the available solutions, then select the focus for your next practice.
Next step: Learn the Full System
Explore the triggers, coverage solutions and practice activities that connect these principles to your team’s offense.
Implementing a Conceptual Offense
$49 USD
Take the Starter Kit onto the court. Alex explains how to teach shared principles, triggers and coverage solutions through game examples and small-sided games.
Youth Conceptual Offense
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Go deeper into teaching dominoes, creating advantages and developing your offense through small-sided games.