I had a coach tell me once that he expected to score off of every inbounds play. I agree. To accomplish that I used to practice our inbounds plays a lot. Every one of our kids knew where every player was supposed to go, they could run these plays in their sleep.
How wrong I was. It wasn't until I applied motion offense principles to inbounds plays that we started to really click on this part of the game. In effect, we had one play that we called a number - that is our inbounder or point guard would call out any number she could think of and that would be the play. All of our other inbounds plays were names - names of college teams mostly, like "cougar", or "Jayhawk", something like that. But the other play would "13" or "57". Our numbered play quickly became our favorite play and during our third year we junked all of our "named" plays altogether.
Here's what we did. A number play is simply: do what you want. Take what the defense gives you. Go to the open spot. Set a backscreen. WHATEVER. Just read the defense and react.
I remember one of the coaches we played said to another coach we played against something like, "We have the hardenst time scouting their inbounds plays because they have so many of them." He couldn't wait to tell me what this other guy said. What neither of them knew was that we didn't have ANY inbounds plays.
How wrong I was. It wasn't until I applied motion offense principles to inbounds plays that we started to really click on this part of the game. In effect, we had one play that we called a number - that is our inbounder or point guard would call out any number she could think of and that would be the play. All of our other inbounds plays were names - names of college teams mostly, like "cougar", or "Jayhawk", something like that. But the other play would "13" or "57". Our numbered play quickly became our favorite play and during our third year we junked all of our "named" plays altogether.
Here's what we did. A number play is simply: do what you want. Take what the defense gives you. Go to the open spot. Set a backscreen. WHATEVER. Just read the defense and react.
I remember one of the coaches we played said to another coach we played against something like, "We have the hardenst time scouting their inbounds plays because they have so many of them." He couldn't wait to tell me what this other guy said. What neither of them knew was that we didn't have ANY inbounds plays.
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