Basketball play 4high motion offense strong reject screen option. Coach preheim is doing a great job drawing up some of the nations best basketball teams and sharing them with us. Here is a quick hitter that is run out of a box set and involves a little misdirection. For most of his career prior to lemoyne, he ran a modified version of the flex offense.
Once in the half court, coach cooley details his flex offense progressions, giving rules and structure to an offense that can have all five players be interchangeable. He came up with one great set of notes on the gary williams flex offense. Keep the ball and players moving until the defense breaks down and there is an open shot or driving lane. Gary williams you have to have an offensive system that you are confident teaching. It was utilized to bring uclas star center, lew alcindor a. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link. It is a patterned offense relying on cuts across the key and down screens to create a pickthepicker action. The coach who ran it with most success and is known as the father of the flex was carrol williams while he was head coach of santa clara university. Maryland coach gary williams most scoring opportunities come off the flex cut inside, or a jumpshot from the elbows. As coach of the 2002 ncaa championship team, 25 wins in the ncaa tournament, and an overall winning percentage of. Even though flex is designed for man defenses, some coaches have success using the flex against zone by. It was utilized to bring lew alcindor, away from the basketball. Mastering the flex offense basketball championship productions, inc. Best basketball notes with dribble drive offense and nike.
It has been run by many ncaa teams, including by gary williams of the. The flex offense is a patterned, continuity offense that makes effective use of backscreens to create easy and open scoring opportunities. Flex offense the high flex delay offense you can use the flex offense as a delayspread offense. The flex offense is a basketball offense that was run by maryland and boston college in the 2000s. Gary williams university of maryland basketball flex.
Make your guys throw skip passes and look inside every time from the perimeter. There are many coaches that have had success with the flex offense including gary williams of maryland who won the 2002 ncaa championship using the flex offense, bo ryan at wisconsin, al skinner at boston college, jerry sloan variations of it during his time with the utah jazz, not to mention hundreds of high school coaches across the country. The flex offense is an offensive strategy in basketball invented in 1967 by rene herrerias while coaching at calberkeley. Coach david preheim shows us the gary williams flex offense maryland basketball. What i like about it is that you can put anybody in any position. The obvious disadvantage to this approach is that you now have two separate offenses to teach. Flex for success with mark few, gonzaga university head coach.
Keys are being to get the ball inside, and players who can pass the ball. You will have great spacing, player movement, and ball movement. Whether its williams, davis, or former maryland coach gary williams, whose 2002 national title team ran the flex, coaches emphasize the team aspect of the offense. How to scrimmage 43 gary williams, roy williams, dave odom clinic notes. Basketball offense flex offense, coachs clipboard basketball. Much as the spread offense in football is designed to create operating room by making the defense cover the entire field, pearls flex offense is designed to create. This is an excellent dvd on the flex in a clinic setting if you have strong post players. The flex offense is a great 4out 1in continuity offense primarily using down screens. An offshoot of an offense run by hall of famer and coaching guru pete newell, who used the reverse action to win the 1959 national championship at the university of california as well as an olympic gold medal for the united states in 1960, the flex has bicoastal roots and several current practitioners aside from williams. In this play, 2 is your best shooter and you are looking for multiple opportunities for him to get the ball in a scoring position whether it be off of the flex cut, or off of the pin down from 4. These basketball coaching clinic notes include tex winter and his triangle offense, scott drew and his zone set plays, gary williams and his flex offense, and a analysis of the memphis vs kansas national championship game by dave odom. He takes you through his flex sequence, in which he details both strong side and weak side action to keep players cutting and screening with a purpose. The flex offense was designed to attack man to man defenses. Pick and roll positions posterized playbook rebound point screen.
As a result, most coaches that run flex use a different offense when facing zones. Just bring the whole offense up higher, to the freethrow line extended. Mastering the flex offense with gary williams, former university of maryland head mens basketball coach. Thats the only one i knew, he said last week, standing and diagramming plays in his office at comcast center. Todays basketball coaching clinic notes are on the 2008 tabc basketball clinic. Lorenzo romar, trent johnson, tubby smith, bruce weber, gary williams, tim floyd john chaney system. So far, the team has found success in the screen and curl a staple of the flex offense that created open 15foot jumpers against the zone defenses of maine and manhattan. Flex offense complete coaching guide basketball for coaches.
The hybrid flex offense is a very effective offense that is based on a continuity pattern. It starts with a double high post at the threepoint line and shooters in the corners. There are also flex offense championship productions. David preheim put together an awesome set of basketball coaching clinic notes on the flex offense for you. Flex is a good offence with equalsize players, to get the ball inside gary williams has 5 duck in on the flex cut, to get open jump shots, and to control tempo, but requires patience. As coach williams mentions above, the baseline cutter usually gets open on the 3rd cut, so be patient with the offense. A look at the gary williams maryland flex offense like all offenses, there are many different versions and variations based on how coaches have tweaked it to fit their needs. In 2002, he led maryland to win the ncaa tournament championship. Gary bruce williams born march 4, 1945 is an american university administrator and former college basketball coach. The basis of the offense, however, was introduced in the early 1970s by carroll williams of santa clara university. Using this entry the four offball players start in a box format. Lason perkins expands on the horns offense in this comprehensive dvd.
The curl was a staple of gary williams offense at maryland and was best run by guard juan dixon during the terps 2002 march to the national title. Ncaa, motion offense one of my favorite offenses is the flex because it can create many mismatches with all the downscreens and gets the ball into the hands of your best players where they are most comfortable. Williams assistant coach, dan fitzgerald, brought the offense north to spokane when he became head coach at gonzaga. The iowa modified flex by tom davis tape is sold out. Fastbreak and early offense 72 fave fives 3 halfcourt set offense 2 inbounds play 30 man defense 4 motion offense 72 motivation and leadership 116 offensive skills 108 presses and traps 49 principled basketball 2 read and react offense. Frank martin and the south carolina gamecocks use this basic motion format at times as part of their spread attack. Angeli diagrams and demonstrates the post, wing and dribble entries into the offense that starts in the 14 set and culminates in the sideline triangle and 2man game set made famous by tex winters offensive system. Among the teams that run the flex exclusively include gary williams at maryland and mark few at gonzaga. Williams retired after the 201011 season, and is now a college. This does not feature your classic flex cut followed by a down screen. At the collegiate level, gary williams university of maryland won the 2002 ncaa championship using the flex offense. Gary williams head basketball coach 1 3 4 5 2 v key cut pass screen ball v dribble pass v 6 university of maryland mens basketball points of emphasis.
The 3 best shooting drills ever created click to download. Gary williams ohio state 19861989 and maryland 19892011. When williams got his first head coaching job at american in 1978, he brought the flex with him. In fact, one of the most wellknown flex practitioners, retired maryland coach gary williams, does not really like to use the down screen. Cut hard without the ball and maintain good spacing. Coach williams is the longtime head coach of the terrapins. It includes over 30 actions that can be run out of the horns or aset. In this instructional basketball dvd, coach williams uses oncourt demonstration to coach and teach a winning flex offense. Keep the ball moving and hit your teammates when they are open. The flex offense is an offensive strategy in basketball invented in 1967 by rene herrerias. Learn how to master the flex offense with 2002 national champion coach, gary williams. At lemoyne, beilein was running the traditional threeguard, twobigmen, setplay offense that was the norm in college basketball in those days.
It is a patterned offense relying on cuts across the key called a flex cut and down screens to. If you really want to learn all the nuances of the maryland flex, then you really need to take a look at gary williams dvd on the flex offense. Perkins begins with the basic set and actions for the offense. Mastering the flex offense with gary williams, university of maryland head mens basketball coach, 2002 ncaa champions. Understanding rick barnes texas basketball offense. It is strictly showing the flex cut and power game. He didnt like the way things were going offensively. Mark fews zags of gonzaga, and gary williams maryland terrapins, albeit a little differently, get a lot of mileage out of the flex offense.
Coach williams coached under davis at lafayette and boston college, and implemented the flex at maryland when he became head coach. He served as the head coach at the university of maryland, ohio state university, boston college, and american university. The complete book on basketballs flex offense the hybrid flex offense with don kelbick breakthrough basketball. Basketball thunder offense flex offense variation, coach. It is an offense that can found from the acc to the wcc. Teaching princeton progressions 39 flex ball screen set 40 france offensive drills 41 gene keady. The maryland flex offense under gary williams is one such variation of the generic flex offense. Jamie angelis fusion offense combines the 14 high, sideline triangle and princeton styles into one cohesive offensive system. Best basketball coaching notes volume 3 ebook released. All 5 players get to play all 5 positions, which is excellent for player development.
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