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Skeleton Drill to Improve Your Offense!
In our recent interview with Coach Ray Rostan from Hampden-Sidney he shared a unique skeleton drill that on the offensive end that really impressed me. I understand the benefit from running different skeleton drills, and the tremendous opportunity to teach and coach in this setting. My ongoing concern and reluctance with skeleton drills has to do with the pace of practice. By now you know I am pretty anal about pace, fast drills, a lot of touches, and nobody standing around. And yes, I run skeleton drill with our poles, and we run them in a rapid pace, with multiple players. (See the article on this drill from Coach Sowell)
But Coach addressed all of my concerns in his points of emphasis and how this drill combines pace and teaching all at the same time, even on the offensive end. In essence it is a very fast paced passing drill, but not in a star formation, but a drill that very directly emulates our offense on the field. The context of the conversation at this point in the interview was with going back to fundamentals and teaching as a coach. And perhaps in some of my zeal to quicken the pace of every drill, and focus almost exclusively on ‘touches’ through shooting drills I missed the forest for the trees.
March 30th, 2011 at 10:31 am
I find this to be a great drill for the practice before a game. It helps set the patterns for how we want our offense to run and I can add any twists to our offense at this point.
The long poles and sometimes D-mids go to one end and simulate our clearing and the offense with D-mids rotating in simulate the offense.
The key is fast paced with groups rotating in and out. I also like to have the players call the offense and moves they will make as they are moving the ball. Puts them in control.