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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4528878, member: 833"] I disagree with you on this. A few basic set plays are a great way to get kids thinking about spacing and movement in basketball. By the third or fourth practice in 5th grade I would teach my teams a high post give and go. The center learns how to catch the ball in traffic, look for the cutter, and then react if her or his defender sells out to stop the pass. You can build a lot of offense out from that until there are sophisticated movements and reads. Alternatively, a lot of coaches think they are basketball experts because they were the stars when they were young and they want kids to play like they did, which was a lot of 1-on-1 hero ball where the rest of the team sets screens or watches. I watch high school games where the coaching is abysmal, because the coach basically leaves the team of average athletes to play free form hoops, which is what that coach liked to do when they were young. [/QUOTE]