OT: Half-court trap plays

[Hey Adrien!]

Year 7 for me coaching 5/6 boys' basketball at the school where I teach middle school math.

My team this year is 85% 5th graders and the least amount of skill have coached so far. One very good 6th grade point guard/shooter, a short, poor-conditioned 5th grader who has a nice shot and a raw 5th grade forward who is a basketball nut, but just started playing organized ball. Aside from that, a good group of kids with no basketball experience and much less grit/physicality than what I'm used to. I'm used to low skill teams, but not low grit teams.

Here's where I need help:

We played our first game of the season against a Catholic school where they only rostered 6 kids and 5 of them play for the teams travel CYO team. We can't press in our league, so almost every possession they'd trap my only good ball-handler at half-court and they'd force a turnover half the time.

Considering the "greenness" of my team and the wealth of basketball coaches on this site, any simple plays I can teach a group of inexperienced 5th graders aside from having a wing ball-screen at half-court and then simply run my motion offense? We run a simple motion offensive that you'd teach 10 year olds with two wings, a foul line guys and a baseline runner.

Thanks!

~ Joe

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Run the weave.

if there’s no press I assume there’s no 10 second call? Run a stack play as if your coming out of bounds when you get up to half court.