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Message: [QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 3402614, member: 5787"] 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 [/QUOTE]