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Message: [QUOTE="Fishy, post: 2868257, member: 38"] Figure you run a base offense. Maybe four or five sets that you run three or four plays out of each. Then maybe a half-dozen plays that you might run for a specific circumstance. When I coached youth basketball in college a million years ago, we taught exactly zero set plays. We showed them what a zone was, but never played it. (The league, correctly, asked coaches not to play zone.) This is a true story. Our team was both very small and very bad. I was the assistant coach, my friend was the head coach - we were both maybe 20. A neighboring league (Ansonia?) had a quirk where they had kids a year to two years older than everyone else in the league - and they were good, so they killed everyone. Their coach ran, I kid you not, UConn’s 2-2-1 press for the entire game. We lost 115-25. Our kids were 11-12 - we don’t even have starters, we just play kids in equal chunks. And they got pressed by 12-14 year-olds for an entire game. At one point in the fourth quarter, the other team’s head coach is staring at us. We’re losing by 80 or so. But the guy keeps staring. Finally, my head coach asks him what the issue is - he says, “I’m waiting for you guys to take out your starters so I can call off the press!” [/QUOTE]