Keep your practices fresh and enjoyable for players. Homer Drew leads you through 15 of his best practice on both sides of the ball.

Coach Drew starts by demonstrating four different shooting and free throw drills that encourage competition and focus from your players. These drills will allow you to focus on the area of the floor where your teams needs help or in the flow of your offense.

Push your players to work hard and compete during conditioning using Drew's timing system and drills.

One key to great defense is staying in your stance. Drew shows how you can build strength into your athletes legs to help them maintain a defensive stance throughout a game. He uses simple defense-oriented drills to condition the legs and shows how to adjust the drills to compliment your defensive system and improve footwork.

Teach your team to fight for rebounds with Drew's competitive rebounding drills. Drew delivers four of his best rebounding drills for creating competition in practice and getting more second shots in a gem.

To keep players fresh throughout the season, Drew mixes in a "Special Day" once a month where players don't even touch a basketball, but work hard and compete in other ways such as playing kick ball or dodgeball. This allows them to relax and refocus during the season.

Drew concludes with a brief overview of his his 4-on-4 Shell drill and discusses five ways to guard a ball screen.

Add variety to your practices this season using these drills and concepts from Homer Drew!

2010.

Improve key basketball skills and concepts in your program using 14 of Ben Jacobson's best offensive and defensive drills.

SHOOTING & SCREENING:
He shares a few of his team's effective shooting drills by incorporating his motion offense screening actions to get his players to develop communication, reading screens and working on screening while getting shots. In these 3-man shooting drills, the players are getting two shots out of each screening action including the diagonal down screen and elbow screen. Coach Jacobson demonstrates his screening philosophy as well as the options his players have after reading the defense.

He then goes into his 2-minute layup drill, which is a full court drill used to work on passing and catching as well as conditioning.

DEFENSE:
In the defensive drills segment, Jacobson shares his defensive philosophy which is 80 percent Pack-Line defense and 20 percent ball denial-push, sideline-rotate baseline.

He takes you through the alley drill, which is used to work on defending the ball without fouling and containing the dribble.

He moves into his 3-on-3 defensive shell drill that his teams work on every day and focuses on the early help position and guarding up in the gap to stop dribble penetration. He uses this drill to build his defensive fundamentals including angle of approach, closeouts, guarding the dribble and help rotation. Train your players to set the defense in all situations and force the offense to play into a set defense as often as possible.

REBOUNDING:
In his numbers rebounding drill, Jacobson shows you how your players can ride with the opponent away from the basket to create space to gather a "clean" rebound.

The session ends with his defensive disadvantage drill which puts all the fundamentals worked on earlier together in a scramble situation.

Improve your practices this season with this excellent selection of drills and concepts!

68 minutes. 2010.

Get some new ideas, concepts and drills to help you run a more effective practice.

Bruce Pearl has been one of the most consistently successful coaches in the country, taking Tennessee to its first ever Elite Eight appearance in 2010 and becoming one of only five active coaches at the time with 10 or more Sweet 16 appearances to his credit.

Pearl himself believes that observing other coaches in early season practice one of the best ways to learn how to be a better coach and make your team better. In this three-DVD set, Coach Pearl gives you access to his own early season practices with his Elite Eight team.

FAST BREAK OFFENSE
One of the toughest things to do on defense is to get back on transition. See how Pearl and his team put as much "pressure on the rim" as possible. Pearl teaches the fast break using breakdown drills and shares several of the options his players have on the offensive end of the court. He also emphasizes taking smart shots and trusting your teammates to rebound. This philosophy has helped Tennessee become one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the country.

PRESSURE DEFENSE
If you want to have freedom on the fast break, you need to create possessions on defense. Coach Pearl does this by using full-court pressure. He breaks down his defense starting with ball entry and emphasizing deflections and trapping.

DRILLS
All of Coach Pearl's drills are meant to teach and enforce his brand of up-tempo play. Are you looking to shore up your transition offense and defense? If so, Pearl's passing and shooting drills and situational and build-up drills on defense will provide you with a great library to build from. Positional drills break down offensive and defensive roles for post and perimeter players.

GAME FOOTAGE
Pearl's up-tempo, ball pressure strategy has helped Tennessee beat some of the best teams in the country. By viewing game footage from many of these great wins you will see how Pearl's offense and defense really work against tough opponents.

In Bruce Pearl's first five years as head coach at Tennessee, the Vols never failed to reach the 20-win mark or NCAA Tournament and were the winningest program in the SEC.

Now, you have your all access ticket to practice with this exciting coach and team.

2010.

featuring Derrick Rose,
Chicago Bulls point guard, 2008-09 Rookie-of-the-Year

and Rod Strickland,
former professional point guard (17-year career)

Learn the skills, drills and mental concepts that have helped Calipari-coached point guards like NBA Rookies of the Year Derrick Rose and Tyreke Evans and 2010 First Team All-American John Wall.

For the first time ever on DVD, John Calipari shares the skills and drills he uses to train championship-caliber point guards. Watch as Calipari coaches Derrick Rose and Rod Strickland through each drill giving you a first-hand look at what it takes to improve your game.

• The Skills - Ball handling, being a scoring threat, passing angles, free throw shooting and on-ball defense.
• The Drills - Drills to practice shooting, playing fast with the ball, transitioning from the catch to the dribble, and stopping dribble penetration.
• The Mental Game - Developing a confident swagger, leadership, team before self mentality, mental toughness, and knowing what motivates you.

As a point guard, you have to be a scoring threat at all times. Improve your ball quickness and hand-eye coordination, develop a "go to" spot on the court where you know you can get a basket, and learn to play through contact, finish strong and score. In addition, Derrick Rose shares a favorite drill he uses to improve his shooting range.

To be a great point guard, you have to be able to guard the ball. Learn three key areas where you can improve your on-ball defense immediately.

What would it be like to sit down with two great NBA point guards and talk basketball? This is your chance! Sit in on an in-depth discussion between Calipari, Rose and Strickland on the intangibles of point guard play. Learn how these outstanding point guards developed their game to the highest level-the NBA.

Coaches: The skills and drills presented in this DVD will provide you with coaching cues and techniques for training and developing your point guards. These drills and concepts can be implemented into your players' workouts or they can be performed by your players on their own.

This is the definitive skills development DVD for point guard play.

85 minutes. 2010.

featuring Derrick Rose,
Chicago Bulls point guard, 2008-09 Rookie-of-the-Year

and Rod Strickland,
former professional point guard (17-year career)

John Calipari, along with 2009 NBA Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose and 17-year NBA veteran Rod Strickland, build on the necessary skills and drills needed to become a complete point guard. The three team up and demonstrate how point guards can maximize their skills in both the Pick and Roll and the Dribble Drive Motion offense.

Coach Calipari shows how a point guard can use screening angles from seven different areas on the court to successfully execute the pick and roll. You will see what the proper actions look like, as well as what your point guard must be looking for as the action is executed.

Calipari and Derrick Rose take you through the four S's that point guards execute on a successful pick and roll - start, set-up, separation, score. In addition, Calipari includes the drills he uses to get his point guards to understand the four S's.

Learn recognition drills that can be used for lob and skip passes out of the Dribble Drive Motion Offense. Calipari takes you through the dribble drive alleys and shows six actions that your players must be able to see and execute. Calipari shows the various methods for defending the pick and roll and the different angles that the point guard can take for successful separation from the defender.

Derrick Rose demonstrates "tight" cone drills using a variety of dribble moves beginning with a simple crossover and progressing to very challenging combination moves.

Throughout the DVD, Rose and Strickland lend insight and player perspective to these essential skills and movements.

This DVD gives athletes and coaches a thorough understanding of what point guards need to see and execute when running today's offensive systems.

67 minutes. 2010.