More Pattern Offense - 'Cause I See It All The Time

I saw this team play about three weeks ago and commented on their pattern offense. I got to see them again last week and this same pattern offense came back. Now, this team is quite good, but by this I mean they have some nice athletes, they shoot it well, and they run their stuff pretty well. But what ended up being a 12 point win for them should have been about a 40 point win.

This team has a pretty good point guard but she is unable to get to the rim with anything other than a simple crossover and she usually needs a ball screen to get there. Here is where the real crime occurs. Instead of working on that stupid 3 man interior pattern for hours and hours - which they obviously have been doing because they run it so well - they should have been working on getting to the rim, making moves, reading the defense and reacting, and generally working on BASKETBALL.

So should you. Teach them how to play the game, not how to run some stupid offense you read in a book of devised on a Burger King napkin. The team I referenced above is currently ranked 2nd in our state. If someone along the way had taught them how to play the game, they would be so far ahead of everyone else that a state championship would be a lock. See, this is where you are so instrumental to their eventual success. You get none of the glory but all the credit - and you may be the only one who knows it.

Strangely, the other team caught on to the pattern, as all teams do, and defended it pretty well.