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Bob Knight's motion offense emphasizes post players setting screens and perimeter players passing the ball until a teammate becomes open for an uncontested jump shot or lay-up. This requires players to be unselfish, disciplined, and effective in the setting and use of screens to get open.
On defense, players are required both to tenaciously guard opponents man-to-man and to help teammates when needed, although Knight has also incorporated using a zone defense periodically after eschewing that defense for the first two decades of his coaching career.
This DVD reveals a man genuinely enjoying educating his cast. In the early part of the DVD, which is shot using the Norwalk (Iowa, USA) High School boys' team as stand-ins, Knight turns to a player guarding him too tightly during a demonstration and says, "You gonna put your hands on me and foul an old man already?"...
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Step onto the court with coaching legend Bob Knight as he takes you through everything you need to know about motion offense. In this two-disc set, Coach Knight covers fundamental spacing, screening angles, reading screens, re-screening and more.
He also includes two full games so you can see the offense in action. With an emphasis on converting your team from defense to offense, Knight demonstrates his unique philosophy of conversion basketball.
Knight teaches you a variety of screens, including the down screen, the back screen, the flare screen, the cross screen and the T screen. He also includes various options the cutter and screener have after the screen. In a shooting and passing segment, Knight shows you how to prepare your players mentally and physically to handle game stress and fatigue.
Knight not only shows you how to beat a man-to-man defense; he discusses strategies for beating the zone as well. He demonstrates the importance of dribbling versus the zone with an emphasis on penetrating the gaps and creating overload situations. With in-depth demonstration and teaching, you will learn how to create an offense you can run versus man, zone or pressure defenses.
This free-flowing style of play uses the same techniques (spacing, reading, ball fakes, penetration) to put pressure on any defense. Create an offense that is impossible to scout and stop using Bob Knight's unique, proven teaching methods.
From the Luke Winn's review on SportsIllustrated
"... Knight is far from the furstest coach to cash in on the DVD market: Up until an Iowa-based company called Championship Productions issued this summer set The Complete Guide to Motion Offense, The Complete Guide to Man-to-Man Defense, and Practice, Planning and Drills for Mental Toughness the only Knight materials available were three tapes from clinics he held in 1989, which had been transferred from VHS and marketed with text-only, white covers on Sysko's Web site. For comparison, Knight acolyte Mike Krzyzewski put out six DVDs with Championship Productions in 2005, and most of the coaching fraternity's younger all-stars -- John Calipari, Billy Donovan, Tom Izzo, et al -- already offered their own products as well. ..."
"... Knight hammers home the concept of spacing -- essentially, keeping players 15-18 feet apart on the floor, and cutting to maintain those gaps as well as create scoring opportunities. His offense only works if it's reacting to what the defense is giving, and he stresses the importance of pausing with the ball in order to "read" the floor.
He uses the wisdom of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to help make this point; Knight tells the players that Sherlock Holmes would say to Watson, "Everybody sees, but few perceive." The actual Holmes saying is "You see, Watson, but you do not observe." Knight has a habit of misquoting his quotables, albeit without distorting their original meaning. ..."
There is justification, Knight says, for being a hardass, when it's in the name of making sure the game is being played the right way. "Kids have got to understand that we're damn serious about what we're teaching and we expect it to be followed," he explains.
"You're the general of this army out there and they've got to understand that. And you can do it in the way you go about things. Patting everybody on the ass all the time isn't a way to get it done. It's being careful to teach, and teach everybody that's out there, when a mistake has been made, point out the mistake, let's try to correct it. If the mistake happens again, then we're a little more emphatic about it."
Knight was more emphatic, in his coaching days, than most of his peers. The bulk of his banter in these DVDs, though, reveals a man genuinely enjoying educating his cast.
In the early part of his offense DVD, which is shot using the Norwalk (Iowa) High School boys' team as stand-ins, Knight turns to a player guarding him too tightly during a demonstration and says, "You gonna put your hands on me and foul an old man already?" He quizzes one of the Norwalk forwards by asking him, "You want to be a really good scorer, or just want to be a real tough son of a bitch?" (Correct answer: Tough S.O.B.) He stops one conversion defense drill with the William Penn team, overjoyed that one of its guards had slid off of his man to cut off a drive to the basket, and says, "If you were a girl, I might kiss you over the move you made right here." Read the complete review here.
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About the Author
Robert Montgomery "Bob" or "Bobby" Knight (born October 25, 1940) is a retired American basketball coach. Nicknamed "The General", Knight has won 902 NCAA Division I men's college basketball games, more than any other head coach. On January 1, 2007, he achieved his 880th victory, breaking the record held by Dean Smith. His 900th victory came on January 16, 2008.
He was most recently the head men's basketball coach at Texas Tech before announcing his retirement on February 4, 2008. He was previously the head coach at Indiana University and at the United States Military Academy.
From 1971–2000, Knight coached the Indiana Hoosiers, where he led his teams to three NCAA championships, one National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship, and eleven Big Ten Conference championships.
For his accomplishments, he received the National Coach of the Year honor four times and the Big Ten Coach of the Year honor six times. In 1984, he coached the USA men's Olympic team to a gold medal, becoming one of only three basketball coaches to win an NCAA title, NIT title, and an Olympic gold medal.
Knight was one of college basketball's most controversial coaches. He threw a chair across the court during a game, was arrested for assault, and displayed a combative nature during encounters with members of the press.
On the other hand, Knight has been praised for running clean programs (none of his teams have ever been sanctioned by the NCAA for recruiting violations) and graduating most of his players. Knight still commands a following among fans of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball program.
In 2008, Knight joined ESPN as a men's college basketball studio analyst during Championship Week and for coverage of the NCAA Tournament. For the 2008–09 season, he joined ESPN as a part-time color commentator as well as continuing his studio analyst duties.
• Actors: Bob Knight
• Region: All Regions • Format: Color, Director's Cut, Full Screen
• Language: English • Number of discs: 2
• Studio: Championship Productions
• DVD Release Date: 2009
• Run Time: 127 minutes. Bonus material: 114 minutes
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