How Point Guard Starts Offense in Youth Basketball

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Hi, this is Sean Hobson. What we're talking about right now is working with our point guards to become the best point guards they can on the floor. To really get their teammates involved and to start the offense. Right now we are going to focus mainly on what happens after we've called the offense, getting it started for that first pass. It's the point guards responsibility to get the offense started. He may have to use the dribble and penetrate to get a guy open. He may have to dribble down. We're going to show you a couple different strategies that our point guards use. First of all, obviously, after he gets the play in from the coach. He's going to call the play out. We'll just call "motion" right here. Once he calls "motion" the rest of the guys on the floor now know what to do. We're going to have our wing player try to get himself open by using a V cut. If he V cuts and comes up and can't get the ball, we don't want our point guard to throw a really long pass from all the way here. What we'll usually have him do is dribble, with a purpose, to go down and have a shorter pass to the wing. If this guy is well defended and covered, what our point guard might want to do is, sometimes we can get him to penetrate the middle, get down in here, to draw this defender and to draw that defender's attention. That way we can kick it out and get our offense started that way. This is what it looks like to penetrate and kick. Good. Now out point guard could just return back to the top of the key or he can go ahead and screen away from the offense regardless of where he passed it to. That way we got the ball to the wing, now we can start our offense. That's how we get the first pass made in the offense.

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