I like your list.
An observation, specifically about your second one (highlighted) in particular, and, if you please, yet another question?
When we are not so good offensively, we are not moving.
When we are not so good offensively, we are dribbling ...ten-fifteen seconds at a time. Just dribble, dribble, and dribble just a little more. Why is this? (The Chicken or the Egg dilemma).
I doubt that it's Coach Kellie's way of "resting their legs," since she is so quick to sub for that very reason.
What are the other possible factors?
One - Trying to make a play; the "put the team on my shoulders" approach?
Two - Teammates are simply tired. But again, lotsa subbing, so shouldn't be a factor.
Three - Return to high school AAU habits; also possibly attributable to tiring.
...and, there are probably several other factors that you (or anyone) could explain.
.....
One- When I look at film for purposeful dribbling I look for no more than 5-4-3-2- or 1 dribble(s). If a dribbler can't make their play in four dribbles, they better be passing! It only takes a decent dribbler 4 dribbles to get from BL to BL,,,so to me once past half court 4 is twice as many as I like to see unless it is a purposeful movement.
Two- Not at this age. Unless out of shape, physically. I am 59 and can run as many as 3 games in a row before I melt. If a 18-22 yr old can't do it, they need to look at themselves.
Three- I am/was an AAU coach and I ran drills to limit dribbling. SO not all AAU coaching can be lumped...yes, some AAU coaches may let this go, as well as some college, church, YMCA,
UPWARDS and Daddy coaches do.
Egg or chicken:
several possibilities for why the extended dribble
You can't cure an illness without examination...You can't cure basketball deficiencies without watching precisely for that condition and nothing else. I am not paid to, but I have watched a UT LV game for as many as 4X. I pick one or two players that I want to watch and watch the whole game just to pinpoint them. Or sometimes I will watch film just to key in on specific nuances,,,like; watching our set-offense, our fast breaks,,,Our zone defenses,,our post-play, etc.
If movement isn't started or already beginning when the ball makes it past HC, the dribbler has to alternate her entry, therefor extending it. So I'd watch for this and if I see it...TIME OUT for a teaching moment!
When doing team drills, I run different drills to work on specifics. Like dribbling......Such as:
scrimmaging with "
no hand"-extending-defense,,,meaning, if defending without letting their hands break their body's "plane"(meaning hands cannot extend forward, past the shoulders,, works on (
defending) (
Using defensive footwork),,,
For dribbling,, I would change the scrimmage t o :
scrimmaging with no dribble except for one attacking dribble.
(purposeful dribbling) If they dribble for anything other than an a one-dribble-layup-attack it is a turnover...or maybe scrimmaging with limiting dribble to # of times a player can dribble. Silently counting backwards for 4-3-2-1-stop or 3-2-1-stop.
(purposeful dribbling) If a dribbler is still dribbling when I get to
stop while BHer has the ball=turnover...
There are drills for this.
So in essance, if I were AL Brown right now I would be looking at our films for exact facets and figuring them out...As I'm sure he is doing.