with Kermit Davis,
Ole Miss Head Coach;
2019 SEC Coach of the Year;
former Middle Tennessee State University Head Men's Basketball Coach;
2017 Conference USA Tournament and Regular Season Champions;
led his teams to six conference championship titles in eight years (three Conference USA and three Sun Belt titles);
2017 Conference USA Coach of the Year (sixth overall Coach of the Year honor, including back-to-back Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year awards in 2012-13)
Kermit Davis has built programs that last and teams that play hard consistently night after night. His players take pride in developing offensive skills that can fit any style of offense. In this video, Coach Davis breaks down the 4-out and 5-out actions that have helped his teams compete against some of the best in the country. Davis' presentation is loaded with actions you can use within any offensive system.
4-Out Motion
With today's game being heavy on ball screens, Davis uses screens off the ball to create movement and scoring actions. Starting with a single stagger screen away, he demonstrates how to prepare for and set the screen in order to avoid illegal screens being called against your team. The single screen builds to a screen-the-screener action away from the ball and lets your post players get into the action, demonstrating their range from the outside.
If you like using ball screens, you can incorporate your post players into your ball screen offense. Davis shows how to maintain good spacing, opening the floor for a shot, drive from a pick & pop post player, or re-screen action to get your guards attacking downhill. You'll also see how to allow your trailing post players to get action going toward the rim, which creates space for a pick & pop post player or another guard to attack.
5-Out Motion
Catering to today's trend of running a 5-out no post offense, Coach Davis demonstrates how to use a pin down and read the screen to create a scoring opportunity. These opportunities will spawn movement within your offense and keep the defense on their toes. By using a physical style of play and cutting hard off the ball, you will push the opposing defense to its limit.
Next, Davis teaches various hand-off actions, pin down actions, and follow-your-pass ball screen actions to create movement. These concepts help make his offense dynamic and multi-dimensional within 4-out and 5-out motion settings.
Coach Davis is a master at getting the most out of his players. He takes actions his players can use without having to use a ball screen, and incorporates them into early offense and motion offense. This video will give you many actions to incorporate into your offensive system!
41 minutes. 2019.