396 Career wins in 15 seasons (most wins by a JUCO coach in that timeframe);
83.1% Winning percentage (highest winning percentage in the country during this time frame);
5x Region X Tournament Championships;
2021 and 2022 Runner Up in National JUCO Tournament;The Scramble Defense is a defensive style of play that most offenses will struggle against. The ability to trap ball handlers, force turnovers, get deflections or just take the offense out of their rhythm is something that a Scramble Defense looks to do every night.
Matt Ridge, the head men’s coach at Davison-Davie Community College, has utilized a smothering Half-Court Scramble Defense to help lead his team to the most victories in all of NJCAA over the last 15 years.
In this highly valuable, instructional coaching video, Coach Ridge breaks down all the details that go into this defensive style of play and teaches you all the critical components you need to unleash this disruptive and unpredictable defensive scheme on your opponents!
Key Components for Trapping Situations
To begin this presentation, Coach Ridge shows you how he uses a whole-part-whole teaching method to demonstrate the two key traps that are critically important within his Half-Court Scramble Defense.
On the first pass trap, Ridge demonstrates how players are instructed to rotate to be in position to take away the second outlet pass. Using this rotation, players are positioned in a way where they can cheat toward the side of the ball where the ball handler has his back turned.
The ability to trap your opponent in multiple spots on the floor and force either a turnover, deflection or bad pass, is a key component to making the Half-Court Scramble Defense work.
Coach Ridge uses instructive game-footage examples that allow you to see these traps in action, which is an effective method for learning the defense and provides you with a method for showcasing it to your players.
Box Drill
Coach Ridge shows you effective ways to teach and prepare your players for reading passing lanes, by demonstrating the ‘Box Drill.’ In this defensive drill, players learn to read an offensive player’s body and eyes – which allows them to cheat one way or another.
In the ‘Box Drill,’ players also learn to react and go after passes without gambling on a steal and leaving their teammates scrambling to cover for them if they get beat. Ridge goes into detail on why this drill is an excellent tool for building the ‘interceptor position’ in the Half-Court Scramble Defense.
Half court traps are a great way to change a game’s momentum and control tempo. Using Coach Ridge’s Half-Court Scramble is perfect for creating chaos and forcing your opponents to play with a sense of being rushed, confused and out of sync.
This is a must-have defensive coaching video to add to your collection – regardless of the level you coach and style of play you utilize. This video arms you with a great defensive weapon that helps your program move to the next level!
35 minutes. 2023.
BD-06095B: Matt Ridge, Davison-Davie Community College, Head Men's Coach;
396 Career wins in 15 seasons (most wins by a JUCO coach in that timeframe);
83.1% Winning percentage (highest winning percentage in the country during this time frame);
5x Region X Tournament Championships;
2021 and 2022 Runner Up in National JUCO Tournament;Ball screens and dribble handoffs are popular offensive tactics in today’s game. Many times, teams try to exploit a defense’s weak ball-screen coverage and attack the paint.
Matt Ridge, the head men’s coach at Davison-Davie Community College has utilized a trapping, tenacious style of defense to lead his program to the most wins, and the highest winning percentage, in all of NJCAA over the last 15 years.
The ability to trap ball screens and dribble handoffs has helped Coach Ridge’s teams to be one of the best defensive teams in the country, year-in and year-out.
In this highly valuable video, Coach Ridge breaks down how he teaches ball-screen defense and baseline-drive traps to create chaos in the half court while helping to control tempo.
Trapping Philosophy, Defending Ball Screens & Dribble Handoffs
Creating a fun, up-tempo style of play by using a ball-hawking, trapping defense can be engaging for your players. By trapping ball screens, players can force opponents to play faster than they would normally like to and play right into your hands strategically.
Coach Ridge explains all the ways to control tempo and keep the ball out of your opponent’s best players hands through a defensive system of guarding ball screens and dribble handoffs. This type of defense builds your team's confidence and can force turnovers, which leads to easy baskets in transition.
With ball screens being a very popular offensive tactic, Coach Ridge demonstrates by using a presentation method that combines whiteboard-diagramming, film breakdown and on-court presentations to teach you how to trap ball screens and dribble handoffs, as well as how your other defenders should rotate to prevent easy buckets.
Whether your offensive opponents utilize a two-outlet or three-outlet pass strategy, Ridge shows you how to teach players to properly rotate in the ‘interceptor spots,’ while having a ‘goaltender’ ready to prevent any easy layups around the rim.
Defending Baseline Drives, Trapping Drills
Whether a team is playing 5-out or 4-out with 1-in, Coach Ridge outlines how to place tremendous on-the-ball pressure by trapping the baseline driver. Ridge explains that this type of defensive pressure – when combined with your trapping ball screen and dribble handoff defense – creates tough scoring opportunities for opponents, as they will feel like you are constantly swarming the basketball and leaving no possible way for them to get an easy scoring chance.
To best understand this style of defense, you must have a teaching system in place that breaks down your rotations and actions. Coach Ridge shows off a highly effective trapping drill called the ‘Box Drill,’ where players learn how to create trapping situations with two players trapping the ball, while maintaining two players playing the interceptor spot and one player defending in what he calls the ‘goaltender spot.’
The ‘Box Drill’ is effective in showing players how to cheat to one side of the trap or another as they read their ball handler’s shoulders and eyes.
This is also a great drill for teaching any trapping defense, while increasing your player’s ability to get deflections and steals.
Trapping defenses can be a fun style of play for players and is a great way to get a lot of players involved in the game. Trapping ball screens and baseline drives increases your team’s chances of creating turnovers and disrupting your opponent’s offense.
This defensive video will help take your defense to a whole new level – regardless of the level of competition you coach!
Customer Review: 5 Out of 5 Stars. ‘Coach Ridge provides a terrific combination of on-court demonstrations, whiteboard diagramming and game-film examples to teach these important defensive concepts. These teaching strategies will help players better understand how and when to trap and rotate!’
45 minutes. 2023.
BD-06095C: Matt Ridge, Davison-Davie Community College, Head Men's Coach;
396 Career wins in 15 seasons (most wins by a JUCO coach in that timeframe);
83.1% Winning percentage (highest winning percentage in the country during this time frame);
5x Region X Tournament Championships;
2021 and 2022 Runner Up in National JUCO Tournament;
Good offenses create scoring opportunities at any time in the possession. Regardless of whether you score with your early-offense attack or patiently run your offense until it wears an opposing defense down and provides a high-percentage opening to score, the goal of any effective offense is to keep opponents on their toes and struggling to guard any of your designed actions.
Davison-Davie Community College’s head coach Matt Ridge has developed a powerful program that has succeeded for over 15 seasons with his highly effective 5-out, 4-out motion offense; this provides his team with scoring opportunities at any time during the possessing – utilizing a wide variety of offensive weapons – such as backdoor cuts, deep 3-point shots or dribble handoff options - to attack the glass.
In this video, you will get a look at how Coach Ridge installs and teaches his 5-out, 4-out motion offense, as well as the key breakdown drills to teach the fine-point details that make the difference in beating good defenses.
Setup, Principles and Using 5-on-0s To Teach
Beginning with a 5-on-0 on-the-court demonstration, Coach Ridge demonstrates the four basic cuts players make to flow from a 4-out to 5-out motion offense, which include:
1) Top of wing to corner,
2) Wing to corner,
3) Wing to the top of key, and,
4) From the corner out.
Coach Ridge explains that these cuts are the basic principles that help guide players to where they are supposed to move after passing the basketball. Utilizing one of these four cuts also allows players to maintain proper spacing; this is a key principle of running an effective offense.
You’ll see demonstrations of how players can often catch an opposing defender sleeping with a solid pass and change-of-speed cut to the basket. The principles Ridge highlights in this section help to keep your opponents on their toes and struggling to defend your team’s cuts.
Using whiteboard drawings, examples of game film study and on-the-court demonstrations, Coach Ridge proceeds to share his other ‘insider secrets’ for a successful offense. Ridge explains that by having one player cut and turn into a post player, you will add more scoring opportunities, including options such as screening-away, a post-entry Lakers’ cut, and using a dribble-handoff to attack the paint. Each option gives your players additional confidence and creates buy-in. Ridge explains that by relying mostly on back cuts and front cuts, players quickly learn to love this style of play, as they create easy backdoor layups. Coach Ridge then uses a 5-on-0 setup to demonstrate how players can perfect their cutting actions and focus, while learning the finer details of the 5-out, 4-out motion offense.
5-Out, 4-Out Breakdown Drills
Using a variety of breakdown drills, Coach Ridge demonstrates how you can use a ‘whole-part-whole’ teaching method to help your players pick up the key concepts and finer-point details within this motion offense.
Coach Ridge shows off the ‘50-point Drill,’in which players are tested in a 5-on-5 scenario without utilizing a dribble, focusing on catching and passing the basketball while under defensive pressure. This drill helps to teach your players how to move and cut quickly so they can create great passes and easy scoring opportunities.
In the ‘3-on-3, On-The-Side Drill,’players are taught to focus on using screen-away moves, post-entry passes and Lakers’-cut actions with the post player. This drill serves as a great setup for your 4-out motion offense.
In the ‘3-Possession Drill,’ Ridge explains how you can implement restrictions within a 5-on-5 setup to help teach certain actions or cuts your players need to work on and see within the 5-out, 4-out motion offense.
All the drills demonstrated in this section of Coach Ridge’s presentation are excellent teaching drills that help your players pick up on the critical actions within this offense.
Great offense begins with cutting and moving, while maintaining proper spacing. With Coach Ridge’s 5-out, 4-out motion offense you get all these things and much more!
Using all the breakdown drills, whiteboard sessions and game-film study in this highly valuable video presentation, you will quickly fall in love with Coach Ridge’s 5-out, 4-out motion offense.
This is a must-own instructional video that details one of basketball’s most effective offenses!
Customer Review: 5 Out of 5 Stars.‘Coach Ridge does an excellent job at teaching how players can flow between 5-out and 4-out setups. He shows great breakdown drills that help teach players the finer points of cutting, spacing and passing within this motion offense!’
60 minutes. 2023.