For high-school basketball coaches

Teach the coverage.
Build the read.

Four 90-minute practices that connect ball-screen defense, offensive decisions and live play. Teach Red, Green and Black, then bring them together in one practice.

US$19.99 · one-time purchase

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17-page PDF · 4 practices · 30 activities · Fillable planner

Coach review edition — 10 September 2026. The coaching concepts are the coach's own; the detailed activities and diagrams are proposed for review before use with a team.

A practice page from the kit headed Red — hard hedge and retreat reads. It pairs a court diagram with an explanation of the read, then lists the six timed blocks of the 90-minute session from the 0–10 skill warm-up to the 75–90 shooting finish.

The coaching approach

Build each practice around the read.

Start with skills that connect to the day's concepts. Teach the defensive responsibility, introduce the offensive response, and bring both together through small-sided games. Then give players time to play.

100–10 MIN

Connected skills

Warm up with skills that reappear later in the session.
1010–20 MIN

Defense

Teach the defensive responsibility for the day's coverage.
1020–30 MIN

Offense

Introduce the offensive response to what the defense is doing.
1530–45 MIN

Connect

Small-sided games where both sides meet and help is real.
3045–75 MIN

Play

Full-court 5v5 in blocks, with the coverage called on ball screens.
1575–90 MIN

Shooting

Timed and game-speed shooting drawn from the day's actions.

The thirty-minute play block is measured on the clock and includes the normal stoppages of a practice — substitutions, water and coaching cues. Earlier blocks also contain live defense, so players meet the concept against real opposition well before the play block starts.

The kit does not claim a measured improvement or a guaranteed number of repetitions. It gives you a structure and asks you to judge it against your own group.

Four practices

One coverage at a time, then all three.

Red, Green and Black are the coach's team language for three ball-screen coverages, not universal basketball terminology. Each practice teaches one defensive picture and the offensive response that reads it.

Red

Practice 1 · Hard hedge and retreat reads

Half-court diagram. Ball-handler 1 comes off a screen from teammate 5 near the top of the key. Defender X1 chases and defender X5 steps out hard in front of the ball. Arrows show 1 retreating away from the pressure, 5 rolling to the basket, and a dashed pass line out to teammate 2 on the wing.

Defense: The screener's defender hedges aggressively at the ball while the on-ball defender sends the handler over the screen.
Offense: Retreat out of the pressure to make a passing window, then read the roller or the receiver across the court.

Green

Practice 2 · Drop coverage and keeping the defender behind

Half-court diagram. Defender X1 is left behind the screen, above ball-handler 1, while defender X5 sits back in the lane. Arrows show 1 driving toward the basket with X1 trailing, screener 5 rolling down beside them, and X5 dropping further back to contain the ball.

Defense: The big drops and contains while the guard recovers over the screen, then returns to the screener on the guard's signal.
Offense: Reject the screen when the route is open. Otherwise go over, keep the trailing defender behind, and read the dropping big.

Black

Practice 3 · Like-for-like switching and finding an advantage

Half-court diagram. Ball-handler 1 uses a screen from teammate 5. Two crossing arrows show the defenders exchanging assignments: X5 comes up out of the lane to take the ball, and X1 moves across to pick up the screener.

Defense: A like-for-like switch on matchups the coach judges suitable, taught with footwork and communication rather than contact.
Offense: Reject when open. After the switch, identify whether a genuine advantage exists — with the handler or the screener — before attacking it.

Mixed coverage

Practice 4 · Recognising Red, Green and Black

Half-court diagram labelled Red / Green / Black. Ball-handler 1 with defender X1, screener 5 with defender X5, and wing 2 with defender X2 are shown in their starting positions with no arrows — the coverage has not been decided yet, so the offense has nothing to read until the defense moves.

Defense: Defenders vary all three coverages without telling the offense in advance. Defensive communication stays normal and audible.
Offense: Recognise the defensive picture from real positions and movement, then choose the response without advance instruction.

Actual sample pages

See what you will take to practice.

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Page 1 · Cover

The cover

Sets out what the kit covers before you open it: four 90-minute practices, thirty supporting activities, and the four coverage names your players will hear you call. The footer states the coach review edition plainly.

Practice page for Red. A court diagram sits beside a paragraph headed The read, with a key explaining that open circles are offense, filled circles defense, solid arrows movement and dashed arrows passes. Below, six rows run from 0–10 skill warm-up through 45–75 play to 75–90 shooting, each with instructions.

Page 3 · Practice 1

A full practice page

Every practice fits on one page. The diagram and the paragraph beside it explain the read; the six rows underneath give you the session block by block, with the activity codes to run and what to say between them.

Each diagram carries the same note: it is a schematic teaching picture, not an exact player path or a spacing prescription.

A page headed Practice activities, subtitled proposed setups to adapt after coaching review. Three coded activities are laid out one under another, each with a name, a setup and coaching instructions.

Pages 8–17 · Activity library

Thirty supporting activities

The practices reference activities by code — R1, G3, B5, M2, S1 and so on — and the library at the back describes each one. They are written setups and variations, not video drills.

These are proposed setups. The subtitle on every library page says so, and they are meant to be adapted after the coach's review.

Planner page headed Plan a 90 minute practice. Fields for date, team and player count sit at the top, then defensive concept, offensive response and observable learning goal, then six larger boxes labelled with the same time blocks as the practices, from 0–10 warm-up to 75–90 shooting.

Planner page 1 of 2

The fillable planner

A separate two-page PDF with 34 fields. Page one plans the session against the same six blocks; page two records what you observed and what you changed, keeping the decision separate from the shot result.

Type into it in a PDF reader that supports form fields, or print it and write on it.

What is included

Two files. That is the whole pack.

PDF · 17 pages

The Practice Kit

Four complete 90-minute sessions — Red, Green, Black and mixed coverage — with court diagrams, coaching prompts and observation guidance, plus a library of thirty supporting activities and variations.
- A one-page plan for each practice
- A schematic diagram and written read for every coverage
- Thirty coded activities the practices draw from
- A reference page on what to watch during play
Fillable PDF · 2 pages

The Practice Planner

A companion planner with 34 form fields for planning a session, recording observations and keeping shooting records against the same six-block structure.
- Page 1: plan the ninety minutes block by block
- Page 2: observe and adjust, plus shooting records
- Type into it, or print it and write on it

A digital download. There is nothing physical to ship. The kit is a reference PDF; the planner's fields can be typed into using a PDF reader that supports forms, and both print cleanly on A4.

Form-field behaviour differs between PDF readers, and some phone and in-browser viewers will display the planner but not save what you type into it. If that happens, print it instead.

There is no video library, no membership, no coaching calls and no Word version. The pack is the two PDFs described above.

The coach behind Court Logic

Written from how one team actually practises.

These sessions were not assembled from a general coaching library. They describe how one high-school programme teaches ball-screen defense and the reads that answer it.

The coach's name and a short biography will appear here once they have been confirmed. Nothing about their record, credentials or results is claimed in the meantime.

Coaches high-school players aged 14–18.
Teaches through small-sided games rather than long unopposed drilling.
Connects the warm-up, the defensive concept and the offensive response inside one session.
Keeps live defensive reads in the practice from early on, and protects thirty minutes of play.

The offer

On Ball Coverages

Four 90-minute basketball practices for coaches of players aged 14–18. The first Court Logic practice kit.

The practice kit — 17-page PDF, four sessions, court diagrams, thirty activities
Fillable Practice Planner — two-page PDF, 34 fields
One-time purchase, digital download, nothing shipped

US$19.99

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Checkout is handled by our payment provider. You will be able to download both files as soon as payment is confirmed.

Complete checkout to access your PDF downloads. Keep the kit for reference and use the fillable planner for your own sessions.

FAQ

Questions before you buy.

Who is this for?

Coaches working with basketball players aged 14–18. The sessions assume players who can already run a ball screen and are ready to be taught what to read against different coverages.

What do I receive?

Two PDFs: the 17-page practice kit and the two-page fillable practice planner. Both are digital downloads.

Are videos included?

No. The pack is built around written activities, court diagrams and planning tools. There is no video library, membership or coaching call included, and nothing in the kit depends on external video access.

Can I edit it?

The companion planner is a fillable PDF — you can type into its fields in a reader that supports forms, or print it and write on it. The practice kit itself is a reference PDF and is not editable.

What equipment does it assume?

A full court with two baskets and roughly 10–12 players, plus balls, bibs and a timer. With twelve players the sessions run 3v3 at both baskets; with ten, one group of six and one of four, exchanging players regularly.

Will it guarantee better results?

No, and it does not claim to. The kit gives you a structure and a teaching sequence. You adapt the activities to your group, judge what is working, and change what is not. It contains no performance guarantee and no measured-improvement claim.

What is a coach review edition?

The coverage concepts and the practice philosophy come from the coach. The detailed activities, rotations, targets and diagrams were drafted from those concepts and are marked as proposed until the coach has reviewed them.

That distinction is printed inside the kit as well as here. It has not been field-tested as a finished published product, and it is not presented as one.

How do downloads and support work?

Downloads will be delivered by the checkout provider immediately after payment. The support contact is being set up and will be published here — with the real address — before the kit goes on sale.

Can I print it or share it with my assistant coaches?

Printing it for your own use is expected — the planner is designed for it. Whether a purchase also covers your assistant coaches has not been decided yet, so no licence terms are claimed here. They will be published before the kit goes on sale.

What is the refund policy?

Not decided yet, and it will not be invented here. A refund policy consistent with your consumer rights will be published, and linked from this page, before anything can be bought.

Teach the coverage.Build the read.