I think this is an important concept, sometimes it's easy to reuse the same offense/defense year in and year out. I'm not accusing coaches of being lazy, I understand that as a coach, it's often times better to coach a system that you know really well, rather than to try and teach a new system that you are only vaguely familiar with. But recognizing the talent that you have and making adjustments is something that I feel is important.
I was coaching football at another school and we ran the spread offense one year. It was good because we had some tall receivers and we didn't have a power back that could run between the tackles. The next year, the head coach decides we will continue running the spread. Not only did we not have a quarterback that could throw more than 50 yards, but we had average speed at best at the split ends. We did however have a dominating full-back type player who we played as a tight-end instead. You can probably guess how well we did that season.
Enough of the preachy stuff, if you're looking for a nice video, check out Billy Donovan's DVD on Individual Skill Development within Your Offense. In it Donovan goes over teaching your players those specific skills that will make them a successful player during the season. It's a good pre-season video to look at. I have notes from the DVD, come by the X's and O's Basketball Forum to check them out.
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