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[QUOTE="Coach Orange, post: 1029283, member: 2260"]
Nope. He actually starts out 3-on-0 for the first drill, where the players practice pass-and-cut and pass-and-screen-away skills. Then, he adds three defenders. Eventually, the fourth player joins each team.

Coach Boeheim also dictates or limits what the players can do each day during the 4-on-4 drills. For example, some days the players can't dribble more than once. Other days, every possession starts with a pick and roll. Gregg Popovich does the same with his motion drills. Many coaches do; I know that's how I teach motion principles, too. It provides the players practice on the skills while they are actually playing the game instead of the arbitrariness of some drills. Additionally, it provides a level of competitiveness to the drills, building that mindset for them.

Something I picked up from Coach Pop is to only allow defensive stops to count as scores. In essence, if the offense scores, the players' reward is to switch to defense. If the defense gets a stop, they score a point, which is the only way to score. The players then play to seven points. This emphasizes the importance of playing excellent defense (players are motivated to win, so they want to play defense), building a defensive mindset. At the same time, it allows the players to work on offensive execution since they want to return to defense since that is how they can score points.

Hope this helps answer the question.
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