Gerard Hillier

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About Gerard Hillier

Gerard is currently employed as the Director of Coaching & Development at the Southern Peninsula Basketball Association, which is located on the Mornington Peninsula AUSTRALIA. He is also the State Championship Women's Head Coach for Southern Peninsula, who compete in the Basketball Victoria Big V State League. In recent years Gerard has coached National Junior Classic Championship teams in both youth boys & girls, and has also won state titles with the Southern Peninsula girls program.

Gerard is also the Head Coach for the Victoria Country U18 Women’s program, and has also been the Victoria Country U16 Women’s Head Coach for the past 3yrs, who compete at the National (Australian) Junior Championships.

Gerard's Playbank (3 Total)

Dribble Drive Motion - Creating a Split & Decision Making Pt.2

Gerard Hillier 06/15/2016

Here are some more basic drills we have found extremely valuable during the "implementing Dribble Drive" phase, which we still use on a daily/weekly basis (they are a modified version of the traditional DDM Blood Drills). The importance of being able to create a "split" (where two defenders commit to the ball carrier) is pararmount within our DDM system, but the ability to be able to make an appropriate read/decision is just as important. There is no point getting in to the paint if you are just going to throw the ball away. What we are doing in this series is creating gamelike situations for our players, then letting them play it out and build on their decision making ability. You can move the initial setup to suit your teams needs, and all players are encouraged to play all positions/roles as part of their basketball IQ development. See More

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Dribble Drive Motion - Creating a Split & Decision Making Work

Gerard Hillier 06/10/2016

Here are some basic drills we have found extremely valuable during the "implementing Dribble Drive" phase, which we also use on a daily/weekly basis. The importance of being able to create a "split" (where two defenders commit to the ball carrier) is pararmount within our DDM system, and just as important is the ability to find the open player (from where the 2nd defender came from) for a high percentage & open scoring option. Our "Decision Making" breakdown work is by far the most important part of our practice plan when it comes to our offensive system, very rarely will we conduct 5on5 for great periods of time (no more than 20mins per practice), rather we choose to place as much time in to 2on1, 2on2, 3on2, & 3on3 situational decision making as possible within our practice plan. We have found this approach to be very successful, creating an enviroment where players are making high percentage decisions/reads on a regular basis. There is a reasonable amount of "ugly basketball" when we first implement the DDM system, and we encourage our coaches to try and let the players "organically grow" within the system and make their own decisions/reads, though this is often easier said than done, try and "guide" the players decision making rather than making the decision for them. We encourage questions like "what was your thought process on that decision" & "what did you see that triggered that decision" See More

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Dribble Drive Motion - Initial Movement & Receiver Spots

Gerard Hillier 06/07/2016

Here are our Dribble Drive Motion "Initial Movement & Receiver Spots" that we use at Southern Peninsula, which is all based on Vance Walberg's AASAA or DDM. We use a few different tweaks in our DDM, as we like to have two (2) weak-side shooters as often as possible, and our post movement is also slightly different to that of the original DDM. See More

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