Duncanville High School (TX) Head Boy's Coach;
4x Texas 6A State Champion;
2022 MaxPreps & Fab50 National Champion;
2021 Max Preps Coach of The Year;
2021 Dallas Morning News Coach of The Year;David Peavy has built an elite, winning high-school basketball program in Texas by demanding and expecting excellence from his teams throughout his coaching tenure – earning a renowned reputation as a coach who has developed some of the nation’s best players.
Through his approach, Coach Peavy has developed a championship culture on and off the court.
In this highly valuable instructional video, Coach Peavy provides a wealth of ideas and coaching strategies for setting goals for your program, as well as outlining ways for your players to develop strong communication skills both outside of the gym and in the classroom.
Peavy also showcases some of his favorite team defensive drills that he uses on a daily basis to foster competition and transform his defense into a tenacious group of individual defenders who love to play hard and feel pride in the way they smother opposing offenses
Components of Program Building
Coach Peavy outlines a coaching action-plan that features a detailed look at how to adapt and build a culture with your players and all the families of the people working within your program.
The component parts of Coach Peavy’s process are highlighted in three phases – which he defines as, the ‘Basic-Program Phase,’ the ‘Teach-And-Model-Respect Phase,’ and the ‘Teach-Players-HOW-To-Communicate Phase.’
In the ‘Basic-Program Phase,’ Peavy outlines a well thought-out, systematic approach that utilizes basketball as a mean to transform young players in way that makes them better on and off the court, as well as serves as conduit for getting to know players and develop an understanding for their own personal goals.
Coach Peavy uses the ‘Teach-And-Model-Respect Phase,’ to cultivate a deep-level of respect for the game of basketball into players, as well as help them to feel respect for all opponents. He also uses the tactics found in this phase to create habits in players that helps them be successful, while providing them with the mental fortitude to learn how to handle adversity.
In the ‘Teach-Players-HOW-To-Communicate Phase,’ Coach Peavy discusses an innovative system he’s developed that uses classroom grade checks to force players to speak to their teachers and understand the value of communicating effectively with people.
This entire section of Coach Peavy’s video, serves as a sneak peek into a championship basketball program and provides the rare opportunity to watch how a winning culture with accountability for everyone involved is in place as a tenet – demonstrating that this is not something that just happens as a byproduct of being an elite-level team – but rather, it’s a detailed plan and thought-out strategy that occurs as process.
Competitive Defensive Drills
Coach Peavy also shares a series of defensive drills that help build his overall culture of ‘intense and relentless pressure for four quarters’. Peavy’s drills can be used to build on the ball defense, while building competition in practice.
Peavy provides explanations combined with on-the-court demonstrations to showcase two excellent defensive drills that are designed to help your players work on keeping the ball in front of them, in the ‘Pistons 101 Drill’ and the ’30-Seconds-To-Force-a-5-Count Drill.’ Both drills feature defenders on the court competing against an offensive group with the goal of working to control the dribbler and playing hard.
Another competitive drill that Peavy shares is a ‘3-on-3, UCLA-Continuous Drill,’ featuring the team being split up to play 3-on-3 full-court with 2 defenders positioned back and another defender who is on the sideline and runs in after touching center circle. After every score or turnover, the team that was on offense, must press. Usually, this drill is run for a set time or pre-determined score, and the losing group of three players must face some sort of consequence.
This is a unique interesting coaching video filled with thought-provoking insight and terrific, tangible information that you can use at any level of competition in basketball.
With his thoughtful presentation, Coach Peavy provides you with the help you need to continue to build the championship culture you want with your own team – giving you proven advice that you can take to your locker room this season and highly valuable, competitive defensive drills you can incorporate into your next practice!
78 minutes. 2023.