Cuba City HS (WI) Head Boys Basketball Coach from 1971 to 2023;
2023 Wisconsin 'Hometown Hero' Award;
Most wins by a Wisconsin high school basketball coach ever (1027 wins);
2020 NFHSC National High School Coach of the Year;
Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Executive Director;
29 Conference titles, 3x Wisconsin State High School Champions;
2013 University of Dubuque Athletics Hall of Fame;
2007 UW-Platteville Hall of Fame;
2003 Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame;In 2022, legendary Wisconsin high school coach Jerry Petitgoue became the first coach in state history to record 1,000 wins and in 2023, finished his career in 2023 with 1027 wins and 270 losses – with a winning percentage of 79 percent.
As the all-time winningest coach in Wisconsin high school basketball history, Coach Petitgoue has seen and utilized a wide array of methods to play offense. Having coached a wide spectrum of players in all ways while at Cuba City High School (WI) – from undersized players, to talented and explosive players, to smart and savvy rosters some years and everything in-between - Coach Petitgoue managed to win 1,027 games over a nearly 60-year coaching career by adapting a variety of system basketball into innovative strategies that gave his offense flexibility, yet remained easy to teach and always stressed opposing defenses by exposing weaknesses.
In this instructional coaching video with on-the-court demonstrations, Coach Petitgoue provides you with the tools you need to improve your basketball program and offers an inside look at the coaching strategies, practice drills and small-sided games that the Wisconsin Hall of Fame coaching legend used every day throughout his career.
Among the many topics covered by Coach Petitgoue in this highly valuable video presentation, you’ll receive an examination of the following basketball-coaching topics:
Pre-Practice Dynamic Stretching
A series of team-wide dynamic stretching periods designed to prepare players for practice and skill-building segments. An area that is vastly overlooked in today’s sports world, regardless of the sport, Coach Petitgoue offers you a pre-practice dynamic stretching plan that benefits the overall health of your players and improves their on-the-court performance.
Introducing a basketball-specific dynamic warm-up led by kinesiologist Sean Casey, Coach Petitgoue covers a comprehensive warm-up period that prepares players to be ready to immediately go full-speed in the upcoming practice drills or before a game.
In addition to many of the standard dynamic warm-up exercises, there is particular attention paid toward proper breathing techniques which can help your players prepare for competition as well as calm their nerves at critical junctures during a game.
Full-Court, Half-Court Sets and Actions vs Press Defenses
Coach Petitgoue provides a preparation plan to help you combat the variety of levels and formations of pressure defense that your team will inevitably face throughout the course of a season.
Using Spacing & Actions to Create Offensive Advantages – Regardless of Offensive System
As the game of basketball becomes increasingly more ‘positionless’ and hyper-focused on spacing and movements to be successful on offense, Coach Petitgoue walks you through tried-and-true tactics that work regardless of system.
Utilize Pick-and-Rolls to Increase Scoring Opportunities
Regardless of the level of basketball, using pick-and-rolls has become a key component of any offensive system. Coach Petitgoue highlights his favorite pick-and-roll strategies that help to give you an advantage on the offensive end of the floor – exploiting defensive positioning and creating mismatches that keeps opposing defenses on their heels.
Go-To Set Plays, Actions for Half-Court Offense and BLOBs.
Highlighting his favorite plays, Coach Petitgoue showcases why and how specific actions open the door to scoring success within any offensive system of play.
Preparing for Critical End-of-Game Scenarios
Coach Petitgoue highlights an effective ‘End-Of-Game Scenario Drill’ that teaches skills on both sides of the ball. On the defensive side, it features techniques that players can use to work on pressing and generating turnovers, while the offensive team looks to break the press and gets practice repetitions working on free throws while under a pressure situation.
The end-of-game scenarios also includes Petitgoue’s favorite tactics to use while inbounding the ball from different areas of the court – including baseline and sideline situations – so you can get a first-hand look at how to cope with full-court defensive pressure done from different spots on the floor.
In end-of-game press-break situations, Coach Petitgoue offers reasons why teaching a variety of press break templates helps prepare your team to break either man-to-man or zone presses. Petitgoue also shows you different methods for inbounding the ball to your best free-throw shooter.
Coach Petitgoue has loaded this instructional video presentation with highly valuable coaching strategies that will help any coach, at any level, build upon a foundation of success for their team/program.
Through the pre-practice routine, and all the varying levels of drills and skill segments focused on in this video, combined with his overall coaching points, Coach Petitgoue has provided a plethora of takeaways that you can immediately add into your own program. This is the perfect video for those basketball coaches who are looking to build upon the success and processes that they have already in place with their own team’s offensive system of play and philosophy of coaching.
51 minutes. 2023.