Dribble or Drive?

Noah asks his players a simple question: do we want to dribble or drive?

Driving means attacking. It means getting into the defense’s body, bumping through contact, and forcing the help to commit. A dribble covers ground. A drive creates an advantage.

You can dribble for ten seconds and create nothing.

You can drive for one second and collapse the entire defense.

The Bump

Watch the workout and pay attention to the physicality. Noah is coaching every detail of the drive: the zero step, the gather, the bump through the chest (like at 5:32 in video below).

The bump is sometimes what separates a dribble from a drive. Without it, the defender has the opportunity to take control. With it, the help has to come and every off-ball player has a decision to make.