Nick Cammarano has proven himself as one of the best youth basketball coaches in the country. His record at Frank Antonides Middle School in New Jersey has many wanting to know how to have a perennially successful boy's basketball program. Coach Cammarano has posted eight seasons of 20 wins or more and two undefeated seasons including a team that went 30-0 in 2003. His Systems 4-Pack gives insight on some of the schemes that he has used to amass a win percentage of .715 as a head coach over the span of 16 seasons.
Many youth basketball coaches struggle to find a way to have an offense that utilizes the strengths of their teams, provides balance, and is easy to install and teach. Coach Nick Cammarano's DVD on the box offense goes through multiple sets and options that can be used to take advantage of your team's best players as well as keeping the offense simple for the players to understand and learn. The DVD utilizes 5-on-0 and 5-on-5 teaching on the court as well as diagrams by Coach Cammarano to provide concepts for sound offense at the youth level.
Coach Nick Cammarano takes you inside his 3-2 match-up zone defense that he has used during his coaching career to shut down offenses at the youth basketball level. This DVD uses on-court demonstrations as well as illustrations on the whiteboard to show how the defense works and how to teach the defense with effective drilling. Coach Cammarano also shows how to defend five different alignments against the zone defense that will turn your zone into a stifling force shutting down your opponents on a consistent basis.
Coach Nick Cammarano takes you through eight possible baseline out-of-bounds plays that can be run by teams at the youth level against either man-to-man or zone offenses. Also presented are drills that can help players learn and properly execute the scoring options that will be used during the course of the game to gain an extra eight to ten points that could be the difference between winning and losing. These plays will have your team executing special situations and scoring all game, every game.
At the youth level, coaches have a hard time teaching their players to attack a zone defense. Coach Nick Cammarano utilizes a version of the Wheel Offense to attack zone defenses that he has used as a youth coach over the last 15 years. Using on-court demonstrations and diagrams, Coach Cammarano takes you through a zone offense that allows for his teams to take advantage of the weaknesses of any zone as well as the breakdown drills necessary to teach the offense. He finishes with 5-on-5 play to show where the gaps are in the zones and how his Wheel Offense exploits them.
