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Last Day: Why Conceptual Offense Fits Your Team, Even If You Already Run an Offense

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Most offenses work until the defense takes away the first option. Then your players look back at the bench.

Coach Dave Lepisto's (@DLphyed) answer isn't a new playbook. He teaches concepts: how players create space, read the defense, and connect the next action. His team won the 2024-25 Wisconsin state title at 29-1 and has averaged 1.08 points per possession over five years.

Three reasons it fits your team:

1 - You don't have to replace what you run. Keep your motion offense or your favorite opening ball-screen action, then use his cuts, spacing principles and teaching for when the first action doesn't produce a shot.

2 - Every player can contribute. Players don't have to be your best shooter or ball handler to create space and set up a teammate.

3 - It's hard to scout. Players respond to the defense and combine actions as openings appear, so opponents can't memorize a fixed sequence.

What you get: his whiteboard teaching, game film of his own team, five full practices (three from the start of his season, two from the summer), and a free 280-page eBook and Quick Start Guide. There's a 60-day money-back guarantee.

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Press Break, Transition, or Half Court: The Same Concepts (Zoom Included)

Your team breaks the press and gets across half court. Then everyone slows down, looks at the bench, and waits to get organized. The pressure is gone, and so is your chance to keep the defense reacting.

In this clip, Coach Dave Lepisto outlines how the possession can start differently while the concepts stay the same, then shows it in game film of his own team. You'll see familiar actions connected after a press break, in transition, and walking the ball up. One example is Zoom, which he calls "Wide + Dribble Chase."

Watch the players away from the ball, too. A backscreen occupies the low help while the others hold their space.

Last day to get the full system for $99 (50% off), plus a free 280-page eBook. Ends tonight at midnight:
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Better Spacing Starts With Changing Speeds

Your team can spread wide and still look crowded. Your players fill the floor from sideline to sideline, but when the ball arrives, the offense is still bunched up.

In this practice clip, Coach Dave Lepisto stops the action to teach the adjustment: the first players filling the corners sprint, and the trailing player can arrive more slowly. Those different speeds create depth while keeping the width, so players make room for each other instead of arriving in the same spot at the same time.

Try this at your next practice: when your offense looks crowded, pause and ask whether one player needed to sprint sooner or another needed to arrive later. Then replay the possession.

50% off Building a Conceptual Offense ($99, plus a free 280-page eBook) ends tomorrow:
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Building a Conceptual Offense With Dave Lepisto: 50% Off Ends Tomorrow

2024-25 Wisconsin state champions and Coach of the Year. A 29-1 record. 1.08 points per possession over five years.

Coach Dave Lepisto's offense isn't a playbook. His players read the defense, create space, and find the next action without waiting for another play call.

Inside Building a Conceptual Offense:
- Whiteboard instruction on his spatial template
- Game film of his own team, with cuts and actions marked up on screen
- Where to start with your team, plus how to introduce it to youth players
- 3 full beginning-of-season practices and 2 full summer practices
- Free 280-page eBook and Quick Start Guide

$99 (regular $199) through Sunday, with a 60-day money-back guarantee:
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Better Than A Ball Screen?

Most of us don't have players who can run a ball screen at a high level year after year. Coach Dave Lepisto shows you why the “Get Action” has been more valuable to his teams over the years than ball screens..

Get Actions work especially well in the Middle One-Third of the court.

Watch for three things:

- In his Conceptual Offense, Coach Lepisto teaches players to stack actions by running an Empty Cut from the baseline to High Post area, straight into a Get Action.
- The backside actions move the help defenders, so the players away from the ball help create the opening
- Stacking multiple actions together is hard for defenses to defend, and since the actions are random, they are almost impossible to scout.

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