Online Basketball Playbook is a free coaching library for basketball coaches at every level. It explains offenses, defenses, special situations, drills, practice planning and the rules of the game, with diagrams you can follow on a whiteboard.
What is inside
- Offense: systems, actions and screens, zone and press attacks, plays and sets.
- Defense: man-to-man, zones, junk defenses, pressing and screen coverages. Start with Types of Defense in Basketball.
- Special situations: out-of-bounds plays, end of game and free throw alignments.
- Player development and drills and practice plans.
- A free play drawer for making your own diagrams.
How the playbook is made
Every page starts from a library of coaching clinics, books, playbooks and practice notes, compared side by side so that where good coaches disagree, both ways are shown. Rules pages are checked against the NFHS, NCAA and NBA rulebooks and say which level each rule applies to. Every diagram is drawn in our own play editor.
Who runs it
Articles are written by Coach Shep, a basketball coach who has coached for a long time. Every page follows the same sourcing and review process.
Playbook packs
Everything on the site is free to read. The playbook packs are printable PDFs, each bought once.