High Low Synergy Playbook

*Learn the technical aspects of the high low game as well as 5 schemes with counters in under 1 hour (46 page document)

I’ve been fortunate to have some “big“ teams in my coaching career. But the teams I’ve coached that have been blessed with size, weren’t the first teams of my coaching career. I had to learn. I had to adjust from a drive and kick style of coaching, from when I had mostly guards, to a system that could feature post players, and even multiple post players at once.

It seems like a coaching no brainer... You just stick your tall guys on the block and throw it in there, right? Well, I think a lot of coaches started with some version of this thinking and quickly found out that it’s not that simple.

I was looking for ways to utilize big men effectively, and what I found was that the best way to do that was through a HILO (high low) game, keeping the ball in the middle third of the court. This 46 page document is my exploration of the HILO game, and the variations I’ve used to create this action in some different ways that all result in actions that made post sealing and post passing easier, while removing some of the help side defense.

I found these actions helped create efficient shots, draw more fouls on our opponents, and dictate a slower pace to a game when we wanted to do that.