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Half Court Hoops - Coach's Cut · Jul 30, 2026

5 Out Offense X's & O's

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Half Court Hoops · Half Court Hoops - Coach's Cut

My 5-Out Offense Masterclass is back for year 2! I have been studying, teaching, installing and running 5-Out offense for over 15 years, the last 3 as a head coach. Not only did we have to turn a program around that was 4-20 the year before I took over, but creating a 5-Out offense built on decision-making and “Create-Keep-Use” philosophy from the basics has taught me so much.

I have made the decision to move this publication over to Beehiiv Starting September 1st. Nothing will change on your end, you will receive the same updates, have access to the same breakdowns. The only difference is everything will be hosted on Beehiiv. I will be honest, I am super nervous about this change, but the reality is it will save me money and make for a better user experience. My main focus is the user experience, and it is becoming more and more limited with what I want to do here on Substack. While money isn’t the biggest influence in my decision-making, I have outgrown Substack here through all of your support. I will send out more updates in the future about the changes throughout the next month.

This experience has been invaluable to my knowledge of how to teach and install this offense and I am continuously learning and growing as a coach every year, discovering new things to add, tweak or use to help my players create better decisions.

This Masterclass will go over everything you need to run a 5-Out Offense, starting with Spacing, Break Install, Half Court Concepts, and flowing into how to teach and use drills to create the offense you want. We play FAST, finishing last season #1 on Synergy out of high school teams for % of possessions in transition, and I encourage every coach to play this way as well.

Clips of our “Husky Break” offense, running off both misses and made shots:

Playing fast does not fit every team or coaches personality, so even though we will talk about how to play and commit to playing faster, there will be much more focus on how to build and chain actions together so your offense will never be able to be slowed down in the half court as well.

My biggest goal and focus for this years Masterclass is to make sure we focus on how to teach and install as many reps in practice for our players to make better decisions and how to combine these with reps on the actions you want to see in your offense.

This Masterclass is designed to give every coach with any level of experience. I will go over the tools to learn, install and run 5-out offense starting with the basics of philosophy and spacing all the way to specific drills based on decision making, skill development and concepts that you can use.

The design of this 5-out offense masterclass will be 4 sessions once a week starting September 2nd.

Session 1 September 2: Intro & Spacing Concepts

Session 2 September 9: Transition & Early Offense

Session 3 September 16: Actions, Concepts & 5 Out Playbook

Session 4 September 23: Drills, Skills & Practice Planning

Throughout these sessions, I will include film from my teams from the last few years, including practice footage as well as NBA, NCAA & high school examples.

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Mar 10

In this breakdown we will do a deep dive into how we run, design and install our 5-Out Break. We made a big change from this past season to focus on playing as fast as possible and that change was huge for our offense.

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