Being able to see the pressure coming from the defense, calmly find the opening, and execute your offense is extremely valuable. Most players will panic when they see the double on the way, or throw up a wild layup if they feel the defense on their back. But if you put your players through these [...]
Since we have rectangular backboards in our practice facility, I came up with this simple shooting drill to develop concentration. Use as a warm-up for game condition shooting drills.
Defining roles & responsibilities is one of the most important aspects of coaching, and the center may be the most important position on the floor. That’s why clearly defining your center’s role should be first on your to do list at the beginning of every season. Defense There is no denying it – having a [...]
Getting the ball into the post has long been the most effective way to run an offense – you get close, high percentage shots, and when the defense begins to collapse, it opens up your guards for in jumpshots in good rhythm. And while most coaches will spend a fair bit of time teaching players [...]
Phil Jackson, considered by many to be the greatest basketball coach of all-time, was the brainchild behind one of the most dominant offenses in NBA history, engineering his teams to 11 championships over the last 20 years. This offense is the famed Triangle offense, and it has long been heralded as an offense that allows [...]
While some people may argue otherwise, there is no doubt that basketball in a contact sport, and if you couple that with the amount of jumping an running that goes on, it’s no surprise that ankle and knee injuries are fairly common. There are several things you can do to help prevent injury, and it’s [...]
Here is one of the basketball training drills I made up to make rebounding practice interesting. I call it survivor rebound drill.
The intent of these basketball practice drills is to teach 5th and 6th graders how to use lane congestion to their advantage on offense and how to fight through it on defense.We call the first drill “Traffic”. The next drill, a muscle memory drill, works on ball-handling skills.
In principle, the eight headings below represent my basketball coaching guide. To gain the utmost from any training session a coach must plan his program carefully.
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