Trouble on the Help Side? How to Teach Proper Defensive Rotations
While you want to practice keeping your defender in front of you in practice, it is important to teach your kids what do to should they get beat. Help and recovery
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Coaching Defensive Basketball – Kick The Can Drill
Keeping the offense out of the paint should always be your first priority on defense, and while good communication and help rotations are key for maintaining this, it all starts
Coaching Defensive Basketball – How to Stop a Dominant Post Scorer
One problem has plagued coaches for years – how do you defend size without size? And there is only one answer – with a double team. If you don’t have the
Coaching Transition Basketball: The D’Antoni Offense For Kids
While scoring in transition may look easy, it takes lots of time and practice. It can be a great chance to get easy shots by catching the defense by surprise,
Basketball Coaching – V-Cut Shooting Drill & Opponent Scouting Reports
A couple of things I have found my players enjoy during practice the day before a game is our V-cut shooting drill when we base it against our next opponent. Check out my tip on scouting reports on upcoming opponents also. It is quite effective!
Fast Break Basketball – Fastbreak Practice
We like to have fast break basketball practices and try to create as many situations as we can in this atmosphere. We spend 20 minutes each day using the 3 on 2 continuous drill.
Basketball Practice Drills – Concentration and Shooting Skills
My assistant and I were frustrated by poor shooting around the basket and a lack of concentration at the beginning of practice. These simple basketball practice drills improved both problems. Concentration
Basketball Shooting Drills – Shooting Form and Shooting Accuracy
We are always trying to help improve shooting whether it is shooting form or accuracy. Here are basketball shooting drills that work on both.
Basketball Defense Drills – Continuity
One of the basketball defense drills I love and my team loves is continuity. It teaches defense, patience, hard work, and intensity!
Basketball Handling Drills – Fast Break-Long Pass Drill
These basketball handling drills include a fast break/long pass drill. Every team needs fast break drill and they need to handle long passing.
Basketball Drills – How To Run A Better Practice
In this basketball coaching video, you'll discover the REAL REASON players slack off during practice... and the #1 secret to running a super-intense, well organized practice that keeps your players engaged and motivated for the entire session.
Basketball Post Drills – Low Post Position Drill
Here is one of my simple basketball post drills that I run with my junior teams to develop penetration from the low-post positions at either side of the key. This works best if you have an even number of players in the team.
Basketball Warmup Drills – Half Court Weave Drill
This is a good half-court weave drill that combines the weave with mid-range jump shots, defensive closeouts, boxing out and rebounding. We often use it for basketball warmup drills.
Coaching Basketball – Pass Fake, Shot Fake Drill
I believe it is extremely important when coaching basketball to teach and to install continual fakes into your game. You are able to gain an edge every time you use the fake!
Basketball Practice Drills – Traffic & Muscle Memory 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.
Fun Drills for Youth Basketball – How to Handle Out Of Bounds
These fun drills for youth basketball seem to help the younger players quickly grasp the concept of a basketball about to go out of bounds,i.e.- when and when NOT to swat it back into play.
Basketball Defense Drills – Four Man Touch the Line Drill
One of our biggest problems was transition defense. So here is one of the basketball defense drills that we do called four man touch the line. This is a great drill for offensive transition, and defensive transition.
Fun Basketball Drills – 3 Pt. Shooting Competition
I like to save my fun basketball drills for the end of practice. This drill is a 3pt shooting competition that we do once a week, and has become a favorite of the players as well.