In today's video blog post, we are featuring a fantastic transition offense drill called “The Hockey Drill”. This is a 3-on-3 Full Court Transition Offense drill, and it's purpose is to get your players who get the defensive rebounds, get the steals or get the outlet passes more comfortable with handling the ball and advancing the ball up the court.
"When you take the ball out in the back court, especially at the end of a game, what happens if you don't play the guy out of bounds? What if
In today's blog post, we are going to share 3 perimeter drills to improve individual scoring and shooting ability! What makes a good perimeter player? Shooting Ability Your ability to make open shots
One of the most difficult situations in a youth basketball game is the press break, and whether or not your team can run a press break against the opponent. The
Motion Offense and Reacting To The Defense A Motion Offense is a flexible system where you read the defense and read your teammates, and then play off of what you see
Beginner Basketball Drills: Basic Footwork & Ball Handling for Young Athletes Footwork Drill This is a great drill to introduce your young athletes to the footwork mechanics of basketball. Take a piece of
Reacting To Pressure & a Ballhandling and Dribbling Drill Video The ability to see pressure coming from the defense, to calmly find the opening and execute your offense is an extremely
Check out these 5 Transition Offense drill ideas that will help your players gain the skills necessary to achieve successful transition offense! Transition offense is most often fueled by fast break
"Spread and Space" Team Offense Drill One way you can teach younger players is to drill them on skills, and then play games with those skills later. With younger players, its
Parachute Drills for Kids Basketball Practice Most elementary schools have a giant multi-colored parachute that the basketball program can borrow for these kids basketball practice drills. Kids love playing with the
Coaching Philosophy: Basketball is a game that incorporates athletic ability and academics. In order to be successful as a team, we will rely on a fundamental style of basketball. Each student/athlete
Here are some great conditioning drills we use to help us with our cutting, and to use for the conditioning aspect of practice. We're going to look at 4 different things
Every coach wants a “killer” motion offense game, right? Well, here are some techniques you can implement into your game to achieve this! These are techniques that I use with
Learning to "play low" is an invaluable skill for players to master early. Today's video has some great drills that will get your players playing down low and shooting with
During the above video, you'll learn about how to teach the pressure match-up zone basketball defense. This basketball defense is on the cutting edge; there are new concepts that can help
Today, I'm going to take some time to share some excellent youth basketball drills that are perfect for training and conditioning your players. Free Jumps and Hops Start with ankle flips. Keeping
Today, we're going to discuss why it's actually a good idea to teach zone defenses during your basketball practices. A lot of coaches don't want to teach zone defense, but there
Today, we're going to talk about a series of basketball drills that are designed to help you improve parts of your free throw shot and mechanics so that you can