Comments on: Four Great Ways To Keep Your Team’s Attention http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/ Basketball Coaching Tips, Training Tips, and Strategy Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:21:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Joe Haefner http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-933 Joe Haefner Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:49:57 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-933 Chris, my immediate thought is no and yes. On the surface, it seems like a great idea and I used to do that myself. You want be very careful on how you incorporate the running. If you tell them to get on the line and start running, it may backfire. From a little experience and some research, I discovered that when we MAKE kids run, it puts a negative emotion attached to running which is the last thing you want in order for them to be healthy adults. Running should be a privelege. A good way to get the kids to run is to have them play basketball. Another thing that can be effective is shuttle races or anything basically to make running fun. Great question and I hope that helps. Chris, my immediate thought is no and yes. On the surface, it seems like a great idea and I used to do that myself.

You want be very careful on how you incorporate the running. If you tell them to get on the line and start running, it may backfire. From a little experience and some research, I discovered that when we MAKE kids run, it puts a negative emotion attached to running which is the last thing you want in order for them to be healthy adults. Running should be a privelege.

A good way to get the kids to run is to have them play basketball. Another thing that can be effective is shuttle races or anything basically to make running fun. Great question and I hope that helps.

]]> By: Chris http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Chris Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:43:02 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-932 Would it be a good idea to have some intense running and conditioning drills so the kids can get all the pent up energy out of their system? This way they may be able to focus. Would it be a good idea to have some intense running and conditioning drills so the kids can get all the pent up energy out of their system? This way they may be able to focus.

]]> By: hany tolba http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-655 hany tolba Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:43:35 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-655 thanks for your these important advices i want to know some drills for the development of skills for competetion about beginner players. thanks for your these important advices
i want to know some drills for the development of skills
for competetion about beginner players.

]]> By: Craig http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-582 Craig Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:38:27 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-582 I'm a much older coach and really like all the tips. I pass many of them on to younger coaches I work with. I'm looking for one drill though. It's a wamup drill. Two lines under the basket. First person runs around to the opposite low block and receives pass and shoots. Passes ball back to nextr person in line. Meanwhile one person comes around from the other line to the opposite low post and shoots. I cannot find the drill and one of my young coaches would like to include it in warmups. He isn't running it correctly and I cannot remember the drill perfectly to help correct his technique. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. I’m a much older coach and really like all the tips. I pass many of them on to younger coaches I work with. I’m looking for one drill though. It’s a wamup drill. Two lines under the basket. First person runs around to the opposite low block and receives pass and shoots. Passes ball back to nextr person in line. Meanwhile one person comes around from the other line to the opposite low post and shoots.
I cannot find the drill and one of my young coaches would like to include it in warmups. He isn’t running it correctly and I cannot remember the drill perfectly to help correct his technique.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

]]> By: tim http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-566 tim Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:16:10 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-566 This doesn't solve all the problems listed above, but when I blow the whisle all the kids get into "triple-threat" position, even if they don't have a real ball. The whole team runs if someone messes up. They quickly communicate on the next whistle. The only drawback is the use of a whistle during drills. I have to make adjustments. When other coaches see this during a practice their jaws drop at the speed we transition from drill to drill or simply start a practice. This doesn’t solve all the problems listed above, but when I blow the whisle all the kids get into “triple-threat” position, even if they don’t have a real ball. The whole team runs if someone messes up. They quickly communicate on the next whistle. The only drawback is the use of a whistle during drills. I have to make adjustments. When other coaches see this during a practice their jaws drop at the speed we transition from drill to drill or simply start a practice.

]]> By: alvina reyes http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-520 alvina reyes Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:51:20 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-520 i have a problem about my teammates, they don't follow me whatever i told them to do, because i am only the team captain and not the coach. i have a problem about my teammates, they don’t follow me whatever i told them to do, because i am only the team captain and not the coach.

]]> By: tom biedekapp http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-510 tom biedekapp Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:14:34 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-510 state the skill that you want the players to improve on, get agreement that it would be a good skill to improve on ask players if they know of drills to help them improve, daily goals that everyone agrees on help keep focus which needs to be one of the skills players develop state the skill that you want the players to improve on, get agreement that it would be a good skill to improve on ask players if they know of drills to help them improve, daily goals that everyone agrees on help keep focus which needs to be one of the skills players develop

]]> By: Chris http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-508 Chris Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:23:34 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-508 Cathryn, I like the sitting out idea. I also coach girls (7th grade) and I have a group of 3 girls that are a constant source of attitude and problems. The main problem is that 2 of them are starting guards and very talented. Unfortunately at home they hear a bunch of crap from their Mom's about how they are above everything. It makes life very hard on a volunteer coach. Cathryn, I like the sitting out idea. I also coach girls (7th grade) and I have a group of 3 girls that are a constant source of attitude and problems. The main problem is that 2 of them are starting guards and very talented. Unfortunately at home they hear a bunch of crap from their Mom’s about how they are above everything. It makes life very hard on a volunteer coach.

]]> By: Cathryn http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-499 Cathryn Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:59:44 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-499 I coach a bunch of girls, they mess around a little, easy than boys in that way, but if they really aren't listening or being disruptive in a bad way, I make them sit out for 5 mins, or tell them that they can join in when they are ready to be a part of the team. It doesn't happen that often and it is usually the same ones! I coach a bunch of girls, they mess around a little, easy than boys in that way, but if they really aren’t listening or being disruptive in a bad way, I make them sit out for 5 mins, or tell them that they can join in when they are ready to be a part of the team. It doesn’t happen that often and it is usually the same ones!

]]> By: ariel rabe http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-491 ariel rabe Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:33:27 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/four-great-ways-to-keep-your-teams-attention/#comment-491 Some instances I gently ask the kid/s to go to a soft sofa located near the office of the club house (the kid/kids never did because they kept quiet), sit there and return only when he/they are ready to listen. But giving first a fatherly warning is a must because kids do listen. Another one is to ask the kid/kids to come closer in front of the other kids. One time a kid was on an acrobatic hype and saw his head on the seat of the chair, I called his attention and pointed to the positive side of his hyper-active behavior and later commented that "You see, you can do it." Yes, he was able to focus on listening. Some instances I gently ask the kid/s to go to a soft sofa located near the office of the club house (the kid/kids never did because they kept quiet), sit there and return only when he/they are ready to listen. But giving first a fatherly warning is a must because kids do listen. Another one is to ask the kid/kids to come closer in front of the other kids. One time a kid was on an acrobatic hype and saw his head on the seat of the chair, I called his attention and pointed to the positive side of his hyper-active behavior and later commented that “You see, you can do it.” Yes, he was able to focus on listening.

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