I resly enjoy your web site as a high school

coach I''''m all ways looking for new things to

keep my team having fun and learning all the

time. Thanks

Joe Laperle

I coach 11 years olds. Any suggestions for "boxing out / rebounding drills" leading into a fast break.

P.S. great web site.

this is a great drill for game situations and it keeps your team with that competitive edge

Hi Alan,

We have some rebounding drills in our free ebook and also on our website at this link: http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/drills/basketballdrills.html#reboundingdrills

If you are interested in the fundamentals of rebounding, check out this article: http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/fundamentals/rebounding-fundamentals-and-tips.html

And if you figure out how to get 11 year olds to consistently block out, please tell me! :)

my 12yr old daughter is a tall post player with size on her side being very athletic she often gets into foul trouble going one on one at the basket in defence with silly last minute reaching against usually smaller players any ideas guys

It's hard for me to tell what her problems are, because I have not seen her play, but my two guesses would have to be positioning and staying vertical.

She needs to beat people with her feet rather than bumping them or reaching in to take the ball. At the youth level, if you maintain good positioning, most of the time the player will make an errant pass or turn the ball over without you trying to reach in and take it from them.

When people get the ball inside, she needs to stay vertical rather than swiping at the ball. She should have her hands straight up, not hovering over the opponent.

Alan,

Not an expert here but a great drill that Marquette does as well as Michigan State is called "war". It's not best for transition but have two kids on block and two others on the elbow. When a shot goes up those on the block, block out and it's the first team to score wins. So your shooting at the same basket. Both Marquette and Michigan State have no fould rules I tend to make obvious calls, but nothing touchy, also play on makes and if it goes out of bounds. Honestly at the 5th to 8th grade level this is good for 2-5 wins on a twenty game schedule.

Matt

Great idea relating to realism and relevance to the game, not to mention motivation as stated.

Will use it in Phys Ed for sure! thanks

I just recently tripped onto you website and it has already being paying off alot. I started implementing some stuff just to change up the routine drill and practices in training and it's met by the players with a new gust of energy. We are preparing for our national league compitition to begin in my country, and we have been promoted to division 1 so we are pretty happy about that. Thanks for the tips and keep sending them,Coach.

hello, i am a new coach, i have a team of high school soph for a summer league. .i want my practices to be competitive and intense, im familiar with the basics but i was wondering if you could help me out with a few fun drills i could run

Hi Chris,

Here are some fun drills: Pivot 21 - http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/drills/pivot21.html

Defensive Challenge - http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/drills/defensivechallenge.html

Top 1 on 1 - http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/drills/top1on1.html

No Dribble Keep Away - http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/drills/nodribblekeepaway.html

You can find more drills in our drills section: http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/drills/basketballdrills.html

We also have 60 Fun Drills & Games which will give your more drills and games while helping you create your own drills: http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/pr/fun-youth-drills.html

Great idea I will use, will spice up the training and really give the team the intesive edge.

Hi, i found the drill effective. Though, youth sometimes cannot immediately comprehend, but it's worth trying. My youth team started to realized that drills are important.

I am looking forward to a video drills that i can show to them so they can actually see the drills.

Can you provide me?

Thank you very much

Eddie

I am getting quite a bit out of your materials. I am a first year high school boys varsity coach. Any suggestions on this dilemma: Tryouts are 2Nov, but the football team has their last regular season game 6Nov. There is always the chance of the playoffs, which means any student/athlete playing football in unable to be on the basketball court due to the chance of injury. First game of the season is 20Nov. During "open gym", I''ve had six upper classmen (two lower classmen who look strong) coming out. Not quite enough to make a team and/or to get them game time ready.

There is no doubt there are numerous kids on the football team that will end up playing basketball. Can you tell me how others have handled this issue?

Being new at basketball coaching but not at coaching (hockey), I was given your site by another coach and I have found it a tremendous help. Even though I played the sport many years ago, it is always good to have a refresher. Always looking forward to reading more of your info. This may make me decide to keep coaching one of our high school teams from year to year. I volunteered to take on the Jr Boys team because no other teacher wanted to take it and the school was going to cancel the team. Some of these young individuals need this to keep them out of trouble, and to learn team spirit, and alot more. Thanks again for your great web site and help.

Hi Jeff and Joe,
Thank you for making this site available, and free; it is indeed informative.
I'm a school teacher, and I'm coaching 13 and 14 year olds. I've not been quite in touch with the game for some time, and I was wondering if you could provide information on the rules they call in the NBA games, namely:
"illegal defence"
"3 second defence violation" etc.
Much appreciated.
William

i enjoy your website, it has opened to me more about basketball and i hope to learn a lot more..........

Hi William,

You can read an explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_Three-Second_Violation

Your site is FANTASTIC!

Great drill, we do this periodically throughout the season. We make common fouls 1x1 siuatiuons, add timeouts, etc...

Just wanted to say thanks for the site. I''m working on gaining my Level 2 coach award after starting to coach at Secondary (High School) level and it is an invaluable resource. I recommend it to everyone!
I Love this drill especially. Our local interschool tournament consists of 10 minute games (awful) so Every single game is a clutch game. This is improving their confidence already after just one session!

Thanks for the work you are doing on your site. As a Head Coach of 23 years I can tell you that it is very impressive. I am enjoying some of the new drill ideas and hope that all the young coaches start building their files from your wonderful site.

Kevin

this is a great drill to use during the season and a couple times before games start...1 problem i have had in the past...i coach at 1A school in iowa and we usually get 15-20 kids out grades 9-12. and for the drill to be competitive you have to split up the best players and then they are not getting the best out of the drill because they are not doing it together like in a real game. any suggestions?
thanks

Hi Eric,

When you have your top players (A team) scrimmage against your weaker players (B team), you can always manipulate the scoring rules to make it harder. For example, your B team gets a point when they:
- make a pass into the post.
- get the ball in the lane via dribble penetration.
- offensive rebound.
- defensive stop.

I've coached on every level from fourth graders to college and you guys never cease to amaze me or help me. Love it.......Just saying.