I wrote and posted some new articles, drills, and videos on Breakthrough… How to Minimize Game Slippage — 8 Ways to Minimize Game Slippage 1v1 Overlap Drill – How to Make 1v1 Drills More Efficient With One Court Also, posted this one several weeks ago and forgot to mention on my blog… 2-1-0 Dribbling Drills […]
How Often Should You Change Drills?
Do you use different drills to give players variety? Do you use the same set of drills all season? How often should you change your drills to keep things fresh? These are questions all coaches ask at some point. Here’s how we make our practices efficient and how often we change drills… For our 6th […]
11 Practice Requirements for Youth Basketball Coaches
For our 6th grade (to be) girls basketball team, we had a lot of players wanting to join so we decided to create two teams. Both teams will run the same offense, defense, etc… but we’ll practice separate. Since I don’t have enough time to coach both teams I have recruited a couple coaches […]
What We Did With Our Sophomore Boys Basketball Team – Offense, Defense, Drills, Plays
In hopes of giving you some ideas and possibly helping your team in some way, I’m sharing what we did with our sophomore (10th grade) boys basketball team this year. This includes our offense, defense, drills, plays, and so on. Brief Overview and Results For the 2015/16 season I coached the Marion sophomore boys basketball team. […]
It’s Not Christmas – No gifts for our opponent!
I found this saying in the UC coaching clinic notes that I really like… “It’s not Christmas”. Meaning – No gifts for our opponent. Examples: Layups Free throws Bad fouls Open 3’s for good shooter Turnovers for touchdown This fits my coaching philosophy and seems like a good way to get young athletes playing the right way. […]
High Fives – Improve Team Chemistry, Energy, and Excitement
A very simple way for you to improve your team’s chemistry, team energy, and just have more fun is to encourage more high fives, chest bumps, fist bumps, and so on. I read somewhere that NBA teams whose players had the most physical contact during games early in the season were the most successful down the […]
Here’s an Excellent Video – Game Based Skill Drills
This is a follow up to the previous post and video… A Games Approach to Teaching Basketball Skills. As I have mentioned, I’m a huge fan of game based learning drills. They’re fun and better simulate what actually happens in a game… The traditional drills (ex: dribbling around cones) have their place in your practices. However […]
A Games Approach to Teaching Basketball Skills – Video & Drills
Below you’ll find an excellent video by Mike MacKay called A Games Approach to Teaching Basketball Skills. I’m a huge fan of game based drills and learning. This videos give you some really good drills and ideas on how to develop your players using “games approach”. You’ll also learn how to create your own drills […]
Should You Use the Popular “High Ball Screen Play” For Your Youth Team?
I’d like to share my opinion on a popular ball screen play that I see all the time. While coaching my daughter’s 4th grade team, the high ball screen for the point guard is the most common play I see. Seems like almost half of the teams run a variation of this play. I hope I […]
What We Did With Our 4th Grade Youth Basketball Team – Offense, Defense, Skills and More…
My daughter’s 4th grade team had a great year. Tremendous improvement, lots of fun, and lots of life lessons learned… And even though winning is not a measurement of a successful season, or good youth coaching for that matter, we did win lots of games and tournaments without taking any shortcuts and by doing things […]