{"id":54,"date":"2008-11-10T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/coaching-youth-basketball-with-limited-time-1-practice-a-week\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T14:58:09","slug":"coaching-youth-basketball-with-limited-time-1-practice-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/coaching-youth-basketball-with-limited-time-1-practice-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Youth Basketball with Limited Time (1 Practice a Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just wrapped up our bonus tele-seminar for customers that ordered the Motion Offense eBook<\/a> last night…<\/p>\n

During the tele-seminar a few youth coaches asked some very good and interesting questions.\u00a0 One question in particular was…<\/p>\n

“I coach 5th grade girls.\u00a0 We only practice once a week for one hour.\u00a0 What would you recommend that we focus on during that short amount of time”?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Summarized in my own words, here\u2019s Don\u2019s answer…<\/p>\n

In that short amount of time, I would focus on SKILLS, allow the kids some time to play, and give them homework.<\/p>\n

To give you an example, here\u2019s a way to work on Skills (fundamentals) and Motion Offense at the same time…<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 First, pick a couple cuts or screens that you think would be good for your team.\u00a0 For example, you could choose down-screens and away-screens.<\/p>\n

2. Next, run shooting drills that incorporate those movements.\u00a0 You could have two offensive players (no defense).\u00a0 One player on the wing, another player on the block.\u00a0 A coach or third player could have the ball on top of the key.\u00a0 The player on the wing sets a down screen, the other player rubs off the screen, catches the ball, pivots, and shoots.\u00a0 Now repeat over and over.\u00a0 Your players are working on screens (part of your motion offense), pivoting footwork and shooting (skills).<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 You can do the same thing with away screens, basket cuts, and any type of cut or screen.\u00a0 The key is to choose a couple elements from your motion offense and turn those elements into skill building drills.\u00a0 Your imagination is the only limit to the\u00a0types of drills you can come up with.\u00a0 It doesn’t hurt to mix things up and make the youth basketball drills fun<\/a> too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By practicing\u00a0this way, you’ll save a ton of time and get a lot more done.<\/p>\n

Also, you’re providing drills that your players\u00a0can practice on their own.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be afraid to give them some homework.\u00a0 Some players will put in the work outside of practice to get better.<\/p>\n

Let them play<\/strong><\/p>\n

After practicing skills,\u00a0I would let them play at the end.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to you how much time you spend scrimmaging.\u00a0 But as an example, you could work on skills for 45 minutes, then scrimmage for 15 minutes at the end.\u00a0\u00a0 In practice, I think kids need to play at least a little bit.<\/p>\n

During the scrimmage, start by showing the kids general spacing.\u00a0 You\u2019ll probably want to put tape on the floor so they know the basic motion offense spots.\u00a0 Then just tell them to play.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t know what to do, just say “Do you remember the down screen drill we did at the beginning of practice?\u00a0 Do that.\u00a0 Sometimes it will work, sometimes it won’t\u00a0 That’s ok.\u00a0 If it doesn\u2019t work, do it again.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now you have worked on skills, you have the beginning of a motion offense, and your kids are “learning how to play”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How productive do you think that hour would be if you spent nearly the entire time teaching them a set play or a patterned offense?\u00a0 It takes a long time for kids to learn and remember patterns and plays.\u00a0 Kids will get VERY little benefit from that!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the great thing about a motion offense.\u00a0 You can work on skills and motion offense at the same time.<\/p>\n

You could even practice some man to man defense<\/a> during the scrimmage.\u00a0 Just have one coach responsible for making minor corrections during the scrimmage.\u00a0 This coach only watches the defense and tries to improve their positioning.<\/p>\n

This is how you get the MOST out a short amount of time.<\/strong>\u00a0 Kids need to play, learn skills, and have fun.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to hear the actual question and answer in audio, Right Click here <\/a>and select Save As.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We just wrapped up our bonus tele-seminar for customers that ordered the Motion Offense eBook last night… During the tele-seminar a few youth coaches asked some very good and interesting questions.\u00a0 One question in particular was… “I coach 5th grade girls.\u00a0 We only practice once a week for one hour.\u00a0 What would you recommend that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}