Hi!

I'm new at coaching. I'm an assisting a friend in his coaching career and we would like to know how we could effectively teach and impart fundamentals to kids 12 years old and younger. The manager/ financier/ parent of one of the players of the team got us into a league that would be starting on November. We have roughly 3 weeks to train the kids. We tested the team's knowledge and skill in basketball. The results was quite bad. There are only 5 kids who really know how to dribble, shoot, lay-up, and pass (they're part of a varsity team already) and the rest are new. They don't have the proper form in shooting, lay-up, and dribbling. We were originally given 2hours of practice in 2 days, we bargained and got 3hours of practice in 2 days.

What coaching tips, drills, or exercises can you help us with. Thank you!

Hey -

Spend a lot of time on fundamentals is the key to success. Try to keep things as simple as you can.... play m2m defense and a simple pass and cut open post offense... unless you have a stud to play in the post... if you have one of those... play a 4 out 1 in offense.

The more difficult things are for your players the slower their feet will be.

IF you look on the left side under ABOUT US.... LOOK AT PLAYER DEVELOPMENT .... there is a lot of onformation there.

Thank you, Coach Sar!

I guess our main goal for the kids would be developing their fundamentals not winning the competition. Our win would be focused more on their improvement in terms of shooting, dribbling, and other aspects of the game.

Those sound like GREAT goals to me. Thats a fun group to work with but difficult to say the least

Patience is important here.... for you and the kids. Try to end every practice with something that is FUN for them... that way they will look forward to coming back and grow a love for the game.

Good luck and I hope things work out for you and the players.

im interested ,as we now the drill is not aim for itself,it is just the way,but when im teaching something,for example lay up,should I do one drill untill kids dont perfected it,or to use various drills but then in every drill i will have same mistakes...
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I found that sometimes by continuing a drill that we were having problems with, that I would get more aggravated. So I decided to stop the drill and move on to something else, and if I had time I could always go back to it. The last thing I wanted to do was spend too much practice time on one thing. Now that's just me.