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PostPosted: 16 Oct 2015, 10:21 

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What is a good practice plan for seven-year-olds, I have a hour and a half to practice 2 days a week.
Wanted to work on this the first couple practices.
10 minute warm-up "been watching dynamic warm-ups"
20 minutes of dribbling stationary,Cone and traffic and traffic dribbling,running dribbling
10 minutes Defense footwork
10 minutes shell drill
10 minutes chest passing Bounce passing
10 minutes of 10 pass no dribble drill like the video u guys had up
10 minutes 1on1


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PostPosted: 16 Oct 2015, 10:44 
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What's you have looks almost perfect to me. Good job. Just a couple ideas and suggestions...

You have two fun drills at the end. I would mix at least one of them in the middle so kids don't get too bored with the "technical" stuff. I usually do 1v1 drills after working on dribbling skills. Boring stuff followed by fun competitive stuff. I follow that format fairly often...

5-10 min of technical skill work
5-10 competitive game based drill (fun and dynamic)
Repeat

At some point you'll probably want to add lay ups. And maybe a little form shooting. I like to have players do form shooting with non-shooting hand too. Just a minute a day goes a long ways for developing strength and coordination in the weak hand. Same with lay ups... 1 min of weak hand lay ups right next to the basket (no dribble).

Here's what I would focus on with 7 year olds (basically the same as what you have listed):

Footwork, dribbling, passing, defense, balance and coordination, athletic development, spacing and movement on offense (tag, keep away games, etc) and maybe some very basic form shooting. Play some kind of 1v1 advancement every day to improve dribbling and defensive agility. And play some kind of of keep away passing or no dribble passing type of drill almost every day (probably give offense an advantage... 3 v 2 type of thing).

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PostPosted: 13 Nov 2015, 11:23 

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Got some practice time in with the kids. First practice went well kids where eager to learn. I basically split all the drill up to 10 min time limits. Last practice did not go as well. I got 8 kids on my team, they started horse playing in line while the others where doing drills. I did some 1v1 drills all the kids are aggressive on defense, lot of fouling. Need some help with the shell drill. it's over there heads they don't understand the deny and help movements, they defend there player like they are ball all the time. Also offense false apart very fast kids go every where. They do incredible with the passing game, we play a small area first team to 5 passes wins. They are cutting moving and having a blast the moment you add they can shoot the ball the passing stops and they don't move . When they where playing the passing game I was seeing back door cuts and passing to cutting players add the option to score and it all stops. Hope I figure out a way get them to relate that to game time.


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PostPosted: 13 Nov 2015, 15:33 
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Remember... coaching youth basketball is a marathon, not a sprint. It takes time. They'll get there. Keep it very simple. With shell drill, I just want them seeing their man and the ball -- and I want them about half way between the ball and their man. Simple.

For offense, I just focusing on spacing, cutting, and ball movement. That's it. Takes constant emphasis. Good luck! And keep focusing on the skill development.

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PostPosted: 18 Nov 2015, 09:49 

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When i let the kids scrimmage they can not play a team. The ball is a magnet no kid wants to pass


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PostPosted: 19 Nov 2015, 15:21 

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When i let the kids scrimmage they can not play a team. The ball is a magnet no kid wants to pass


Create rules for your scrimmages. At the younger levels, my scrimmages always had some twist because I wanted them to focus on a specific concept.

Build a scrimmage around passing.

1) Kids MUST pass X amount of times before shooting. If they don't pass that many times and shoot first, that is a turnover.

2) Have a time limit on the passes. In other words, if a kid is holding the ball too long, starting counting 3,2,1 and if they don't pass by 1, the other team is awarded the ball.

4) Consequences for the losers. If a team turns the ball over 3 times by not passing quick enough or shoots before passing X amount of times, they have to do 5 jumping jacks.

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