{"id":339,"date":"2014-11-06T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/?p=339"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:25:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T13:25:43","slug":"day-3-4th-grade-basketball-practice-plan-had-a-great-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/day-3-4th-grade-basketball-practice-plan-had-a-great-practice","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 &#8211; 4th Grade Basketball Practice Plan (Had a Great Practice!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great practice with our 4th grade girls team last night! \u00a0One of the best practices we&#8217;ve ever had. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the practice plan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Go over core values.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Form shooting with left hand (1 min)<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Form shooting with right hand (1 min)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Footwork, lay ups, and shooting &#8211; spin outs (12 minutes&#8230; 1\u00a0min for each sequence)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Right foot drop step from right elbow<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Drop step counter<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Left foot drop step from left elbow<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Drop step counter<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Right foot front pivot from right elbow<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Front pivot, step through<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Left foot front pivot from left elbow<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Front pivot, step through<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Left foot reverse pivot from right elbow<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Reverse pivot, sweep<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Right foot reverse pivot from left elbow<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Reverse pivot, sweep<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>String spacing \/ shooting (8 minutes&#8230; 1 min each side)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Backcut. Top and wing. Drive, backcut.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I shooting. Wing &amp; post. Dribble baseline &amp; float up lane line<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Wing drive middle, post float to short corner.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Circle. Post &amp; guard spot. Dribble at post &amp; post circles under<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>1 on1\u00a0moves at chairs &#8211; cross, inside out, double cross, behind back, push ball out (5 min)<br \/>\n(Everyone has a chair and a ball)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>High Five 1 on 1 (12 min)<br \/>\n(Two groups &#8212; 5 players in each group)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Review defensive emphasis in half court (5 min)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>ball pressure<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>communication<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>stay in stance<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>move on pass<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>3 on 3 half court controlled scrimmage (30 min)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(For offense, emphasis spacing, ball movement in all directions, and getting open.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Part of what made it a great practice was the fast pace.<\/p>\n<p>We stuck to our 1 minute limit for each sequence, whether players were doing it right or not. \u00a0Players enjoy the fast pace. \u00a0And I&#8217;m finding that even though I&#8217;m not stopping to get most players doing things properly, they improve at the next\u00a0practice.<\/p>\n<p>Almost without fail, players that did a poor job in the last practice (do much better in the next practice with their technique), even though I&#8217;m not stopping them to make sure they get good reps. \u00a0We just keep moving along with the practice and stick to the allotted times!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great practice with our 4th grade girls team last night! \u00a0One of the best practices we&#8217;ve ever had. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the practice plan&#8230; Go over core values. Form shooting with left hand (1 min) Form shooting with right hand (1 min) Footwork, lay ups, and shooting &#8211; spin outs (12 minutes&#8230; 1\u00a0min for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-4th-grade-basketball","7":"category-practice-strategy","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}