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I’ve bee using “blocks” for our practices lately. It’s usually 15 minutes for each block, which makes it easier for me to stay on track… I know I should finish a block every quarter hour.<\/p>\n I have a parent or assistant coach holler the times to keep us on track.\u00a0You can see the practice starts at 6:30pm and the start time is noted for each block.<\/p>\n Practice Emphasis<\/strong> Block 1 (6:30) – Warm Up<\/strong> Block 2 (6:45) – Dribbling<\/strong> Block 3 (7:00) – Footwork & Passing<\/strong> Block 4 (7:15) – Shooting and Passing<\/strong> Block 5 (7:30) – Team Defense & Offense<\/strong> Block 6 (7:40) – Scrimmage<\/strong> Here’s our practice plan for 3rd grade boys basketball. It was a good practice… fast paced. I’ve bee using “blocks” for our practices lately. It’s usually 15 minutes for each block, which makes it easier for me to stay on track… I know I should finish a block every quarter hour. I have a parent […]<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-3rd-grade-basketball","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Here’s our practice plan for 3rd grade boys basketball. It was a good practice… fast paced.<\/p>\n
\nListening Skills, Helping Others, Effort, Resilience (playing through mistakes and being positive)<\/p>\n
\nStationary dribbling<\/a> – balance & challenge hand coordination – 4 min
\n1 step lay ups<\/a> – 4 min
\nHash lay ups <\/a>– 4 min<\/p>\n
\nZig zag dribbling<\/a>\u00a0(cross, retreat with cross, behind back)\u00a0– 5 min
\n1v1 advancement<\/a>\u00a0– 10 min<\/p>\n
\nOverhead partner passing – 2 min
\nPartner Pass and Pivot<\/a> – Front, Reverse, Step through – 5 min
\nVolleyball Passing<\/a>\u00a0(first to 20) – 7 min<\/p>\n
\n1 hand form shooting<\/a> (at wall) – 1.5 min
\n2 hand form shooting<\/a> (at wall) – 1.5 min
\nDribble at post shooting (string spacing) – 4 min
\n5v0 pass and cut – 7 min<\/p>\n
\nShell <\/a>– passing only – 5 min
\nShell <\/a>– drive and pass – 5 min<\/p>\n
\nNeed someone to call fouls while I coach.
\nOffense rule\u00a0– Lay up only until at least 5 passes.
\nDefense emphasis – No lay ups!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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