Developing A Practice Plan

How To Develop A Winning Practice Plan With Coach Willie Williams

Coach Willie Williams has had a lot of success coaching college basketball. He has been named NCCAA Region Coach of The Year 3 times. He has also led Nebraska Christian College to the national tournament 3 years. Coach Williams will tell you on reason for his success is being to able implement effective practice plans and drills that help his players develop throughout the season.

Coach Williams takes you through his vision of how to go about creating your own basketball practice plans that will help your players buy into your program. Along with this, he explains how he adapts practices throughout the season based on what part of the season you are in.

Coach Williams passes along valuable first hand experiences of what has worked well and not worked so well in practice. Along with this he talks about the pros of filming practices, charting practice stats, and working daily on man to man principles in defensive shell drills. Williams provides invaluable insight for coaches who want to get the most out of their practices.

What you will hear in this podcast:

:18 Intro to Willie Williams
:59 Staying fresh physically and mentally
2:58 Preseason/beginning of the season practice plans
4:33 Dynamic stretching at the start of practice
5:33 Jump rope routine
6:34 Dynamic stretches related to basketball movements
8:13 Fundamentals at beginning of practice
9:10 High rep shooting drills
11:50 Getting game shots from game spots
13:53 Breaking down offense and defense into drills
15:33 The value of shell defense drills DAILY
18:36 Full court game scenarios to finish practice
20:58 Finishing with pressure FT’s
22:27 Static stretching for quicker recovery
23:48 Music for focus and energy
26:10 Positional breakdown in practices
27:55 Alabama 1 on 1 drill
29:54 Quote of the day
32:21 Should I post practice plans?
33:53 How detailed do I need to be with my practice plans?
35:53 The value of a good manager
37:28 Filming parts of practice
38:30 Charting practices to help with conversation with player
39:16 Adapting practices when you have 3 games in a week
41:58 Dealing with mental fatigue
44:20 How to get players to buy into your program
49:25 Trifecta- 3 Questions
49:36 What is one positive habit that you think helped you succeed
51:12 Name something you read or watched that influenced you the most
53:34 What is one message that a mentor gave you that you try to live out each day of your life

Resources

Player Development Camps in your Area

Developing Your Man to Man Defense

0 0 votes

Article Rating

62 Comments

Newest

Oldest Most Voted

Inline Feedbacks

View all comments

Jin Schneider

3 days ago

This was a really insightful podcast! It actually reminds me of how much I appreciate having unique profile pics for my online communities, like the ones I make with this cool pixel avatar maker

This was such a good listen, especially the parts about developing players over time – really reminds me of how I think about optimizing my workflow, like finding this AVIF conversion site for my design assets.

This was a really insightful listen, always looking for ways to refine my processes, whether it’s for practice plans or even when I’m looking for AI art prompt ideas

Ananya Hernandez

Coach Williams’s insights on practice plans are gold – always looking for ways to improve my own routines, just like I was looking for what I used for my LinkedIn photo when I was updating my profile.

Mei Wells

This was a fantastic listen, really got me thinking about structuring things better. Also, I’ve been using this AI tool for my social posts and it’s been a game changer.