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Coaching Information and Drills Salvo Saints Basketball Club Coaching Information and Drills March 2006 ~ Edition 1.0 ~ Copyright © Salvo Saints Basketball Club Printed Copies may be out of date Page 1 of 66 4/10/2006 Coaching Information and Drills Coaching Resources............................................................................................................................ 3 Resources on the Web......................................................................................................................... 3 Books and Videos ................................................................................................................................ 3 Games Approach ................................................................................................................................. 4 Referees .............................................................................................................................................. 4 Top Ten Teaching Tips for Coaching Basketball .................................................................................. 4 Skills Checklist ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Sample Practice Plans ....................................................................................................................... 10 Basketball Drills Index........................................................................................................................ 17 Basketball Drills.................................................................................................................................. 24 1. Footwork ........................................................................................................................................ 24 2. Passing .......................................................................................................................................... 25 3. Getting Open and Receiving .......................................................................................................... 31 4. Dribbling......................................................................................................................................... 32 5. Lay ups .......................................................................................................................................... 37 6. Fast Break and Transition .............................................................................................................. 44 7. Shooting......................................................................................................................................... 47 8. Post Moves .................................................................................................................................... 49 9. Driving Shots.................................................................................................................................. 52 10. Team Offense .............................................................................................................................. 52 11. Defense........................................................................................................................................ 53 12. Defending on the Ball ................................................................................................................... 53 13. Defending Away from the Ball ...................................................................................................... 57 14. Team Defense.............................................................................................................................. 61 15. Rebounding.................................................................................................................................. 62 16. Scrimmage Variations .................................................................................................................. 64 17. Time and Score............................................................................................................................ 65 18. Strength and Conditioning ............................................................................................................ 65 Page 2 of 66 4/10/2006 Coaching Information and Drills Coaching Resources These pages are intended to be used as a useful reference when trying to put together training plans and goals for your team. The first section has a few topics of general interest that could be of use to review evey now and then, just to do a “health check” on how you’re going in your coaching. The Skills Checklist section (courtesy of Greenvale Basketball Club) outlines the targets for teaching skills to our players, at each of the age groups. This is a fairly well accepted level of skill for each age group, but of course is not a requirement. These are targets, to help you formulate the types of drills you might want to use at each of the ages through the club. Obviously, those who are coaching A grade teams are likely to be working on more advanced skills for their age group, than those coaching D grade teams. As stated, these are general guidelines only. Then there’s a section outlining some sample practice plans for each of the age groups. You can take these “as is” and use them during the season if you wish, or use them as a starting point to help you formulate your own practice plans. The bulk of this document is made up of a number of drills, for specific areas of development of your players. These certainly don’t constitute the full range of drills available, and are meant to be a resource for you to help if there are specific skills you are trying to teach, and you need a drill to help teach it. Good luck with your coaching. Resources on the Web The internet is a fantastic resource for coaches, with a huge amount of material to help you in both your training and games (in fact, the bulk of the material here was sourced from the internet). Following are a list of helpful links that you might want to check out: · Coaching Youth Basketball www.coachingyouthbasketball.net Great site with an online book aimed at helping the first time coach cope with the daunting task of coaching basketball. Also includes a discussion forum called Chatterbox where coaches discuss everything regarding Youth coaching, from tactics to skills to how to deal with difficult situations. A great community of coaches · Coaches Notebook www.akcoach.com A good resource for tactics and strategy. Also some good articles on handling various situations as a coach. · Coach Jacksons Pages www.geocities.com/ljacksonesc5/acoach.html A site by an experienced US high school coach with a huge array of details on X’s and O’s · Tommy’s Basketball Playbook www.angelfire.com/nc/ezyduzits12steptools/bball_playbook.html A page of offenses, defenses and drills for youth coaching · Basketball Coaching Resources www.ksnusa.org/bkblinks.htm A good list of other sites with coaching resources Books and Videos There are a huge array of books and videos available on coaching youth basketball, far too many to list. The club is trying to put together a library of these resources, to make available to coaches to borrow to help give them further ideas and training in their coaching. Page 3 of 66 4/10/2006 Coaching Information and Drills Games Approach One thing to consider for the younger age groups is the Games Approach to coaching. This is a reversal of the traditional way of coaching sports to kids. We are generally used to training sessions where skills are taught through specific drills, then gradually the tactics for using those skills is taught, and then a player starts being comfortable in applying that knowledge in game situations. The notion is that this style of training can become boring for a player whose focus is to have fun with their friends. The Games Approach focuses on playing mini matches (modified for a specific teaching point), then teaching the tactics, then finally the specific skills needed, with appropriate drills. Kids want to play and have fun, and this method is aimed at letting them play more game situations, to increase their enjoyment and application, and help them realize what skills they need to develop themselves to improve at the game. For example, play a 4 on 4 no dribble scrimmage first for a few minutes, then stop the team and have a short interactive discussion of what was hard about that (looking for them to say things like “there was no-one to pass to”), which opens the door to say things like “So we need to learn how to get open for a pass. We can use a V-cut to do that”. You then go on to show them a V-cut, have them run a V-cut drill, then play another couple of minutes of 4 on 4 no dribble, encouraging them to use their newfound skill to get open. There is a lot of material around on the Games Approach, so if you’re interested in using this approach. www.ncaa.org/bbp/basketball_marketing/kids_club/htdocs/thechalkboard/coaching/approach.html Referees Always a hot topic, how should we as coaches, deal with referees? We should at all times endeavour to treat the referees with respect, and not get into unproductive arguments and slanging matches. This can be hard in the heat of competition, when we feel our team has been wronged in some way. However, it is extremely rare that as coaches, we come across a referee who is actually trying to cheat, and effect the outcome of a