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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF GREECE - ATHENS 17-05-2017: ISBN 978-960-93-9484-9 Publishers: Dragan Raca, Manos Manouselis, Vasilis Chrysalas (Thasou 5 - 166 73 Voula, Athens Greece) Email: [email protected] - Tel: +30 210 89 90 141 - Mob.: +30 6973 213 987 BASKETBALL TEAM DEVELOPMENT SKILLS, DRILLS & PLAYS Dragan Raca Manos Manouselis Vasilis Chrysalas Translated from Greek by Vasiliki Pechlivani [1] Table of Contents ABOUT THE AUTHORS .............................................................................. 6 FOREWORD by PANAGIOTIS GIANNAKIS .................................................. 9 INTRODUCTION/SETTING GOALS ........................................................... 11 BUILDING A BASKETBALL TEAM ............................................................. 13 BASIC GOALS OF DAILY PRACTICE .......................................................... 16 Training structure/ sample ................................................................. 18 PART A' INDIVIDUAL SKILLS BUILDING ................................................................ 20 CONDITIONING ...................................................................................... 20 Conditioning drills .......................................................................... 22 Speed ............................................................................................. 22 Balance .......................................................................................... 25 Footwork ........................................................................................ 26 Plyometric training ...................................................................... 43 BASIC BASKETBALL STANCE ................................................................... 46 Reception ...................................................................................... 46 Teaching method ........................................................................... 46 Receiving pass drills ....................................................................... 47 BALL HANDLING DRILLS ......................................................................... 49 DRIBBLE TEACHING METHOD ................................................................ 52 Types of dribbles ........................................................................... 53 Dribbling drills ............................................................................... 55 PASSING TEACHING METHOD ................................................................ 65 [2] Types of passes .............................................................................. 66 Passing drills .................................................................................. 67 SHOOTING TEACHING METHOD............................................................. 84 Shooting drills ................................................................................ 86 COMBINATIONAL DRILLS (DRIBBLE, PASS, SHOOT) .............................. 110 PART B' TEAM TACTICS ..................................................................................... 118 REBOUNDING FACTOR IN BASKETBALL ................................................ 118 Individual rebounding drills .............................................................. 121 Team rebounding drills .................................................................... 125 FAST BREAK ......................................................................................... 132 Basic rules ........................................................................................ 132 Development ................................................................................... 134 6 «sources» of fast break ................................................................. 142 Fast break drills ................................................................................ 143 Fast break situations with extra player ............................................ 143 DEVELOPMENT OF TEAM OFFENSE ...................................................... 148 Team offense................................................................................... 148 Motion offense ................................................................................ 149 Demonstration ................................................................................. 149 Building motion offense .................................................................. 162 Fist offense ..................................................................................... 184 Demonstration ................................................................................ 184 [3] Building fist offense ......................................................................... 190 Zone offense ................................................................................... 196 TEAM DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT ........................................................... 202 Defensive philosophy ....................................................................... 202 Individual defense/ drills .................................................................. 204 Individual defense away from the ball ......................................... 211 Defensive cooperations 2 on 2 ..................................................... 214 Defensive cooperations 3 on 3 ..................................................... 220 Defensive cooperations 4 on 4 (shell drill) ................................... 223 Defensive cooperations 5 on 5 ..................................................... 228 Team defense at weak side .............................................................. 231 Drills for weak side defense development ................................... 234 Zone press defense ...................................................................... 247 SPECIAL SITUATIONS ............................................................................ 251 Baseline out of bounds ............................................................... 253 Sideline out of bounds ................................................................. 256 Last shot ...................................................................................... 260 Quick Hitter ................................................................................. 262 3-Point Play ................................................................................. 263 Press Breaks ................................................................................ 265 Foul and Score ............................................................................. 267 GLOSSARY ............................................................................................ 269 [4] LEGAL NOTICE No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or means, mechanical or electronic, including 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Basketball Team Development Copyright 2017 All Rights Reserved [5] ABOUT THE AUTHORS Dragan Raca was born in 1961 in Yugoslavia; he is a former basketball player of Yugoslavian and Cypriot teams. During his career as a basketball player he has been a three times best scorer of former Yugoslavia A1, four times best scorer of Cyprus A1 and the best scorer in the history of Cyprus basketball. Dragan Raca works for professional basketball teams in Cyprus, Lebanon, Greece, China and Bahrain. He is also head Coach of the men’s national team of Former Republic of Macedonia. In addition he has written basketball books that are now used in Sports Universities. During his Coaching career he has achieved to win many tournaments and champions and be awarded as China’s best Coach of New Year International Tournament twice (2011-2013). He was also nominated for three consecutive years (2003-2004-2005) for the Coach of the year in all sports in Cyprus. Among his many achievements as a basketball Coach Dragan Raca was also Coach and supervisor in many summer camps all around Europe and Asia, supervisor and organizer of the FREMA international camp 2004 (Europe - Cyprus, Asia -Lebanon, S. America -Brazil),author of the program for the first FIBA summer basketball camp in Bulgaria 2004, instructor of the national program for sport infrastructure support (E.S.Y.A.A. Greece, Cyprus) for four consecutive years and instructor of the Coaches School China National Basketball Federation [6] Manos Manouselis was born in 1965 in Athens. His second greatest love after his family is basketball coaching, where he has been actively involved for more than three decades. Manos Manouselis began his career in his early 20’s and since then he has been coaching professionally, working both for clubs and since 2004 for the Greek National Basketball Team. Some of his most memorable achievements as a basketball Coach are the win of the silver medal at the Men U21 2005 World Championship (Argentina) and the bronze medal at the Men U16 2013 European