20 Minute Guard Break Down

One thing we are really focusing on is breaking our players up as far as guards and posts for our skill work. As I was building our practice plan for tomorrow I decided to draw up our guard workout and share it with everyone.

For this segment in practice we will go for 20 minutes to get through 4 drills.
- We want all of the drills to be uptempo so we don't have to spend very much time working on conditioning.
- Our post players are going through a different workout at the other end of the court.
- We will use 3-4 baskets to get everyone in and save time.

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Coaching thoughts 11-14-10

Awarness: Awarness can allow a marginal athlete to become a very good defender- more
so than a great athlete with marginal awareness. 60% of awareness comes from what you
have built through practice/drills/habits. 40% comes from who you are guarding and what
the other team is running. Arizona Basketball Newsletter

What impacts winning? --- Whatever you believe it is, the players need to believe it

Today’s players have no fear --- they don’t fear their parents, coaches, or other players

Larry Shyatt Florida Gators Assistant Coach

Jeff Van Gundy Thoughts
-The essence of teaching is getting players to do what they don’t want to do in
order to achieve what they want to achieve.
-It’s a constant fight. Don’t lower your standards. Push them to be perfect
practice players.
-The Three S’s: Soft, Stupid and Selfish. A player can only be 1 of them.
--4 stats to pay attention to:
1. True FG % (3FG% being weighted into FG%
Calculation: PTS / (2 * (FGA + 0.44 * FTA))
2. Turnover Differential
3. Rebounding % (What percentage of missed shots are you getting?)
4. Made Free Throws (make more free throws than our opponent attempts)

Jr. Basketball Drill Book

I put together a small drill book for some of my youth basketball coaches and thought I would share it with everyone.

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Advice for youth coaches
1. Spend a majority of your time on fundamental skills
2. Keep your offense very simple so you don't have to spend very much time working on patterns
3. Modify your drills so that as many players as possible are moving and have a ball in their hands.
4. Develop ball handling skills for every player your post player might not always be a post player.
5. If you spend too much time on something have it be passing and pivoting future coaches will thank you if their guys think bounce pass first and can pivot.

2 Ball Dribbling Routine

Here is a list of 2 ball dribbling drills that we do in practice.

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Jr. Basketball

I'm currently looking for drills and plays to give out to Jr. Basketball coaches. If you have anything you would like to share please let me know. I will post everything on here in the next couple of days.

bmoore@plano88.org