Chapter 1 : The Well Prepared Coach 30 Youth Basketball Practice Plans â $ This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Basketball practice plans can make all the difference in turning a good season into an amazing one! I coach 5th and 6th grade girls basketball and after winning only 3 games the previous 2 years combined, I began using your structured practice plans each week and now we are now one game away from the league championship! To make the most of the coaching opportunity, it makes sense to you that you need to have a plan â both an overall plan and individual plans for each practice. The plan needs to address: What to coach and when? You need to have a plan for what basketball skills should be taught at the first practice and in the early going, and what can wait until later practices. You need to coach strategies, tactics and skills that players can carry with them to future teams â not intricate plays that future teams may not run at all. Solid man-to-man defense, the pick-and-roll, rebounding and give-and-go are skills that teams execute at every level. How to keep you players engaged throughout the course of a long season and at every practice. How to balance repetition with variety so that kids stay interested. Preparing your team for different situations that come up in the course of a game and season. What should players do when they face a zone press? How to inbounds the ball from the sidelines to create a scoring opportunity? How to make the most of the 10 minutes before each practice when you take the court. Parents of players and other coaches will notice that you move through your practices with confidence. And, perhaps most importantly, your players will be the primary beneficiaries. We have the solution for you. Each practice session is set for 90 minutes of court time. This 88 page e-book includes: See table of contents pages below. The appendices include diagrams and graphics to enable you to quickly grasp and explain coaching concepts. Print the pre-practice plan on one side of an 8. Either attach the one sheet to a coaching clipboard or fold it and put it in your pocket. The pre-practice meeting has many benefits. First of all, it usually ensures that player are dressed and ready to go when court time is available. It gives players some time talk a bit and ask questions. The extra time provides the coach the opportunity to pass on some important life lessons: To make it easier for you to implement pre-practice meetings, 30 pre-practice agendas, with talking points, are also included. Exercises, explanations and teaching points. Basketball is a fun sport, but even the most dedicated players can get bored or not feel challenged unless the coach keeps them engaged throughout the season. These practice plans will keep your players involved as they improve their games and have a lot of fun in the process. Page 1
Chapter 2 : The Well-prepared Coach - 30 Youth Basketball Practice Plans This 88 page 30 Youth Basketball Practice Plans e-book includes: pre-practice meeting agendas, practice agendas, inbounds plays, sideline plays, simple offensive plays, where to go for more ideas, fill in activities and drills, and off-season, driveway workout, and more. To make the most of the coaching opportunity, it makes sense to you that you need to have a plan â both an overall plan and individual plans for each practice. Plan the work and work the plan. The plan needs to address: What to coach and when? You need to have a plan for what basketball skills should be taught at the first practice and in the early going, and what can wait until later practices. You need to coach strategies, tactics and skills that players can carry with them to future teams â not intricate plays that future teams may not run at all. Solid man-to-man defense, the pick-and-roll, rebounding and give-and-go are skills that teams execute at every level. How to keep you players engaged throughout the course of a long season and at every practice. How to balance repetition with variety so that kids stay interested. Preparing your team for different situations that come up in the course of a game and season. What should players do when they face a zone press? How to inbounds the ball from the sidelines to create a scoring opportunity? How to make the most of the 10 minutes before each practice when you take the court. Parents of players and other coaches will notice that you move through your practices with confidence. And, perhaps most importantly, your players will be the primary beneficiaries. We have the solution for you. Each practice session is set for 90 minutes of court time in 30 youth basketball practice plans. See table of contents pages of 30 youth basketball practice plans below. Print the pre-practice plan on one side of an 8. Either attach the one sheet to a coaching clipboard or fold it and put it in your pocket. The pre-practice meeting has many benefits. First of all, it usually ensures that player are dressed and ready to go when court time is available. It gives players some time talk a bit and ask questions. The extra time provides the coach the opportunity to pass on some important life lessons: To make it easier for you to implement pre-practice meetings, 30 pre-practice agendas, with talking points, are also included in 30 Youth Basketball Practice Plans. Exercises, explanations and teaching points. Many youth coaches are pressed for time and these organized practice plans help me to run an efficient practice with little preparation time needed. Not only are the plans efficient for coaches, but the drills have paid dividends for our players. I really appreciate the work put into these. Basketball is a fun sport, but even the most dedicated players can get bored or not feel challenged unless the coach keeps them engaged throughout the season. These practice plans in 30 Youth Basketball Practice Plans will keep your players involved as they improve their games and have a lot of fun in the process. I used your practice plans and they were great for me and the kids did real well. This year they are playing 6th grade ball at their school and are so far undefeated. I will be coaching them again after their school season is over and will definitely revisit your practice plans. Buy both and save! Page 2
Chapter 3 : Hoops Sample Practice Plan Wellesley Youth Basketball Association KEY BENEFITS â 30 Youth Basketball Practice Plans â A proven winner. The topics covered in these practice plans, and the order in which they're taught, have led to many a successful season, dozens of tournament trophies and a Minnesota State Championship title. Now these are just examples. We will vary the drills and skills, and the team skills from practice to practice. Certain skills should be practiced every practice, such as the ball-handling and dribbling drills, and shooting drills. Depending on your schedule, the amount of practice time you have and what your specific team needs are, you vary your drills. A rough rule of thumb for high school teams is to spend about half the time on individual fundamentals and half the time on team skills. If you are working with younger kids, you would slant this more toward fundamental skills. When teaching a new offense, defense, plays, press offense, press defense, and other team skills, select your drills and teach by progression. See " Teaching Basketball by Progression ". Coach John Wooden You must plan each practice. John Wooden has said he and his assistants often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself lasted. Keep a loose-leaf notebook of each of your practices that you can refer back to. After each drill or after practice, you can scribble additional notes on your practice plan from that day.. Your practice should be like a classroom and you are the teacher. Stretching is done at the start of practice in order to avoid injuries although some recent studies have shown that stretching really may have little value in reducing injuries. I always dislike wasting precious "gym time" on stretching exercises. So players are asked to come minutes early and do their stretching on the sidelines, so we are ready to go once practice starts. This might not be practical, and you may need to do 10 minutes of stretching at the beginning. While the team is stretching, you can discuss your plans for the day, or explain what things need to be worked on, use the time to praise good things that have happened, reflect on your "quote of the day" see below, etc. Select drills that help teach individual and team fundamental skils, as well as teaching what you are trying to accomplish, or trying to correct. Use the guidelines below. Select your drills from the "Selecting and Using Drills" page, which gives a brief description of each drill and about how much time to allow. You might have a "core" of selected drills that you use all the time. But you can throw in other drills from time-to-time to teach a specific skill, or just to avoid boredom and spice things up a bit. Move quickly from one drill to another. If they mess up, they will get another chance to run that drill tomorrow. Whether you are doing 1-on-1 or 5-on-5 drills, shooting drills, etc. We have losers do push-ups. In free-throw shooting drills, we will often have missed shots followed by running a lap, as this simulates the running and fatigue in game situations. Budget your time for each drill. If you are introducing a new drill, play, offense, defense, etc, you will have to allow more time the first time. If you are reviewing something, like a set of plays or your out-of-bounds plays that they should already know, move quickly through these Follow an up tempo exhausting drill with 5 minutes of something less aerobic. Free-Throw Shooting Do your free-throw shooting after an aerobic, running drill when the players are tired, in order to simulate the leg and body fatigue that occurs in the real game setting. Have every player do dribbling and ball-handling drills. I have been asked, "Why have my post players waste their time doing guard-type dribbling drills? If you have a good assistant, you can plan some time for individual skills with perimeter players on one end of the floor, and your post players on the other end. Do not show favoritism. Do not favor certain players in practice. Make them all work equally hard. Try to instill in your star players that they must lead by example, and be willing to work harder than anyone else on the team to be a great player. Conditioning drills Early in the season, I would run a lot of conditioning drills. I believe your players and team will improve much more by doing conditioning drills than a lot of push-ups and running without the ball. If you are going to make your players run, make them do it with a ball Rather than running a "gut buster", or a "suicide" which is a terrible name, do a fast-paced aerobic drill like speed dribbling. The kids will get just as tired, will hate it just as much, but their dribbling and conditioning will both improve. Coach Bob Hurley Tournament time Getting into tournament play, or a crucial game, you might spend most of your time on team skills preparing for the big game, working on any special situations necessary to play the upcoming opponent. Page 3
For example, you might want to refine your press break, or your full-court press, or how you will defend a certain star player, or how you will attack their zone defense, etc. Later in the season during tournament time, we will often reduce our practices from minutes to 90 minutes or less and focus on team skills and the upcoming game. It has been said that more tournament games are lost by over-practicing than under-practicing. Players can get "burned-out" by the end of the season. We want our tournament run to be fun But make sure you have rules established from the start of the season. If you allow parents in the gym, make sure they understand that it is a classroom and they must keep quiet and not "coach" the kids from the stands. In the event that this becomes a problem, you reserve the right to close your practices at any time. End practice on an upbeat, positive note. We like to end our practices with a drill that builds team spirit. This is fun thing to end with. With our varsity and JV teams, we have each player shoot a shot from half-court. If no-one makes it, everybody runs. Usually in our first practice of the year, we will tell our players that when someone makes that shot to get emotional and celebrate and be pretty happy about not running. All these little things help build team spirit. Below are three sample practice plans for a high school varsity team The complete article also includes three sample practice plans: First practice of the season Mid-season practice. Page 4
Chapter 4 : Basketball Practice Plan Free Sample Coach Boys & Girls 50% or more of practice time should be spent on fundamentals: shooting, dribbling, rebounding, passing, defense % of practices should be spent on small situations (1-on-1, 2-on-2, 3-on-3) % of practice should be spent on 5-on-5 situations, offensive sets, out-of-bounds plays, etc. The players will start with their arms extended over their head and tap the ball quickly from hand to hand for the allotted time. The players will then bend their arms and tap the ball quickly from hand to hand in front of their face for the allotted time. The players will again tap the ball from side to side with the same motion in front of their waste now for the allotted time. Key Points Get comfortable with the ball, warm-up the fingers and hands, and develop the ability to control the ball. Emphasize using their fingertips to develop comfort moving the ball which will directly translate to dribbling. Keep the hands close to each other as these should be small, quick taps. Help the players gain confidence moving the ball as if it is an extension of their body. Push the players to wrap the ball fast in order to challenge their control. A basic pass happens by holding the ball with two hands, stepping towards a teammate, and pushing the ball from the middle of the body to a teammate. Passing the ball to teammates moves the ball quicker than dribbling, and also forces the defensive players to move and react. Just like ball-handling and shooting, passing is a skill that must be honed. Teach the players to step with a lead foot toward the target as they snap their thumbs down and extend their arms to pass the ball to the target. After the ball hits the wall, the players should catch the ball and repeat the process. Key Points Make sure the players have good balance, look at the target, step towards the target, extend their arms, and snap their thumbs down as they pass the ball. The ball should have backspin as it is in the air. Players should start in a good stance with their shooting hand elbow under the ball and the other hand holding the ball steady on the side. The players will use their whole body to push the ball up toward the basket. To shoot with good form, it is important to bend the knees for both balance and strength. The players should have their feet a little wider than shoulder width apart, and often, shooters will have the foot on the side of their shooting hand slightly ahead of their other foot. The shooting hand elbow should be under the ball while the other hand should support the ball on the side. The ball should be in the fingertips of the shooting hand with a small gap between the palm and the ball. Then in one motion the player should extend their legs while extending their shooting hand. The hand and elbow should come to full extension up high with the ball primarily coming off the fingertips of the index and middle fingers. The player should flip their wrist forward creating backspin on the ball which allows it to land softly on the rim. The opposite hand should come off the ball just before the player releases the ball from the shooting hand. The player should land in the same place they jumped from on both feet nice and balanced and hold their follow-through until they see if the shot goes in. With bent knees and the dominant hand elbow in, have the players move their body upward in one motion to simulate shooting the ball. The players should follow through by straightening their arm and flipping their wrist in an effort to have a perfect shot. The players should hold the follow through until the coach indicates for them to reset in a good stance. Key Points Have the players emulate the perfect shot and perfect form as they go through the drill. The group lines will operate as a team and keep their score together. The players will shoot one time, get their rebound, give it to the next player and return to the back of the same line. Continue this drill until one team makes the designated number of shots. Then switch spots and repeat. Key Points Have the players count the makes out loud for all teams to hear. Encourage the players to cheer for their teammates and utilize the shooting form they have worked on. Landing on both feet at the same time helps the player gain balance, and allows the player to use either foot as a pivot foot. The players should keep their eyes and chest up and stay balanced by having their knees bent. The first player in each line will jog to the foul line and make a deliberate jump stop at the foul line. On the whistle, the players will repeat at half court, the opposite foul line, and the opposite baseline. Once the group in front of the player moves towards the next jump stop location, the next player begins the same process. The players will wait at the opposite baseline until all the players finish and then do the same process going back. Key Points To ensure balance, have the players land in the jump stop position and count to 3 before blowing the whistle to allow them to jog to the next spot. Page 5
Chapter 5 : Starter Practice Plans - racedaydvl.com: Jr. NBA Youth Basketball Practice Plans. Get instant access to "The Well-Prepared Coach â Youth Basketball Coaching Program." You'll receive a full-season's worth of practice plans â 30 practices in all â complete with practice agendas, basketball drills and teaching points. Each practice session is set for 90 minutes of court time. The players should stand within a few feet of the basket and put the ball in their dominant hand in front of them. Have the players lift the ball in that one hand so that their elbow is underneath it and their palm is facing the sky. When the player is ready, they should extend their knees and arm at the same time to shoot for the basket. Have the players hold their follow-through until the shot goes through the basket or misses. Key Points Have the players start with their knees bent, elbow in and extend their follow-through with their elbow high and wrist flipped so that the ball has good arc and rotation. There can be at least 3 partner groups per basket side, middle, side. One player will line up 3 to 6 feet away from the basket and the other partner will stand just behind the basket. The players will not dribble the ball. The partner will grab the rebound and give it back to the shooter to repeat. That player will work for 1-minute before switching with the partner. Key Points Emphasize the correct hand and foot until the movement becomes natural for the players. The group lines will operate as a team and keep their score together. The players will shoot one time, get their rebound, give it to the next player and return to the back of the same line. Continue this drill until one team makes the designated number of shots. Then switch spots and repeat. Key Points Have the players count the makes out loud for all teams to hear. Encourage the players to cheer for their teammates and utilize the shooting form they have worked on. Landing on both feet at the same time helps the player gain balance, and allows the player to use either foot as a pivot foot. The players should keep their eyes and chest up and stay balanced by having their knees bent. The first player in each line will jog to the foul line and make a deliberate jump stop at the foul line. On the whistle, the players will repeat at half court, the opposite foul line, and the opposite baseline. Once the group in front of the player moves towards the next jump stop location, the next player begins the same process. The players will wait at the opposite baseline until all the players finish and then do the same process going back. Key Points To ensure balance, have the players land in the jump stop position and count to 3 before blowing the whistle to allow them to jog to the next spot. Page 6
Chapter 6 : Basketball Practice Plan AVCSS Basketball FAST BREAK PASS DRILL Youth Basketball Drills & Sample Practice Plans Youth Basketball Drills & Sample Practice Plans. I coach 5th and 6th grade girls basketball and after winning only 3 games the previous 2 years combined, I began using your structured practice plans each week and now we are now one game away from the league championship! To make the most of the coaching opportunity, it makes sense to you that you need to have a plan â both an overall plan and individual plans for each practice. The plan needs to address: Plan Benefits What to coach and when? You need to have a plan for what basketball skills should be taught at the first practice and in the early going, and what can wait until later practices. You need to coach strategies, tactics and skills that players can carry with them to future teams â not intricate plays that future teams may not run at all. Solid man-to-man defense, the pick-and-roll, rebounding and give-and-go are skills that teams execute at every level. How to keep you players engaged throughout the course of a long season and at every practice. How to balance repetition with variety so that kids stay interested. Preparing your team for different situations that come up in the course of a game and season. What should players do when they face a zone press? How to inbounds the ball from the sidelines to create a scoring opportunity? How to make the most of the 10 minutes before each practice when you take the court. Parents of players and other coaches will notice that you move through your practices with confidence. And, perhaps most importantly, your players will be the primary beneficiaries. We have the solution for you. Each practice session is set for 90 minutes of court time. This 88 page e-book includes: See table of contents pages below. The appendices include diagrams and graphics to enable you to quickly grasp and explain coaching concepts. Print the pre-practice plan on one side of an 8. Either attach the one sheet to a coaching clipboard or fold it and put it in your pocket. The Well-Prepared Coach strongly recommends that coaches meet with their players for usually about 10 minutes before court time. The pre-practice meeting has many benefits. First of all, it usually ensures that player are dressed and ready to go when court time is available. It gives players some time talk a bit and ask questions. The extra time provides the coach the opportunity to pass on some important life lessons: To make it easier for you to implement pre-practice meetings, 30 pre-practice agendas, with talking points, are also included. Exercises, explanations and teaching points. Basketball is a fun sport, but even the most dedicated players can get bored or not feel challenged unless the coach keeps them engaged throughout the season. These practice plans will keep your players involved as they improve their games and have a lot of fun in the process. Through sports like softball, kids can have fun with their friends, develop self-esteem and learn life lessons. To coach a team, it helps to have a plan that is well thought out from someone who has been there, and done that. Softball Soulfood Blog Posts. Page 7
Chapter 7 : Sample Youth Practice Schedule (Ages 11 to 14) Save Time, Reduce Stress And Make The Most Of The Season With A Complete Plan. Prepare For Practices In 5 Minutes. 3 Bonuses Including A Certificate Maker. Certificate Maker Also Offered For. Be positive and make things fun. If you act like a drill sergeant when coaching a bunch of 10 year olds, the kid will get a negative image of basketball and have negative emotional feelings when thinking of basketball. Kids will also get sick of basketball if they play TOO many games each year. As a result, they will not likely play basketball when they get older. It can even affect their feelings towards fitness in general. If a person dislikes fitness and becomes inactive, they are more likely to be unhealthy! Let them play and learn themselves. Now, if they continue to make the same mistake over and over and over, show the player a better way to do a certain thing. For example, if you see one of your players stand straight up every time they touch the ball and a defender crowds them and causes the offensive player to travel. Say to the player, "Way to hustle, Johnny! Let me show you something that will help you when the defender crowds you. When catching the ball in this position, keep your hips back with your knees bent, and pivot. Be ready to attack. Then if the defender comes to crowd you, it will be easy for you to dribble right by him! Focus on the way to help them. Sometimes competition is not a motivator for young kids. However ALL kids need to taste success and hopefully lots of it. It means getting better and succeeding in practice. Allow your players to run drills that they can succeed at and feel good about. Celebrate small accomplishments and successes with your players. Read this article about teaching life lessons and improving team bonding. If you do things "right", winning will eventually be a by-product of your actions. True success takes time to do things right. Taking the time to build that foundation will cause you to sacrifice winning some games. This is better for your players in the long run. If you force your child to play, it can also lead to burnout, injury, and resentment of the sport or fitness altogether. People are much more driven when they choose to do something they enjoy, rather than being forced to do it. If you want your child to enjoy basketball, play GAMES with him when they want to, and watch basketball-related activities with them. At this age, it is best to improve overall athletic ability which is done by playing multiple sports, such as gymnastics, baseball, soccer, martial arts, football, track, volleyball, softball, swimming, and so on. Keep in mind, that you want to have seasons for these sports. Avoid playing 2 or 3 sports at once and multiple practices on the same day. Not at age 10 or And who knows what your child will take an interest in or show talent in at age 10? Most of the time, things change a lot in the next 6 or 7 years! You can read why and get advice here. Using rims that are too high and basketballs that are too big will RUIN your players shooting form. They are NOT strong enough yet. Do we send 6 year olds to Yankee stadium and start throwing from the big mound? No, we start with tee-ball, then parent pitch, then little league close bases, and move up. Your young players should be able to: Dribble with their left and right hands equally well. Make lay ups with their left and right hands equally well -- and jump off the proper foot left foot when shooting with right hand, and vice-versa Perform a jump stop without traveling. Pivot on their left and right foot without traveling. Perform accurate chest, bounce, and overhead passes. Perform a defensive slide feet wide, good balance, staying between the offensive player and the basket. Shoot a basketball with proper form. These simple skills should be your number priority and your goal should be to help your players master these skills. Once they have truly mastered these skills, you can start building from there. A group of very experienced and knowledgeable coaches monitor the forum and answer questions. Page 8
Chapter 8 : The Definitive Guide to Coaching Youth Basketball CoachTube $ This basketball practice plan ebook is available as an instant, digital download and it includes: 30, ninetyâ minute practice plans for 4th - 8th grade teams. Bonus Available Yes My evaluations, or match reports, as I fondly refer to them, are designed to make you as informed about the products I review as possible. After all, nothing at all is worse than investing in something that turns out to be rubbish? To begin with, I take a look at the sales statistics, which are provided by the payment processor used by the vendor. These figures are clearly crucial to you, since you need to understand how well an item has been selling so that you can make your buying decision in as much of an educated manner as is possible. The sales numbers are summarized by something the payment processor calls Gravity. I prefer my own ranking system because Gravity can get quite confusing simply because scores can be so disproportionate. My system rates products between 0 and and achieves this by comparing the product in question to all the others on my site. My system ranks products between 0 and and achieves this by comparing the product in question to all the others on my web site. Does it get a lot of returns? I start this in the shape of the Overall Retailer Refund rate, another rating from the payment processor. The ranking will be between 1 and 5. What this means is that they are doing really well, with an impressively low overall refund rate. The more you can find out about youthbasketballpracticeplans. So, for starters â how many pages does youthbasketballpracticeplans. They are links that come into the site, from other websites. This is a very positive rating as so many web sites are linking across â this definitely shows this website is considered an authority, pretty much like the Gareth Bale of its own niche. Is the vendor selling other products? What additional products is this product owner selling?. This product owner presently has 4 additional products. If you are an eager beaver much like me, you can purchase now by clicking on the relevant links: Page 9
Chapter 9 : Basketball Coaching - Planning Practices, Coach's Clipboard Basketball Coaching and Playboo Sample Youth Practice Schedule (Ages 11 to 14) Here is a sample structure of a practice schedule for a youth team. Of course, this is just a sample and things would be different every day, but this is a basic structure of how a practice may look. We will never send you spam or share your email address, guaranteed! Which category applies to you? Please leave the following field empty Do not change the text in this field Close Sample Youth Practice Schedule Ages 11 to 14 Here is a sample structure of a practice schedule for a youth team. Of course, this is just a sample and things would be different every day, but this is a basic structure of how a practice may look. Our Gift to You: We had this post turned into a PDF for your convenience! It helps prevent injury, improves performance, and improve athletic ability. What good is a basketball player who is injured or is not athletic enough to utilize the basketball skills developed? The better the player moves, the better the player performs. Why not spend time on it? Because it is the game of basketball, I do try to include a basketball in the warm up as much as possible. I am going to present two different dynamic warm ups. If you are fortunate enough to have enough basketballs for everybody, we have a basketball-related warm up. For those of you who do not have very many basketballs, we include a warm up that does not require a basketball. Youth coaches primary focus should be to teach skills and make it an enjoyable experience! Try the skill-fun drill technique. This means that you teach a skill, then follow up that skill with a fun game or drill to work on the skill. It helps break up the monotony of practice. Walk down the court forwards. Come back walking backwards. Page 10