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![]() How To Motivate In Youth BasketballMotivating begins with the coach and I don't believe there is any one method for motivating. Players relate
to different styles. ![]() Game Day Readiness and Developing Offensive Strategy for YouthThis article answers questions about how to use pre-game time to warmup the players and how to get them psyched to play. It then addresses how to determine an offensive strategy that fits the players a coach has. ![]() Youth Basketball: How To Conduct A Parent-Child ClinicHere is a way to introduce basketball skills, and how to teach these skills, to the parents. By using their children as the teaching vehicle, parents can learn how to perform the skills and to help their child with the skill learning. ![]() Youth Basketball: Teach Individual Basics Before Teaching The Team GameThe individual fundamental aspects of learning basic skills and honing these skills must come before working on team aspects. Players must know how to pass, dribble, shoot, rebound, move without the ball, move with the ball and to play defense on a player with the ball and on their player without the ball. Until players have these concepts and skills well in hand, it does no good to try to introduce a 5-on-5 situation. ![]() Teaching Shot Blocking To Developing PlayersShot blocking can be a small item down the list of things for many coaches to teach, but teaching it early and correctly can play huge dividends as players mature. ![]() Girls Basketball: How Much Offense and Defense for 8th Grade Girls?In coaching girls basketball, how many offensive and defensive sets are appropriate for 8th grade girls basketball? So much depends on the talent and basketball savvy of your girls. ![]() Youth Basketball—Teaching Balance And ControlAssume the youngsters in your charge know little or nothing about the game of basketball. Before we can run, we must pass through competency phases of crawling and walking. So, we begin at the most elemental level, breaking down information that must be assimilated along the long road to unconscious competency. In this article we take the first step—teaching balance and control. ![]() Triangle Defense: the Basis for Teaching Team DefenseThis article deals with how to teach triangle defense--the basis for teaching team defense. If you teach zone defense, you would be well advised to begin by teaching man principles, or if you teach man defense--no matter what your preference-- ![]() Youth Basketball: Teaching Offense to 9/10 Year-oldsI am often asked about how to teach offense to 9 and 10 year-olds. I have consistently stated that I think 9 and 10 year-olds don't need offensive systems. They need to be taught fundamentals--how to move without the basketball. ![]() Youth Sports: are They Really for the Youth?There are places where parents think they are doing the right thing to prepare their children for varsity sports at some later date by creating elite youth programs where they hope their kids will become superstars now.
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