Being a coach is time consuming enough.  Between practices, workouts, weight lifting, parent meetings, more parent meetings and dealing with your school’s administration there really isn’t a whole lot of time left.  Rather than waste the few spare minutes you have worrying about the things you probably like least about coaching, try implementing a few…
There are a lot of young coaches out there considering whether or not they should take the time out of their busy summer schedules to work a basketball camp (or camps) not associated with their current school at a university or organization (like Five Star or Snow Valley). Conversely, there are also a lot of…
Short but really good video with Billy Donovan giving some excellent fundamental advice and drills. The workout drills all use a chair to simulate various aspects of the game. Great video to steal some drills or even just talking points to help your players understand better.
Picking up where we left off on a past Hoop Coach post entitled, “Passes Per Possession-an Eye-Opening Metric”, we’re going to examine another aspect of that very topic. Choose a game at random from last season and chart every catch your players make.  Then decide and chart whether the catch’s subsequent action was acceptable or not….
Triangle is a simple zone offense that offsets the 1-2-2 zone defense with a two guard top, uses a hi-lo action with the bigs and has a guard or slasher type working the baseline. Take a look at the animation for this Zone Offense for a 1-2-2 Defense
In Charting Defensive Accountability: Part I earlier we promised further thoughts on charting defensive accountability. If you open the Sample Game file we can begin: The team in question gave up 68 points in this specific game and to the far right are listed the defensive categories those points fell under. In that particular game,…
