Ten minute video of a group skills training session.  The video has ball handling and attacking off the catch drills. Good chance you can at least find something in this video to add to your workouts.  You might want to mute this one, I’m personally not a fan of the choice of background music…..but I…
In today’s cluttered basketball analytics landscape, it just might be wise for many of us to simplify how coaches and players look at team stats and team goals. One suggestion is to approach key areas of play looking at the ten “differentials” between your team and your opponent(s) listed below: SHOT DIFFERENTIAL – Quite simply,…
Backdoor and 3 point play. Â We try to set this play up early in the game by using the three point option so we have the backdoor option for late in the game. Â Stole this play from Grand Valley State University back when I was in college. Â I feel like our team constantly fell for…
Simple and effective defense drill taken directly from one of Iowa State Head Coach Steve Prohm’s practices. Â This a good drill to start the defense portion of your practice. Â It focuses on players’ individual defense including closeouts, pressuring the ball, contesting shots and blocking out. Â Great way to reinforce the basics of defense.
Indiana University Men’s Basketball Summer workout video. Plenty of exercises and drills you can add to your team’s workouts. Although, I think it’s safe to assume they have more resources than the majority of the coaches and programs on this board but I am sure you will figure something out.
I might have mentioned in past articles how often I’ve discovered coaching nuggets over the years reading Sports Illustrated articles-very often on non-basketball topics and most of them by surprise in articles that are anything but technical in nature.  Most of these nuggets come in the form of observations by coaches, players, officials, writers and…
