Hand Quickness Drill
Simple drill that uses tennis balls to increase the hand quickness of your players. Perhaps something you can mix in to a warm-up routine at the start of your practice or workout.
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Tulsa Women’s Basketball Individual Drills
Great video with over 12 minutes of individual skills development drills from the Tulsa Women’s Basketball Program. There are definitely a drill or two in here for coaches at all levels.
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Giving your Team the Best Chance to Win
When any magazine or newspaper publishes its upcoming season preview for either pro or college basketball or football teams, there is often a feature wherein a coaching opponent or scout will give their take on a team other than their own. And, often in these sections, an opponent’s coach or scout will say lines like,…
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Crunch Time: Do You Practice the Possessions Before “Late Game”?
No matter how many times you’ve been at either end of a score and no matter if you have the ball or don’t, there are inevitably a few possessions down the stretch of a game where afterwards you say, “that’s where the game was decided”. Even though someone will say that possessions early in the…
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11 Ways to Avoid Upsets
Every time I hear a coach say, “We weren’t ready to play,” after his team has been upset, I really hear these words instead, “I didn’t get my team ready to play.” Now, granted all so-called upsets aren’t caused by insufficient preparation of one kind or another. Lesser teams sometimes just outplay or outshoot a…
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Clock Management: To What Extent Are You Prepared For the Endgame?
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…
