Coaching Youth Basketball

Perfect Practice is a resource for
coaching youth basketball, offering practice drills, plays, articles, tips, practice planning, and ideas. You’ll find it these tools and more, in video, e-book, picture and text formats -combining to provide better teaching and learning tools for coaches.

• Are you looking for
  basketball drills? You’ll find a large and growing collection of (mostly animated) animated drills on the basketball drills page

• Are you looking for basketball plays? You can find a growing collection of (many animated) plays in the basketball plays page.

• Are you looking for
  coaching tips? The Coaching Tips page contains a collection of articles covering all aspects of the game.

• In the shop you can access HoopClinics on the 5 out open post offense Each HoopClinic
  produced includes a full eBook (36-50+ pages) and exhaustive series of narrated video animations (from 99 minutes) and covers at a minimum:

1. Basic concepts and background, 2. A detailed teaching breakdown of the basic scheme, 3. Whole and part-method breakdown drills, and 4. Special plays or wrinkles.

Teaching progressions and timelines are covered, and silent “Snapshot” animated videos are added for quick review, along with a list of related online resources. Each HoopClinic is designed to provide coaches with everything necessary to implement and properly teach the schemes right away with teams at all levels, from High school varsity down through grade school

• Do you have questions you want answers to? Join the newsletter and fill out a question on the Ask the Coach” page. Your question will be answered in a future newsletter. For your more immediate questions, every effort is made to respond to your request within 3 days with a short list of resources.

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X’s and O’s knowledge isn’t nearly as important as teaching knowledge. Coaching basketball successfully happens when a coach:

a. Understands what the team (and individual players) needs to know, and

b. Communicates in a way that gets players to respond and that helps them transfer that information into playing better basketball.