12 Simple Basketball Plays for Kids (2020 Update)

If you’ve ever coached young kids before, you’ll understand the need to keep basketball as simple as possible.

When you overwhelm kids with information and send them out onto the basketball court, it can develop into a chaotic mess very quickly.

This is especially important when it comes to basketball plays.

When plays are too complex there is very little chance kids will be able to execute them effectively during a game.

When coaching kids you need simple basketball plays.

3-on-3 Basketball Plays to Score Easy Points (5 Plays)

Playing 3-on-3 is a great way to learn HOW to play basketball.

To help give your team the best chance to succeed, I’m going to show you five 3-on-3 basketball plays that you can take to the court and use to help your team get wide open shots and layups.

5 Simple Basketball Inbound Plays (Perfect for Youth Basketball)

Getting young players free for open shots off an inbounds pass isn’t easy. To do so, you need to have basketball inbound plays that are simple for young players to understand and easy for them to execute. This blog post contains 5 effective youth basketball inbound plays:Two sideline inbound playsThree baseline inbound playsIf executed correctly, all of […]

28 Basketball Plays to Dominate Any Defense

Selecting and implementing effective basketball plays is one of the most important roles of a basketball coach.

Is there a better feeling for a coach than drawing up a play in the dying minutes of a close game that your players go out and execute to perfection and score from?

If there is, I haven’t found it.

The ability to call the right play at the right time during a game can often be the difference between your team winning a losing.

Top 10 Plays So Far in 2016 – NBA, NCAA, & International

2016 has been a big year for basketball all over the world already.

We’ve had the Cleveland Cavaliers win the NBA Championship, the Villanova Wildcats claim their 2nd National Title, and there’s still plenty more to come.

One of the things that continues to stand out is how the strategy coaches are using continues to evolve and improve.

10 Best Plays of the 2015 NBA Playoffs

The NBA playoffs is always my favorite time of the year. 16 teams battle it out to be crowned the NBA Champions in two thrilling months of great basketball.

One of the most intriguing things to me are the plays that teams use. Some they’ve been using all season, some of them are made up on the spot by some of the smartest basketball minds in the game.

Either way, we see a ton of brilliant set plays every playoffs.

Here are the 10 plays that Coach Gibson Pyper considers the best from this years playoffs…