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13 Simple Ways to Improve Your Basketball Scrimmages

A great basketball practice has several key elements.

Coaches must find the right combination of skill development drills, team drills, and small-sided games. And no good practice isn’t complete without some 5-on-5 basketball scrimmage time.

We don’t need to complicate it:

Players benefit from playing the game.

Dynamic Basketball Warm Up Guide (20 Drills and Exercises)

As a basketball coach, one of your responsibilities is making sure that your players are physically prepared before each game and practice.

One of the most important ways a player can prepare is with a proper basketball warm up.

Specifically, a dynamic stretching routine.

52 Basketball Experts Reveal the Most Common Practice Mistakes

Do you ever wonder what mistakes you’re making when running a basketball practice? Since creating this blog I’ve been blessed to interact with some of the smartest basketball minds on the planet. What better way to help you than to collect the answer to a simple question from all these experts? I asked 52 basketball experts this […]

How to Create a Youth Basketball Practice Plan

“Players win games. Coaches win practices”. Practices are the time coaches have the biggest opportunity to impact the basketball skills of a player… Yet I constantly attend practices that are so inefficiently run and that half of training is simply the coach trying to work out what drill to run next. All coaches should be spending the majority […]