How to find the balance between challenging the strongest players on your team, while simultaneously improving the weakest players on your team.
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Continue readingEvery young basketball player grows up wanting to learn how to shoot a basketball at a world-class level.
With the rise of players like Steph Curry and Damian Lillard, as well as the game of basketball developing to take more advantage of the three-point shot, learning how to shoot a basketball at a high level has never been more important.
But becoming a great shooter isn’t an easy thing to do!
Follow these 10 simple steps to perfect your shooting technique!
Continue readingThe most common question I get from players is without question “How do I get more playing time?”.
A fair question. Every player wants more minutes on the court and most of them can probably justify why they deserve it.
Coaches understand that it’s tough being a player that gets limited court time. For most, basketball is their favorite thing to do. Most players play during school breaks, after school, before school, anytime they get a chance.
Throughout a game there are limited minutes to divide up and some teams get so large they end up having 7 players on the bench. This doesn’t make a coaches life easy to distribute minutes among players.
So players end up having to compete amongst their teammates for court time. This article is going to share with you 12 tactics you can use to increase the amount of court time you receive each game.
Continue readingIf you’re a basketball coach or parent I bet you have heard these comments from your players… “Coach, I can’t train at home. I don’t have a basketball ring” or “Coach, there’s not enough space to train at home”. These are excuses I hear all too often and it’s not necessarily the player’s fault. As coaches and […]
Continue readingFirst off, let’s get this myth out of the way: There are no secrets to becoming a great shooter. It’s not mind-blowingly complex. There’s no secret that only the all-time great shooters know about. There’s not a special drill you can do every time you step into the gym that will make you a knock-down […]
Continue readingChildren are out of control. We all know that. They sprint around the basketball court with what looks to us like an unlimited supply of energy. While this is fun and entertaining to watch, the out of control nature that these kids display leads to many turnovers on the basketball court. And coaches don’t like […]
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