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A Youth Basketball Coaching Guide is written expressly for you who are coaching children in basketball. We stress how to teach children this complex game and to have fun doing it. It covers all facets of the game from how to dribble to strategies and tactics. Coaching children should be a fun experience for everyone: for you, for the parents, and most of all the children. We cover teaching attitudes and methods, keeping in mind these are children. It's a game for them and not the adults. Winning isn't everything, but learning to play well and wanting to win is. Children from the first grade through eighth grade are divided into four categories. In each category we discuss the player's needs and abilities, what they are capable of in both the physical and emotional sense and their limitations. We define the coach's role, parent's role and the player's role.
| Forward | xiii | |
| Acknowledgements | xv | |
| Chapter 1 | Coaches Corner | 1 |
| The coaching attitude and responsibilities | ||
| Chapter 2 | Player Bench | 12 |
| The players needs and responsibilities | ||
| Chapter 3 | Parents Expectations | 16 |
| The parents roll and responsibilities | ||
| Chapter 4 | The Player Categories | 20 |
| Category I | Children through the 2nd grade | |
| Category II | Children in the 3rd & 4th Grades | |
| Category III | Children in the 5th and 6th Grades | |
| Category IV | Children in the 7th and 8th Grades | |
| Chapter 5 | Practice Schedule Planning | 28 |
| Category I | Children through the 2nd grade | |
| Category II | Children in the 3rd & 4th Grades | |
| Category III | Children in the 5th and 6th Grades | |
| Category IV | Children in the 7th and 8th Grades | |
| Practice Facilities | ||
| Chapter 6 | Fundamental Elements of the Game | 39 |
| Dribbling the Basketball | ||
| Ball Passing | ||
| Shooting Techniques | ||
| Chapter 7 | Warm Up Drills | 48 |
| Waist, Torso & Upper Body Warm-up No. 1 | ||
| Waist, Torso & Upper Body Warm-up No. 2 | ||
| Waist, Torso & Upper Body Warm-up No. 3 | ||
| Vertical Body Stretch & Calf-Warm-up No. 4 | ||
| Vertical Body Stretch & Side-Warm-up No. 5 | ||
| Leg Lunge & Quadriceps-Warm-up No. 6 | ||
| Leg Squats and Quadricepts-Warm-up No. 7 | ||
| Side Straddle Hop-Warm-up No. 8 | ||
| Court Sprint-Warm-up No. 9 | ||
| Court Circuit Jogging-Warm-up No. 10 | ||
| Vertical Jump-Warm-up No. 11 | ||
| Chapter 8 | Practices & Drills | 56 |
| "How To" Dribbling Practices | ||
| Change Hands while dribbling | ||
| Moving Forward while dribbling | ||
| Dribbling with either hand while moving forward | ||
| Dribbling Drill | ||
| "How To" Passing Practices | ||
| The Bounce Pass | ||
| The Chest High Pass | ||
| The Overhead Pass | ||
| The Overhead Hook Pass | ||
| The Side Pass | ||
| The Baseball Pass | ||
| The Reach Around Pass | ||
| At the Key Passing | ||
| "How To" Shooting Practices | ||
| Elementary Shooting Drills for the beginning Player | ||
| Elementary Shooting Drill Exercise | ||
| Free Throw or Foul Shot Drill | ||
| Running Passes | ||
| Elementary Category I running pass to receiver | ||
| Two man parallel running, passing with dribble | ||
| Two man parallel running, passing without dribble | ||
| Three man parallel running, passing without dribble | ||
| Two man weave with lateral passes during crossover | ||
| Three man weave with lateral passing during crossover | ||
| Chapter 9 | Fundamental Shooting Drills | 76 |
| Two step lay-up jump shot | ||
| Running lay-up from lateral approach | ||
| Lateral lay-up with give and go | ||
| Running jump lay-up from straight on | ||
| Free-throw or foul shot | ||
| Side line shots near three point line | ||
| Hook shot against defense | ||
| Tap-in Shot Exercise & Drill | ||
| At Key passing & shooting | ||
| Run-Stop-Jump shot (Straight on & Lateral) | ||
| Run-Stop-Jump shot over a screen | ||
| Jump Shots & Drills | ||
| Fade Away Jump shots & Drill | ||
| Chapter 10 | Pivots & Feints for Offense | 90 |
| Elementary Pivot Practice | ||
| Fundamental Pivot Practice | ||
| Elementary Fake & Pivot Practice | ||
| Below Basket at Low Post, fake, pivot & put it up | ||
| At midpost, fake, pivot and put it up | ||
| At high post, fake, pivot, break and put it up | ||
| Fundamental Rebounding Exercise & Drill | ||
| Chapter 11 | Defense Positions & Moves | 98 |
| Double teaming and the match up | ||
| Defensive positions for 2-1-2 formation | ||
| Weak side-strong side on the floor | ||
| Elementary Defense Practices | ||
| Guarding stances against offensive player | ||
| Elementary Lateral Movement Drill | ||
| Fundamental Lateral Movement Drill | ||
| Grabbing the Ball Drill | ||
| Elementary Zone Defense | ||
| Fundamental Zone Defense | ||
| Boxing out the Offensive players at the key | ||
| Knowing the trap zones | ||
| Trapping the Offense | ||
| Running Defender forces offensive player toward the side lines | ||
| Going up with offense to block the shot | ||
| Defending against the fast break | ||
| Switching and Talking | ||
| Do's and Don'ts | ||
| Chapter 12 | Playing the Offense | 121 |
| The Fast Break | ||
| Do's and Don'ts | ||
| Pivot-Break and pass across | ||
| Pivot-Break, pass, receiver shoots | ||
| Offense/Defense layup practice | ||
| Fake, pivot and put it up | ||
| Running pivot past defender | ||
| Setting a Screen | ||
| Setting a Pick | ||
| Rebounding Shooting Drill at Low Post | ||
| A Game called "21" | ||
| Building The Give and Goes | ||
| High to Low Post Give and Go-Both Sides | ||
| High to Low Post Give and Screen-Both Sides | ||
| High to Low Post Give and Go Go-Both Sides | ||
| Mid to Mid Post Give and Go-Both Sides | ||
| Mid to Mid Post Give and Screen- Both Sides | ||
| High Post Give and Goes-Both Sides | ||
| High Post Give and Screen-Both Sides | ||
| High Post Give and Go Go-Both Sides | ||
| High Post Give and Go Options-Both Sides | ||
| Review Summary about Give and Goes | ||
| Developing a "Set" play | ||
| Chapter 13 | Strategies & Tactics | 150 |
| Offensive movements and positions of responsibility | ||
| Full Court Presses and how they work | ||
| Half Court Presses and how they work | ||
| Attacking the Full Court Press | ||
| In-bounding formulas for out-of-bounds plays | ||
| In-bounding from under the basket-Box | ||
| In-bounding from under the basket-Line | ||
| In-bounding from under the basket-Reverse | ||
| In-bounding from the side court-Line | ||
| In-bounding from the side court-tandem 4 across | ||
| Team Offensive Formations | ||
| Give and Go | ||
| Basic Pick and Roll | ||
| Shuffle Cut-misdirection by feint | ||
| Slice around post-Single break to lane | ||
| Slice around post-Two above high post crisscross | ||
| Backdoor by Forward | ||
| Slice play: Guard & Forward on strong side | ||
| Clear out for Pivot Man | ||
| Rotational Offensive Pattern | ||
| Jump Ball Tactics | ||
| The Offensive Box Formation | ||
| The Deffensive 1-1-1-2 Formation | ||
| Do's and Don'ts | ||
| Chapter 14 | Selecting Player Positions | 179 |
| Chapter 15 | Scheduling Players During Games | 182 |
| Chapter 16 | Game Statistics | 186 |
| Chapter 17 | Basic Rules of the Game | 191 |
| About the Author | 209 |
Overview
A Youth Basketball Coaching Guide is written expressly for you who are coaching children in basketball. We stress how to teach children this complex game and to have fun doing it. It covers all facets of the game from how to dribble to strategies and tactics. Coaching children should be a fun experience for everyone: for you, for the parents, and most of all the ...