And Now for the Basketball Coaches

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    With the NBA playoffs going on, the coaches at the Coaching Toolbox think there are a lot of things that both basketball players and coaches can take from the games–in addition to the entertainment value. Yesterday we offered some ideas for players to benefit from watching the games. Today, we have the following ideas for basketball coaches to benefit from the playoffs.

  1. Set basketball plays–granted many of them involve ball screens, but you can see a variety of other sets that might stimulate your thinking about basketball plays that you can run with your team.
  2. Defend the ball screen–They have several ways that the two players involved defend the ball screens to study, not just how they do it on the ball, but how they rotate to cover the open players. It also can give you some insights as to how to design and adjust your ball screen basketball plays depending upon how your opponents might defend them.
  3. Defensive rotations and help the helper–not just for the ball screen basketball plays, but on all plays where there is a trap or some help that takes place.
  4. Examples of lack of poise to use as teaching points with all of your players, whether it is a high school varsity or a summer youth camp. We feel that attitude is something that must be stressed every day and the more ways to teach and examples you use, the better the chance of the message sticking.

We like to set our VCR in case there is something we see that we want to see again. Enjoy the games and if you can pick up an idea or two for your team, even better!

The Coaching Toolbox has hundreds of free resources for basketball coaching and for basketball players.

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