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7 Ways to Lose a Basketball Game

This article was written by Steve Smiley when he was an assistant coach to Don Meyer at Northern State University.  Steve is currently the head coach at Sheridan College. 1. Don’t play hard: You can have the most talented team in the world, you can have the most intelligent team in the world, but if [...]

Great End of Game Basketball Coaching Strategy

A study of 10,000 games high school, college, NBA found that in 96% of the games in the study, you can tell when to start your catch up game–that is taking quicker shots and fouling by using this formula: Round the time up to the next minute. Double the number of minutes  and it turns [...]

Record it and Reward It

Find a way to chart and reward players for the things you emphasize in your system of play. There are kits available with signs and stickers for players lockers, but it is very easy to make your own as well. As you watch the video of your games it is easy to chart block out percentage [...]

Basketball’s Intentional “Unintentional” Foul

We use the traditional coach grabbing his arm at the end of a gameto signal that we want to take  an “intentional unintentional foul.” We verbally say “ball” to communicate to our players to get the ball (and a clean foul in the process of making a play on the ball is acceptable), rather than saying [...]

Zone Offense Principle from Coach Knight

As you probably know, Coach Bob Knight ran motion offense, so he had some flexibility as to where to put his players on offense.  I once heard him speak at a clinic about his zone offense. One of his principles was that in his scouting against a team that played a lot of zone defense, [...]


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