Basketball Practice

This post contains quotes from two Texas A&M Women’s Assistant Bob Starkey on practice. His Hoop Thoughts Blog should be on your regular for basketball coaches. Some maxims to use throughout the coming season to help players see the value in well planned and purposefully conducted basketball practices. I have also added a few of my ...

Submitted  by Coach John Kimble CoachJohnKimble.com Retired high school and college coach Follow him on Twitter @CoachJohnKimble This article was originally written for Winning Hoops CPR: Complete Practice with Repetitions How many basketball games have you observed where the outcome of a close game is determined by just a matter of a couple plays? In your observation, it may have appeared ...

I am a firm believer that what gets measured gets emphasized, and that what gets emphasized will improve. It is also my belief that a simple box score and traditional practices statistics do not provide information that truly allows you to evaluate your team’s or individuals performance, nor do they server as a useful tool to ...

Whether you have already started playing games or you still don’t have all of your players out from fall sports, I hope this post offers at least a few ideas to build on what you are already doing, or reminds you of something that you left off of your pre-season and early season to do ...

This article on rebounding was written by Fred Castro. At the time he was an assistant at Washington. He is now the Head Women’s Coach at Eastern Michigan. This article was sent out in their weekly newsletter. If you are interested in joining their list, let me know and I will make sure that you ...

This article was written by Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach Alan Stein and published on his Stronger Team Blog Even if you are a college coach, or your high school association has different rules than Alan’s I know there are some points he makes that you can adapt to your program. He also has posted a ...

This video has some thoughts from professional shooting coaches as well as a breakdown of some of the NBA’s best shooters. I have posted some links to some basketball skill development drills below the video. Some of the drills are team drills and others are individual workout drills. This is a youtube video, so please make sure ...

This article was written by Coach Bob Starkey.Bob Starkey is an assistant coach for the LSU Tigers women’s basketball team. He served as an assistant under head coach Gary Blair at Texas A&M from 2012 to 2021. This article is from his blog HoopThougts which has a lot of great basketball coaching resources. I am a big ...

I received this basketball workout from Coach Steve Smiley formerly Head Coach at Sheridan College and currently an Assistant at Northern Colorado. PERIMETER WARM-UP (Approximately one minute on each of these, SIT INTO YOUR GAME) Two ball dribbling sequence + Shelton drills, Sendek drill, Hardaway between legs crossover Dribbling and juggling Back dribble technique, pullback crossover progression, and pullback ...

This post shows a way to add some variety to practicing closeouts. I received it as a part of the most recent University of Washington Women’s Basketball Coaching Newsletter written by Coach Mike Neighbors. If you would like to receive Coach Neighbors’ newsletter, let me know and I will pass on your email address to him.             On the ...

From an old Creighton Burns’ newsletter… The skills of passing and catching on the move remain a significant area of deficiency and are areas that can be difficult to teach and drill. The ability of guards and perimeter players to penetrate with their head up and make intelligent scoring or passing decisions is such an integral part ...

These notes about post play are from the Xavier Basketball Coaching Newsletter. To subscribe to their newsletter and to see the archives of their past newsletters, click here: Xavier Newsletter Get Position Before you can make a move on the low post, you have to be able to get the ball first. You want to post-up, or receive ...

I posted a chart to use in planning your special situations in practice. Today, I have a checklist of items that I cover every year. You can Click here to: Download the chart as a word document. Click here to: Download the chart as a pdf. The planning sheet and checklist are a part of my 130 ...

The chart below is something that I use to quickly plan and organize the segment of our practices. I believe in practicing situations at the end of every practice–even if for only five minutes. Do not stick to the rows going straight across. For instance, you could circle these for your plan: As an example: Sideline Inbounds On ...