The "10 Straight Passing" drill is a simple team activity that helps players get focused and ready ahead of practice. It gets players moving, communicating and making passes under pressure. Skill development is made up of three separate and distinct stages - movement mechanics, perceptual elements, and conceptual elements. Coaches mostly see the movement mechanics... Continue Reading →
3/0 Line String Shooting is a simple team warm-up drill that we adapted from Brian McCormick. Doing it early on in the practice allows our players to get warm, go through our dribble penetration principles and get some shots up. The setup is relatively simple with one line with basketballs on the slot and two... Continue Reading →
We tend to teach 2-3 sets from our out-of-bound series. The idea behind this is that we don't want to spend a lot of time on breaking down and teaching out-of-bound separately from our half-court actions. As such, most of our actions are the same and we can run them both as out of bounds... Continue Reading →
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future” A quick search online for “equality” will present you with a dozen contradictory statements or definitions surrounding what it is or what it should be. For the purpose of this post, we are going to define what... Continue Reading →
On this week's edition of our X's & O's, we decided to look at a practice from last week. This is an example of how we can use one start to structure our entire practice. From this, we were able to work on various concepts and things that we wanted to emphasise. Our primary objectives... Continue Reading →
In this edition of our weekly X's and O's, we're going to look at one of our favourite practice games - the 12 Man Rotation. This is a drill that we do twice a week in practice to really develop some of the habits we believe are necessary to be successful in the game. 12... Continue Reading →
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