Coaching Basketball For Dummies

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Help!!!! Basketball for dummies?

I agreed to help on my daughter's basketball team for kindergarden, 1st and 2nd graders and they asked me to be head coach because they were short of coaches ( I had no idea they would do that) so I said yes. This is my problem I don't know alot about basketball or coaching. So could someone please give me a website or tell me the fundamentals of basketball like positions and things like that. Thanks

When coaching youth B-Ball....

-Stick with basic fundamentals
-Make it fun
- Repetition


When I coached younger kids I came up with some fun drills that the kids loved!!! Basically I took kids games like tag, red light, yellow light, green light, and musical chairs and just threw in a basketball.

Dribbling Drills
After doing drills on how to dribble in a stationary position, progress to having them walk then run while dribbling. Do this dribbling progression over a couple practices. With each practice, you should always review what you did during last practice.

Stationary Dribbling Drills
-Mark a small X on the floor with tape next to every kid, each kid has a ball. Have them spread fingers, cup palm to fit round contour of ball, flex wrist. Make sure they don't slap, they keep their hand down after dribbling instead of raising it to slap. Make kids dribble ball on X, have them maintain control and hit the X mark. They can look down at ball at this age. Do this for 30 seconds and switch to weak hand. Repeat 5-10 times.
-Alphabet Dribbling -Have them dribble in front of them, low dribble, maybe 6 inches above floor, you call out letters of the alphabet and they dribble it. Control, control, control.

Once they have walked and ran with ball under control then do these fun drills

- Clothes Pin Tag- Every kids gets 2 clothes attached to back of shirt, enclose an area off with cones. Everybody chases eachother while controlling their dribble. Kids must try to grab someone's clothes pin while protecting the 2 on their back. They must maintain control and stay within area. If a kid gets both clothes removed then he/she then sits out and watched the fun. As you get down to 4 or 5 players remaining, move cones to enclose area more. As you get down to 2 kids enclose the area more. Winner is whoever grabs most clothes pins.

Musical Chairs- you need chairs and basketball for each kid and a stereo. Kids walk in circle while dribbling around chairs as music is playing. Take one chair out so there is always one less chair than kids. Stop music randomly each kid finds a chair to sit and STILL maintain their dribble while they are sitting. Keep going until winner.

Dribble Race- 2 lines, race against eachother. Go from baseline to baseline. One ball in each line. They must come back and hand ball to next player in line.

Websites? www.bbhighway.com.....somewhere buried in that site has youth basketball drills.

Tip: go to library or Borders or Barnes and Noble bookstore.
They have tons of coaching youth basketball books!!!

Good Luck
Have Fun!!!

Coach A

SNOOKER COACHING BY STEVE DAVIS 8


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