Coaches Drills

Take a look at this submission from Jon.  A great example of coaches drills that can work with all age groups.

Among other things, I’ve coached an adult basketball rec team–guys who are in it for fun, and not really too focused on skill improvement anymore, though they did still want to get better as a team. “ In other words, they all still came to practice, but wanted to scrimmage, scrimmage, scrimmage, and didn’t have a lot of patience for drills. So I got them playing a series of 5 (or sometimes 10) point games, and in each game the captain from each team would come to me for a piece of paper. On the paper were written things like:

– the ball must be sent into the post at least once every offensive set
– fast break points are double this time
– you must score from the paint
– offensive rebounds are worth a point
– a steal is worth a point
– your team will lose a point any time you are scored on by a fast break

What was written on these pieces of paper was shared with the captain’s team, but kept secret from the other team. I knew what was on it, and kept score.

The point of it was to practice, via scrimmage, a particular skill our team had shown itself to be lacking in the last couple of games. Overall it worked out pretty good.