Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball 2nd Edition

202 Pages·2015·13.849 MB·English

by  Kot, Greg, Miniscalco, Keith

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Sur vival Guide
for Coaching
Youth Basketball
Second edition
Keith Miniscalco
Greg Kot
Human Kinetics
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Miniscalco, Keith, 1962-
Survival guide for coaching youth basketball / Keith Miniscalco, Greg Kot. -- Second edition.
pages cm
1. Basketball for children--Coaching. I. Kot, Greg. II. Title.
GV886.25.M56 2015
796.32307'7083--dc23
2015015774
ISBN: 978-1-4925-0713-0 (print)
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Contents
Drill Finder vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Key to Diagrams xii
1
Help! Where Do I Start? 1
2
Organizing Your Team Practices 19
3
Developing Offensive Skills
With 10 Simple Drills 43
4
Teaching Defensive Skills
With 10 Simple Drills 91
5
Your Can’t-Miss Offensive Playbook 121
6
Surefire Defensive Sets 145
7
Special Plays and Situations 157
8
Game Time! What’s My Role Again? 175
About the Authors 187
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Drill Finder
Skill level Skills
Defensive Page
Drill title Beg. Int. Adv. Passing Dribbling Shooting Rebounding skills no.
Knockout ✔ ✔ 35
Two-player
✔ ✔ 36
passing
Three-man
✔ ✔ 37
weave
4-on-0 fast
✔ ✔ 38
break
Hand speed
stationary ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 62
dribbling
Dribbling ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 66
Circle up ✔ ✔ ✔ 70
Pivoting ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 72
Step and
✔ ✔ ✔ 74
square
Layups ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 77
Give-and-go ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 79
Basket cutting ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 82
Two balls on
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 84
the block
Screen and
✔ ✔ ✔ 87
roll
Ready, set,
✔ ✔ 103
defense
Z slides ✔ ✔ ✔ 104
Close-outs ✔ ✔ 106
Foot-fire ✔ ✔ 107
Sky high ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 108
Wing deny ✔ ✔ 110
Help defense ✔ ✔ 111
Tandem
✔ ✔ ✔ 112
defense
Cut the cutter ✔ ✔ 116
Shell ✔ ✔ 117
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