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18 Essential Passing Drills for the Aspiring Spurs Team

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Passing is possibly the most neglected fundamental of basketball.  Often we show our players passing drills when they’re learning up the game, then never go back to them for the rest of their basketball career.

Think of the reasons why the San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors and team USA (of which you’ll see video proof of below) run passing drills every day in practice.  Think of all the components to a pass that turn a turnover into an assist: vision, accuracy, precision, timing and speed.  A pass needs to be on target to the same degree of precision as a jump shot- and we make many more passes in a game than jump shots, but I’m willing to bet that there’s a very good chance 90% of the coaches out there will work on shooting for 1 hour and passing for 10 minutes. Continue reading “18 Essential Passing Drills for the Aspiring Spurs Team” »

2 Practice Plans for Kids Aged 6-9 Years Old with Videos

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At this age, you’ll probably be introducing basketball to kids for the first time. It is at this age that they will start to develop what will hopefully become a lifelong passion for the game. I’m a big fan of Basketball Canada’s Long-term athlete development model (LTAD) and this post is largely based on that model.

If there’s 1 thing to take away from this post, it’s to make practice FUN and ENCOURAGING.

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24 Best Dribbling Drills for ELITE Handles

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The key to great handles is unsurprising- time spent dribbling. Kyrie, Steph, Harden, all spend hours each day practising this fundamental skill.

As a coach, it’s good to have plenty of drills in your drill library:

  1. To make an otherwise repetitive exercise (pounding a ball) fun for your players, especially your kids
  2. Teach and develop certain skills for games. These are some of the best dribbling drills available in the practice planner and we’ve arranged them according to: Continue reading “24 Best Dribbling Drills for ELITE Handles” »

23 Best Shooting Drills to Become a Complete Scorer

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A basketball player that knows how to score inside, from the mid range and from the 3 point line is a player that will thrive in any system.

We know that finding great shooting drills can be hard, which is why we looked through the data from our app, the Practice Planner, to find the 23 best shooting drills that were absolutely loved by you, the coaches.

Scroll down to view the drills or fast forward to your area of need by clicking on any of the categories below:

Shooting Technique – Learn to improve form
Games Based Shooting – Use fun, competitive games to teach shooting
Game Ready Moves – Practice moves your players can use in a game
Team Shooting – Shooting drills to add to your next team practice

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The Bean Bag Drill: Teach FUNdametal Basketball Skills at All Ages

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Early development of a player's movement skills are vital to later success as a basketball player.Click To Tweet

In our previous interview with youth director of basketball Canada, Ron Yeung, we showed you that early development of a player’s movement skills were vital to later success as a basketball player. If there’s a magic drill that’s also extremely fun then it’s this one. You can use bean bags, pinnies or cones to play the bean bag game.   Continue reading “The Bean Bag Drill: Teach FUNdametal Basketball Skills at All Ages” »

The Kobe Bryant 666 Workout- Videos Inside!

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So you want to be like Kobe?  Kobe has scored over 40+ points against every team he has played. He’s become a basketball legend because he outworks everyone, both on the court and off it.

But they don’t know he was there probably at 1 p.m. getting up shots.

To put into perspective how much work he puts in, this is just ONE part of the infamous 666 workout that Kobe does- during the OFF season.  That’s right- when players are holidaying in Ibiza, Kobe is putting in 6 hours of work, for 6 days a week, over 6 months.  He breaks down each 6 hour workout into 2 hours of track running, 2 hours of shooting and skill conditioning, and 2 hours of conditioning and weightlifting in the gym. Today, we show you the exercises that make up the running and weightlifting parts of Kobe’s 666 Workout.

For all but the most elite of athletes, following Kobe’s entire workout will lead to overtraining and injuries, especially without proper recovery.  Whilst it might not be possible to train for 6 hours a day, you can easily form an hour’s workout using these exercises as a template.  As we’ve seen with Kobe, you will only get out what you put into it.

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