Did you know that 90% of playing “Territorial” sports is about playing without the ball? Sports such as basketball, hockey (both ice and field), soccer and lacrosse are known as “Territorial Sports” where a team is defending a goal (their “territory”) and the winner is determined by how many goals are scored. Since scoring goals [...]

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Day 5-8 Create those Practice Plans This is the “parts”. Take the 3 segments of the season and start to develop daily plans that teach those skills needed for each segment. Keep looking at previous plans as you develop current plans to ensure logical progressions, reinforcing and adding new skills. A few suggestions when creating [...]

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Day 4 Take those skills/activities/drills and start to place them into a calendar. When do you need to teach fundamentals of a press break? Proper shooting mechanics? Low Post fundamentals? To help coaches schedule the progression and priorities of the season, coaches should break their season down into segments. Pre-season to first game What are [...]

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Day 3 After creating a skills inventory coaches should then consider which activities and drills best teach those skills? Which drills will best teach ball-handling? Which activities will best teach ball reversal, footwork and improve quickness? Match these activities with the skill. Organize into progressions, how best to teach? For example, two of the skills [...]

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Kudda is pleased to announce that we have some new basketball videos provided by the coaches of the Iowa Player Development Academy. We shot these over the course of a few days and are still processing them as we speak. Kudda got the first 45 drills up on the site and will continue to add [...]

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If you go to any bookstore’s Sports section, chances are that you will see a disproportionate number of coaching books written by basketball coaches. Seriously, check it out next time you’re in Barnes and Noble. So that got me thinking, “Why is that?” Do basketball coaches have a secret formula on great coaching? What is [...]

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