Basketball Strategies – September 2011

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The Art of Teaching Basketball
Importance of Fostering a Team Atmosphere
Expectations & Demands of Player Training & Conditioning
Printable Court Diagrams: USA, NBA & FIBA (New) Formats

The Art of Teaching Basketball

If you treat a man as he would be and could be, he’ll become what he could be and would be; if you treat him as if he is, he’ll remain as he is. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Player performance is directly related to coach’s ability to teach. Therefore, before stepping out on the court, coaches should possess a solid working knowledge of the laws of learning and teaching methods. Coaches must not only possess the knowledge of the game and how to teach it, but they must also possess the enthusiasm and enjoyment for doing it and impart this energy to their teams.

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Coaching Tips: Team Atmosphere

On every level of basketball, one of the most important aspect of coaching and winning is creating and fostering a total team atmosphere and commitment. Insure your players that they’re going to play in a team atmosphere. Guarantee them that they will receive equal opportunities, but not equal playing time. Develop and establish significant roles and assignments for every player on the squad such as 6th Person, Defensive Stopper, Designated Inbounder, End of Game Free Throw Shooter, etc. If you can’t, then you should release them.

Also, inform them that you’re not going to tolerate anyone on the team that keeps other players from learning, you from coaching or any other misbehavior. Insist on a team effort at all times. No one steps on the floor without a full‐hustle attitude. Great teams are a result of the best players being the hardest workers.

Player Tips: Training Demands and Expectations

“Basketball records are a matter of great personal pride,
however, your record as a person is the most important record of all”

To be successful, each player as well as the team collectively, must be possessed with the desire and determination to develop superior physical condition. Throughout the course of the season the team will be pushed and trained hard. However, it is going to be up each player, individually, to see that their maximum physical condition is achieved and maintained.

Because of the importance of physical condition and team morals to a successful season, willful violations of training cannot be tolerated or ignored. Coaches are not policemen or mothers. It is going to be up to “team pressure” to see that training is adhered to and followed “On” and “Off” the court. Any player who breaks training not only betrays themselves, their teammates, their coaches, their followers, and everything basketball stands for, they are also cheating their Maker that gave them the ability to be a success. If any player shows disloyalty to all these and does not feel guilty, they do not belong in the basketball world, let alone on your team.

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