HoopTactics Newsletter Off Season Player Skill Development Player Responsibility for Improving Skills Value & Benefits of Playing 3-on-3 Player Improvement: Off Season Training From October to April, teams are made. From April to October, individual players are made. This is the time of the year that players must develop and improve their individual basketball skills […]

Coaching Tips: Setting Goals is a Key to Success After a long season, coaches need to take some time off to recuperate and re‐charge their batteries. However, before doing so, while it is fresh in your mind, review, analyze and evaluate the past season. Examine exactly what was accomplished, what was successful, and what needs to […]

Quick Tip: Winning Close Games Box Out! The vast majority of games that are decided by last shots are won on put backs ‐‐ NOT the shots. Coaching Tips: Defending Baseline Out of Bounds Situations Coaches spend considerable amounts of practice time working on offensive baseline out of bounds plays, but spend little or no […]

Quick Tip: Intentional Missed Free Throw Chances are good during the season that an end of game situation will be encountered that requires the intentionally missing of a free throw; therefore, teams must be prepared for it. Intentional missing a free throw must be taught and practiced. Players must know and recognize their assignments are […]