Quick Tip: Individual Defensive Skills and Techniques Like their offensive counterparts, defensive fundamentals must be broken down and practiced constantly on all levels of basketball. Players need to know and practice how to guard the player with the ball, how to guard a player without the ball, how to guard a cutter, how to guard […]

HoopTactics Newsletter Coach John Wooden, Featured Play: UCLA Set Offense, Individual “On” Ball Defense Premium Membership What’s New Player Development: Pressuring Player with the Ball Player Development: Containing a Dribbler Player Development: Defending Against Dribble Penetration In Memory of John Wooden  “Success is peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made […]

Quick Tip: Real Competitors Real competitors are those special players that come to play every time they step on the court. They are a team’s hardest workers constantly, improving. They are not the type that scream at their teammates or officials or kick trash cans after the game. They are the type that are determined and […]

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 […]