Effective practice planning is vital to the success of your basketball team throughout the season.? One of the biggest mistakes I see young coaches make is to think they can run an effective practice without planning it out in advance.?? There is a skill to designing an effective practice and any coach can learn that skill by keeping some simple principles in mind.? If you will follow these 6 basic principles I guarantee your practices will be more effective, your players will be more focused, and your season will be more successful.
Determine what your objectives for the practice are. You can’t simply show up to practice with a plan to “just practice basketball”.? There is a lot to the game of basketball and if you don’t think so, try showing up with a group of 10 teenagers and try to keep them interested and on task for 90 minutes in anything other than a video game or text messaging.? You must approach every practice with at least one and no more than four specific objectives.? For sub-varsity teams I would suggest only one in order to keep things simple. ?Those objectives may be as simple as, “improve shooting ability by getting every player to make 8 out of 10 lay-ups” or it could be as complicated as “making sure every player understands their assignments and rotations in our 1-2-2 full court press”.? The objectives are not critically important as long as you and your players can understand it and at the end of the practice you can ask yourself, “was the objective accomplished or not”?? Before practice starts, your team needs to be aware of what the objectives are so they can begin focusing and have a clear vision of why they are doing certain drills.
Only use drills that teach to your specific objectives for that practice. This is very important so your players do not become confused.?? Too often players are taken from detriot #35 jersey one drill to the next without knowing why they are doing them.? Young coaches often think that because a drill is fun or challenging that it is a good drill.? Do not make the mistake of doing “good drills” just because they are basketball drills.? A “good” drill is one that teaches a specific set of skills to reach the objective you have established.? This means that a good drill one practice may not be a good drill for another practice based on what your objectives are.
Drills and skill development should build in a progression from simple to complex. Set your drills up in a way that teaches a progression of skills leading up to your objectives for the practice.? For example:? If my objective is to improve help defense as a team, I will start with a 1 on 1 close out drill with an emphasis on foot work and reaction time.? The next drill in the progression will be a 2 on 2 close out with an emphasis on foot work, reaction time, off ball positioning, and help and recover technique.? The next drill in the progression will be a 3 on 3 drill with an emphasis on foot work, reaction time, off ball positioning, and help and recover technique.? The next drill in the progression will be a 4 on 4 drill with the offensive players cutting with an emphasis on foot work, reaction time, off ball positioning, help and recover technique, and staying with your player as they move while still being able to see the ball.? The final drill will be a 5 on 5 controlled half court scrimmage with the offensive players running through their offensive plays and trying to score a basket.? This means the defense really has to work on all of the above skills in a game like situation.? It started with a
Stay on time and stay on schedule. It is very important that a practice starts on time and ends on time.? detriot #35 jersey This will allow players to know where they are during a drill and when it is getting over.? The optimum time for a varsity practice is 1 ? - 2 hours.? Let the players know ahead of time the length of the practice.? Early season practices can be 2 hour practices because you need a lot of time to put everything in.? However, by the midway point of the season you should only be practicing for 90 minutes each night.? After 90 minutes, practice becomes tiring and difficult for young athletes to stay focused and usually very frustrating for you as a coach.? This is a lose-lose situation that you can avoid with concise practice planning. ??You and your players should leave each practice feeling like you wanted just a little more.
A drill should never last more than 15 minutes. The best time frame for a drill is 5-10 minutes.? At first you will feel rushed by adhering to this principal but you and your players will learn to adjust and it keeps you from over-coaching as well as learning to focus on the most important parts of the drill.? It is great practice for time outs and game situations when you only have a 30 second or 1 minute window to adjust and emphasize what is important.
Write your basketball practice plan out and post it for your players to see. Also, you will need to keep a copy for your records so that you can reference it when designing tomorrow’s practice.? The same concept of progression should apply from one practice to the next so it is important for you to keep a record of what you have done.? This will help you keep track of things that do and don’t work which will make you more effective as the season progresses.? I use a basketball coaches planner called Coaching Planner designed specifically for practice planning, game planning, and scouting opponents.? It’s a great way to keep everything I need in one place.
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