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Coaching
The Steve Nash Youth Basketball Program is a comprehensive coaching resource, especially at the FUNdamentals and Learn to Train stages. Here are some key chapters from the manual:
- Coach Overview
- A basketball coach is a role model and teacher of basketball, athletic, and life skills, whose goal is to make basketball enjoyable for players working as a team in a positive and safe environment.
- Teaching Techniques
- Teaching
- demonstration (the correct way, also show players how they are doing it), questioning, guided defence
- Skill development, Teaching formations
- Canada Basketball Fundamental Teaching
- Mental growth, Technical growth, Athletic growth
- Teaching progressively, Phases of teaching
- Teaching Tips
- Helping kids to listen
- "hold the balls"
- make it short and sweet
- Communication, Teaching players, Establishing positive behaviour, Building self-esteem, Creating fair-play rules, Dealing with difficult children, Goal setting, Planning a practice
- Practice Planning
- LTAD Model (with Skills)
The Youth Basketball section of hoopsplaybook.ca has the complete SNYB Program, which includes lesson plans. The Mega Hoops and Jr. NBA programs also have practice plans (the Jr. NBA includes high school ages, and has hundreds of supporting YouTube videos). For other youth drills, see Steve Nash MVP Basketball, Gooroo Youth Basketball Drills, and Favourite Drills for Kids. Also see Youth Offence and Youth Defence.
For U13 to U19 coaches, see Go-To Drills and a Coaches Handbook. including a Team Playbook.
True Sport
Canadians want their sport experience to be based on values of fairness, excellence, inclusion and fun. True Sport promotes seven principles:
- Go For It: Rise to the challenge - always strive for excellence. Be persistent and discover how good you can be.
- Play Fair: Understand, respect, and follow the rules. Play with integrity - competition is meaningful when it is fair.
- Respect Others: Show respect for everyone involved in your sporting experience. Win with dignity and lose with grace.
- Keep It Fun: Find the joy in sport and share it with others.
- Stay Healthy: Always care for your mind and body. Advocate for the health and safety of yourself and others.
- Include Everyone: Celebrate diversity. Invite and welcome others into sport.
- Give Back: Say thanks, show gratitude, and encourage your group to give back to the community.
Safe Sport
Keeping Girls in Sport
Blue Devils Drills
Blue Devils Coaching Clinics
- Recreational Program Coaching Clinic 27-10-2024
- Coaching resources, skills, how to run a practice, pre-game warmup, rebounding, scrimmage, offence, player roles, defence
- Recreational Program Coaching Clinic 01-10-2023
- Coaches Clinic 07-01-2023
- Dynamic warmup, how to run a practice, simple offensive strategies (U8, U10, U12), teaching offensive fundamentals, teaching defensive fundamentals (on-ball defence)
- Recreational Coaches Clinic 28-09-22
- Warmup, dribbling, Euro-step, shooting, split catch & drop move, man to man defence, motion offence, zone offence, zone defence, press break, pressing, inbounds plays
- 5-out offence - creating gaps
- Coaches Clinic 10-11-19
- Warmup, transition defence, defending, motion offence (progression)
- Coaches Clinic 29-09-19
- Warmup, dribbling, motor skills, shooting, passing, rebounding, spacing, teaching 4-out motion, 5-out motion, defending gaps, press breaks
- Defending gaps (simplified)
- Coaches Clinic - Dean Petridis 27/04/19
- Substitute Coaches Clinic 30-09-18
- Atom Coaches Clinic 28-10-17
- 4-out motion, defence, fast break, defensive transition
- Coaches Clinic 14-10-17
- Warmup, dribbling, shooting, layups, passing
- Mega Hoops Clinic - 19-10-14
- Dynamic warmup, agility and ballhandling, dribbling, shooting, passing
- Development Coaches Clinic 30-09-12
- Warmup, footwork, dribbling, layups, passing, 1 on 1, shooting, offence
Coaching Hacks
- Coaching Hacks on Google Drive are PDF versions of emails sent to coaches.
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