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Drills for Teams
Coaches--Need some practice drills for your traveling team?! Click on this site for drills organized by subject matter.
Basketball Playbook Software Download
Inspirational Quotes for Basketball, Sports Life
Here are a list of inspirational quotes from sports and life to use with your team this season. Motivation is a key to teaching and learning.
Even More Team Plays and Drills
Some interesting drills and some set plays for special situations.
Conditioning and Basketball Drills
Here are some great drills to use throughout the season to work on player conditioning and general fundamentals.
Basketball Coaches' Resource Page
A wealth of drills, plays, conditioning programs and more for basketball coaches!
Coaching Resources Links Page
A great resource for coaches. Click on the "Coaching" button at the left side of the page to find what you need.
Coach Jackson's Webpage
One of the best sources for diagrammed offenses, defenses and drills.
Ken Lindsey's Coaching Corner
A lot of information on coaching fundamentals and plays. Check out this site!
Winnetka (California) Bullets Traveling Team Coaches Page
Some coaching information and plays from a traveling program in California.
PowerBasketball--A Coaches' Resource Center
Can't find any information on coaching or playing youth basketball? Check our coaching page for information. The PowerBasketball staff has searched the Internet looking for products, books, software, videos, playing the game, and coaching information on offense, defense, transitions, etc. These products will improve your coaching ability and your players' skills, make secure purchases today.
Syskos--Basketball Books and Videos on the Internet
"Your source for the best in instructional sports books and videos"
We carry over 1,000 titles in four sports. Take your time. Browse your favorite sport and thanks for shopping with Syskos.
Coach Don Meyer--A Renowned Teaching Coach
Don Meyer is a renowned small college teaching coach and he has a lot of valuable information for coaches on his coaching website. Click here and learn!
Drills and Plays from Renowned Israeli Coach Ilan Kowalsky
Some interesting plays and drills from successful and renowned Ilan Kowalsky of the Israeli national team. Well worth looking at. Just click on the "Playbook" button on the left side of the page.
How to Play Better Basketball
Coach's Notebook
A comprehensive and reliable resource for coaches. Use it often!
Over 200 Plays and Drills
Coach Michael Wells' Coaching Information Page
One of the most comprehensive and up-to-date coaching resource pages on the web, founded by the late, great coach Mike Wells, who passed away in May 2007.
Play and Drill of the Day
A good site with many drills and plays for more advanced teams.
Playground Practice Pointer
A short article discussing the need for repetition in skill teaching.
Select Your Drills
Teaching Tips for Younger Players
BCI Website
The official website of the Basketball Congress International (BCI).
The Amoeba Defense
Have you heard of the "Amoeba Defense?"
The late Al McGuire, former coach of 1977 NCAA champion Marquette and CBS color commentator, said of Bob HugginsÂ’ Cincinnati team: "Cincinnati is really well coached. (They play the) Amoeba Defense [and] their defense is their offense."
According to highly regarded and published coach Lason Perkins: "The Amoeba Defense is similar to the 1-1-3 match up defense. The main difference is that in the Amoeba, there are different cues that have the defense changing from a zone to a man to man defense, or trapping certain areas of the court. For example, one of the basic cues of the defense is that in certain situations, the third pass made in the half court would key the defense to go man to man. You can make the defense as simple or as complicated as you wished. This would give the defense a multiple look, without having to spend lots of time teaching different defenses to your team."
The Amoeba Defense was developed and perfected by Fran Webster, a former Defensive Basketball Coach at the University of Pittsburgh. As a high school coach, Webster's teams won 70 percent of their games over a 16-year period. Although his high school record is quite impressive, it was at the college level that Webster introduced the classic "Amoeba" defense. First at Westminster (PA) College and later at the University of Pittsburgh, he spent 12 seasons refining his unique winning defensive system. Webster has received numerous awards for his coaching skills and has been inducted into five Halls of Fame.
Coach Webster has written a book explaining the Amoeba Defense. It is called
Basketball's Amoeba Defense:Complete Multiple System by Fran Webster
Price: just $29.50 from Amazon.Com(Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours.)Or order direct by sending check or money order to:
Cole-McGill
P.O. Box 94032
Las Vegas, NV 89193
Book Description:
Complete Multiple System of Basketball Defense. A basketball guide that teaches the skills you need to lead your team to victory by showing your defensive squad how to stop today's best offensive patterns.
Click on the book to get a diagrammed explanation of a basic set from the Amoeba Defense strategy from a website run by high school girls'coach Coach Fonz of the Minneapolis Southwest Lady Lakers in the United States.
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Swing Offense
Here is a diagrammed version of Wisconsin Coach Bo Ryan's Swing Offense. Courtesy of Coach Fonz.
HoopTactics.com
A great new website! Whether you are an NBA head coach, or a little dribblers' coach, or just an interested spectator, you will find HoopTactics'a very valuable resource.
Formerly Progameplan.com, the range of basketball info and knowledge shared
in "Hooptactics.com" is far better and broader than its predecessor and has
something of value for basketball people at every level of the game.
...How about really practical help with offensive and defensive strategies
...the SOS pressure defensive system
...effective scouting (still under construction)
...tips and stat interpretation
...timely ideas for coaches and players!
Check out this new site.
Strength and Conditioning Index
Marquette University Men's basketball program strength and conditioning program with instructions and photos.
Basketball Tips
Ray Lokar, Head Boys' Varsity Basketball Coach at Bishop Amat High School in California edits this site that gives tips to coaches and players on all aspects of the game.
The Shooting Coach
Shooting Coach Tom Nordland gives plently of helpful instruction on how to shoot better and how to teach others to shoot better. Very user friendly site.
Coach Tommy's Playbook
A great site for youth basketball coaches. A lot of good drills and plays for youth players. Very comprehensive.
Basketball Tips by Brett Ayers
A lot of good coaching articles by Coach Brett Ayers.
Five-Star Basketball Clinic--Princeton Style Offense
Watch Princeton or Air Force play and you can see that they are allowing their players to create. Imagine how well Michael Jordan would have done with this offense. The point of emphasis is to allow players to use their offensive skills to get a good shot. For the high school player those opportunities are created by the effective use of the backdoor cut, the ability to make lay-ups, effective jump shooting and free throw shooting, and excellent ball-handling skills.
Coach Kevin Pigott, Head Varsity Basketball Coach at Fordham Preparatory School Bronx, NY, plays in the powerful New York City Catholic High School league. In order to compete with the powerhouse New York City Catholic teams, Pigott has taught his teams the controlled half-court offensive game, called the "Princeton Style Offense." He credits much of what he does to the famous Pete Carrill, long-time Princeton coach.
Daily Dozen Pre-Practice Routine
Tennessee coach Tommy Denson has compiled a list of 12 drills that can be used as a daily pre-practice routine. Minnesota Coach Fonz (Tony Alfonso)has put the drills in a diagram form so they are easier to understand. Thanks to both coaches.
Basketball Highway Coaching Archives
Great articles from coaches around the world on all kinds of topics related to basketball. Check out this site!
Hoops King On-Line Basketball Camp
Basketball Sense Magazine
Basketball Coaching--In Search of Excellence
A lot of information and advice from Coach Brad Winters.
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 time on ways to defend them. As a result, too many easy baskets are given up during the course of the game on out of bounds plays simply because teams are not prepared to stop them. "Hoop Tactics" authors coaches Ernie Woods and Bob Kloppenburg give great advice (with diagrams)on how to defend in this important situation. Check it out!
TeamArete
Journal of Basketball Studies
A analytical look at the game, including articles on the best arc for a jump shot. A very detailed look at some parts of the game you might not have thought about before.
Zone In-Bounds Plays
Special situations offenses and defenses.
Basketball Workouts
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