Quick OverviewIntroduction
Coaching Cards for Basketball is designed as a teaching aid for player development at all levels — helping you in your role as a teacher and coach. Players are starving for individual and team skill development! This set of drills includes methods and ideas inherited and developed through years of playing and coaching experience.
Effective teaching requires planning and organization. These efforts are greatly facilitated by these Coaching Cards. Just choose your cards, add your energy and enthusiasm, and you're ready for practice!
Please consider the impact you will have as a coach on young people. My hope is that Coaching Cards for Basketball is used by those whose motivation for coaching is teaching towards skill and character development, rather than focusing on wins and losses. To your players, you are authority, you are an example, and you are a role model. Represent this position well! In the end, success in coaching is creating a positive growth experience for young athletes. Best of luck and enjoy this great and fulfilling experience.
Quick Overview: How to Use the Cards
Each Coaching Card is either a drill competition or scrimmage variation designed for specific individual or team skills. The front of each card provides the purpose, set-up and performance sequence for the activity. Diagrams supplement the information for help with the activity's set-up and sequence. Each card is also coded by these basic purposes: Teach, Develop, or Play. Though teaching is a constant in all levels of coaching, this coding further helps you organize your practice time.
Cards coded Teach are drills that are structured to teach very specific fundamental skills. These drills require the highest level of player attentiveness and coach involvement. Set a time limit (about 10 minutes) for Teach drills to keep practice moving. If there is work left to complete the drill, pick it up another day.
Cards coded Develop are drills that are higher-intensity strengtheners of individual or team skills. These drills carry fundamental emphases that demand some teaching involvement, but less so than for Teach drills.
Cards coded Play are either games or scrimmage variations which put to test a specific set of individual or team skills.
The attention to detail and the accountability of performance depends on the skill level and age of your players, but this set of Coaching Cards is designed with drills from which players of all levels can learn, improve and compete. The back of each card provides coaching tips, drill or scrimmage variations, or additional diagrams to further your effectiveness in administering the drill. Select cards appropriate to your teaching purpose as well as to the skill level of your team. As your team grows, so too will your use of the cards.
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