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How Vision Hoops gets the Most out of Young Players with Streetball Mixtape Inspired Drills

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It’s every coach’s dream to see their players working on their game outside of practice. All the great players arrive early and stay late. Coach Vara of Vision Hoops shares how his drills are so fun, he sees his players gather and do them outside of practice! Coach Vara is a skills development expert and in this interview he will share:

  • How he designs FUN drills inspired by streetball mixtapes and NBA players
  • What he wants to teach and how he designs drills to teach those skills
  • How to organize during the pre-season for a school team
  • When and how to step in to give players feedback
  • What his past coaches taught him about mental toughness

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3 Practice Plans for Kids Aged 10-14 Years Old

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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices – Bob Knight

One of the things I regret the most was showing up to practice and winging it early in my coaching career. I’d just rely on drills my old coach used back in the 80’s. Yes, I should have figured that the game has changed in since the 80’s! Continue reading “3 Practice Plans for Kids Aged 10-14 Years Old” »

18 Essential Passing Drills for the Aspiring Spurs Team

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Passing is possibly the most neglected fundamental of basketball.  Often we show our players passing drills when they’re learning up the game, then never go back to them for the rest of their basketball career.

Think of the reasons why the San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors and team USA (of which you’ll see video proof of below) run passing drills every day in practice.  Think of all the components to a pass that turn a turnover into an assist: vision, accuracy, precision, timing and speed.  A pass needs to be on target to the same degree of precision as a jump shot- and we make many more passes in a game than jump shots, but I’m willing to bet that there’s a very good chance 90% of the coaches out there will work on shooting for 1 hour and passing for 10 minutes. Continue reading “18 Essential Passing Drills for the Aspiring Spurs Team” »

2 Practice Plans for Kids Aged 6-9 Years Old with Videos

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At this age, you’ll probably be introducing basketball to kids for the first time. It is at this age that they will start to develop what will hopefully become a lifelong passion for the game. I’m a big fan of Basketball Canada’s Long-term athlete development model (LTAD) and this post is largely based on that model.

If there’s 1 thing to take away from this post, it’s to make practice FUN and ENCOURAGING.

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24 Best Dribbling Drills for ELITE Handles

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The key to great handles is unsurprising- time spent dribbling. Kyrie, Steph, Harden, all spend hours each day practising this fundamental skill.

As a coach, it’s good to have plenty of drills in your drill library:

  1. To make an otherwise repetitive exercise (pounding a ball) fun for your players, especially your kids
  2. Teach and develop certain skills for games. These are some of the best dribbling drills available in the practice planner and we’ve arranged them according to: Continue reading “24 Best Dribbling Drills for ELITE Handles” »

3 Killer Early Season Workouts with Nick George, Team GB and VCU Legend!

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If there’s one thing that coach Nick George knows how to teach better than many coaches in youth basketball, that would be EFFORT.  He built his professional and international career as a hustle guy who would outwork everyone on the court.  But teaching effort isn’t easy.

Effort is brought into practice from the very first training session.  The reason why coaches like Nick George love testing their players with conditioning workouts first up in the season is that they:

1. Measure how much effort players put in the off-season

2. Set the tone for the season ahead

If your players kill these workouts- then you’ve got a great season coming up.  If not… then they better be prepared to put in the work.   So keep reading for some coaching pointers from our interview with coach George, or click here to fast forward straight to the 3 annotated practice plans!

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