Coaching Basketball

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Little League Coaching:Backyard Baseball Drills [VHS] $9.99 From The Youth Sports Club The producers of the best selling videos, “The 59 Minute Baseball Practice” and “48 Championship Basketball Drills”,”Championship Soccer Drills” and “Winning Baseball Strategies” comes our newest video: “Backyard Baseball Drills”. “Backyard Baseball Drills” has taken over two years to complete. This creative video is geared for all parents and kids who love baseball or s…

Basketball Coaching: 48 Championship Basketball Drills [VHS] $9.99 Marty Schupak and the Youth Sports Club, the producers of the best selling video “The 59 Minute Baseball Practice” take on the sport of basketball. This video shows coaches and parents from the youth level all the way up to High School a wide variety of useful drills. “48 Championship Basketball Drills” covers: shooting, conditioning, defensive skills, rebounding, ball handli…

Teaching Kids Basketball With John Wooden [VHS] $14.99 …

Bill Self: Breakdown Drills for the High/Low Motion Offense (DVD) $39.99 with Bill Self, University of Kansas Head Coach; 2008 NCAA Champions Coach Self demonstrates the key breakdown drills to implement in practice to teach and develop an effective high/low motion offense. Over 15 drills are demonstrated including positional shooting, footwork, timing, 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 drills. Areas covered include proper cutting and screening, reading the defense, as well as shooti…

Basketball Coaching Strategy With Bob Hurley Sr.

Boston and Los Angeles in the NBA Finals Shows Coaches How to Deal With Rivalries

The NBA finals currently being played in the USA at the moment are probably the second biggest summer sports event currently happening, considering the only other major competition being played out at the moment is the FIFA World Cup there will undoubtedly be plenty of rivalries brought up with Argentina and Germany being among England’s well known adversaries.

But in the Basketball world there is no greater rivalry than the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, for decades the two teams have been the two top teams, one form the east and one from the west. This year yet again they face each other in the NBA Finals in the latest battle between the two teams.

This year a lot of sports coaches could learn a thing or two from the performance of both teams but more importantly how their coaches are handling the pressure of the global spotlight. The Los Angeles Lakers may seem to have an advantage having coach Phil Jackson who has not only won multiple championships with the Lakers but Jackson was also the coach at the Chicago Bulls when Michael Jordan was still playing too.

All this experience may seem like a fairly straight forward battle with the less experienced Doc Rivers of the Boston Celtics, but Doc Rivers’ team beat LA two years ago with a tremendous show of team spirit and a desire to win that saw their team which aside from their three main players, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen didn’t really have many big names to contain arguably the greatest NBA player since Michael Jordan: Kobe Bryant.

The Celtics beat the Lakers in 2008 mainly due to their team spirit and the coach’s willingness to play bench players who had specific roles, not everyone on the team was a perfect well-rounded player but each one was able to bring an important element to the table that helped them win that year.

The Lakers were criticised for over-relying on their star player who would often be tasked with bringing the team back in the dying minutes of the game. This year though the LA team and most likely their coach as well have learnt that they need to approach the finals as a team. The team now has more trust in one another and most importantly the confidence that they can all contribute to seal a win.

With this year’s finals being fairly closely matched there is much pressure on both teams’ coaches and if you want to see how they handle the pressure and observe their tactics then as a sports coach whether you Coach Basketball or not you’ll definitely learn a few vital lessons.

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Would Bobby Knight succeed in coaching College Basketball today?

if he was young and just starting out coaching
could a coach today build a top flight basketball program where he actually doesnt violate NCAA rules and makes the players go to class and do homework and everything
im not so sure coach K could do it either if he was just starting out

I don’t think his current style would go over well with today’s basketball players. He would definitely have to change to some degree. I think he would probably move around more as a coach.