Planning Practices in Basketball

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Planning Basketball Practices

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By planning the team’s basketball practice activities you are able to ensure the team spends their limited basketball practice time on the activities most important at that time.

A basketball season plan should plan when particular matters will be introduced through the basketball season. For example, you may choose to introduce the team’s basketball press break after the team has familiarized itself with your press or you may choose to emphasize individual fundamentals earlier in the season and basketball team play later in the season. General considerations include relatively more conditioning drills and longer basketball practices earlier in the season.

A weekly basketball plan should consider when to introduce matters required to deal with upcoming opponents and correcting flaws exposed by previous opponents. General considerations include ensuring the basketball team maintains adequate physical conditioning and is well rested for the day of the basketball game. This may dictate more strenuous practices relatively early in the week. The weekly basketball practice plan also permits scheduling of activities which should be repeated on more than one occasion within a weekly period.

A daily plan may detail exactly what the basketball team will be doing and when they will be doing it.

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General considerations include implementing the observations of the prior practice, planning time for basketball players to improve their individual games by correcting their weaknesses, keeping time periods short enough to prevent boredom with the exercises, introducing new material relatively early in the basketball practice while players minds are fresh, alternating more strenuous exercises with less strenuous exercises, beginning with warm up exercises, ending on a fun and positive exercise. The small table based upon the one shown below may be used for planning the day’s basketball activities.

Employ exercises which will keep all basketball players actively involved as much of the time as possible. For example having four players standing with basketballs waiting to pass to one player who is running through a circuit means that for the duration of the drill three players are doing little or nothing while two (the individual passing the basketball at any particular time and the cutter) are improving.

Apply the progression learning principle to your exercises so players move through increasing levels of speed and difficulty.

Apply the repetition learning principle by requiring repetitive performance of an activity and by returning to individual matters repeatedly over a number of basketball practices.

Apply the whole part whole learning principles to achieve mastery of complex basketball activities.

It may be a helpful to create a chart, based upon "Chart A" (shown below), across the top of which is every basketball practice and basketball game and down the left side of which is everything you expect to cover during the season. The chart shown is very simple and yours could be as detailed as you desire. For example in the left hand column under Half Court Offense you could have a couple of rows for half court offenses for use against person to person defenses. If you wanted to detail your basketball plan even more you could have under a particular offense for use against person to person defenses each of the respective basketball drills you employ in your whole part whole progression for teaching the offense. To use the chart you simply put check marks in the intersections of the rows and columns where you expect to introduce or repeat practice for each item. The chart could form the basis for your weekly and dailybasketball practice plans. Because what you devise before the basketball season will rarely if ever be unaffected by the season’s unexpected occurrences, you should probably keep in mind that this chart is merely to serve as a general guide and alterations will have to be made as the basketball season progresses. If you put the check marks in pencil, then you can revise it as the basketball season progresses. It does serve to assist you in your basketball season planning and to give you an initial view of what you hope to cover and when. By charting things in this way you may also be able to judge how many topics can realistically be fruitfully covered during the limited number of practice hours available in abasketball season. A very simple and non-detailed chart could be as follows:

Topic \ Practice or Game: P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 G1 P7 P8

Individual Improvement

Scrimmaging

Conditioning

Conditioning Drill A

Conditioning Drill B

Conditioning Drill C

Shooting Drills

Passing Drills

Dribbling Drills

Rebounding Drills

Team Offenses