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bobcat695
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Posted: 12/1/2014 6:29 PM
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I just got back from practice. I laughed when I looked at my practice plan that was made out last week. I had 4 minutes on the schedule for Mikan drill on 8' rims for the elementary kids.
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Posted: 12/1/2014 6:57 PM
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bornacatfan wrote:expand_more
haha

dribbling goggles.

down and back, down and back. push the ball out in front and catch up to it. They will pick it up pretty quick at speed and if races are involved. It's a game.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Favcssbas...]
Yes! Guess what's going in the kids' Christmas stockings?
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Posted: 12/1/2014 8:25 PM
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Ted Thompson wrote:expand_more
What's the best drill to help them dribble while keeping their eyes up?
I do a drill where I have three players at one end of the court spaced evenly. In between the three players are two coaches. Another player is bringing the ball up the court. As he crosses half court the coaches will hold up either an open hand or a closed fist. If both coaches hold up closed fists the pass goes to the player on the left. If both coaches hold up open hands the pass goes to the right. If it's one of each then the pass goes to the middle. I start it with no defender and half speed and then full speed no defender and then full speed with a defender. It not only helps them keep their head up but it forces them to take in more of the court and process what they are seeing.
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Posted: 12/1/2014 8:27 PM
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Alan, are you left-handed? ;-)

A week from Saturday morning, we will start around 8:30 with warm ups for about fifteen minutes and then we typically play three games until around 10:30, any one-on-one game would have to be played after that, at which time you'd be fresh and I'd be more tired. I think what we really need to do is get up a five-on-five game between a group of BAers and the AMS Gym rat regulars. Having said that, if you want to show up on Saturday, we'll see what we can figure out.
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Posted: 12/1/2014 8:43 PM
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Maybe I should ask for drills to use with complete neophytes.
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Posted: 12/1/2014 9:40 PM
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funnest year I ever had was stepping in for a coach and his pretty accomplished daughter that left the system. I was left with 7 4th /5th grade GIRLS.

I taught them as much as I could but we only won 1 game. I found out the joy of just coaching and having fun. I will never forget calling a time out after a particularly bad turn over resulting in a run out fast break. As the players came over I stopped a player and addressed her from my knees (always coached on my knees as I felt standing over them and talking down was bad on young boys and girls) I asked "where are you supposed to be when the other team is breaking out on a fast break?" She said "between the man and the basket"...I said "where were you ?" She said...."fixing my hairband, I just can't play when it is not just right"....I decided to just have fun the rest of the year. Good luck Ted and Drags. You are gonna have a lot of those moments.
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Posted: 12/1/2014 9:48 PM
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Coached a middle school girls team that won one game nearly 20 years ago. The day after a lopsided loss I gathered the players at midcourt and talked about execution . . . execution . . . execution. The girls had a blank stare on their faces and then one of them raised her hand and asked me what I meant. Another player chimed in, saying quite seriously, "I think he means to kill someone."

I learned quickly that year that I probably shouldn't use terminology we are all familiar with but was confusing to basketball neophytes, like "execution", "in the paint", "elbow", etc. . .
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Posted: 12/1/2014 11:54 PM
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bobcatsquared wrote:expand_more
Coached a middle school girls team that won one game nearly 20 years ago. The day after a lopsided loss I gathered the players at midcourt and talked about execution . . . execution . . . execution. The girls had a blank stare on their faces and then one of them raised her hand and asked me what I meant. Another player chimed in, saying quite seriously, "I think he means to kill someone."

I learned quickly that year that I probably shouldn't use terminology we are all familiar with but was confusing to basketball neophytes, like "execution", "in the paint", "elbow", etc. . .
ROTFL! Thanks for the humor . . . made my day just as I was heading to bed.
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Posted: 12/2/2014 11:45 AM
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bornacatfan wrote:expand_more
funnest year I ever had was stepping in for a coach and his pretty accomplished daughter that left the system. I was left with 7 4th /5th grade GIRLS.

I taught them as much as I could but we only won 1 game. I found out the joy of just coaching and having fun. I will never forget calling a time out after a particularly bad turn over resulting in a run out fast break. As the players came over I stopped a player and addressed her from my knees (always coached on my knees as I felt standing over them and talking down was bad on young boys and girls) I asked "where are you supposed to be when the other team is breaking out on a fast break?" She said "between the man and the basket"...I said "where were you ?" She said...."fixing my hairband, I just can't play when it is not just right"....I decided to just have fun the rest of the year. Good luck Ted and Drags. You are gonna have a lot of those moments.
+1, it's not always (actually many times) the W's that really matter. Especially in youth sports.
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Posted: 12/2/2014 12:13 PM
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bornacatfan wrote:expand_more
funnest year I ever had was stepping in for a coach and his pretty accomplished daughter that left the system. I was left with 7 4th /5th grade GIRLS.

I taught them as much as I could but we only won 1 game. I found out the joy of just coaching and having fun. I will never forget calling a time out after a particularly bad turn over resulting in a run out fast break. As the players came over I stopped a player and addressed her from my knees (always coached on my knees as I felt standing over them and talking down was bad on young boys and girls) I asked "where are you supposed to be when the other team is breaking out on a fast break?" She said "between the man and the basket"...I said "where were you ?" She said...."fixing my hairband, I just can't play when it is not just right"....I decided to just have fun the rest of the year. Good luck Ted and Drags. You are gonna have a lot of those moments.
Did you have fun the rest of the year? How was it?
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Posted: 12/2/2014 2:35 PM
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Over 10 years ago, I had a severe case of tennis elbow in my right (shooting) arm. I entered physical therapy and was told to limit use of the right arm as much as possible.

Since I couldn't tolerate not getting up shots during that time, I started working on shooting with my LEFT hand. I worked on this about four times a week for a couple of months.

Since that time, I'm nearly ambidextrous shooting the ball from about 17 feet in.

And it made me even a stronger believer in being able to use both hands around the basket and all over the court for that matter. If someone over 40 years old can pick up on this, young kids should be able to.
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Posted: 12/2/2014 2:37 PM
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I think the lesson was to stop shooting so much, Jeff.
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Posted: 12/2/2014 3:16 PM
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Sent to me by another parent. Sums it up nicely. May all your children benefit from your wisdom.....and restraint.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_SM6oseWDog/VH4dzZM1fu...
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