Coach Riches Posted in Coaching Philosophy, Defensive Philosophy, Offensive Philosophy No Comments ↓ Winning if you are lucky enough to experience it, can be linked to a number of different positive aspects technical and tactical styles of play. Winning by its definition is the result of many different factors and these are not always easily described. However, speak to any coach and they will be able to rattle off a thousand things that lead to success.
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Coach Riches Posted in Basketball Drills, Individual Defence, Individual Offence, Team Defence, Team Offence No Comments ↓ The Two Ball Rebounding Drill blends a boxing-out situation with a multiple possession scenario. Too often drills do not provide the opportunity for players to have to back up their performance continuously within the drills progression. It is only with a sustained performance that competence can truly be demonstrated by a player when performing a skill.
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Right from the start of basketball coaching it will become evident that a team’s Defensive Transition will be vital to ongoing and lasting success. At the very junior levels, many of the points that are scored during games will be as a result of the fast break or offensive transition phases.
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Coach Riches Posted in Coaching Philosophy, General Basketball Coaching, Offensive Philosophy, Team Offence No Comments ↓ There are many different Phases of Offense within a game of basketball. These phases of offenses define the structure and follow the natural progression of the offensive flow involved in basketball. These different phases as a coach help to fill the “gaps” that can appear in your strategic thinking about game tactics.
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Defensive Transition would be one of the last aspects to be developed in many teams’ phases of play. Defensive transition is often left out of discussions about basketball defence and as a result its development as an area of basketball to be philosophised is not widely appreciated.
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