No Court Time for a player no matter the age is of concern. Amateur or professional, all players would like to feel as they have contributed to a team’s success and played their part in the performance of the group. Most players rate their value to a program as being directly related to the amount of time they are receiving within a game.
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Player Performance at first glance to the outsider is about statistics. Questions commonly asked by the media, parents and players alike often sound like “has a players fulfilled their potential statistically throughout a game?” But there is a lot more to player performance then just how many points a player has achieved or rebounds secured.
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Coach Riches
Posted in Coaching Philosophy, General Basketball Coaching, General Coaching, Planning
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Talent Identification is a very important aspect for any program to come to terms with. Even those teams that pride themselves on having ample resources to bring players to their club will learn they must be able to identify the right talent or risk wasting money, over and over again.
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Coach Riches
Posted in Basketball Drills, Individual Defence, Individual Offence, Team Defence, Team Offence
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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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Coach Riches
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The Teaching and Learning Cycle is a remarkably simple way of thinking about the instruction and learning steps a player and team progress through on their way to developing knowledge, skills and ultimately competence. The Teaching and Learning Cycle is not overly complicated by for many coaches this simple progression will be all that is needed in framing what and how to instruct during their training sessions and games.
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