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NYSCAVolunteer Coach Training Program

Coaching Youth Basketball

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………. 3

CHAPTER 2: BALL HANDLING DRILLS ……………………………………………... 5

CHAPTER 3: BASICS OF PASSING …………………………….……………………… 7

CHAPTER 4: SHOOTING BASICS PART 1 ……..…………………….……………….. 9

CHAPTER 4: SHOOTING BASICS PART 2 ……………………………….……………. 10

CHAPTER 5: LAY-UPS ..……………………....…………………………………….…… 11

CHAPTER 6: OFFENSIVE MOVES DRILLS …………………………………………… 12

CHAPTER 7: FREE THROWS ………………..………………………………………….. 13

CHAPTER 8: PICK AND ROLL ...……………..………………………………………… 14

CHAPTER 9: DEFENSE PART 1 .…………..……………………………………………. 15

CHAPTER 9: DEFENSE PART 2 ……………………………………………………….... 16

CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSION …………………………...……………………………… 17

© 2010 National Alliance for Youth Sports

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CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION

JOHN ENGH: Hey coaches, on behalf of the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS), I‘d like to welcome you to the National Youth Sports Coaches Association (NYSCA) Coaching Youth Basketball Clinic. I’m John Engh, Chief Operating Officer for NAYS, and I’d like to thank you for taking the time to get through the program today to help enhance your basketball coaching skills. Whether you’re a veteran coach, or it’s your first time taking the court with your team, I’m confident you will find the content informative and useful as you prepare for your season. We’ve teamed up with the outstanding Orlando Magic Youth Basketball staff for this video. During the next hour, all the basic skills and techniques of the game will be covered so you’ll be fully prepared to lead your team to a fun, safe and rewarding season. A variety of drills will also be introduced along the way so that you’ll be able to use them for your practices to help your players learn and develop those key fundamental skills.

As you know, basketball is a pretty complex sport, so many of the different strategies and nuances of the game simply can’t be covered in the amount of time we have with you here today. While the instruction in this clinic is pretty comprehensive, some of you may be interested in obtaining additional information on different aspects of the game. If so, I encourage you to check out Coaching Basketball for Dummies, a coaching aid written by the National Alliance for Youth Sports. It includes details on every topic covered in this video, plus it goes in depth on a number of other advanced areas of the game.

Now I know you’re anxious to get started, so again, on behalf of NAYS we thank you for volunteering to coach this season and we applaud your commitment to teaching this wonderful game the right way to players so that they’ll have memories for years to come. So let’s get started and get out to the court.

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JACK LUTZEIER, NATIONAL BASKETBALL ACADEMY: Coaches, welcome to the Orlando Magic Youth Hoops program down here at the Orlando Magic training facility in Orlando, Florida. My name is Coach Jack Lutzeier, I’m with the National Basketball Academy. I just want to say congratulations on becoming a youth basketball coach, it’s a great opportunity to work with young kids and the great game of basketball. A couple of things you want to remember with every one of your programs, is keep the game fun. With the kids in America today we want to keep everything fun for them so that they always have a positive attitude. Another thing we want to talk about is keeping them active, keeping them moving at all times, giving them water breaks when they need, but always keeping them active and having fun. We’re going to go over a couple of drills we’re going to do today, and give you some basic tips on how to work on offensive and defensive fundamentals with your team. So get ready because we’re going to have some fun when we do it.


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CHAPTER 2 – BALL HANDLING DRILLS

JACK LUTZEIER: Coaches, when we run a camp we like to warm the players up with a couple of ball handling drills. There are a couple of different drills you can do, the things you’ll want to focus on are fingertip control, keeping the ball low to the floor, and keeping your eyes up. We’re going to do a couple of drills here just to show you how to warm your players up and then get their basic ball handling skills up to the level they need to play the game.

Guys, what we’re going to do is, I need the white guys on one side under the basket and the blue guys on the other. Now we’re going to do the basic warm up drill for the finger tips. We’re going to work on keeping the ball in the pads of our fingers. So take the ball straight in front of our face and just tap it back and forth. Hold your arms straight out as long as you can and bounce the ball off the pads of your fingers. Take that ball straight above your head, and bounce the ball off the pads of your fingers. Let’s go down to the floor now. From here we’ll go right into a basic ball handling drill.

Have the players face the same direction and pound the ball with their right hand. When doing the drill you want to make sure you have your players looking at you. You want to have the ball nice and low to the ground, feeling the ball with your finger tips. Make sure they keep their eyes up. A good way to keep their eyes up is to hold out a number and ask them how many you’re holding up. Have the players turn around facing the opposite direction and switch hands.

Dribbling

Control the basketball with the fingertips Dribble the ball low to the court Keep head and eyes up to see defenders

All right coaches, after the warm up drill at the ball handling station you want to get your players moving up and down the floor, still handling the ball. Make sure you focus on your same key points: keeping the ball on your fingertips, keeping your eyes up, and keeping the ball low to the floor.

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What we’re going to do here is a basic drill where all you have to do is bring your players to the free throw line, dribbling with one hand, have them jump up strong in a good athletic position, pivoting strong with the ball, and then going back with the opposite hand. What we’re going to do here, all the players are down in an athletic position ready to play, with their right hand towards me all the way to the free throw line. Have them jump stop at the free throw line. On “go” have them pivot on the free throw line, jump stop, and head back and then repeat with their left hand. Notice as they are going their eyes are always focused ahead but never looking down at the floor. They are always looking for a pass or someone coming from the defense. Once they do it one or two times you can speed them up. Let’s go continuous, over and back, over and back. You will see they should still be in an athletic position, down with the ball and ready to play. You will have to reiterate that the ball should be on the fingertips, staying low to the floor and keeping their eyes up. Again coaches this is a basic drill making sure you stress the same three key points.

Crossover

Coaches, after going with a basic ball handling drill with the right and left hand you want to go to a further advanced drill like a crossover or a one dribble crossover drill. It’s the same three concepts as before using the same distance from the free throw line and back. Crossing the ball

over and making sure to still jump stop strong on the free throw line and on the baseline. Another drill you can do is a one dribble crossover with only one dribble before you make the crossover move. Remember, whenever crossing over the ball you want to keep it low and below your knees. Fingertip control is key here as well as making sure the ball is not hitting the palms of your hands, and also keeping your eyes up for any oncoming defenders or a teammate to pass the ball to.


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CHAPTER 3 – BASICS OF PASSING

JACK LUTZEIER: Coaches we have gone over the basics of ball handling and now we are going to go over the basics of passing.

Chest Pass

Spread your team out on the floor and you want to make sure they are passing to each other and calling out the teammate’s name or shirt color, making sure their heads are up and paying attention. When receiving a ball you want to have your hands up, thumbs in and ready to receive the ball.

Delivering a chest pass

Hands up

Step toward the target

Finishing with thumbs pointing down For example, I will demonstrate a chest pass using Coach Steve who has a gray shirt on. I will look him in the eyes, stepping toward him as I call out gray. My thumbs are down and my foot is pointing right at him. When he is throwing the ball back and I’m waiting to receive it my hands are up with my thumbs pointing in and catching the ball with my fingertips and not letting the ball touch my body. Whenever we go to a catching and passing drill you want to make sure your players are spaced well enough apart so they will not be running into each other or the balls will not be hitting each other. You always want to make sure they are calling each other’s names and their hands are up so no one gets hit in the face.

Bounce Pass

Now we are going to move on to a bounce pass, making sure your players know how to do a bounce pass and a chest pass is key to a team’s improvement. Using the same set-up as before by stepping forward with your thumbs down but making sure the ball bounces ¾ of the way to your partner. When receiving the ball it is the same as a chest pass by keeping your hands up, thumbs in and ready to keep the ball away from your body. Now one key thing to remember when throwing a bounce pass is to not throw the ball too close to you because the ball will bounce over your teammate’s head or too close to your teammate because it will hit them in the shins. By

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throwing the ball ¾ of the way to the player, this allows the ball to bounce into their belly button which is a good area to hit when throwing a bounce pass.

Delivering a bounce pass

Step toward the target

Aim ¾ of the distance between the teammate

Finish with the thumbs pointing down

Aim for teammate’s belly button Overhead Pass

After the bounce pass and the chest pass we go into what is called the overhead pass for the longer passes on the court. What you want your players to do is step away from each other. It is the same concept as the other two passes with your foot going toward your partner but your hands are above your head and you throw to your partner, finishing in the same position with thumbs pointing toward the ground. The catch is the same concept as the other two passes.

Right-Hand Hook Pass

The next pass we will go over is the right handed hook pass. This pass is used to get the ball around the defense, such as a post entry situation. You will need to step with the same hand you are going to throw with. To demonstrate we will pass with our right hand so you will step with your right foot.

Making a right-hand hook pass

Step with the right foot

Bring the ball out away from the body

Deliver the pass with the right hand

Use wrist to snap the ball toward teammate To reiterate the passing make sure you are stepping toward your target every time. When catching the ball make sure your hands are always ready. If you are catching the ball using your body two things can happen – one, you get a hurt nose, and two, you can’t get a quick pass off.


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CHAPTER 4 – SHOOTING BASICS PART 1

JACK LUTZEIER: Now that we have gone over the basics of passing and ball handling the next step is we need to fill our offensive requirements by shooting. Follow the BEEF principles and all of your shooters will be able to shoot the ball well by the time your first game comes around.

BEEF Shooting

Balance

Elbows

Extension

Follow-Through First, you need to get a player in the set position. The set position is a down position with his right hand ready to shoot the ball. His feet are balanced, equal distance apart and underneath his shoulder blades. His elbow is out away from his body over his toe and his knee is in a straight line ready to shoot the ball. Next step is his eyes are straight forward looking at the rim. In the shot position he is extended both at the knees and ankles all the way through to the top of his shot. His elbows remain extended with his hand in the s-position into the rim. You want to make sure that your players hold the shot position with their hand in the rim for at least two seconds. Once they have the BEEF shooting technique down you can have them pick up a basketball and do the same drill without them actually shooting yet but releasing the ball up in the air so that it bounces once right in front of them.


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CHAPTER 4 – SHOOTING BASICS PART 2

JACK LUTZEIER: Now that your players have the BEEF shooting understood you want to get them in a line ready to shoot at the hoop. Making and missing the shot at this point is not important but making sure they are following the correct fundamentals of the BEEF shot is the most important. Get your players lined up right in front of the hoop and a coach down below the hoop. The players will pass the ball to the coach and get in the set position where the coach will pass them the ball back before catching it and shooting it right toward the rim and holding the follow-through. A good thing to remember is having your players hold their hand in the rim. When holding their follow-through a lot of players leave their hand short which makes the ball go long off the back of the rim.


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CHAPTER 5 – LAY-UPS

JACK LUTZEIER: Another thing you want to teach your players is a right-hand and left-hand lay-up. It is a basic part of the game and you will need it when you are on a fast break in the game. It is also the easiest shot to make in the game. When going for a right-hand lay-up you want to make sure your players are jumping off their left foot and going up as far as they can with their right hand, scoring with that hand. When going for a left-hand lay-up you want to make sure your player is jumping off their right foot and going up as far as they can with their left hand, scoring with that hand. A good way to remember that is to pretend you have a string attached from your elbow to your knee so when your right hand goes up with the ball your right knee goes up, same with the left hand.

To demonstrate we want to do a basic rebounding and lay-up drill. Players will dribble in using their outside hand which is away from the hoop, dribbling all the way toward the hoop and jumping off with their inside foot. The other lane will be rebounding the whole entire time.

Jump-stop Lay-up

Another lay-up to teach is a jump-stop lay-up. During a jump-stop lay-up you will dribble in the same way, making sure you leave the ground and land on two feet before you go to the rim. You want to make sure both feet land at the same time before shooting. This is good for little kids because sometimes they don’t have enough power to do the regular lay-up. For older kids it is a good drill because it teaches them to go to the rim strong, willing to take contact before they can score.


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CHAPTER 6 – OFFENSIVE MOVES DRILLS

JACK LUTZEIER: Now that we have done all aspects of the offensive moves, ball handling, shooting, passing, rebounding and lay-ups we can now put all the drills into one. Players will pass the ball to a coach then come off an imitated screen, calling for the ball with their hands up and ready for the BEEF shot. We can also do the same drill straight into a lay-up at the rim. This is a basic drill for all your offensive principles and is all you need. We have cones set up with a coach on the opposite end of the floor to demonstrate.


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CHAPTER 7 – FREE THROWS

JACK LUTZEIER: The last thing you want to do at practice is to work on free throws and team chemistry and you can do both of them at the same time by having your team line up at the free throw line and working together as a team using a clap cadence on a make and a miss free throw. What I like to do is on a make a team will clap twice and on a miss a team will clap once for your player. When working on free throws you want to work on your BEEF shooting again, Balance, Elbows, Eyes, Extension and Follow-through. Those important parts of BEEF shooting will help your shooters at the free throw line gain confidence for their shots. To demonstrate we will shoot two free throws and then rotate as a team.

Now remember the BEEF shooting techniques. Younger players have a tendency to jump when shooting a free throw. That is ok if they need to jump forward but making sure they don’t cross the line until they shoot. Ten years old and up, make sure they are not jumping, they want to be using their strength in their legs to complete the shot.


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CHAPTER 8 –PICK AND ROLL

JACK LUTZEIER: We want to talk next about setting the game and rolling into a pick and roll situation. First we have our lines set up so when you set a screen you are ready to go right to the basket with the ball. A couple points when setting a screen is get a wide base like a defensive stance and protecting yourself by covering your groin area and making sure you are standing perfectly still. The first line will send the pass and then set the screen away for their teammate. Make sure to set the screen up by first stepping one step away from your teammate, then coming toward your teammate while showing a hand so they know a screen is coming and jump stop, landing on two feet. Protect yourself by covering your groin area so the screener can come off right next to your shoulder.

After setting the screen you want to do what is called a roll move where you open up to the basket. When the man with the ball comes off the screen he will nudge your shoulder where you open wide to the basket, showing your off hand looking for a pass in the lane. Remember the three simple steps to setting a screen.

Setting Screens

Establish a wide base

Protect Yourself

Stand Still


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CHAPTER 9 – DEFENSE PART 1

JACK LUTZEIER: We are now going to talk about the defensive side of the ball. Teaching defense is pretty simple: we start with a defensive stance. A defensive stance consists of a player’s butt being down and their back straight where you can read the number on his jersey and not bending at the waist. Next, you want a good base with your feet shoulder-width apart and arms out wide ready to block any passes that are coming by. A common drill is defensive slide motions - they will remain in the defensive position sliding to each end of the free throw line and touching the floor.

Defensive Stance

Back straight

Butt down

Feet shoulder-width apart

Arms spread wide

Now we are going to talk about guarding the ball while on defense. Our one player is going to be in the triple-threat stance while our defender gets down in the defensive stance ready to play. A couple of keys here are to keep a one-arm gap away from your defender. A one-arm gap gives

you a chance to recover if the offensive player puts the ball on the floor and to stay in front of him if needed. When trying to guard a shot you don’t want to try and block every shot, you actually want to contest the eyeballs with your hands straight up toward the face without actually touching the offensive player. You don’t want to get too close to an offensive player because then they can go right by you. For faster players you can use a one and a half arm gap. You want to force a player to their

weaker dribbling hand. If the player is right handed you want to force them to use their left. You want to put your opposite foot forward to his strong hand, forcing him to his weaker hand.

Guarding a player

Keep a one-arm gap between players

Force the player to his weaker dribbling hand

Aim for the eyes and don’t try to block every shot


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CHAPTER 9 – DEFENSE PART 2

JACK LUTZEIER: Now we are going to focus on rebounding the basketball. When a player is defending someone they will be down in a set stance with an arm gap away ready to contest the shot. After the shot goes up a shot call is always necessary and then a box out. When boxing out make sure to put your butt on the shooter’s right leg if they are a right handed player or left leg if they are a left handed player. When attacking a rebound it is most important to get the ball at the highest point possible. Always get a rebound after you have boxed out by making contact and then going and getting the ball.

Now, to move further with rebounding we will talk about catching the ball off the glass. One thing to remember to do is to catch the ball at the peak of your jump as high as you can in the air in order to out rebound your opponents. After catching the ball, putting it at your chin is a good place to protect the ball with your elbows wide, warding off any other defenders. After getting the ball to your chin you are going to step toward the outside of the floor looking for an outlet pass. The rebounder delivers a good strong chest pass to your outlet man.

Rebounding

Grab the ball at its peak

Hold the ball under the chin with the elbows out

Pivot on the outside foot

Look for the outlet pass


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CHAPTER 10 – CONCLUSION

JACK LUTZEIER: Coaches we have talked about some of the basics in the game – both offensive and defensive fundamentals covering the passing and dribbling aspects all the way to defensive stances and guarding a player one on one. We want to say thank you for coming to the Orlando Magic practice facility with this great bunch of kids we have right here who helped demonstrate all the drills and good luck with your season.

JOHN ENGH: We certainly appreciate the time you have taken out of your busy schedule to be here today. I want to encourage you one more time to go on www.nays.org and check out all the incredible member benefits you have as an NYSCA member. Skills and drills training is just the start of it so go out there and have a great season.


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