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This document provides guidance on planning effective basketball practices. It recommends practices include warm-ups, skill development for individual players and teams on both offense and defense, live drills, and conditioning. A sample practice plan is given that incorporates these elements over various drills and finishes with a scrimmage. The document also describes a practice planning tool that can quickly generate detailed plans to save coaches time.

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How To Plan - Sample Plan

This document provides guidance on planning effective basketball practices. It recommends practices include warm-ups, skill development for individual players and teams on both offense and defense, live drills, and conditioning. A sample practice plan is given that incorporates these elements over various drills and finishes with a scrimmage. The document also describes a practice planning tool that can quickly generate detailed plans to save coaches time.

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How to plan | Sample Plan

Written by: Tony Adragna


Practice Planning

When it comes to planning a basketball practice, coaches can


become overwhelmed. They may rack their brains trying to come up
with the perfect basketball practice plan for their team, only to feel
unaccomplished once the practice is over.

Building a practice plan isn’t an easy task. You have to plan your
points of emphasis, know what your team needs to work on, and
plan practice accordingly. For many coaches, this can be a daunting
task.

First of all, I believe that all practices should encompass these areas
of the game:
Warm-Up – Your players shouldn’t go all out before warming up
their muscles. A warm-up doesn’t have to be static stretching, but it
should be something that gets your players loose before diving into
intense drills.

Player Skill Development – The #1 thing that every good basketball


team has is good basketball players. Don’t neglect skill development
in your practices, your team will pay the price.

Team Defensive Skills – This includes drills that factor in ball denials,
on-ball defense, help-side, staying low, and more. You must drill
defensive items in order to have a great defensive team.

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Team Offensive Skills – This includes drills that factor in passing,
decision-making, cutting, spacing, movement, and more. To have a
great offensive team, these items must be drilled.

Live Drills – This is where skills are put to the test. Let your players
play in live situations and work on the skills that you’ve drilled. This
helps with decision-making and making the right plays when they’re
in game situations.

Conditioning – This doesn’t mean your players need to run lines and
sprints at all. Conditioning should be done within your drills, but
make sure that the drills you are doing include conditioning aspects
where your players get up and down the floor.

Every practice plan doesn’t have to follow the exact order above, but
it should start with a warm-up. Warm-up could include things like
full-court dribbling, full court layups, or position breakdown. Just
make sure it’s something that gets your players’ muscles loose for
the rest of the practice.

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Sample Practice Plan

Drill Start Time Drill Name Drill Description


Right hand, left hand, speed dribble, power dribble,
2:30 Full-Court Dribbling two balls (below the kneeds, up high, machine gun,
etc.)
Lines on wings. Attack paint and float up or to the
2:35 Drive and Kick Shooting corner. Attack baseline and hit the baseline and then
wing
Cones are placed at half court and the elbows.
2:40 Make A Move Layups Players make moves at the cones and make a layup
or jumpshot.
Have one man in the post following the ball w/
2:47 Diamond Shell (4-on-4)
other shell principles

Go from Sideline to volleyball line. Beat your man to


2:57 Zig-Zag D
the spot, don’t cross feet, etc.

Partner passes after each shot. Shot in corner,


pump-fake 1 dribble shot, curl to wing for shot, flair
3:02 Brad Stevens Shooting
from the elbow for shot, touch half court & shoot a
3 in transition

Defense starts under the basket and rolls the ball


3:12 1-on-1 Cut Throat
out to the offense. Then they play 1-on-1.

Players line up at the 4 corners of half court. They


3:22 Star Passing
dribble to the middle, pivot, then throw a pass

3:27 Motion Offense Work on Motion Offense

11 men on the floor. 2 defense on each side, 4


3:42 11 Man Fast Break
outlets, and 3 men playing offense.

3:55 . 5-on-5 Scrimmage Go live and work on decision-making

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As you can see, this practice plan encompasses the six facets that
every practice should include. We warm up with some full court
dribbling, shooting, and layup drills to get the muscles loose. Then
we have individual skill development drills, drills to work on offense
and defense, and full court drills that factor in conditioning. Then,
we finish with five-on-five scrimmaging to work on decision-making
in a live environment.

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Build Plans Quickly

Remember how we mentioned at the top of this post how time-


consuming building practice plans can be? It doesn’t have to be that
way any longer. With our practice plan builder that we built with
coaches’ time in mind, you can churn out a detailed, thought-out
practice plan in less than a minute!

The best part? You can try this practice plan builder, RISK FREE, for 7
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About BBallTools

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coaches, trainers, players, and parents.

Our goal is to supply you with excellent resources to help grow the
game in a positive way.

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