There are millions of web pages dealing with basketball related topics. Which sites are right for an individual coach or player depends on what that person is looking for. It could also depend on the individual's level of understanding and skill for playing basketball or coaching basketball. A coach with some longevity in the game will probably not be interested in how to teach basic basketball fundamentals, while a coach starting out teaching young boys or girls will not require the sophistication of material the more experienced one will.

Whenever we undertake a new venture, be it coaching basketball, some kind of business startup, a hobby or whatever—we usually need help. Help could come in as simple a form as a brochure, but if we’re really starting something that is taking us into our own unchartered waters, we will be better served having a guide, rather than trying to figure out how to do whatever it is we’re trying to attempt.

Henry Ford, in running his company, had a bank of buttons on his desk. When he needed advice on accounting, he pressed a button to call in his accounting guru. For engineering, he pressed another button. Henry Ford was successful, in part at least, because he knew that he couldn’t know and do it all by himself. He kept a stable of mentors-gurus who were knowledgeable in areas where he wasn’t.

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A Higher Level of Coaching and Playing

BASKETBALL COACHING:

TEACHING THE DROP-STEP

IN LOW POST OFFENSE

Whether I’m teaching post offense to a 10-12 year old novice boy or girl or an experienced 16-18 year old, I always start with the same technique tests from the low post.

I want to see how they move around the key as the ball moves around the perimeter. I want to see where they stand when they stop and what the path is they took to get to where they stop. I want to make sure they are facing the ball all the while, that their hands are ready to receive a pass and that their body balance is correct to protect the ball and to withstand defensive play. If they have trouble with any of these things, or all of these things, that’s where I begin to teach.

This article deals with developing a philosophy for basketball coaches teaching the game and for basketball players in order to better play the game.

To be the best we can be in the game of basketball, we need a balance between fundamentals, defense and discipline--three sides of a triangular approach to teaching and playing this game. One aspect can't be ignored or underplayed and result in success--neither as a coach nor as a player. To be really successful in this game, all three aspects of the triangle are necessary.

(This article is dedicated to the fathers and mothers, who like myself, had life circumstances that didn’t allow them to be around their sons or daughters as they grew up.)

We all have different ideas about how to define success, but most often it seems success is defined by our jobs and the amount of money we make. If asked, “what do you do”, we’d most likely answer about what kind of job we have.

For most of my life, my own ideas about success paralleled the above statement, and during my basketball coaching years would have been further defined by the won-loss record of what ever team I was coaching at the time, and by how long I remained in one job or in one relationship.