A rebounding analysis of where the ball actually lands, and how to ensure your players are grabbing as many boards as possible. *Update: The latest episode of A Quick Timeout Podcast features Fran Fraschilla who discusses several rebounding points related to this article – click below to listen. 🏀🎧📲 On today’s podcast, @franfraschilla joins the show…
Keys to Designing a Dribble Drive Motion Practice Plan
A comprehensive approach to creating a practice plan that simultaneously focuses on skill development and game-like situations. The Craft of Practice Planning Practice planning is one of the great obsessions of basketball coaches at all levels. There is probably no aspect of their job that coaches spend more time on then designing the perfect practice plan. As a…
Pre-Practice Drills: Setting the Tone for Success
The 15-20 minutes before official practice begins are crucial, and having a routine of pre-practice drills can help set the tone for success. Designing and organizing a successful daily practice plan may be the most important quality of any successful coach. Practice plan design, time length, and goals may be differ for each coach, but…
Jay Bilas Skills Camp: Top 5 Takeaways for Coaches
The 2018 edition of the Jay Bilas Skills Camp continued to provide both coaches and players exceptional opportunities to improve. The Jay Bilas Skills Camp is quickly becoming one of the best basketball camps in the entire country. At the camp, players are split into teams, which are each led by a full coaching staff.…
The Inside Out – Episode 47: Work Like A Pro
Thrive3, a leading basketball skills training group, is excited to partner with FastModel Sports to offer our weekly videos series, The Inside Out, on the FMS blog platform and directly to its audience of coaches, trainers and players. The series will provide drills from Thrive3’s player development system used to train top athletes from youth to professional…
Camp Tour – Day 4
(This an ongoing series chronicling Zack Freesman’s 35 Day Camp Tour covering 9 camps in just over a month. You can read Days 1-3 here.) I am going to preface this post by sharing for those of you that don’t know me, I am a very competitive person. This can create a few problems at…
300 Shot Workout
Growing up, I was a gym rat and felt like I had to shoot a minimum of 300 shots every single day. I cannot remember the exact time that I started shooting my “300 a day,” but it was probably when I was a sophomore in high school. I could never relax until I successfully…
Disguised Conditioning Drills – Part 2
As discussed in Disguised Conditioning Drills – Part 1, getting your players excited or at all interested in conditioning is a hard thing to do. That’s why coaches often need to disguise conditioning drills as skill development drills. There is certainly a time for basic on the line sprinting (the off-season), but throughout the rest…
Six Keys to a Quality Skill Development Program
Building a solid foundation for your development program is the key to seeing long term sustainability within a program. When coaches do not have a clear vision of what they want to see from their players, teams struggle to grow and mature. Below are six areas that we like to pay close attention to when…
Disguised Conditioning Drills – Part 1
Coaches around the globe know that very few players actively want to participate in conditioning drills. If you need any proof, just tell your players to “get on the line” and watch their heads lower. While conditioning is not usually an enjoyable part of basketball for either players or coaches, it is unfortunately a necessary…
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