Practice Plan 1

Date and Location

Emphasis Of The Day: Getting comfortable driving to the hoop and making decisions on the fly

Thought For The Day: Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the
process rather than the prize. Bill Walsh (NFL coach)
TIME DRILL EMPHASIS SKILL
7:00 Dynamic Warmup Stretch before Focus mind and
practice starts body
7:10 2 ball dribbling to Eyes up, and in Ball-handling
1 ball stationary control, get
comfortable with
ball in our hands
7:17 Layup lines Control the ball Balance and
and learn to catch footwork
in transition
7:23 Wing sweep and Level 1: cut to Driving hard to the
drives wing, catch, sweep basket
and drive to
basket- finish with
layup
7:30 Transition Break Control the tempo Learning to push
the ball up the court
and gaining
advantages
7:40 Water Hustle at all times Being Coachable
7:43 Press D and O Pressure on D and Earning defensive
calm on O scoring potential
7:56 Swish 7 Correct form in Shooting
practice
8:03 Water Hustle at all times Be Coachable
8:05 Shell drill Up the line, help Defensive
side, deny fundamentals
8:15 Motion Offense Move without the Plays
ball
8:25 Freethrows Everyone makes 1 Pressure shooting

8:30 End Of Practice 1 good thing, 1 Reflection

thing to improve
on

Announcements: Parent meeting after practice tonight. 100 shots between this and next practice
Coaching Emphasis: Working on building the individual success in order for the team to succeed.
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best. Joe DiMaggio
In this example, the drills are designed to prepare players to drive to the basket confidently with good
dribbling skills. The first step of this move is to drive to the lane. This week of practice will have a lot
of demonstration and feedback. I recommend lots f use of exaggeration during the modeling stages,
as well as using only positive modeling. Also, use equipment to be a pretend defender on the rip
throughs- allow no defender at the bottom where they are shooting layups to help build confidence
and that the idea is to go score. With this mentality teaching the dish pass is easier. It will be a simple
and closed environment. The types of feedback in this week will be critical features first. We will do
this because it is important to nip any bad habits from forming in the butt first- focus on the big
picture and worry about the smaller things later!