One of the Best Scoring Drills

In today’s newsletter… - One of the Best Scoring Drills - Mailbag: My Youth Players Won’t Pass the Ball - This Gives “Sudden Surge of Life Into Practices”  --------------------------------------------------------------- One of the Best Scoring Drills - 1v1 and 1v2 Drills Ages: Youth, High School, College/Pro Audience: Coaches, Parents, Players One of the most common scoring situations is when an offensive player gets a slight advantage on the defender. However, what you do at this moment separates the high-level scorers from players who don’t score that often. This is a great 1v1 drill that gets players a ton of reps in this situation. It’s also great as the position of the defender will vary… just like a game. Sometimes, the defender will be right on the offensive player’s hip. Other times, the defender may be slightly behind. And if the offensive player doesn’t explode or maintain control of the defender, the defender will recover back in front of the offensive player. These are all great situations to practice scoring against. Additionally, there is an advanced variation where the offensive player has to score against a second defender rotating over from weakside help. [One of the Best Scoring Drills - 1v1 and 1v2 Drills](  --------------------------------------------------------------- Mailbag: My Youth Players Won’t Pass the Ball! Question: My youth players won’t pass the ball! Do you have any drills to teach my players to break this habit? - Jeff T. Joe’s Response: I wrote about this experience before and what I did in [this article](. I have posted it below as well. In the summer of 2009, I was asked to help coach some games for a 3rd grade boys’ team. We didn’t have any practices. It was just a fun way for the boys to gain experience. I immediately noticed one terrible habit. There was practically no passing and teamwork. A few players dominated the ball. And the players would always ask how many points they scored during and after the game. Surprise. Surprise. Right? Anybody who has coached youth basketball knows this is no surprise. Well, I knew we had to change this right away. So I started tracking a new passing statistic. However, I knew I had to track something a little different than the typical assist or the Gretzky (Hockey assist) that I had tracked with high school teams. I didn’t think there’d be enough assists and Gretzkys due to the low scoring nature of 3rd grade basketball. So I only tracked one stat during the games... The number of “good passes” made by each player. During the first game, there was some interest. A few boys would come over and ask how many good passes there were. At the time, I thought, “Is this hopeless?” So I thought… Well, I need to turn this into a big deal. So I did three things. - Every time a player came out, I highlighted how many good passes they had so far. - I tried to compliment as many good passes as possible during the game. “Great pass, Jaden.” And I made a big deal out of the really good passes. - After the game, I never talked about the outcome of the game. I just talked about how many good passes there were. By the third game, there was a monumental shift. More and more players wanted to know how many “good passes” they made. And by the last few games, players would sprint over to me to check on their good passes. That’s all they cared about. It actually started to work too well. A few players even passed up open shots to get a good pass. So I had to create a new rule… If you don’t take an open shot or scoring opportunity, you sit on the bench. I didn’t even have to do that once because they quickly got the point. The experiment worked out great and I know I’ll continue to use it. I hope that you can use it to help your team’s passing as well.  --------------------------------------------------------------- This Gives “Sudden Surge of Life Into Practices” Here is some recent feedback on [Game-Based Drills System (50+ Drills) with Nate Sanderson.]( “So far after implementing these drills to the squad, there has been a sudden surge of life back into my practices. The boys really are into the specifics of how they should react to the different looks they get in games. I feel like it’s the closest to game-like we’ve experienced. They are instantly building confidence and that’s just what we need right now. Glad I bought it!” - Eric Chizer from Honolulu, Hawaii  All the Best, - Joe Haefner Breakthrough Basketball  This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( or [Unsubscribe All]( Copyright © 2021 Breakthrough Basketball, LLC. All rights reserved. Breakthrough Basketball, LLC. | 5001 1st Ave. SE, Ste 105 #254 | Cedar Rapids | IA | 52402 [email.gif] .