Coaching Youth Basketball is our web site that has been dedicated to the the parents and volunteers who coach who take the time coaching today’s youngsters our the outstanding game of basketball. This web site and blog will have more reviews, chalk talk and specifics to coaching youth basketball than any other on the web. Our coaches and producers have over one hundred years of actual experience coaching youth basketball from the ages of four through 14 travel teams. This web site shall inform the new and experienced coach of the many details needed to succeed at coaching youth basketball. Our goal is to provide information on the latest and greatest trends, game plans, equipment and provide tips and drills to help your squad win.
If you are a parent who has been plucked from the stands and has been asked to help out, you will need a mentor if you want to succeed. Coaching youth basketball is unlike baseball, football or soccer. To succeed, one needs to be organized, not only with the players, but with the parents as well. Instructing the correct skills for the proper level is vital to give yourself even a chance to succeed. The very concept of making five young kids work together to execute a play, or carry out defensive assignment, all at the same time is extremely challenging. You need a mentor show you, step by step, and we will make sure you will find all the information you need to succeed.
If you are a long time hoops coach, our site will help you enhance your current skill level. Our coaches have seen it all and will show you the different offensive and defensive systems used at the youth basketball level. Likewise, we have experience against every imaginable press and zone you can think of and we will give you the tips you need to succeed.
Our goal is to maintain an informative web site that is unique to coaching youth basketball. Way too many corners of the web cover hoops at the high school and higher levels, but only some are unique to coaching youth basketball. The many web sites that proclaim to be “expert” youth basketball web sights are merely just trying to plug and sell you “their system”. Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no magic system you can run to succeed. It doesn’t matter, regardless of talent, or skill level there is no magic system that will always win. The statements these “gurus” spout off sound convincing, but it is all garbage. Don’t you think if there was one magic system, all coaches would use it? Please don’t fall for this con tactic. Your wins and losses will be based on the quality of talent you have and what is the best offensive and defensive system to use with your specific talent.
Organization is the first area one needs to have to obtain youth basketball success. Allot of people volunteer to coach and have no clue of what they have gotten themselves into. To have success it requires a complete understanding of the rules, drills, plays of hoops. You will need to have the ability to teach an offensive and defensive scheme to BUNCH OF KIDS. This is where most rookie coaches fall flat on their faces in a huge way. Most newbies crack open the old high school system and hit the floors. They are clueless to the fact that they are trying to instruct an old high school scheme to youngsters that are one third the age that they were in high school. These new coaches think running the offense and defensive schemes are most important and completely ignore the fundamentals. To make things worse, they resort to “old school” logic where you yell at the kids and referees for no valid reason and condition the crap out of the players to “toughen them up”.
Please do not become one of these idiots. You will fail as a coach, instructor, leader and in general as a human being if you think using “old school” tactics will work. Success coaching youth basketball takes hard work, dedication, a valid plan and a mentor to show you the correct way. We will be that mentor! Sign up for our Daily Newsletter and start succeeding now!
