Whether you're coaching basketball for the first time, or a veteran coach looking for a different point of view, you've chosen a great site to visit. Better Basketball Coaching presents drills and plays, skills and strategies, insights and observations gathered over a couple of decades of experience playing and coaching basketball.

Throughout the site you'll find tons of ideas on how to coach basketball, on all kinds of topics. You'll find:

• Basketball coaching tips that will help you organize your season, build your teams and community, improve your training sessions
  
  
• A review of basic fundamental basketball skills - shooting, dribbling, and passing - along with simple but effective drills that will help you teach these skills to your players
  
  
• Top basketball drills that are most effective in preparing your players for the game and that should be included in every practice
  
  
• More basketball drills for teaching shooting, passing, and dribbling that develop the specific skills your players need to know in order to perform their best
  
  
• Offensive plays that will get your players in scoring position and some solid defensive strategies that shut down your opponent's offense
  
  
• And many more ideas and solutions that will improve your ability to coach basketball
  

Surf the site. You'll find information and ideas, drills and plays - some you probably know and many that will likely be new to you - new ways to develop your players' skills, new thoughts on how to coach the game. More volumes for your growing library of coaching materials.

Coaching basketball will never be easy, but then again, if it was easy, it wouldn't be much of a challenge and it wouldn't be much fun. The more you know about coaching the game, the more prepared you'll be, and the better the coach you'll become. So browse through the pages on this site and improve your game.

New items are always being added - there's always new seasons to be played and new lessons to be learned. One more benefit of coaching basketball - the coach learns as much as the players do. So keep on coming back and checking out the new stuff.

One more thing - the pages on this site were formatted for Firefox browsers (Firefox tends to be faster than IE). That doesn't mean anything as far as content goes, but if you are viewing the site using Internet Explorer you may find some fonts and some aspects of the layout look different than they would if viewed with Firefox.