"..it (coaching basketball) is kind of like wrestling a gorilla, you don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired." - Mike McDowell

If you're coaching basketball and want to improve your coaching skills, this is a great place to start. Not simply a collection of drills and plays, Better Basketball Coaching offers discussion of what to do, when to do it, and why it's done. It explains things clearly, uses lots of diagrams, and breaks things down into step by step instruction, so you can quickly understand and easily incorporate them into your coaching. And yeah, there's a few drills and plays discussed as well.

This site was built by a veteran basketball coach to help basketball coaches new to coaching the sport, or who need to change things up from what they've been doing in the past.

And let's face it, aren't we all trying to change things up every season? Do things a little differently, a little better? Match our coaching style and strategies to a new team and a different set of personalities?

Isn't that why you're on the web, surfing for information about coaching basketball? Looking for ways to improve your training programs, to develop your players, to become a better coach? Isn't that why we're always reading, watching, discussing with other coaches, trying to find anything new to add to our playbooks, to improve our teams, to help our athletes become better basketball players?

Better Basketball Coaching provides resources that help coaches improve their game:

• Coaching tips that will help you organize your teams and training sessions better, to get the most out of your teams
  
  
• A review of basic basketball skills, 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 sophisticated basketball drills 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 defensive strategies that shut down your opponent's offense
  
  
• And many more ideas and solutions for coaching the game of 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. 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.