Strategies for Coaching Basketball Successfully

"..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

Coaching basketball gets under your skin and in your blood and you can't seem to get it out of your head. You spend your spare time trying to work out how to fix what's going wrong with your team and how to capitalize on what's going right. Sound familiar? Welcome to the world of coaching.

Better Basketball Coaching is chock full of ideas, drills and strategies to help basketball coaches work out those changes that will help them improve their teams.

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

All kinds of information and ideas, drills and plays, and lots more to help you improve your abilities in coaching basketball and to help you help your team play better basketball!

New pages are always being added, so keep coming back and checking out the new stuff.

Here's to a Successful Season!