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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Coaching:
About Coaching Youth Basketball

Youth Basketball coach must understand that coaching youth Basketball is not like coaching adults. They need more instruction and more supervision, so patience is certainly a virtue.

When you’re coaching youth Basketball, you don’t necessarily have to win in order to succeed. Letting everyone play must be the objective. What you’ll want to do is prompt each child to do their very best.

This means that in the course of coaching youth Basketball, you will want to give everyone a opportunity to play. If you only play the best players, then children will feel excluded. In younger ages, this can lead to disturb children and parents as well. Let everyone have a opportunity when you’re coaching youth Basketball. You never know what talents you might find.

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You’ll want to adjust adult drills when coaching youth Basketball, but in a way that children can know and comprehend. Try to make everything a game, rather than a practice so that children stay concerned. With shorter attention units, you may want to make short drills or keep practices to a minimum.

This isn’t to say that coaching youth Basketball is a work of a baby sitter, but it is about teaching children to try their the supreme effort one can make and be filled with satisfaction when they do.

And remember the conclusion of my last Sunday´s Reflexion on basketball coaching: "... I am sometimes amused and ALWAYS disappointed by coaches who talk about running these "exotic" deployments...multiple zone presses, fast break offenses, flex offenses, triple post, trapping schemes, etc. And then they tell you they are coaching 3rd grade, or fourth grade, or even sixth grade and seventh and that they are doing these things "successfully"...".

Selected excerpts from the discussions at the eBA Annual Analysis System Clinic Chat about this topic "Youth Basketball Coaching".

This topic is resumed in the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System
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