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Welcome to the Basketball session shop! Here you can find all our best sessions that are available for purchase to give you help towards your coaching in specific areas of the game. Written by professional and respected coaches, these sessions will give you fresh ideas and structured training sessions at the click of a button!
Mastering the Fast Break - 10 Top Tips
10 top tips to exploit your opponents defence on the fast break! Expand your players knowledge with this fast break guide
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Using Screens On and Off the Ball
Create space in congested areas with clever movement by the players off the ball. Teach your team how to set the screen to make space for the ball carrier to attack into.
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Transition and Help Defence
Introduce players to this teamwork defensive system - communicating and moving using the defensive slide to support one another at the back!
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Footwork - The jump and stride stop
The antidote to travelling violations. Use this session to stop your travellers in their tracks with two simple stopping techniques!
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Squad Selection Session - Choose Your Best Team
Who's going to make the final cut? It's never easy running a selection session. Use this competitive session, to help you complete the puzzle and find your best team!
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Individual Shooting Tests
This bonus shooting tests session contains 4 solo practices to improve all your players' form and shooting percentage
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Shooting Guard: Individual Practice Session
Your guide to playing shooting guard: Use this session to improve your aspiring shooting guards' skill and shooting percentage
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Moving and Spacing: Moving without a Ball
Get your players moving and work on their Agility, Footwork and Speed. Try this session <i>with a difference</i> improve your players' movement technique
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Introducing Players to the Pivot
This session has been designed to get <u>all</u> your players involved, improving their passing, receiving and pivoting to achieve a higher passing completion with fewer turnovers
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Creating Attacking Advantages: Penetration and Timing
Teach players to make the right decisions when breaking up court and make the opposition's defenders scramble. Session focuses on: Attacking dribbling, spacing and timing.
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Improving your players' Vertical Jump
Increase your players' vertical jump! Use this explosive session to increase your players' jump and improve their all round game!
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Positioning - Getting Open Without the Ball
<p><em><strong>Progression leads to success!</strong></em> With these notes your players will be off the ball smart, difficult to mark and all around elusive.</p>
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Introduction to Defence - Coaching the Stance!
Make defending just as rewarding and start to see a defensive player become the star!
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Team GB - Basketball Shooting Tests
Go on the offensive - Find your sharpest shooters with this team GB inspired shooting test session - working on free throws, lay-ups and 3-pointers!
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Defensive Fundamentals - Shadowing and Man-marking
Build a defensive team to withstand any attack! Coach important defensive fundamentals - teach your players to take responsibility for their man in this Shuffle and Shadow defensive session.
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The Art of Shooting - Perfect Shooters
Shooting is all about technique and nerve. Tune your players technique so that when they?re faced with it, their nerve holds firm and they never miss!
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Pre Season Conditioning: Skills and Stamina Session
Basketball conditioning with a twist. It?s not all running and boring exercises, condition your players whilst putting a smile on their faces with sharp, intense drills to test their legs and their hands.
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Defensive Player's Mindset
Key points and ideas to improve your player's defendsive mindset and skills.
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Move to make Space - Using the V-Cut
Mix it up and change the way your players move to receive the ball - using sharp movement to cut through defences!
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Setting the Screen - Attacking Play
Set up a screen and disrupt the opposition's man-marking system to create attacking space for your team!
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Developing Your Team's Attacking Game
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts." - Get your players comfortable with failing and make them courageous in offence to make them better next time! Use this session to develop offensive structures and techniques.
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Create the Extra Man With the Give and Go
This fun passing session works on the pass and go - getting your players to pass and then follow the ball up the court to continue the attack.
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Fitness - Circuits and Running
Fast feet, circuits and sprinting - Get your players back in the game and working hard with this basketball fitness session!
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Pre Season Skills: Ball Handling, Passing and Scoring
"Teams are made in the season, players are made in the off season" - Use this session to develop your players ahead of the new season.
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Team Defense and Progressions
Bumper defending session that's positively bursting at the seams with 10 Team Defending Drills!
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Moving to Create Space - Cut Back, Fake and V-Cut
Space: how we'd always like a bit more it on court. Get your team out there recognising how they can get that extra yard of space to give them the freedom to go do their thing!
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Individual Basketball Workout for Centers
Develop your players' knowledge, understanding and game skills to play the <strong>center position</strong> by working on ball handling, and finishing around the basket and perimeter
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Pre Season Basketball Conditioning
Start as you mean to go on! Get everyone to work hard and build up a sweat with this basketball skills, fitness and team-work session.
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1v1 - Advanced Attacking, taking the advantage!
Improve your players' offensive play by working on their 1v1 skills! Get your players reading opponents' defences, running to the basket at speed and spotting where the advantage is!
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Mid-Season Team Practice: Speed and Decision-Making
Speed, Speed, Speed! This week's mid season session is an intense team session designed to improve the speed and decision-making ability of your team
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Speed Dribbling - Full steam ahead!
Time waits for no man, so use these 8 speed practices to get your players pushing the ball out in front and advance the ball full-steam ahead up the court!
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Team Development Session
Produce a winning mentality amongst your group of players with an unbreakable team ethos. The improvements in your play may just surprise you!
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Competitive Session - Shooting and Rebounding!
A high intensity fundamental session in shooting and rebounding to give your players the competitive edge come game time!
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Power Forward - Player Development
Develop a fundamentally sound power forward! Use this session to work on all the skills required for a Power Forward, a critical position for any successful basketball team!
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Improve Assists - Speed Passing
<em>Teamwork makes the dream work.</em> This plan will have your players passing the ball intuitively to each other enabling them to move the ball quicker across court, especially in those fast break situations
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Fast Break Passing - Accuracy and Power
Fast breaking, fast passing and fast all round play! Increase the intensity for your next game and blow your future opponents away.
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One on One - Take your man on!
Unlock your players' creativity to beat their opponents' on one on one situations. A great session to assess your players' individual qualities
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Help Defence - Covering and Recovery Defensive Techniques
Defence wins you championships! Coach your team how to cover, help and recover on defence and build a team difficult to beat.
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Preparing for your next game - Team Session
Get your players working together with this team session - perfect for building team chemistry and preparing your players for their next big game!
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Stop Travelling! Improve Footwork Skills - Pivoting, Passing and Cutting.
Stop Travelling - Get your players to master the pivot. A simple technical session which focuses on your players pivoting, cutting and passing. No dribbling allowed!
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Shooting at Game Speed
Sprint shooting session! Get your players to practice shooting accurately at game speed to improve their shooting percentage!
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Fast Break - Speed Offence!
A great speedy session for getting your to players to push the ball, make good decisions at speed and progress up the court with confidence!
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1 vs 1 Attacking Moves to the Basket
Instill a confidence in your attackers so they play with freedom and directness to start really taking advantage of their skills!
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Pre Season Conditioning: Attack and Defence Skill Session
<c:out value="${role.userAccount.firstName}" /> are your team ready for this season? Use this week's team bonding conditioning session to get your players working on their offence and defence!
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Individual Summer Development
"Teams are made in the season, players are made in the off season" - Use this session to develop your players ahead of the new season
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Shooting on the Move - Game Intensity Session
Is your team full of speedy players who can shoot accurately, even when running at game-speed? Test your players with this speedy shooting session!
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Point Guard - Individual Practice Session
Looking for a Point Guard: Apply within. This single player session contains all the drills your point guard will need to improve their skills and get the job!
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Defending Fundamentals: Footwork and Body Position Session
Offence sells tickets but defence wins championships - Teach your players to take pride in their defence with this real game practice fundamentals session!
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Dribbling, Shooting and Games Session
Bring a lot of energy to your session with this fun races and games session - including the Cone head balance game, Knockout and Basketball Rounders!
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Shooting Form - Practice and Competition Session
Shooting under pressure is different to shooting in practice. Find out if your players are able to maintain their form in this practice and competition shooting session!
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Practice Makes Perfect Passing
Teach your players the principles of chest and bounce passing with this beginners session - Lay the foundations so your players can continue to develop and improve!
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Teaching Out of Bounds Plays to Young Players
Composure on the basketball court is a lethal weapon. Develop your players decision making skills in tight areas so that when it comes to it, they make composed, effective plays.
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The improvement of movement
Teach your player to pass and cut. This more advanced version of the give and go is perfect for receiving the ball in space and drawing defenders out of position!
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Box Out - Offensive and Defensive Rebounds Session
Transform your players into confident, rebounders, ready to box-out at will to create a match-winning play from a bad situation.
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Shooting on the Move - Game Intensity Session
Is your team full of speedy players who can shoot accurately, even when running at game-speed? Test your players with this speedy shooting session!
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Fast Break, Transition Offense and Fitness
Develop your players fitness by translating the conditioning to specific offence transition skills. Get them turning defence into attack with a fast break right up to the final buzzer.
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Team Defence - A Comprehensive Coach Handout
Key defensive concepts to improve your team's defending ability to turn them in to a strong defensive unit
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Lay-ups and Rebounding: Footwork and Timing Session
All players love shooting, so reward your team with this shooting skills session as we aim to improve their lay-up and offensive rebound shooting!
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Making the Set Shot
Teach your players the shooting basics, coaching correct technique and instil confidence in players when they're in front of the basket!
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Small Forward Development Guide
Complete versatility! Coaching the fundamentals to develop an effective small forward
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Introducing the Layup - Shooting Skills Session
Teach your players how to layup with this step-by-step shooting <em>fun</em>damentals session - improving their running shooting technique and confidence!
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Shooting on the rebound
No rebounds, no rings! Get your players to be first to the ball with the offensive rebound and see what a difference it makes to their attacking game!
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Moving without the ball: Spacing Out and the Back Cut
Get your players thinking about their off the ball movement, losing their markers and calling for the pass with this 7 drills and games session!
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Better Ball Handling and Dribbling - Fewer turnovers
7 Drills to improve Ball Handling and reduce Turnovers - Review the basics of ball handling and dribbling basics with your players and cut down on needless turnovers
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Introduction to Basketball - Fun and Full on Session
Introducing players to the basics of basketball? Use this session to have fun and introduce players to the rules through fun drills and games!
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Dribbling and Ball Handling Skills
Can your players do the Spider Dribble? Teach them how in this dribbling <u>fun</u>damentals session!
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Scoring on the fast break - Aggressive Running, Attacking Passing
Attacking at pace is all about decision making. Develop your players decisiveness and start cutting through the opponents defences at ease!
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Fun Basketball Session
Get your young players enjoying basketball in this fun session that will keep them interested and improve their skills.
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