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Practice plans on a day to day basis

Hi there. Iâm still learning the game of basketball and coaching it. As Iâm setting up plans on a day to day basis, Iâm just seeing how it would look like. Like do I only need to focus on one skill per day? Or incorporate all skills, dibble, defense, offense, set pieces... thank you for your help!
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Tamara GloverCoach, United Arab Emirates

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Matt MorrisonPlayer, England

Hi Tamara,

It would be best to design the sessions to focus on a single skill at a time and therefore it will be clear to the players what skill they are trying to learn in that session. I suggest starting the session by breaking down the skill into an easy to learn format and then building that into a game scenario towards the end of the session.

Matt

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