A set of superior basketball drills can transform your team

Written by Coach Peterman

I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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Basketball Drills

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August 17, 2012

It’s well documented that arguably the best basketball player in history, Michael Jordan, did not win anything in the NBA until he learned to play like a team player. He did not trust his teammates and only played for himself for a few seasons. Sure, he scored a lot of points, but he was not ultimately successful at the end of each season. If you look at the Chicago Bulls championship teams, in reality besides Jordan and Pippen, they were not star players and would have looked average or even less so on any other team. But they all played as a team, and used team building basketball drills to help them perfect the game their coach wanted them to play and to become true winners.

Every team has a star player. Some star players think a bit too much about themselves and how great they are at basketball. Such players are hard to teach as they think they do not have much to learn. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you can show them new basketball drills that will obviously improve them, you can get these kinds of talents on your side. Make them hungry for more and make sure they know that it’s a team game and that they can do nothing without the support of the whole team.

Basketball drills from successful NBA and college teams revolve around one thing, teamwork. If your players cannot implement your basketball philosophy with precision and by becoming a well-oiled machine, you will struggle to win as much as you can. Get all your players on the same page in practice and you will achieve higher performances when it comes to game time situations. You have to be the motivator in practice and throw drills at them that will challenge and reward them by making them better every time you meet with them.

Do you think you would enjoy making all your players better? Of course you would. It will give you great satisfaction to know that your basketball drills made your team achieve things as a group that they had never believed possible before. Look for drills that have proven to improve even the best of the best and make them into champions. Find drills from programs that have proven to create players who improved by leaps and bounds while they were in the program and you can’t go wrong.