This series gives parents and coaches over 50 drills and skills specifically for older, more skilled youth basketball players. Bill Thom and Jim Datka, two of the country’s leading high school boys’ coaches, share their knowledge and experience as they demonstrate how to coach an entire season of advanced youth league play. The program follows an intuitive, thematic format and includes everything you need to teach more advanced techniques for passing, cutting and rebounding, along with offensive and defensive philosophies. Your purchase also includes access to downloadable training notes and basketball coaching tips for each drill.
Coaching Youth Basketball: Ages 12 & Up
50
Videos!
$29.95 plus shipping and handling
- Great for Coaches, Parents and Volunteers
Coaching Youth Basketball: Ages 12 & Up
40
Videos!
$29.95 per year
- Great for Coaches, Parents and Volunteers
- Downloadable training notes & tips
Topics Covered
- Shooting
- Dribbling
- Passing
- Defense
- Offensive Drills
and Strategy
Perfect for Teams and Leagues
- Topic-by-topic instruction for the whole season
- Provides consistent training for all parents, coaches and volunteers
- Great for both boys and girls' teams, clubs and leagues!
- Click here for discounted team and league access
FREE PREVIEW from the Series: Coaching Youth Basketball: Ages 12 & Up
Three-Man Drills, Pass and Screen Away
Mikan Drill
This is a simple drill that helps build the basic layup. Additionally, it teaches players how to finish around the basket without bringing the ball down.
This video is one of over fifty great basketball drills in our training series, Coaching Youth Basketball: Ages 12 & Up.
This looks really great and something coaches can easily use for drills with the younger kids. Your video segments were perfect… quick and to the point.
-Coach B
Cranbury-Plainsboro Little League
$29.95
plus shipping and handling
$29.95
plus shipping and handling
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Shooting
- Intensity Layups
- Two-Man Layups
- V-Cut High, Shoot Low
- V-Cut Low, Shoot High
- Cone Shooting
- 5 Spot Shooting
- Curling to Short Jump Shot
- Curling to Elbow Jump Shot
- Mikan Drill
- Power Mikan Drill
- Reverse Mikan Drill
- Back to the Basket
- Back to the Basket, Alternating Feet
- Back to the Basket, Right Foot
- Four Square Shooting
- Shooting Footwork-Inside Pivot
- Inside Pivot to Jump Shot
- Inside Pivot to Layup
- Inside Pivot Rip Move
- Introduction to Dribbling
- Dribble Tag
- Two-Ball Dribbling, Two-Ball Same
- Two-Ball Dribbling, Alternate/Machine Gun
- Two Ball Dribbling, High/Low
- Two-Ball Dribbling, Kill
- Two-Ball Dribbling, Triangle
- Dribbling on the Move, Crossover
- Dribbling on the Move, Fake Crossover
- Introduction to Passing
- Man in the Middle
- Baseball Passing Stationary
- Full-Court, Three-Man Passing
- Full-Court, Three-Man Bounce Passing Drill
- Full-Court ,Two-Man Passing (One Ball)
- Two-Man Passing (Two Balls), Left Hand
- Two-Man Passing (Two Balls), Combo
- Two-Man Passing (Two Balls), Combo Version 2
- Three-Man Weave Drill
- One-Hand Pass-Right Hand
- One-Hand Pass-Left Hand
- Introduction to Defense and Rebounding
- Form Rebounding
- Ball Screen Defense
- Zone Defense Philosophies
- Off-the-Ball Screen Defense
- 3-on-2 Defensive Philosophies
- 3-on-2 Transition Defensive Philosophies
- Introduction to Offensive Drills and Strategy
- Around the Arc
- Around the Arc: Left-Foot Pivot
- 3-on-2
- 3-on-2 Offensive Philosophies
- Zone Offense Philosophies
- Zone Offense: Attacking Gaps
- Zone Offense: Passing Opposite
- Three-Man Drills, Pass and Screen Away
- Three-Man Drills, Give-and-Go
- Three-Man Drills, Ball Screen
- Three-Man Drills, Using All Moves
About the Coaches
Bill Thom has been a basketball coach at Croton-Harmon High School in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y for the last 24 seasons. He has won over 300 games for the boys' varsity squad. Thom is a veteran coach of Empire State Games and AAU teams, and has instructed players on many levels.
Jim Datka is the head boys' basketball coach of Messmer High School in Milwaukee. Having previously served as assistant coach at St. Francis College (N.Y.) from 2005-08, Datka has been the head coach at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn.; St. Scholastica College in Duluth, Minn.; and The Hope School in Milwaukee.