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• Other: If you are looking for a well-thought-out season worth of practice plans, head on over to Basketballpracticeplans.com. They are mobile-friendly and print-ready. 

I’m your guest host today on the 5-minute Basketball Podcast. My names, Coach Bill Flitter - of the Coaching Youth Hoops Podcast and Basketballpracticeplans.com

So, when I am not coaching I squeeze in a day job as an entrepreneur

As an entrepreneur, when I launch a new business, I put together a 5 year path for the business. The 3-5 year goals are more aspirational and directional - not a lot of detail yet.

However, the year one, month-one goal is detailed to the day. 

How well though-out is your practice plan for the season? What about the first 4 to 6 weeks? 

My basketball season starts in November. In June, I create by “Business Plan” for the upcoming season. I shared with coaches who provide feedback. Starting July/August I start planning the first 6 weeks of practice. 

The ‘business plan’ we created in June keeps me focused on the direction of where I want our program to be by the end of the season. 

I back into 4-6 week planning cycles based on the end goal in mind that is detailed in the “Business Plan’. 

The first 4-6 weeks are pretty detailed. The following 4 weeks are vague and will be adjusted based on the previous 4-6 weeks. 

I outline the core concepts and progressions I want to teach in each planning cycle. Of course adjustments are always made but they are not made from practice to practice or game to game to avoid being reactionary. You must have the patience to see your plan through.   

Too many coaches plan one practice at a time. When this is the case, planning

is often reactionary to what happened in the previous game or practice, as

opposed to being a coherent learning progression.

This does not mean you must plan every practice during that span in detail,

but you should know beforehand what you want athletes to learn and thus

what the focus should be on various days.

Resist the urge to teach too much new information, and make sure you plan

for plenty of Training of the skills

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Steve is giving me the keys to the recording studio again - I guess this means I don’t suck. Thanks for all your wonderful feedback and 5-star ratings. 

I’m your guest host today, Coach Bill Flitter - of the Coaching Youth Hoops Podcast and Basketballpracticeplans.com

I am back to talk about practice planning and being efficient with your time. 

Raise your hand right now if you used 30 minutes to teach something that you allowed for 10 minutes on our practice plan! I know i have. 

The kids were not getting the concept, so I just kept talking, teaching, training. And blaming the kids for not ‘getting it’. Everyone in the gym leaves frustrated!

No matter how carefully your practice is planned, something may still go wrong.

Next time this happens - because it will do this instead. Stop, Drop and Roll. Because you are on fire and your blood is boiling at this point! 

On the car ride home, evaluate how you taught the drill. 

Tomorrow is a new day. Make some changes to the way you teach and tackle it again the next day.

Big shout out to all the coaches who are providing amazing feedback on my basketball practice plans. 

If you don’t know what I am talking about head on over to BasketballPracticePlans.com. Sign-up and if you qualify, I will invite you in. If you provide feedback on our practice plans, you’ll receive a huge discount when you pre-order. The first batch of 75% and 60% off are already gone. BUT you can still enjoy a big discount but you have to get your name on the list now to see if you qualify. 

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Steve is walking his dog or something, so I’m back. I’m your guest host today, Coach Bill Flitter - of the Coaching Youth Hoops Podcast and Basketballpracticeplans.com

Today’s topic is on Basketball practice planning and using Foundation Drills 

Do you have foundation drills? 

Practice time is limited but what we have to cover is overwhelming. For a coach, Finding and learning new drills and then building practice plans is timing consuming if you have to come up with new drills for every practice. 

Having to teach a new drill every practice sucks up valuable time. BUT not having variety is also boring for the athletes. 

SO, what is the answer? 

Foundation Drills. 

In a previous 5-minute basketball podcast, I spoke about the 4 stages of a basketball game and how I organize my practice plan around those 4 stages: 

Each stage has a few drills that we repeat throughout the season. HOWEVER, each drill has 

There might be 5 progressions per drill and 5 or more constraints we play around with. I’m no math teacher like Steve, but 1 Foundation Drill could have over 25 variations giving it the appearance of 25 unique drills. 

Let me give you an example. 

Take a simple long fullcourt layup drill. 

Progression:

Constraints

The foundation drill concept saves a lot my time and allows for variety in practice to keep the drills fresh - and kids are progressing in their skills.

Success depends on an organized, well-thought-out practice plan. You wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint would you? 

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Steve is fly-fishing today or something, so he asked me to step in. I’m your guest host today, Coach Bill Flitter - of the Coaching Youth Hoops Podcast and Basketballpracticeplans.com

Today’s Topic is the 5 critical components of a basketball practice plan structure. 

As You know, there are so many things we need to cover in practice that it can sometimes be overwhelming. 

It doesn’t have to be. There are only 4 stages you are in during a game 

So I organize my practice plans to mirror those 4 stages> These 4 stages give focus to players of that segment of my practice. It allows to Practice skills and decisions in the context they will occur in the game.

Under each stage, I include drills that are relevant for that stage. THis helps me focus on the 4 key components and to make sure I cover them in practice. 

But you said there were 5 things, coach? 

The 5th element is Skill Work. Shooting, scoring moves, ball handling, etc. 

My practice plan looks like this. 

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