I have just started to add the actual drills for basketball to my site and I must confess I am as excited by doing it as I was when I first started researching to become a coach. It has reawakened that love for the intricacies and subtleties of this wonderful game that have laid dormant since I stopped coaching. I have been going through my old videos, my old notes and practices, and exploring the net to see what new and exciting resources are there. What I have found is there is no better time in history to be a youth basketball coach. There is so much information available that you could spend the next five years studying, researching and learning, without cracking a dent in the knowledge base. Information that once required being associated with an elite basketball program is readily passed out for all to learn, often free or for very little money.
YouTube alone has 100’s if not 1,000’s of videos dedicated to a wide variety of subjects relating to learning basketball. The degree of usefulness of these videos range from a complete waste of time to a must have. The talent level behind these videos also ranges widely from complete unknowns to some of the legends of the game. The name behind the video does not always correspond to the degree of helpfulness though. Often someone that I have never heard of did a better job of relaying the fundamentals of basketball then do the stars that may find it hard to put into words the skills that they have honed for so many years. Still for someone of my age to watch the legendary Pistol Pete Maravich go into great detail about the art of shooting is thrilling.
In addition to the videos on YouTube there are 1,000 of sites dedicated to helping coaches, players and parents learn and teach the skills required to be a good if not great basketball player. These also run the gamut of quality ranging from sites no more than a squeeze page to sell you something, to full detailed sites giving countless bits of free information, to professionally done training programs.
Then there are the countless videos and books for sale. I have started going through my own personal library to find the ones that I found most helpful and although no longer coaching I am looking forward to adding to them. I find that once again I cannot get enough of learning about this exciting sport. In these pages over the next several months I will start passing along what I have learned, and what I will continue to learn. Hopefully it will help you as a parent or coach to find the resources you need to develop your child or players into the best basektball players they can be. When ever possible I will provide the information on my site so it is easily usable as a one stop resource. When its not I will direct you to the sites, books, and videos that I believe will help you most.
An example of the later is a great series of basketball shooting drills and instructional videos offered by the previously mentioned Maravich. I would love to have embedded them in my blog when discussing shooting, but unlike most YouTube videos the are not available for that. But they are a very detailed breakdown of shooting form from one of the all time great basketball shooters and are worth a look, actually probably several looks. I am sure I will be adding the links when I get into the fundamentals of basketball shooting. However, I can’t seem to wait until then and want to share them now as they are such a pleasure to watch. Here is the link to the first one and the others are easily found when you open this link. Pistol Pete Maravich’s shooting video. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
