Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball: Only the Essential Drills, Practice Plans, Plays, and Coaching Tips!

by Keith Miniscalco, Greg Kot

You volunteered to coach the basketball team, but are you really ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball has the answers. In Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball , longtime coaches Keith Miniscalco and Greg Kot share their experience and provide advice you can rely on from first practice to final shot. From evaluating players' skills and establishing realistic goals to in-game coaching tips, it's all here—the drills, the plays, the fun. Develop your team's dribbling, passing, shooting, and rebounding skills with the Survival Guide's collection of the game's best youth drills. For plays and sets that young teams can actually run, flip to the Survival Guide's offensive and defensive playbook. And to get the most out of every practice, follow the ready-to-use practice plans. Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball has everything you need for a rewarding and productive season.

Genres: Nonfiction, Basketball, Sports

184 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 2008

Reviews

[Lucas Derango · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an educational book. My basketball IQ and coaching confidence made massive improvements as I read. As a basketball novice, this was right on my level. I would highly recommend this to any aspiring coaches.

[Natalie Silver · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful to help me prepare for my first season coaching basketball.

[Brad Bevers · Rating 5 out of 5]

I grew up playing basketball and have coached once before, but wanted something easy to pick up for a youth team I coached this year. This guide is excellent, and really the only book you will need if you are coaching below the high school level and just focused on the basics. Very good, succinct, and will improve your team and players. Highly recommend this one, if you need to coach, get it.

[Janice · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read this book two seasons in a row! It's a great way to learn to coach 4-7 graders. With the read!

[Lawrence · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent! Especially for this non basketball playing guy to coach his girl's team

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've been reading this off and on for a few months. There is some good information about coaching that I found helpful, but not enough easy offensive plays to run with 5th graders. The offensive plays described in the book are quite complex and the one I did try to use with my team really fell flat.

Although I played basketball for years, it's easy to forget some of the basic rules and tips to teach to children so this will be a good reference to have as I move forward though.

[Erik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice description of skills and a wealth of drills with various stages of difficulty to practice them. These drills will probably be good for "IDEA" work between mini-games from ASEP book. The explanation of how to position oneself on offense and defense is very good (detailed and clear).

[Blake Facey · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a coaching newbie like mean, has some pretty helpful advice for getting started. Excited for the start of our season, at least for now.

[Mylan D Welborn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Primer

Concise and free flowing material. Great starter book for any youth coach boys or girls, community school or private. Highly recommended

[Hilary · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got most of my ideas for my summer rec bball class from this book. Good ideas for beginner kids.