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Visit this section to view our collection of youth basketball drills that you can use in your team's practices. These drills are organized into basic categories and are designed to improve your players' basketball skills and knowledge of the important fundamentals. Most of pages on these basketball drills include a video, diagram, or animation to help explain how the drill works.
Coaching youth basketball is a challenge and this section is where coaches can find a constantly growing collection of youth basketball plays to beat both man and zone defenses. Also included are a variety of specialty plays like inbounds and buzzer-beaters. Each basketball play is accompanied by an animation so you can see how the flow of the play should actually work against the defense.
Each game and opponent may call for a different kind of basketball defense and this section gives an overview of several zones, presses, and man-to-man trapping defenses. We explain the pros and cons of each basketball defense and what game situation they are best suited for.
If you're new to coaching youth basketball, browse this page for useful information on how to start your basketball season on the right foot and how to deal with some of the challenges of coaching youth basketball. Also, you may want to take a quick look at our "Quick Tips for Youth Basketball Coaches" page.