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I have the opportunity to develop a summer training program for a group of (will be) 5th grade boys who will be playing together next fall\winter.  The boys have all player traveling basketball and are all above average players. 

While most of the boys will be playing baseball or something else this summer we would still like to fit in some basketball training during the summer.  I'm guessing we'll be able to play once or twice a week and 90 minutes or so.

My question is about what types of skills should they be working on during the summer?  Should we work on skills through drills, skills through games (e.g. Dev Bball IQ), shooting, strength and fitness or all of the above?

We won't be play competitve games during this time.  It will be purely for skill development.  Do you have any tips on what kind of skills I should focus on?

Thanks.

I coach a high school boys team and during June we play summer league games even though I am not fond of doing that the kids enjoy it and we play everyone.  The breakdown we use is as follows.  Remember this is for 14-18 year olds, basketball is our main sport(we do not have a fball team) so this is what the school and community are all about.

Mondays-Lifting with a LB emphasis and skill development work for 20 mins.

Tuesdays-Full team practice using TGfU for everything / no 5v0 and no “shooting drills”, all competitive stuff

Wednesdays-League games / 2 games per day, team is split in 2 and rotate every 4 mins so everyone plays the same amount

Thursdays-Lifting with an UB emphasis and skill development work for 20 mins.

Friday-same as Tuesdays practice

Obviously this is not suited for 5th graders, just showing an example of what we do in the summer.  Hope it helps.

There are drills here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tr…..inforhoops