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Coaches,

I am coaching a grade 7 and 8 girls team.  Fairly low key, we practice about 2-3 times a week. Most girls are new to the game-most come from other sport-particularily hockey.  This is a new sport for them the team is school based and any one that came out essentially made the team since our numbers have been low.  I struggle with what to focus on in practice, I find I need to spend some time on the basics lay ups, shooting form, dribbling but I want to include some small sided games to get them playing.  I am never sure as to how much in depth do I go when introducing a skill.  I have used alot of material from the crossover movement and developing intelligent bball players. I could spend all my time working on simple dribbling, lay up and passing, I am not sure when to move on to small sided games since they perform some of the fundamental skill poorly. I realize some will not “master” them and it will be an on going process, any ideas when I should introduce team skills if they have can perform fundamentals.

Okay so I'd also like to enquire a litle about running daily practice.I run a youth developement basketball progamme in Ghana west Africa. We practice once a week on weekends when schools are in session and on weekdays  when schools go on holidays.I've been 

After reading the material from your coaching clinic.I started to incorporate them in my practice planning.A typicical day starts with warm ups and everyday drills for about 30minutes.We use our everyday drills to work on previously thought skills and keep them in our members minds I'm wondering what type of drills I should use as everyday drills. That is,if I should focus on the fundamentals and use teaching drills,or maybe focus on perfecting game type movements and use competitive drills.

Thanks for replying but maybe I didn't explain myself well.It's like this,if I'm working on passing during my every day drills do I use a basic form passing drill where two player pass the ball between each other using various passes or do I use a drill like volleyball passes or box passing which puts the passing skill in a more game like settings. 

Hi guys ,

Thanks for the help with the everyday drills.I've got my head around it now. But I need some ideas for some good competitive finishing drills.I've run a few of the drills from the PMDL like the open court lay ups, 1v0 finishing drill and also the UCLA cut lay up progression.I'm looking for a drill(s)  that would replicate game like conditions and that would force players to use creative finishes

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