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Coaching Youth Basketball:
Ages 8 to 12

Basketball drills and training videos for recreational, travel, PAL & AAU players

Featuring two of the country's leading high school boys' coaches, Bill Thom and Jim Datka, these basketball training videos presents over 60 basketball drills and skills demonstrations. Designed specifically for youth basketball players, the program is organized in an intuitive, week-by-week format and includes everything you need for teaching basketball fundamentals. Coaching Youth Basketball: Ages 8 to 12 provides parents and parent-coaches with all of the basketball drills and tips needed to coach an entire season of youth league basketball.



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Table of Contents

Week One
  • Introduction to Week One
  • Passing Across
  • Passing Stationary
  • Bounce Passing Stationary
  • Overhead Passing Stationary
  • Right-Hand Pound Dribble
  • Low Pound Dribble
  • Form Shooting
  • Intensity Layups
Week Two
  • Introduction to Week Two
  • 3 Spot Form Shooting
  • Guide Hand
Week Three
  • Introduction to Week Three
  • Two-Man Layups
  • V-Cut Low, Shoot High
  • V-Cut High, Shoot Low
  • On-the-Ball Defense
  • Man in the Middle
  • Zone Offense Philosophies
  • Zone Defense Philosophies
  • Attacking Gaps
  • Passing Opposite
Week Four
  • Introduction to Week Four
  • Fake Crossover
  • Rocker
  • Cone Shooting
  • 5 Spot Shooting
  • One-Pass Away Defense
  • Post Defense
  • Two-Passes Away Defense
Week Five
  • Introduction to Week Five
  • Around the Arc
  • Left-Foot Pivot
  • Mikan Drill
  • Baseball Passing Stationary
Week Six
  • Introduction to Week Six
  • 3-on-2
  • 3-on-2 Offensive Philosophies
  • 3-on-2 Defensive Philosophies
  • 3-on-2 Transition Defensive Philosophies
  • Screening
  • Screen-and-Roll
Week Seven
  • Introduction to Week Seven
  • Dribbling on the Move, Speed
  • Dribbling on the Move, Hesitation
  • Full-Court ,Two-Man Passing (One Ball)
  • Two-Man Passing (Two Balls)
Week Eight
  • Introduction to Week Eight
  • Two-Man Passing (Two Balls), Left Hand
  • Two-Man Passing (Two Balls), Combo
  • Two-Man Passing (Two Balls), Combo Version 2
  • Three-Man Drills, Pass and Screen Away
  • Three-Man Drills, Give-and-Go
  • Three-Man Drills, Ball Screen
  • Three-Man Drills, Using All Moves
  • Curling to Short Jump Shot
  • Curling to Elbow Jump Shot
Week Nine
  • Introduction to Week Nine
  • Back to the Basket
  • Back to the Basket, Right Foot
  • Back to the Basket, Alternating Feet
  • Shooting Off Downscreen
Week Ten
  • Introduction to Week Ten
  • Two-Ball Dribbling, Two-Ball Same
  • Two-Ball Dribbling, Alternate/Machine Gun
  • Two Ball Dribbling, High/Low
  • Two-Ball Dribbling, Kill
  • Two-Ball Dribbling, Triangle
  • Dribbling on the Move, Fake Crossover
  • Dribbling on the Move, Crossover
  • Power Mikan Drill
  • Reverse Mikan Drill

About the Coaches

The Coach

Bill Thom has been a basketball coach at Croton-Harmon High School in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y for the last 24 seasons. He has won over 300 games for the boys' varsity squad. Thom is a veteran coach of Empire State Games and AAU teams, and has instructed players on many levels.

The Coach

Jim Datka is the head boys' basketball coach of Messmer High School in Milwaukee. Having previously served as assistant coach at St. Francis College (N.Y.) from 2005-08, Datka has been the head coach at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn.; St. Scholastica College in Duluth, Minn.; and The Hope School in Milwaukee.

 

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