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Coaching Youth Basketball - Introduction - Ed Riley (length=1023)
Introduction Coaching is not an exact science. Coaching at the higher grade levels is more opinion and preferences, than it is fact. There are certain things that every varsity player should know, lik ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 1 - Ed Riley (length=1397)
CHAPTER 1 How did I get myself into this mess? Let's see if this story sounds familiar. My daughter was in 4th grade and all of my daughter's friends were signing up to play basketball in the local ch ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 2 - Ed Riley (length=4457)
CHAPTER 2 - Choosing your team (or name your poison) A lot of teams are arbitrarily divided up at this age, so that you don't get a choice. Think of it as drawing names out of a hat, and that's who yo ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 3 - Ed Riley (length=7364)
CHAPTER 3 - TRYOUTS (or your first chance to show your ignorance) Keep repeating this to yourself, SIMPLE IS GOOD! SIMPLE IS GOOD! So why is simple good? The simpler your tryouts are, the less foolish ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 4 - Ed Riley (length=5158)
CHAPTER 4 - The Ultimate Solution or Tylenol for coaches Imagine a migraine so severe that you out into the middle of traffic, ask your friend to beat you with a golf club, and then run over you with ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 5 - Ed Riley (length=1314)
CHAPTER 5 OVERVIEW This will be the second shortest chapter in the book. You know what supplies you need. You know how to hold tryouts and what drills to use. You know how to pick your team. You know ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 6 - Ed Riley (length=1012)
CHAPTER 6 THE MAGIC WAND I am going to take a brief moment here to describe my Magic Wand Theory. Life would be wonderful if we all possessed a magic wand that when we waved it, everything came out th ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 7 - Ed Riley (length=3581)
CHAPTER 7 - Setting Up Your Learning Sessions, imes Assistant Coaches, and More Most of you will find out you don't have a choice about when you have your LS's - learning sessions. The school or leagu ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 8 - Ed Riley (length=8712)
CHAPTER 8 - YOUR FIRST LS or are you sure valium's not legal? EQUIPMENT NEEDED 1. A whistle that works 2. 5-7 pennies. These are mesh slip over tops that are all one color. You don't need these for ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 9 - Ed Riley (length=4717)
CHAPTER 9 Ball Handling Remember, ball handling is your your #1 priority, so you repeat the drills in LS 1. The only difference is it shouldn't take you as long to do the drills. The following is a li ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 10 - Ed Riley (length=2503)
CHAPTER 10 Basketballese or Basketball language We are now going to create our own language. Most of these are words you can use for as long as you are around the game. An asterisk beside a word means ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 11 - Ed Riley (length=2214)
CHAPTER 11 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall Your team mirrors you! What does this mean? As your mood goes, so does your team's. You are their teacher, their mentor, their role model. Your players look to y ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 12 - Ed Riley (length=3998)
CHAPTER 12 Defense Ever heard that defense wins games? It's a true. Here's a little secret, ever watch a game on t.v. and you see those big long arms just flailing away on defense? That's not as impor ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 13 - Ed Riley (length=6639)
CHAPTER 13 Incoming! Shooting Skills Feel pretty good about yourself, or is it sure of yourself? Everything should have gone ok up to this point, right? No major blow-ups, you've been in control, and ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 14 - Ed Riley (length=7131)
Chapter 14 Choose Your Weapon: Man to Man or Zone You are the only person who can choose what defense you will play. At the younger ages your league may make you play a zone defense, leagues are funny ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 15 - Ed Riley (length=4166)
CHAPTER 15 - The Ants Go Marching One by One How does the old saying go? "There comes a time in every man's life when ---" When you say run for the hills screaming, the parents are coming, the parents ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 16 - Ed Riley (length=5046)
CHAPTER 16 - Defense Wins Games (but it's not very popular) POSITIONING AND STANCES You are probably confused, no? You should be. I'm talking about zone defenses and in the very next breath I have yo ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 17 - Ed Riley (length=4244)
CHAPTER 17 Man To Man Defensive Spacing Here are some simple rules concerning m-2-m defense. 1. If the player you are guarding is faster than you, then play about 2 to 3 arm lengths away from your pl ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 18 - Ed Riley (length=8605)
CHAPTER 18 - The Littlest Offense We have all heard of the Littlest Angel, The Littlest Engine, etc. Now we have the Littlest Offense. I have briefly touched on this, but now it's Hammer time. Go watc ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 19 - Ed Riley (length=3209)
Chapter 19 - Solving Rubik's Cube Solving Rubik's Cube? This is where I take all of the stuff I have given you and put it into a nice, neat package for you. The following is a learning session schedul ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 20 - Ed Riley (length=6377)
Chapter 20 - "And now a short note from our sponsor!" No! No! No! This is not an ad, I wouldn't do that to you. In fact, here's a fun tip for you. You know those annoying phone calls you get that want ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 21 - Ed Riley (length=5225)
CHAPTER 21 Here's a butt, there's a butt, everywhere a butt, butt Now we come to the brutal side of the sport. Basketball is not a you touch me = you fouled me! Watch a college game and you'll see wha ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 22 - Ed Riley (length=8535)
Chapter 22 - Did you pack your socks, your toothbrush, your ........... Let me explain something about my lack of organization, then you will understand this chapter. I started out thinking I would do ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 23 - Ed Riley (length=4310)
Chapter 23 - No Weak Sisters Allowed! Posting this a chapter at a time is a blessing in disguise at times. I got an e-mail from a woman who is taking over her daughter's 5th grade team. She's been rea ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 24 - Ed Riley (length=5827)
Chapter 24 - RUN, FORREST, RUN! I've gone into philosophy, technique, drills, defenses, offenses, and lots more. Now let's talk about the nature of the game. The nature of basketball is running. If I ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 25 - Ed Riley (length=9182)
Chapter 25 - Follow the Bouncing Ball For those of you who are old enough, remember the old cartoons that would give you the words to some ole folks song, and tell you to "Follow the bouncing ball?" W ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 26 - Ed Riley (length=7706)
Chapter 26 - "Stack em up - Move em out!" OK folks, it's game time or your first game is rapidly approaching, so I guess it's time philosophize a little less and give you some meat and potatoes. We're ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 27 - Ed Riley (length=9439)
Chapter 27 - Showtime And now, it's showtime. The ref throws the ball up and the game has begun. The ball is tipped and 2 players from the other team and one of your players end up in a tug of war, wi ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 28 - Ed Riley (length=10121)
CHAPTER 28 - UUUUGGGGGHHHH !!!!!!!!! This is the chapter I have avoided writing for the longggggggggest time. I know that not all of you are in agreement with my Coach =Teacher and winning comes in se ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 29 - Ed Riley (length=8830)
Chapter 29 - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Who's the Most Confused of Them All? I know some of you have been scratching your head because I left out a word here. I misspelled a word there. Diagrams are ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 30 - Ed Riley (length=4705)
CHAPTER 30 - I'VE GOT THE M-2-M BLUES Your season must be in full swing because I've received at least 100 e-mails about m-2-m defense. It seems that most of the teams you play are using a zone defen ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 31 - Ed Riley (length=5086)
CHAPTER 31 = WHO YA GONNA CALL? ZONE BUSTERS! So you're down in the dumps just a little bit. You can handle the fact that your dog hates you, your boss hates you, and the horse you bet on came in 4th. ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 32 - Ed Riley (length=4541)
CHAPTER 32 - Is there life after the regular season? So there are a few of you that I didn't scare off with my last chapter. I admit I was OUT THERE with my Super Coach approach. The thing is I bored ...

Coaching Youth Basketball - Chapter 33 to End - Ed Riley (length=45140)
CHAPTER 33 - All Presents should be neatly wrapped with a bow. Basketball Encarta, that's what I call Alaska Coach's and Coach Larry Dean Jackson's websites. Only problem is that Coach Jackson's site ...