Coaching resources

Is an excellent resource because it provides predefined training plans with videos of the drills to implement. No need to trawl youtube!

It's good for all coaches, and highly recommended for new coaches.

There is now an app for your phone - you can use predetermined training plans, or build your own from the jr.nba's database. All have instructions and many have videos on how to run the drill.

Under 'curriculum' choose the standard appropriate to your team (rookie to MVP), and within each level you will find predefined training plans, videos of the drills for each session, and a checklist of skills players should develop.

You can find drills players can practice at home under 'Jr.NBA at home'. 

CoachAny is a very usable app for keeping track of substitutions during the game. It can be downloaded here.

Magic has created a tipsheet for how to use the app.

Arriving at training with a plan will help drive a successful session. 

Trainings will commonly follow:

• Warm up

• Skill development drills (gamified)

• Game based play (e.g. 3-on-3)

NBA Jr curriculum (above) includes pre-made training plans, and videos demonstrating all drills.

On the left is a link to an example training plan prepared by a Coburg Giants coach for a training session delivered to our players.

Giants coach Dion T provided coach-the-coach sessions to 15+ of our coaches during Winter 2024 season.

Here are his consolidated notes / advice to coaches on how to improve our training sessions.

Coaches have recommended the following channels for drills and ideas:

Phil Handy

IlovebasketballTV

#hoopstudy

Defines the Australian 'style of play', which our club should be implementing.

It defines a 'skills checklist' that players should be developing.

Includes 'Free Coaching Clinics' which are recorded sessions on particular topics.

Under 'Training Session Plans', there's a week 1-4 training plan to get a season up and running with linked video drills.

The 'Coach Education and Development' curriculum provide a series of videos exploring particular coaching topics, including different strategies. Over the course of the videos they build up the complexity of each topic. The skill-based drills (e.g. shooting, defence) by Jarrod Moore have been recommended - you'll need to search Youtube for them as they're not tagged. 

Extensive resources for skill and strategy content.

Simple videos with explanations and drills on many topics.

Articles and videos, mainly strategy rather than skill based content

An extensive resource of drills (video) under the 'drill library'

There's a series of short 'cheat sheets' from the book available online, including several on good behaviour and teamwork.