A guide for volunteer basketball coaches - especially those coaching girls in 4th - 8th grades - provides an easy to follow approach to coaching and managing your team. You'll gain confidence in your approach to practices and games; and you'll enjoy watching your players improve. Coach Michael O'Halloran, father of four daughters, shares his key learnings from coaching 14 different basketball teams. His "Never Forget They're Kids" approach to coaching places an emphasis on learning, having fun and creating memorable experiences for players. You'll learn tips on how to plan the season, how to orchestrate your first meeting with parents and players, and how to plan for practices. Other topics covered include: defensive and offensive teaching points, rebounding know-how, plays, teaching shooting, a driveway workout for players, your approach on the bench, and how to keep players engaged over the course of the season.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book for a coach at any scholastic level!,
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This review is from: Never Forget They're Kids - Ideas for Coaching Your Daughter's 4th - 8th grade basketball team (Paperback)
Sadly, I have watched how adult influences are destroying the game I love as both a past player and now as a high school coach. As a society too many adults have forgotten that youth sports are, youth sports, not minor leagues to the pros.
This is a great book in a lot of ways, the least of which is the basketball stuff, which is pretty helpful by the way and very appropriate for the age level of youth athletes the author is writing about. The best part of this book is the advice the author gives concerning dealing with the parents of the players. I wish I had a copy of this book when I started coaching all too many years ago. This section of the book alone makes it worth the purchase price to me. It also has good information on organization for a youth sports team as well as positive suggestions for a philosophical approach to coaching young athletes. Kevin Sivils - author of Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball Game Strategies and Tactics for Basketball: Bench Coaching for Success
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More than strategy,
By Harold D Barnes (Afton, MN, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Never Forget They're Kids - Ideas for Coaching Your Daughter's 4th - 8th grade basketball team (Paperback)
As good as the advise is about how to handle the team is, the advise about how to handle the parents is even better.
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