Junior Coaching

I am thinking about maybe applying to get a under 12 team this seaosn ( boys). I think i would like the chance to teach a group of kids while they are young, instad of coaching 15, 16 year olds etc who already have all their habits...

What age groups do you guys prefer, why?

[MAIN_MAN]

15 -20 year olds....

i dont like coaching little kids :evil:

IF i coach the 12's i will make it so bloody simple.. but in 5 years they will benefit alot more

[Blind Teddy]

Can I ask expertise do they have a coaches manual at Dandenong???
One would think that all representative association would have such an item with expectations of what basics kids need to know at certain stages of there careers.

[Hogsbreath]

We have a checklist of skills that kids need to have mastered and skills that they need to of been exposed to in the U12 program.

You say to keep it simple. I thought that is what I was doing until I saw my boys setting and executing on ball pick and rolls at the weekend. Gee, I'd love to take the credit for that.

[Franklin]

We have a checklist of skills that kids need to have mastered and skills that they need to of been exposed to in the U12 program.

You say to keep it simple. I thought that is what I was doing until I saw my boys setting and executing on ball pick and rolls at the weekend. Gee, I'd love to take the credit for that.

Can I get a copy of that list?

Can I ask expertise do they have a coaches manual at Dandenong???
One would think that all representative association would have such an item with expectations of what basics kids need to know at certain stages of there careers.
I'm not at dandy at the moment, i have having a brain freeze, i know we got folders which had the lsit of kdi trying out and some other things, im trying to think weather we had a manual.....

Anyone know?

I know when I coach a team, I will make a season outline with goals etc, then monthly plans with goals and then weekly outlines with goals, and the daily practice sessions, which relate to the objective goals streaming from the season outlook.

A handy habit is to not prepare practice plans for sessions which occur after a game, as from that game you will want to concentrate on certain things, for teams that play on a weekly basis, its easy, you just do the plans week by week.

I know i usually nut out a rough plan 3-4 days ahead of each training and refine it as i get closer to that session.

You say to keep it simple. I thought that is what I was doing until I saw my boys setting and executing on ball pick and rolls at the weekend. Gee, I'd love to take the credit for that.

nice when thye do something like that, My 217cm player continues to surprise me each session and game... though hes stuck doing chair shooting and ball handling sitting and lying down for a few weeks!!!! Test his patience

[Btdg]

217 cms! At 15! He doesn't need any skills - the rest of the kids won't even come up to his chest... This man-monster will devour us all!

217 cms! At 15! He doesn't need any skills - the rest of the kids won't even come up to his chest... This man-monster will devour us all!

who said he was 15 :wink:

[Btdg]

instad of coaching 15, 16 year olds etc who already have all their habits...


Just implicit, thats all. You mean he's younger. Yikes!

[Btdg]

btw, nice avatar Expertise

nah, Im a aba assistant at the moment ( no junior coaching this season, but getting back into it next season)

he's in my ABA Development team (under 23's)

btw, nice avatar Expertise

pretty tidy isnt she :wink:

[Btdg]

A wonderful specimen of the female gender.

What ABA team are you at? In Melbourne - if so, by under 23s do you mean Youth league - what division. If I have to play against a 217cm monster this weeked at Frankston, given I'm a somewhat undersized 194cm center, I'm not going to be happy!

dont fret, im in queensland.
you dont have to deal with a athletic, co-ordinated 217 cms, who likes to go coast to coast, as much as I want him to outlet it.. but he or a team mate usually get a layup when he goes coast to coast and he can handle the ball well and passes to the open player so im not so big on stopping it.

[Btdg]

(sighs in relief, will actually get some sleep between now and the weekend)

Nothing wrong with a big guy going coast to coast if they have the skills to do it - its pretty damn hard to stop a 7-footer who can pass the ball. Teach him to shoot! He could be the Australian Dirk!

yeah, similar to anstey he has a representative tennis background, so the footspeed and hand eye co-ordination gives us alot to work with, plus he is very keen, and he listens and implements the things we do with him in the individuals into games, he told me he learnt to go coast to coast from one of the drills i do with him..
where he dribbles thru the chairs and finishes with a layup/dunk, but if i put my hands up he has to pass me the ball and I lay it up or shoot and he rebounds, ...


I can't belive i didnt realise this when i watched him go coast to coast!!!

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