How much time should you expect to spend planning each practice and how should you approach it?

USA Basketball Coaches Network discusses the importance of planning and organizing each day's practice and plan for the upcoming week.

Chemistry is so important to the success of any basketball team, and good communication between coach and players is critical. So we asked the USA Basketball Coaches Network: How do you foster and improve communication with your players?   Don Showalter, head coach, Iowa City (Iowa) High...

Novice coaches might think they can just bring a team together for practice and wing it, but that won’t be very helpful for young athletes looking for structure and direction. So we asked the USA Basketball Coaches Network: How much time do you typically spend on planning and organizing each...

Chemistry is so important to the success of any basketball team, and good communication between coach and players is critical. So we asked the USA Basketball Coaches Network: How do you foster and improve communication with your players?   Don Showalter, head coach, Iowa City (Iowa) High...

Welcome to the first installment of the USA Basketball Coaches Network. Some of the best basketball coaches in the country have worked with USA Basketball over the years, and many of them have agreed to join us here at USAB.com to offer insights and share experiences that can help young players and...

Welcome to the first installment of the USA Basketball Coaches Network. Some of the best basketball coaches in the country have worked with USA Basketball over the years, and many of them have agreed to join us here at USAB.com to offer insights and share experiences that can help young players and...

Having played for and coached under legendary college basketball coach  Rollie Massimino , Torrey Pines (Calif.) High School coach  John Olive  had the opportunity to learn from the best. A four-year starter at Villanova University under Massimino, Olive played a year-and-a-half...

Having played for and coached under legendary college basketball coach  Rollie Massimino , Torrey Pines (Calif.) High School coach  John Olive  had the opportunity to learn from the best. A four-year starter at Villanova University under Massimino, Olive played a year-and-a-half...

Having played for and coached under legendary college basketball coach Rollie Massimino , Torrey Pines (Calif.) High School coach John Olive had the opportunity to learn from the best. But it wasn’t anything specific that Massimino imparted. “I don’t even think it was advice, it...