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TacticsBasketball tactics: the four things that decide matches
Why does a team that trains well lose to a team that does not? Usually because one of them agreed on four things beforehand and the other one agreed on fourteen.
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TacticsBasketball set plays: four throw-ins worth practising
Four seconds left, one point down, and the ball is yours under your own basket. This is the only situation all season in which every player starts still and you get to choose what happens next.
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GuidesBasketball drills: five that hold up any session
Most drills fail for a reason that has nothing to do with the drill. Nobody in the hall — the coach included — has decided what doing it properly actually looks like.
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GuidesBasketball warm-up games: four that actually warm a team up
Two laps of the hall and a static hamstring stretch. It is the most copied ten minutes in British basketball and almost nobody has looked at it since they inherited it.
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GuidesHow to use a coaching board well (and when to put it down)
There is a coaching board in nearly every kitbag in the country and most of them come out twice a season. The problem is almost never the board. It is what gets drawn on it, and when.
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NewsCASUAL TECH: a new material for the most demanding coaches
It was the first model we ever made, back in 2016. Ten years on, it takes a step forward: the Casual moves to fibreglass-reinforced thermoplastic composite.
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