Fitness helps basketball players avoid injuries and win more games, allowing them to keep up a high intensity right up to the final buzzer. Fitter players make fewer mistakes at the end of a game.
These fitness drills and videos work on your players' basketball specific fitness ? including cardiovascular endurance, speed and plyometric power.
Plyometric exercises in particular, such as squats, burpees and box jumps are a great way to add height to basketball players' jump.
Good team defence is five players guarding the ball, not five separate one-on-ones. The shell drill is where that starts, so here is how to teach help-side positioning and rotations from the first week of the season.
Rebounding is the least glamorous thing in basketball and one of the most decisive. It is also almost entirely a habit, which means it is entirely coachable.
Good spacing is only the start. The best modern offences teach players to attack the defence's rotations and play in a permanent 4-on-3 - here is how to coach that read.
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