Coaching from the base up: Transformative basketball drills and practice plans from expert coaches (Basketball coaching)

Book Synopsis: Are you a beginner coach looking for drills for your next practice? Or a time-strapped volunteer parent coach? Coaching from the base up consults experts such as Dell Curry, Brian McCormick, Bob Bigelow and more to share paradigm-shifting ideas, drills and practice plans including:

• Why your players are spending most of their time waiting in line and how to fix it
• Why your players can't perform the same practice skills in a game
• Why your players are bored of practice
• Why your players are afraid to shoot

Coaching from the base up is a practical guide filled with:

• Over 100 curated drills for shooting, dribbling, passing and conditioning separated by categories such as age, team drills, individual drills and game based drills.
• Ready to use practice plans by our coaching experts
• Interviews that will stimulate your thinking about your coaching philosophy. From AAU player development to how to develop future NBA players. Contributing experts in our book include:
  • Bob Bigelow, former NBA player and author of Just Let the Kids Play.
  • Brian McCormick, author of The 21st Century Basketball Practice.
  • ChrisOliver, OUA champion coach and creator of Basketball Decision Training and Zero Seconds.
  • Don Kelbick, NBA skills coach for Joe Johnson, Omri Casspi, Carlos Arroyo and Raja Bell, and the creator of the attack and counter system.
  • Ryan Holiday, SMAU and AAU basketball champion and founder of the Next Level Basketball Academy.
  • Dell Curry, former NBA player and father of Steph and Seth Curry.
  • Steve Collins, three times Wisconsin state champion and founder of Coach Market.
  • Joe Riley, Spanish basketball expert and former assistant at Club Estudiantes.

This book is a compilation of our most popular drills and interviews from our blog which has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of coaches. It's the book I've always wanted as a volunteer coach with drills, practice plans and ideas I can immediately apply to my next practice.