How To Teach Technical Skills In Basketball

As a coach in the sport of basketball, my role into instructing technical, tactical, physiological, and mental skills are very straightforward. Firstly, in basketball, 3 specific technical skills I coach are discrete skills, serial skills, and continuous skills. For Example, as a discrete skill in basketball, I would teach a player how to rotate the basketball off of his hand. Also, and example of how I would teach serial skills in basketball would be a sequence of standard ball handling movements such as crossing over or going behind the back. Lastly, through the instruction of technical skills, I would teach the continuous skills of teaching rhythmic drills such as running organized basketball plays over and over until it is in a well-organized fashion. However, 2 specific drills that I would use to enhance my athletes' ability on each of these skills would be to run the motion office in practice as warm-up, and run 5 suicides before the end of every practice. …show more content…
An example of how I would instruct my athletes into interpreting the environment would be by showing them videos of professional basketball games. Throughout these videos, they will be asked to identify the relevant aspects of the game, for instance, the strengths and weaknesses. Also, and example of how I would instruct my players into deciding what to do would be through knowing when to execute specific actions when put into difficult situations. Lastly, my athletes would be taught determination regarding physical training and techniques into how to physically and mentally prepare themselves for the competition. However, 2 specific drills that I would use to enhance my athletes' ability on each of these skills would be to lift light weights before practice every day, and do 50 pushups every morning of a game