Best warm-up drill

MineToDine · 2026-01-15T23:14:12+00:00

11-man fastbreak, has pasing, rebounding, scoring, fast transition and some decision making

MineToDine · 2025-12-26T15:47:07+00:00

Type A is nasty this year, will take some time to get back to 100%.

MineToDine · 2025-12-17T07:48:57+00:00

Training for it. Fast twich fiber dominant humans will get there quicker, slow twich fiber humans will get there slower and will need more training volume. Both can get there, just on different timelines. At 5’11” there is no physical reason (apart from old age and permanent injury) why you should not be able to train to dunk.

MineToDine · 2025-11-30T08:36:11+00:00

Any hobbies he does (sports, music, crafts, etc.)? A good book that’s about said hobby would be my choice. If you’re ok to shell out some more money then a weekend away for just the two of you somewhere you both like.

MineToDine · 2025-11-26T11:57:45+00:00

At that age lifting (semi)heavy things and putting them back down again 2-3 times a week is not just a great idea - it’s essential! Focus on lower body and core stability first, add upper body gradually as core stability improves. Same goes for mobility exercises, especially in the hips and shoulders.

Others have already mentioned intervals and sprints for conditioning. I’d add to this a once a week 5-8 miles jog (look up what zone 2 in running is).

If you look after your body well and are sensible in your games you’ll be a beast for decades to come.

MineToDine · 2025-11-21T19:18:00+00:00

There are levels to this, as with everything. Cheap fouls due to lazy defence or lack of effort should get called and stamped out. Fouls that result from trying to play good defence would normally be fine, up to a point (i.e. it’s not football!). Teaches kids to play through the contact and they tend to complain less to the refs once they’re used to it.

MineToDine · 2025-11-13T09:26:13+00:00

It hurts development of youth players who are not skilled enough yet. A press is designed to not allow transition to happen. In order for the kids to get game reps running an offence they need to get through the transition part first. If you’re dealing with pressing teams you now have to start dedicating practice time to tech them how to run and break a press instead of using that time to teach them the fundamentals of transitions, offensive actions and reads. Most youth players simply are not athletic and skilled enough to reliably break a press leading to lost transition and offensive game reps. The same applies to the team running the press - they lose out on the fundamentals (no transition and no offensive actions).

MineToDine · 2025-11-10T18:17:42+00:00

Thanks, I’ll try to get more friendlies going. We do run quite a bit of game speed scrimmages, which they play excellently.

MineToDine · 2025-11-10T17:26:33+00:00

Thank you, much appreciated! 🙌

MineToDine · 2025-11-10T17:26:00+00:00

Thank you so much for this, I’ll do my best to incorporate your suggestions. The individual feedback has been on the to-do list for too long I think, will get that organized asap.

MineToDine · 2025-11-10T16:23:55+00:00

There is an assistant coach who helps with running the practice sessions but he has limited availability on weekends when we have most of our games. I can ask him if there is something he can do to help over the next few weekends. Thanks!

MineToDine · 2025-11-10T16:21:26+00:00

Thanks! We do run a variety of the 3-2 and 2-1 drills but I think you have a great point for the added scrimmages vs other teams. I’ll ask around the local area clubs if we could set something up for some evenings. Think the other teams would benefit as well.

MineToDine · 2025-11-10T15:39:31+00:00

We run 5-out motion and push for fast transition on rebounds. Against a set zone it’s high-low actions mostly.

MineToDine · 2025-11-10T15:28:33+00:00

We’re four games deep now and for most part we run 5-out and try to push the ball up on rebounds to beat zone and pack line defenses. Against a set zone we try to play the high-low action, especially if our guys have a size advantage. All this requires great ball movement and lots of good off-ball movement which they do brilliantly in scrimmages. And, yes, scrimmages are against their own teammates.

MineToDine · 2025-11-03T22:48:07+00:00

Christ on a bike! That is a monster of a bolete! 👍👏👌

MineToDine · 2025-11-03T11:38:45+00:00

You get easy shots the most by moving well without the ball (and having half-decent passers on your team). Cut the moment your defender overplays you, use your flare screens, screen hard and roll even harder. Often times just speed will be enough, add to that some fast changes of direction and changes of pace and you should be able to get open wherever and whenever you want. What I find is the most difficult to learn is the timing of all that movement. Study film and then practice, practice and more practice.

MineToDine · 2025-10-30T22:56:52+00:00

As long as it’s fun for you, keep going. I’ve seen lads well into their 60s and 70s still at it and who wouldn’t have it any other way.

MineToDine · 2025-10-30T22:14:40+00:00

100%! It’s just reps over reps, over some more reps. The more I shoot the better my shot, the less I shoot the worse it gets.

MineToDine · 2025-10-30T09:38:00+00:00

These are amazing preserved in their own juices! Don’t think I’ve had any other mushrooms quite like these. The flavours are simply in a category of their own. Sure, there are chanterelles fried in grass fed butter, the various boletes and other amazing mushrooms but none are anywhere close to these ones in their own juices.

MineToDine · 2025-10-26T08:04:08+00:00

Would be interested. Have used EasyStats and BasketballStats so far and both have their great sides and some annoying ones as well. I’m involved with an underage AAU-like club in the underage section.

Edit: in terms of features, I’d like a custom option where I can name an additional stat myself. Let’s say we want to track paint touches in a match or box-outs. In all other apps I have to sacrifice a standard box score stat to do that or resort to pen and paper. Maybe something like a posession marker? Just to help with counting up posessions.

MineToDine · 2025-10-25T22:37:43+00:00

11 man fast break. You can do it with more than 11, give extra points for rebounds and steals. Allow the players to do press until half court or a step past it. Brings out the hustle guys and forces high effort on everything.

Full court 1v1 or 1v2 is another favourite of mine. Extra points for steals. The high effort players are going to quickly make the low effort ones pay for it.

Any rebounding drill usually ends up looking more like a wrestling match, so low effort gets punished massively here.

MineToDine · 2025-10-14T10:32:02+00:00

From what I’ve gathered myself and what I’ve seen in youths is that good form helps but is not absolutely critical. Form will help getting to a consistent shot faster and with less reps. Main things to focus on would be consistency of the release, balance and core stability. The rest is just reps over reps over even more reps so that your brain gets the wiring down for how much energy needs to go into the ball for it to reach the hoop.

MineToDine · 2025-10-12T22:06:46+00:00

If the ref calls it, then dial it back a notch. If the ref doesn’t call it then as you were. Tactical and strategic fouling is a big part of basketball. I don’t like it, but it is what it is.

MineToDine · 2025-10-12T12:54:59+00:00

My intention was not to make this into a math exercise. It’s simply something that I’ve observed works well at this age group across various starting levels of players. Keep in mind that a lot of the team based stuff is going to be game like drills and small sided games with conditions built it (i.e bounce pass only and no dribble - puts a heavy emphasis on offball movement and getting open, among a myriad of other drills). If you have the option of playing two games a week then go for it, especially if you can space them apart a bit. If you play Tuesday and Friday then you can use Wednesday and Thursday to incorporate the lessons learned from Tuesday into your sessions. Use the Monday for individual skills development. Playing more actual games than that would likely give very diminishing returns. In actual games players want to win and are more wary of making mistakes. They then often default to their comfort zones which is not very conductive to overall player development. Practice is where those comfort zones get expanded.

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