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    101 Youth Basketball Drills
    101 Youth Basketball Drills
    101 Youth Basketball Drills
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    101 Youth Basketball Drills

    By Mick Donovan

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    Designed specifically for young people, this manual contains a wide
    range of progressive practice drills to help them develop their
    basketball skills. Fun, educational and challenging, all the drills are
    illustrated with photographs or line drawings and cover the essential
    skills, including:


    • warming up
    • ball handling
    • passing
    • dribbling
    • shooting and rebounding
    • team tactics and game principles.

    As well as easy-to-follow instructions, each drill contains
    information on the equipment needed, the space required, how to
    construct a safe and effective training session and how to organise the
    players.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJul 13, 2013
    ISBN9781408131268
    101 Youth Basketball Drills
    Author

    Mick Donovan

    Mick Donovan is a senior coach with England Basketball, and runs the Worcester Wolves Basketball club which now has five teams, one of which plays at UK elite level. Mick also directs the European Masters in Basketball Coaching at Worcester University.

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