How to get ready for high school basketball

How to Prepare for Basketball Tryouts, Triple Threat Academy

Basketball tryouts are exciting times for youth players. They offer a chance for young athletes to practice, improve, and compete in the sport that they love. Not every young player can make the team, but there are is plenty they can do to prepare and increase their chances. With the right preparation a young player can be more confident during basketball team tryouts and have a much better chance of making the team. Here are some tips to help young athletes prepare for basketball tryouts.

Shoot, Shoot and Shoot Some More

Every team needs strong shooters, and a player’s chances of making the team are greatly increased if they can shoot well. Shooting is largely a function of muscle memory. Practicing shooting is all about getting in a comfortable rhythm and building accuracy alongside confidence. Young players preparing for basketball team tryouts should make sure that they’re shooting at every chance that they get, so they can build up the rhythm and muscle memory.

Coaches at basketball tryouts will instantly be able to tell whether someone is a natural shooter with a good rhythm or someone who struggles. It may seem like a small detail to some young athletes, but practicing shooting is fundamental.

Run Some Chair Drills

A lot of young players are used to shooting around on their back porch but struggle a bit when other players are introduced. A great way to combat this is to use stacking chairs when doing drills. Stack a few chairs to emulate a human body, and then practice dribbling, shooting, and layup drills around them.

Young players need to practice shooting over something five or six feet tall so they get used to the obstacle a human represents. Practice crossover dribbles around the chairs (you should also practice dribbling drills with cones), and practice layups around and over chairs. If an adult or a friend is willing to help out, all the better.

Most young basketball players don’t have great conditioning because they’re not used to playing on a team. Sometimes coaches will simulate the physical demands of a game during basketball team tryouts. This can throw a lot of kids off their game, as they quickly find themselves out of breath and lacking the physical stamina to compete in drills when they’re already tired.

To prepare for this, young players should do conditioning—run a mile, or several wind sprints—and then do basketball drills. Then condition some more, and do some more drills. This builds stamina but also helps players get used to using basketball skills even when they’re tired.

Eat Right and Get Plenty of Sleep

A lot of young players don’t fully understand that proper sleep and a healthy diet can greatly impact their physical abilities. The night before team basketball tryouts, make sure your kid gets at least eight hours of sleep, then eats a healthy meal a few hours before basketball tryouts.

By employing these tips, any young athlete will be much better prepared for basketball tryouts. The sooner you start, the better the more success you will have at tryout.

If you like this post, here are some others you may enjoy (click title to read):

Basketball Skills – 7 Ways to Improve Yours

Benefits of Weight Training for Basketball Players

How to Select the Best Basketball Shoes

Six Tips To Improve Your Jump Shot

How To Prepare Players for High School Basketball, Coach's Clipboard

Home > Coaching >

From the Coach’s Clipboard Basketball Playbook

Kyle Ohman is the co-creator of Basketballhq.com a basketball training website designed for coaches and players. He was a thousand point scorer at Liberty University (div. 1), was ranked the 19th best shooter in the country by Fox Sports going into his senior year.

Kyle has also played professionally in Spain. Most recently he coached a high school team out of Brandon, FL that played on a national level and beat the 12th ranked team in the nation. Coach Kyle has a promising career in the basketball industry as a coach and an individual trainer.

When a high school coach is looking to set their team roster, they must take into account a lot of different factors. There are the obvious factors like points, assists, rebounds, etc., which most people outside of the game focus on, but there are also other areas that are always being evaluated as well. There is attitude, effort, IQ, etc. that must also be evaluated as well.

The goal of this article is to highlight some of these other areas that high school coaches will be focusing on. That way, as a middle school or youth basketball coach, you will be able to better prepare your players for being able to play at the next level. And, even though this article is going to be geared for coaches, it can still be an excellent checklist for players to focus on as well.

So here are eight different areas that you should be focusing on with your players and making sure that you are holding them accountable in.

Attitude and Effort

This key is non-negotiable. As a coach, you already fully understand this, but especially as players get older, there is no reason why they shouldn't be giving their best effort every day and doing it with a great attitude. Even when players aren't "feeling it," they need to be giving their best. As a coach, this is something that you need to preach on a daily basis. You need to make sure that you don't allow your players to slip by with less than their best attitude and effort. If you allow players to have a bad attitude or give poor effort when they are younger, it will only be that much more of a bad habit that they will have to break later on down the road.

Basketball IQ

Doing basketball drills and different moves are great, but it is also vital that you are teaching your players how to think the game as well. This is one of the key areas that I focus on as a Basketball Trainer in Tampa and it has paid out big for the players I have worked with. It is not just enough to do a drill, you must also teach how it is applied to the game.

So as you teach different moves or actions, take the time to explain and breakdown why they should be done the way that they are done. Teach your players how to read different situations and show them what they should be looking for. And, if this is not one of your strong suits, continue to learn yourself.

Quick Learner

There are only so many minutes in practice or workouts, coaches need players that are quick learners. The longer a coach has to go over a specific action, the less time they have to work on other key areas. So the quicker a player is able to learn, the more a coach is going to value them.

Also, a coach wants to be able to know that mid-game or late-game, they are able to throw in a wrinkle and their players are going to be able to understand and execute. As a youth coach, challenge your players to stay locked in when you are talking and have them listen with both their ears and their eyes, this will really help with the learning process.

Buying Into a Role

Great teams are filled with players that execute THEIR role extremely well. Coaches want players that understand this and are willing to buy into the role that is best going to help the team. However, that doesn't mean that roles can't change. Encourage your players to work and develop their game so that they can have a bigger role, but also challenge them to buy into mastering the role that is going to best help the team.

Make Shots

I know, I know, in the opening paragraph I said areas "outside of scoring." It is important to note though, that coaches are looking for players that are consistent shot makers. It doesn't mean that they have to put up a ton of points, but it means that they can knock down an open shot when the ball is passed to them. Depending on the player, this is going to be different types of shots as well. It also means that players need to value every shot that they shoot and not force up bad shots that have a low percentage chance of going in.

Take Care of the Ball

Turnovers will kill an offense and allow for easy baskets for the other team; that cannot happen. Teach your players to be strong with the ball, use pass fakes, and play under control. If a coach is able to trust a player to take care of the ball, that player will be able to add a ton of value to their stock. On the flip side, if a player is constantly turning the ball over, they are not going to be able to play. Work with your players and teach them to be confident with the ball, and help them learn to make the right reads as they make passes.

Creating for Others

The better the competition, the more being able to create for others comes into play. It isn't enough for a player to just be able to create for themselves, they must also help other teammates get shots as well. Also, if a player has a balanced approach to being able to create for themselves and also teammates, they will keep the help defense honest. So really lock in and focus on this with your younger players. Teach them how to be able to drive and kick, make the extra pass, set a great screen, and whatever else will help to create for teammates.

Conditioning

A player's conditioning level is an easy indicator for a coach on their level of commitment to being a part of the team. If a player shows up out of shape, it shows that they are not valuing what the team is trying to do. It is a different story if a player is coming off of an injury or something like that, but if there is not a legitimate excuse, there is no reason why every player shouldn't be in shape. So make sure to challenge your players to always be in shape, especially when they show up at the beginning of a season.

Conclusion

As a basketball coach, you are most likely already focusing on a lot of these different areas with your players, but it is good to have a reminder of what should be valued. As a coach myself, I am constantly having to refocus and remind myself of what is most important.

It is also important that as a coach you are continuing to develop your coaching skills as well. The more you are able to learn as a youth basketball coach, the more you are going to be able to pass on to your players. So make sure to take advantage of all of the basketball learning you can. Whether it is reading books, online basketball resources, or DVD's, always continue to be learning and growing.

So, hopefully, this checklist of different areas that you can be focusing on with your players will help you do the same. Because regardless of what level you coach at, we all have a responsibility to help develop our players as best we can.

Basketball training in elementary grades.

Prepared by the teacher of physical culture Rylkov G.V.

Since the 2002-2003 academic year, along with the current comprehensive program, several alternative physical education programs have been introduced for students of general education schools. And so, working on a complex program, I decided to use one of these alternative programs,

which is based on one of the most massive and popular sports among schoolchildren - basketball, but can only be used in elementary school starting from the 2nd grade, since the comprehensive curriculum for teaching this sport does not provide for elementary school, although passing the section "Outdoor games" schoolchildren master some skills in possession of the ball. A certain role in my decision was also played by the fact that our elementary school works according to experiment 1-4, and therefore I, as I work and in grades 2-3, have to look for and solve something different, new.
Their program material of the alternative program, I used in my work two educational sections "basic knowledge" and "Special training", and included them in the section "Outdoor games" for grades 2-3. And now in my work in this direction began to include three stages in teaching this sport:
Stage 1 - 2-3 classes
Stage 2 - 5-8 grades
Stage 3 - 9-11 grades
Why this sport and not another I chose in my work. Firstly, basketball has become a traditional sport at school for a number of years. Secondly, I myself used to be engaged in game types and basketball is more familiar to me.
And thirdly, the technical and tactical actions inherent in basketball are fraught with great opportunities for the formation of vital motor skills and the development of children's physical abilities.
But I will dwell in more detail on teaching basketball in elementary grades.
Starting from the 2nd grade, students master throws, catching, passing small rubber balls to a partner, stopping in motion on a sound signal and various exercises that develop motor skills. We study all these elements in different ways, but the most acceptable one is through games, for example, “Ball to a Neighbor”, “Passing the Ball in Columns”, “Ball to a Neighbor”, etc. Also in the lessons I use small sports equipment, mostly for personal use, these are small rubber balls , cubes, weighted bags.
Performed exercises with these objects in walking and running, on the spot, in the lid, throws and catching in pairs, students develop the skills that they need later when handling a basketball.
Starting to study some techniques, I introduce the guys to the markings of the basketball court and give them various tasks “Walking along the indicated lines”. To do this, I prepare for them the pace of movement "Hourglass", "Reel", "Snake", etc.
In the class II program, I included the player’s stance, the player’s movement in the stance, stop on a sound signal and various sets of exercises with small and large balls. For the harmonious development of the body and coordination of movements, we perform exercises with both the right and left hands, perform jumps on both the right and left legs, and then we complicate the exercises.
I start training from the player’s stance, explain why a stance is needed in the game and show what position should be in the stance: legs half-bent, arms in front of the chest, and I give exercises for training.
1. Line up. Crouching to jump out and land on half-bent legs, legs shoulder-width apart, one set forward.
2. Sit down in a line, jump out and land in a standing position. Immediately after landing on bent legs, run to the opposite sideline. Use the rack in outdoor games "Sparrows and Crows", "Day and Night", etc.
Movement. There are many varieties of movements, but first we learn running facing forward in a straight line, then we master running with a change in direction and speed. After that, we learn running sideways, backwards and their varieties. The basic element is the position on half-bent legs and balance, which is ensured by the half-bent legs of the arms in front of the chest.

Training exercises:
1. Running around the hall on half-bent legs with a sliding touch of one, then with both hands of the floor along the whistle.
2. Oncoming relay races with touching lines and objects on the floor.
3. Running circles with hand touching the line of the circle. Relay races with running circles.
When conducting games and exercises of a technical nature, I use lighter balls, and heavier balls in general educational exercises.
While walking at an average pace, and then when running, we execute the “Stop” command after which the students stop in a wide step position. With the help of various general developmental exercises with small and large balls, we study movements with balls. The same exercises are for the children a means of developing motor qualities.

To master the techniques of the game I use lead-up exercises:
1. Large ball in both hands at chest level. Throwing the ball up and catching it, you can clap your hands behind your back.
2. The same as exercise 1 but with catching after the ball bounces off the floor at different heights6 at the level of the knee, waist, head.
3. Ball on the floor in front of the student. Bend over and put your hands on the ball. Repeat several times.
4. Same as exercise 3, but put your hands on the ball, grab it with your fingers and press it to your chest, straighten up, bend over again, put the ball on the floor, straighten up.
5. Exercises in pairs with the ball.
6. Throw the ball over your head, straighten your arms and catch the ball, pulling your arms to your chest.

In the third grade, students learn to stand, stop by jumping, catch and pass the ball with both hands from the chest from a place, with a reflection from the floor and backboard.
The main task of teaching basketball in grade III is to study the basics of the game technique and consolidate the acquired skills in outdoor games and special exercises. In the course of basketball lessons, I use various types of walking in a squat and half-squat position on the entire foot, on the toes and lateral arches of the foot, jumping with a push of both legs (in a squat and half-squat), changing the direction of movement (straight, back, left, right), alternating them with walking. Then I give a run from various starting positions, sitting, kneeling, alternating slow running with accelerations and stops in the position of a wide ball. After that, we perform various exercises for the muscles of the arms and legs.

Jump stop. By stopping, the student must cancel the forces of inertia and take a position from which he can start in any direction. The basic element is the position on bent legs with a variable body weight on the back standing leg.
Exercises for learning.
1. Building in 1 line. Alternately in the line, jump in place with a stand with the leg extended forward, squat on the standing leg behind with the hand touching the floor next to it, also on the other leg.
2. In a column, one by one, moving around the hall, make stops on sound signals.
3. The game "Tag" (in pairs, or in groups) performing stops with the arrival. The driver catches up with them and tries to overpower them.
Catching and passing the ball with both hands from the chest while standing still. The main element during catching is the position of the hands, reproducing the shape of the ball. Exercises with passing and catching the ball are performed in the player's stance.
Exercises for learning.
1. In ranks of 4-5 people. In front of each line is a driver. The players take a stand. Hands at face level, brushes reproduce the shape of the ball. The driver alternately puts the ball into the hands of the players, having received the ball, the player lowers his hands to his chest and holds in the position from which the transfer is made.
2. Standing in line. The driver alternately throws the ball to the players, doing this from 2-3 m with one hand from below so that the ball flies at face level. The player extends his arms and catches the ball with a step towards.

Dribbling with the right and left hand in a straight line.
The main element is the position of the forearm and elbow of the hand leading the ball, which, as if trying to take a position below the hand, are ahead of the hand. This makes it possible to follow the ball far down and meet it early with a brush, as well as control the ball.

Exercises for learning.
1. Formation in 2 lines. From a stand on strongly bent on strongly bent legs, imitation of dribbling. Start moving down with the elbow and forearm and end with the hand.
The leg is extended forward, the same-named hand performing the lead.
2. Building in a line. Dribbling the ball in place with a change in the height of the ball bounce. The stance is of the same name, the fingers of the hand performing the lead are directed forward.
3. Leading in place with the right and left hand in the right-handed and left-handed stance. During the lessons, I give students various preparatory exercises with the ball, which develop certain motor qualities, such as speed, agility, and also use various outdoor games "Sniper", etc.
Teaching basketball from primary school has a positive result, after all. At this age, a certain base of skills and abilities is laid, and already in the further study of the game, it is easier for students to master tactical and technical elements and techniques.
From my own experience, I can say that by carrying out this form of work, we have achieved good results in regional basketball competitions, where we win prizes.

Children's and youth sports school No. 6 named after. IN AND. Rastorgueva City of Tomsk

• News
• Sports training

CYBL, season 2013 - 2014

Boys, born in 1999

CYBL, season 2015 - 2016

Boys, born in 2001

Boys born in 2003

Municipal budgetary institution of additional education "Children's and youth sports school No. 6 named after V.I. Rastorguev City of Tomsk" from 08/25/2022 to 09/12/2022 recruits children on a budgetary basis.

You can send an electronic application for enrollment in our school, get acquainted with the list of trainers-teachers who recruit and the number of vacancies, please follow the direct link!

Individual selection for training in the additional pre-professional program in basketball and in the program of sports training in basketball is carried out in accordance with the Procedure for admission to training in the additional pre-professional program in basketball of the municipal budgetary institution of additional education "Children's and Youth Sports School No. 6 named after A.I. . Rastorguev City of Tomsk "and the Procedure for admission to training under the program of sports training in basketball of the municipal budgetary institution of additional education" Children's and Youth Sports School No. 6 named after A.I. Rastorguev of the City of Tomsk”, approved by the order of the director dated June 25, 2021 No. 01 / 26-1, in order to identify the physical qualities and motor skills of applicants necessary for the development of the relevant programs.

Selection form: testing of general physical and special physical fitness

WORKING SCHEDULE OF THE ADMISSION COMMISSION

Date of receipt of documents	Location	Time	Contact person, tel.
25.08-12.09.2022	Tomsk, st. Northern town, 61/1	10. 00-17.00	Chango A.A., 65-10-77

APPEALS COMMISSION:

Tomsk, st. Northern town, 61/1., from 10.00-17.00, tel. 65-10-77- Chairman of the Commission, Deputy Director for SD, Chango Alexandra Alexandrovna.

In order for a child to participate in an individual selection for training, it is necessary to provide:

1. a medical certificate from a pediatrician that the child has no medical contraindications for playing basketball;
2nd statement;
3. consent to the processing of personal data;
4. photocopy of birth certificate/passport/child;
5. photo 3x4 (1 pc.).

Application form for enrolling a child in an institution

Consent form for the processing of personal data

Application form for revising the test results to the appeal committee of the institution

Application for a certificate of additional education (if it is not available!)

3 Information

3 for entrance examinations is located in the site section: VACANCIES FOR ADMISSION (TRANSFER)

JANUARY - Open basketball tournament "Christmas Meetings" among girls.

FEBRUARY - Open basketball tournament dedicated to "Defender of the Fatherland Day".

MARCH-MAY - Tomsk City Open Basketball Championship in memory of NS Osipchuk.

JUNE - Open streetball tournament for the prizes of Alexander Kaun among girls and boys.

AUGUST - All-Russian streetball competition "Orange ball" among girls and boys.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER - Open City Basketball Championship "Golden Autumn" among boys.

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER - All-Russian basketball competition for the prizes of S.A. Belov among young men.

NOVEMBER-FEBRUARY - Draws of the school basketball association for the VI Rastorguev Cup.

NOVEMBER - Basketball Tournament for Cup 02 dedicated to "Police Day" among boys.

DECEMBER - New Year's holiday "SBA All-Star Game".

Competition calendar for the 2020 academic year

Klypa Roman Yurievich

Khatkov Alexander Vladimirovich

Gutenko Sergey Davidovich

Evgeniy Ivanov

Kolesnikov Alexander Valentinovich

Ivanova Marina Evgenievna

Safronova. Learn more How much does it cost to build a concrete basketball court How do you start a fantasy basketball league How many psi for a basketball How much does a basketball pump cost How to coach 2nd grade basketball How tall is a basketball court How to sew basketball shorts How to stop fouling in basketball How to watch ncaa basketball in canada How to build a basketball hoop How to put a spalding basketball hoop together