Basketball coaching typically encompasses the improvement of individual and team offensive and defensive skills, as well as overall physical conditioning.
Coaches also have the responsibility to improve their team by player development, strategy, and in-game management.
A dry erase clipboard or tablet computer with a basketball court outline is often used mid-game to describe plays and provide an overview of the strategy of the opposing team.
Coaches strategize and scout opposing teams and find ways to defeat them as easily as possible.
College basketball coach John Wooden would spend two hours each morning with assistants planning out a day's practice minute-by-minute on three-by-five cards.
He would train his players with "mental and emotional" conditioning by always making practice more intense than the game.
The other post pops out to the corner and, ideally, the shooting guard is open in the key and gets an easy layup.
The goal is to find the open man, because each time a pass is made, the defense has to shift.
[5] The coach must teach the players to look up, run the play, and find the soft spots in the zone with and without the ball.
No matter what type of defense that is drawn up by a coach, the players must be taught some basic fundamentals.
A coach needs to teach two things to all his players so they can be confident in taking risks and playing this aggressive style.
The problem is that if your defense does this too often, it leaves the rest of your players vulnerable to an attack when a pass is faked, and the offensive guard cuts back door.