Coaches,
Since I come here for all of my uk basketball needs I thought it would be good to come here for some basketball advice. I've read about ten million pages on the subject and of course played the game all my life, but I wanted to see if any of you older guys who have been through the youth coaching experience could lend your advice. I know there are a few of you out there that have dug in pretty deep.
Here's my situation. My little girl is in third grade and is doing really well so I've jumped in with two feet and started to coach her teams. Last few years I have really worked with her a ton on fundamentals in the driveway and it really shows. She played in our county league for the first time this year and was really the only one that could do a layup at full speed. There were a handful of girls that stood out so I've gathered that group and plan on playing in the local church league with them against some older girls to make for some competition. The issue is that I think everyone has abandoned teaching the basics and moves on too fast so most all of them really need to stick with fundamentals, which I've really tried to do. However, at some point I feel I need to teach them some sort of offensive ideas in regards to spacing or screening without making it too complicated. My main question is whether any of you have developed a good process to teach a simple offense that doesn't involve much thought. I think using some sort of motion cutter or screen away after passing is the simplest but how to you teach them to fill space and maintain space while not standing or getting too grouped. Something that isn't really a play but teaches them the basic principle of spacing and moving with a purpose. Is there a building block approach you've seen work best for this age that you can install in short order. I refuse to spend a ton of my limited practice time teaching how to run an offense when they need fundamentals, but if there is something simple that would help them understand how to move on offense in order to teach them the game Id be all for it. I'm working with girls that like it so even though they are young they tend to pick things up quickly, but I don't want to waste our time if nobody has found this worthwhile.
Thanks in advance for any advice or thoughts!
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