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• Head Coach Responsibilities (10/26/2007) NEW!
• New Full Court Rebounding Drill (10/25/2007) NEW!
• Building a New Basketball Program (10/24/2007) NEW!
• Enlist Help From Your Players' Parents (10/24/2007) NEW!
• How to Optimize Your Team's Website Pt 1 (10/12/2007) NEW!
• How to Optimize Your Team's Website Pt 2 (10/29/2007) NEW!
• Increase Basketball Game Attendance (8/4/2007)
• Online Fundraising Success for Your Program (8/4/2007
• Individual player movements in m2m defense
• Defensive Conditioning Drills (11/26/2006)
• A Complete Defensive System (11/20/2006)
• Fresh Review of Tom Nordland's New Swish 2 DVD (3/5/2006)
• Effective, Easy to Teach Zone Offense (3/5/2006)
• Primary Fast Break - teach it as a drill! (1/21/2006)
• Review: Hal Wissel's Basketball Steps to Success (8/28/2005)
• ChalkTalk Archives (FREE!) (8/7/2005)
• Complete Guide to Coaching Girls Basketball (7/23/2005)
• Teaching Court Vision (6/1/2005)
• 5 Man Overload vs Zone (5/28/05)
• New shot chart (1/9/2005)
• The Evolution of a Coach (10/9/04)
• Leaving Your Coaching Job (10/6/04)
• Review of Prof Blood and the Wonder Teams (1/2/04)
• 48 Championship Drills Review (1/2/04)
• Try this Simplified Scoresheet (10/15/03) 
• How to Get Open (7/15/03)
• A New Motion Offense (7/12/03)
• Coach MacKinney's Downloadable stat program updated! (6/14/03)
• Video Playbook Review (5/18/03)
• Triangle Analysis Review (5/16/03)
• Making Practice Fun All Season (3/11/03)
• Shooting Drill 5 (2/24/03) 
• The Indispensable Man (2/23/03) 
• Managing Blowout Games (2/20/03)
• Coach Jordan's motion offense (1/24/03)
• Teaching Kids to Shoot Layups (1/4/03)
• Flex Offense Explained! (1/03/03) 
• Review of Jamie Angeli's Primary/Secondary Break: Pass Option Attack 12/24/02
• New Fast Break Drill (12/24/02) 
• New Sideline OB Play
• Chap 23; Coaching Youth Basketball 2 (12/6/02 )
• Baseline OB play vs Zone (11/5/02)
• Dare to Win - how to beat anyone (10/9/02)
• Put the FAST into Your Fast Break! (10/03/02)
• Coaching Your Own Child (7/17/02)
• Free Throw Strategies (6/11/02)
• How to Kill a Team (5/15/02) 

Video Playbook

Read the Coach's Notebook review of Multimedia Sports Marketing's new Video Playbook.

Analysis of the Triangle Offense

Read the Coach's Notebook review of Coach Jack Temple's book on the Triangle Offense.

Basketball Drills

The Coach's Notebook is proud to host a very nice book of drills that are fully described and illustrated by Coach Steve MacKinney. Coach Mac is also the author of the Statistics Program found in our Downloadable Tools page. The basketball drills are prefaced with an index that allows you to choose an exercise based on its development purpose, so you can jump right to the type of drill you need. Try it - it's free and it's also one of the nicest features on our website. Be patient, it takes a little time to load up. Click below:

The Drill Master

Welcome Coach Ayers!

The Coach's Notebook is pleased to introduce Coach Brett Ayers. He has written several coaching articles and consented to have them published as part of the Coach's Notebook. I think you will enjoy his insights and writing style.

Click here to go to Coach Ayer's pages.