Resources for basketball coaches
In-depth articles on the things you end up learning the hard way: reading a box score, keeping stats on your own, drawing a playbook your players can actually read. Written for club and youth basketball, without needless jargon.
Choosing
The best basketball apps for coaches: how to choose one that gets used
Six questions, the kinds of tool on the market, a guide by situation and a way to test one in a week.
Read the guide →
Wellness
How to monitor player load in basketball with RPE
What RPE is, how to turn it into session load, how to collect it and what to watch for in youth and club squads.
Read the guide →
Cost
Affordable basketball coaching software, and what it really costs
What coaching software should cost, what to be wary of, and how much you pay per player and per team.
Read the guide →
Choosing
An all-in-one basketball coaching app, and what that should mean
The jobs an all-in-one app has to cover, what it costs you, and when you should not use one.
Read the guide →
Practice
A practice plan that builds something over a season
A minute-by-minute session template, a six-week block worked through in full, and a way of spreading themes across the year.
Read the article →
Stats
A basketball stat sheet you can actually keep
The six columns that earn their place on a club bench, and how to keep the sheet to the final buzzer when you are the only one holding a pen.
Read the article →
Statistics
Basketball efficiency ratings: formula, variants and limits
One number meant to sum up a player's game. How it is calculated, why two box scores can disagree on the same performance, and the three blind spots to know before showing it to a player. With a full worked example.
Read the article →
Method
Tracking a game's stats on your own, while coaching
In club basketball nobody keeps the book for you. What to give up tracking, the four items that are enough to start, the moments in a game when you actually record, and the rule that saves a season of data.
Read the article →
Tactics
Basketball play diagram symbols: a coach's guide
Dashed passes, wavy dribbles, screens ending in a bar with no arrowhead: the convention coaches share, the three most common drawing mistakes, and how to break a set into readable frames.
Read the article →
These articles are free to quote.
If one of them is useful to your club, your association or your coach education programme, reuse it with a credit. Spotted an error, or disagree on a convention? Write to us and the page will be corrected: contact@hoopsync.fr.