AAU Coaching Boys Basketball Series: Individual Skill Development Drills

It's not the plays you run but the players you develop.

With this comprehensive player development DVD you will have everything you need on your journey to becoming a great basketball player or coach. Fran Fraschilla gives you the whole package revealing the necessary drills and skills a player will need to have a successful basketball career. Jam packed with information, this DVD shows you how to build every key basketball skill.

Footwork Drills
Each drill in this series is designed to help your players develop pivoting techniques, finishes around the rim, and layup and shooting skills. These drills are fundamental and paramount if a player wants to lower their turnover and traveling ratios.

Layup Shooting
The art of the layup is so important for any skill level. Fraschilla breaks down the fundamental layup technique in addition to challenging your players to think about which foot they jump off of and how to correctly execute an offhand layup around the rim.

Passing Series
Coach will use various fundamental passing drills, such as two ball passing and weak hand passing, to hone each players passing skills with an emphasis on developing quick hands, the weak hand and develop a push pass to your teammate. In the Nash Passing Series, your players will work on a series of various one-hand passes off the dribble/penetration, which trains them to find teammates and get them the ball quickly when he has drawn a defender to him.

Shooting Series
Coach Fraschilla demonstrates shooting drills that he picked up from two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash. He details how to use the Nash Shooting Drills to develop a great shooting routine that will develop great shooting form. In Fly at the Shooter Drill, your players will learn how to focus on the rim while taking a contested shot.

Post Drills and Progressions
Coach Fraschilla takes you through basic finishing drills that your players will need to do every day. Coach uses the Mikan, Reverse Mikan and board bangs to help your players develop explosive ability and strength around the rim. Use these drills to help your team become a better half court offensive team.

Individual skill development is critical to everything you do - offensively and defensively. Fraschilla provides a season's worth of drills on this one DVD, so you can keep your players fresh and focused while developing critical basketball skills.

This series of videos was produced by Championship Productions in association with AAU (The Amateur Athletic Union).

93 minutes. 2012.