With USA Basketball set to host more Youth Coach Academies next month, and youth recreational leagues preparing for tipoff, there will be plenty of learning opportunities for youth coaches. With that in mind, here is this week’s question for the USA Basketball Coaches Network: If you were...

 There are many ways that youth basketball players can prepare for the upcoming season. Some kids have signed up for USA Basketball’s Regional Skills Development Camps , with the intention of raising their game in time for school tryouts. So what exactly do coaches look for when they get...

Whatever level you coach, preseason is about more than just practice – it starts with conditioning. Since that’s something every coach needs to prepare for, we asked members of the USA Basketball Coaches Network to share their thoughts on the subject. This week’s question:  ...

Earlier this week, USAB.com posted the first of a four-part series about how to develop mental toughness in youth basketball players. To supplement the expertise that Better Basketball is providing in that series, we decided to include some thoughts from the USA Basketball Coaches Network. Our...

The 2015-16 USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team is gathered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, this week for training camp. By next week, 12 of the 32 players on hand will be selected to compete June 10-14 at the 2015 FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Argentina. That means 20 of the 32...

Good coaches are always looking for ways to help their players improve. Often, this requires improving themselves – learning new drills and strategies, or just better communicating with their players. So this week’s question to the USA Basketball Coaches Network: What are some resources...

With the NBA Playoffs in full swing, we got to thinking about how coaches approach the postseason at all levels. Since all the members of USA Basketball’s Coaches Network have experienced postseason success, we posed this question to them: What, if anything, do you do differently in the...

There was much talk during the NCAA Tournament about the possibility of changing the college shot clock to 24 seconds. The college game currently employs a 35-second shot clock. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) does not regulate the use of any shot clock –...

This week’s question for the USA Basketball Coaches Network: What strategies or styles have you seen this year -- either from your opponents or elsewhere -- that you might want to incorporate into your game plan?   Sharman White, head coach, Miller Grove High School (Ga.) Prior to each...

With the NCAA Tournaments coming to an end last week, it got us to thinking about how coaches deal with their players when the season is over. So here’s what we asked the USA Basketball Coaches Network: How do you approach the end of the season, and what kind of message do you send to your...