Basketball Lay-Up: Coaching Reflection

Basketball Lay-Up: Coaching Reflection

The aim of this particular session was for the participants to gain a basic understanding and learn the skill of a lay-up within basketball. The skill was broken down into three separate phases which would all be integrated later on during the session.

As mentioned, I had broken the skill down into three phases, which were all to be performed individually before including them all as one. Having the three phases I believe helped the participants work on the different techniques within the skill one after the other which reduced confusion. They were able to focus on one aspect of the drill before moving onto the other. This was an advantage, however I feel that because it was in a group environment, many people become bored and restless with the activities. Some found the tasks simple and some ha to work on the aspects of the lay-up, but for the sake of the drill I had to keep them all on the same levels.

Communication was a strong point, similar to the tennis serve; because the phases were pre planned and they weren't going to change they were easy to coach and explain to the participants. The progression was already there as they progressed from phase to phase before resulting in the completion of a full lay-up.

Again I feel as if because it was a group drill that participants were seen to be standing around and some getting restless. This could be helped by maybe splitting the groups into smaller numbers and using multiple nets; or maybe using this drill on a one to one basis.

Overall I think my communication and delivery of the session was good, with the participants understand the phases and developing the skills throughout to produce some good results. Maybe just the sizing of the groups and the way in which the groups worked could be worked on.