Practice Organization and Planning
1. Develop an overall plan for each year broken into summer, fall offseason, in season, and spring offseason or whichever of these you have
2. Break down each segment of your year into phases. Define your goals for each phase and how you intend to accomplish these goals.
3. Within each phase, determine the amount (or percent) of time you want to spend on strength & conditioning, skill development, mental training, film study, team concepts, special situations, character development, leadership, etc.
4. What is the role of each coach in practice planning?
5. What is each coach’s role in practice?
6. What is the role of each coach after practice?
7. What are the expectations for managers, filmers, or other support staff during practice?
8. What is your pace of practice? How will you implement this?
9. Do you plan to incorporate “breaks” into practice or is practice continuous?
10. Do you intend to practice various teams together or separate?
11. What percentage of each practice is spent on skill development, offense, defense, situations, conditioning, etc?
12. Do you intend to use multiple drills to teach concepts or a few specific drills for each concept?
13. How much time do you plan to spend doing full court drills?
14. How much time do you plan to scrimmage 5 on 5?
15. During what part of practice do you plan to install new concepts?
16. Do you prefer a practice routine or keep it random?
17. If you prefer a routine, what is your order of practice?
18. What is your plan for conditioning?
19. What is your plan for practice on the day before games, game days, and the day after games?
20. Do you plan to have practice on Saturday?
21. Do you plan to have open gym on Sunday?
22. Once you get into your district schedule(assuming Tues/Fri games), do you intend to practice on Wednesday?
23. What is your metric for the length of practice?
For each of these questions, if you were asked “Why do you do it that way?” do you have an answer?