Layups, Layups, Layups
When we go to youth games we like watching how the kids warm up. To us youth basketball is an easy game to coach. As a youth coach you need to teach your kids how to play good aggressive man to man defense and on the offensive end teach them how to pass and move towards the basket. In a pass an move offense, layups are so important. This goes back to our opening statement about watching youth level warm ups. Most of the teams warming up spend a lot of time shooting shots, but the good ones are always working around the basket. We've always found it entertaining that youth teams spend so much time working on jumpers and so little time on layups. In addition, the little time they do spend on layups is spent doing basic layups using the right hand on the right side and the left hand on the left side. There is so much more to it than this however and kids should be exposed to different types of layups in practice. No one can predict what kind of layup opportunity will present