This week on Layups.com – #2 (2010)

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On Layups.com articles get published on a daily basis. For those of you who do not have the time to visit daily, here’s is a good place to get a quick overview of the articles published.

The Weekly Roundup will be published every Sunday from now on. Please feel free to revisit and comment.

Differences in Coaching Boys and Girls

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There are physiological and developmental differences between coaching girls versus boy’s youth athletic teams. Nothing is ever set in stone for there are often exceptions to every the rule, but there are some standards in the way coaches teach the different genders the sport of basketball. Most of the time little boys tend to be competitive and into the physicality of the sport before little girls.

How to deal with criticism in your Basketball Team

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When you are learning your sport you will make mistakes. It is human to make mistakes. Great basketball players are often given constructive criticisms during games and while live on television. Great basketball players listen to the feedback and use it to improve their games. Not all criticism is constructive and it can be hurtful at times. When one plays a sport that is public and out in the open for everyone to watch and judge your performance, one has to develop the ability to perform and do one’s best in the face of one’s critics. You as a player of a team sport must continue to believe in yourself, learn from the mistake, and move on.

Skill Expectations on an average Point Guard

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So, you want to play the point guard hey? Then you need to know the skills of what it takes to be a great point guard. You don’t want to go messing this chance up do you? Well, here is a sample of what it takes to say that you have the skills.

The first thing it takes is a little bit of communication. You will be telling people where to go and what the next step is. When you are on the court you are like the second hand man. What comes from the coach is explained on the court from you. That’s pretty cool huh?

How to properly Discipline your Players

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Some people don`t know what it is like to be a coach, and assume that it is nothing but sitting behind a desk a lot of the time, and then enjoying courtside seats to a game. What they don`t understand is that coaches are under a constant stream of pressure that won`t just disappear. If there are problems on that team, the coach has to deal with them, but that can occasionally become hard because coaches forge relationships with their players, and have a hard time punishing them for behaviour that deserves a penalty.