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Basketball practice plans and coaching PDFs

Start with a complete practice for your age group, teach six team actions, explore six constraints-led games, or use the cheat sheets to build your own. Each pack includes diagrams, practical coaching cues and a planning sheet you can print and reuse.

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Youth coaches · U11–U16

Team play basics pack

Most good team play is two or three players working together. Teach six simple actions, show players what the defender is telling them, then reward the action in a game.

10 pages · Six team actions + game-day guide

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Youth coaches · U9–U17

Constraints-led basketball coaching pack

Turn one basketball problem into a game players can explore. This practical constraints-led approach pack helps you change the challenge, observe decisions and adapt the next round.

11 pages · Six adaptable small-sided games

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Ages 6–10

Mini basketball practice pack

A ready-to-use starting point for your next mini basketball session. Six short activities help players control the ball, find a teammate and enjoy playing together.

7 pages · 45-minute session

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Ages 11–14

Youth basketball practice pack

A complete session built around recognising space, making a decision and recovering to defend. Use the timed plan as written, or adjust the games for the players in front of you.

7 pages · 60-minute session

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Youth coaches of all age groups

Practice planning cheat sheets

Build a practice around the needs of your group. These cheat sheets give you a time budget, a reusable planning page and a short checklist for before, during and after the session.

5 pages · 45 / 60 / 90-minute frameworks

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Choose the pack for your next session

For younger players, the mini pack starts with ball control and simple passing before introducing a small game. The ages 11–14 pack adds decisions against a defender and finishes with a spacing-and-cutting game. For a mixed programme or a different session length, start with the planning cheat sheets.

To design games around a learning problem, choose the constraints-led coaching pack. You can also read the CLA guide and all six games online.

Use the suggested ages as a starting point. Adjust the space, equipment, rules and pace to your players. You can also browse the drill library or read the coaching guide for more ideas.

From the free pack to your own playbook

Create animated drills. Share ideas across your club.

The PDFs give you a starting point. In Swish Planner, you can build and run a timed practice from your phone, then add the tools that fit how you coach.

Pro: draw drills that move: Create and edit animated diagrams with players, passes and movement. Play through your own drill or set step by step.
Pro: reuse your best sessions: Save session templates, plan a season and print practice plans so your ideas are ready for next time.
Club: keep your coaches connected: Share a private drill library and, when enabled, view and copy club team sessions. Club includes Pro for up to 25 coaches and your logo on printed plans.

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New accounts get a 14-day Pro trial. No card needed. The core planning tools remain free.

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