Coaching from the Base Up: Transformative Basketball Drills and Practice Plans from Expert Coaches (Unabridged‪)‬

Are you a beginner coach looking for drills for your next practice? Or a time-strapped volunteer parent coach? Coaching from the Base Up consults experts, such as Dell Curry, Brian McCormick, Bob Bigelow, and more to share paradigm-shifting ideas, drills, and practice plans.

This includes:

Why your players are spending most of their time waiting in line and how to fix it

Why your players can't perform the same practice skills in a game

Why your players are bored of practice

Why your players are afraid to shoot

Coaching from the Base Up is a practical guide filled with:


Over 100 curated drills for shooting, dribbling, passing and conditioning separated by categories such as age, team drills, individual drills and game based drills
Ready-to-use practice plans by our coaching experts
Interviews that will stimulate your thinking about your coaching philosophy
From AAU player development to how to develop future NBA players


Contributing experts in our book include: • Bob Bigelow, former NBA player and author of Just Let the Kids Play, Brian McCormick, author of The 21st Century Basketball Practice, ChrisOliver, OUA champion coach and creator of Basketball Decision Training and Zero Seconds, Don Kelbick, NBA skills coach for Joe Johnson, Omri Casspi, Carlos Arroyo, and Raja Bell, and the creator of the attack and counter system, Ryan Holiday, SMAU and AAU basketball champion and founder of the Next Level Basketball Academy, Dell Curry, former NBA player and father of Steph and Seth Curry, Steve Collins, three times Wisconsin state champion and founder of Coach Market, Joe Riley, Spanish basketball expert and former assistant at Club Estudiantes.

This audiobook is a compilation of our most popular drills and interviews from our blog which has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of coaches. It's the book I've always wanted as a volunteer coach with drills, practice plans, and ideas I can immediately apply to my next practice.