Coaching Traineeship

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Coaching Traineeship Quiz

Test your knowledge on coaching principles and basketball training techniques with our comprehensive quiz. This quiz is designed to enhance your understanding of effective coaching strategies, training methodologies, and player development.

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A transactional coach is more focused on:

Developing players

Winning games

Inspiring players

Long term vision

How do we call a coach who tries to control everything and is constaly yelling instructions?

A transformational coach

A playstation coach

A CNP coach

What do we mean with "flight paths"

Try to bump into as many players as possible to create collisions that look to be unintentially

Straight line drive towards the rim

What is the first thing we look for in a coach?

Experience

Knowledge of the game

CNP: certified nice person

Motivation

Scripted defense means

Giving the offense a situation where he has to use a decision (either / or)

Giving the offense always the same read

Playing live defense

Guided defense means

Giving the offense a situation where he has to use a decision (either / or)

Giving the offense always the same read

Playing life defense

Block practice is: a high number of reps that repeat the exact same movement over and over again

True

False

Once the player execute the correct habits in block then random practice will be better

True

False

Shooting 100 floaters: every rep from a different spot and a different move is an example of a random drill?

True

False

The master skill in basketball what we focus the most on is:

Handling pressure

Footwork

Finishing

Shooting

Drills alone don't work because they lack specificity they're learning the pattern of the drill and not the skill within a game

True

False

What is most important teaching players a 'concept' or a lot of 'different game moves'?

Concept

Different game moves

Using the 'games approach' in practice means: teaching and learning the game while playing the game

True

False

Whats most beneficial? Self discovery or a coach explaining everything

Self discovery

Coach explaining

Blocked practice is great to clean up details, technique and build confidance and comfort in a skill

True

False

We try to train in the "sweet spot" what is the optimal level of improvement?

40%-60% succes rate

60%-80% succes rate

80%-100% succes rate

What will happen if you just let players play games without constraints?

It will lead to new behaviors

They will self-organize down to their current habits

We add constraints / loads to add complexity to practice so players are challenged and work at the edge of their abilities

True

False

The 1 second advantage will create more opportunities for the offense because they have more time or a bigger advantage at the start

True

False

Letting the defender start on the hip of the offensive player is an example of an advantage start?

True

False

Letting the defender start in front of the offensive player arm length distance away is an example of an advantage start?

True

False

Which of the following constraints is a "technical load"

8 second shot clock

Must use a float dribble before taking a shot

Defender can't block the shot

Adding a 2nd guided defender in the half circle

The rule of 10 means

Don't do a drill longer than 10 minutes

We always play games till 10

We always try to have 10 players on the court

Rule of 3 means: no more than 3 key points: too much instruction will freeze the mind

True

False

Rule of 30 means

Don't do a drill longer than 30 minutes

Spend 30 minutes on the same topic to create depth

Keep your instruction under 30 seconds

What means the constraint led approach?

We want players to learn things explicitly

We want to explain players how to play the game

Creating self-teaching games/drills

When giving feedback we say the name of the athlete before or after the feedback?

Before

After

We want to focus on saying body parts in our teaching and feedback for example: "elbow in"

True

False

We want the athlete's focus on the outcome of the task instead of body movements for example: "finish your shot"

True

False

Research shows that the best and most effective way in giving feedback is using: ...

Internal cues

External cues

In our feedback we give more value on: the outcome or the decision?

Celebrate decision over the outcome

Celebrate the outcome over the decision

Coaching / giving feedback on "the fly" means?

Stop the drill and bring a huddle to give feedback

Talk over the drill/game but don't stop it

Before stopping a drill, you must ask yourself the following questions: "will I make a difference, and will they figure it out on their own if I give them more time." correct?

True

False

You can interfere the drill for the following reasons:

Rewind, individual feedback, demo, question

Individual feedback, remind, demo, question

Rewind, remind, demo, question

If it's a "learning drill" the rules for intervention are:

The coach can stop the drill or game to instruct

We coach on the fly without stopping the activity

No coach inverventions

How many KPI's: key performance indicators (most important things/details) do you use in every drill/game

As much details as you want

For older and more skilled player we will be more likely to spend more time in Phase ...

Phase A - On air

Phase B - guided

Phase C - competing

In our debrief we like to use questions as:

What went well? What do you think can be better?

Did you understand everything? Do we still have questions?

What does it means: use the 'cold call'

Pick kids randomly to answer the question

Pick the kids who raise up their hand to answer the question

Which is the correc rhym that we use to teach shot selection when going 1 vs 2 to the basket

1 on 2 not for you

1 on 2 get it done

1 on 2 sit with me

1 on 2 play no more

3on3 hotspot where players can only take shots in the paint or 3pointers is a good example of a:

Constraint led game

A blocked game

Guided light defense means:

You only give the offensive player the read and that's it

After giving the read it's live 1-1 play

If a player doesn't have great shot technique and haven't build the right habits yet it's best to develop it using:

Small sided games

Random practice

Blocked practice

Teaching triggers like pick & roll with our U21 we would teach it using:

Blocked practice

Small sided games

Is shooting 100 catch & shoot shots using different spots and different footwork a random or blocked drill?

Random

Blocked

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