I would attempt to challenge my team to focus on goals, whether it's reducing the number of turnovers, making physical effort to every single rebound, charting the number of times a player stops penetration in practice. Players can focus if they are given goals and have measurement tools to evaluate their ability to achieve goals. Without question the lack of practice time is not helping you here. If you can hit practice on the run, warmed up with full concentration it will carry over to game situations. Secondly, I would suggest you make your practices more competitive.
Intensity is brought to a higher level by playing for something of value.
Practices should be essentially like games. Whenever possible in all of my practices, we play for a winner and loser. I love competition, and want my players to love it as well. The Basketball Highway . All Rights Reserved.