Physical and mental fatigue should never be a factor once the regular season games begin. Every practice and game should begin with a full stretching and exercise workout that focuses on increasing flexibility and injury prevention. Early season practices should focus on maximizing the cardiovascular status of your players with special drills on and off the court every day. Running exercises and mock games up and down the court ought to be instituted at every practice. Muscle strengthening should also be achieved through a weight room regimen three days a week for the entire season.
Physical endurance is an important aspect of the game of team basketball.
At the youth level, kids need as much time as possible to work on the very basic skills of basketball, including shooting, dribbling, passing, defending, rebounding, and moving without the ball. As coach, you should possess a huge armament of drills that work on these skills regularly, adding a variety of these drills to each practice. There is no substitute for repetitive practice when it comes to shooting the ball, dribbling, and etc. Once the players are becoming adequately conditioned and skilled at the fundamentals, you will want to unify them as a team, a unit that is ready to meet the team objectives. The major objective in a basketball game is basically for your team to score more points than the opponent.