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I feel that much of my success in the past can be directly attributed to the coaches in the grade and junior high schools who have assumed the tremendous task of teaching basketball fundamentals to youngsters from the seventh through the ninth grades.
I also feel that if you intend to be a successful coach, you must organize the program in your particular community to fit your specific needs. If you can enlist the aidof the grade school, and junior high school coaches, and have them teach the basic fundamentals you believe in, you are well on your way to developing teams of championship caliber. In our particular school system we have recently gone to the 6-3-3 arrangement. With this setup we decided to organize teams according to grade. Thus, we have a separate team for the seventh, eighth, and ninth grade boys.Taking into consideration the physical abilities of the different age groups we decided on a schedule of twelve games for the seventh grade, fourteen games for the eighth grade, and sixteen games for the ninth graders. All of the games are either after school, or on Saturday mornings.Since we have three junior high schools in town, we can play each other two or three times. This helps us considerably with our scheduling problems. The remainder of the... (continued) Table of Contents
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