Basketball Practice Planner
Your whole practice, timed to the minute, on one sheet.
The basketball practice planner adds up every block against the gym time you booked, puts the drill diagram next to the block, and prints one sheet you can hand an assistant.
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The sticky note is not a practice plan.
Practice is at 6. You are still at work at 4:45. You know how tonight goes, because it went this way last week too.
You grab a sticky note between meetings and scribble tonight's practice down the side: warmup, shooting, shell, scrimmage. No times. It looks like a grocery list, and it coaches like one.
Shooting ran long because nothing said 15 minutes anywhere. Now there are twenty minutes left, you still have three things on the note, and the one thing this practice was supposed to fix is the thing you cut.
Driving home you try to remember what you actually got to. The note is in the gym trash. Next Tuesday starts from another blank sticky note, like the season before this one.
One sheet runs the whole practice. Down to the minute.
This template is the sheet good programs already run: a timed schedule on the left, the things you say to the team on the right, and space for the pen, because practice never goes exactly to plan. It comes filled in with a real 90-minute high school practice so you can see how it works, plus a blank copy for your own.
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Timed blocks
Every drill gets minutes. When shooting says 15, shooting gets 15, and the thing practice was for still happens.
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Daily emphasis
One focus for the day, written where the whole team can see it.
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Announcements and quote
The things you always forget to say, and the quote of the day if that is your thing.
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Notes area
Ruled space for what actually happened, so next practice starts from real information.
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Play diagrams on the back
Real diagrams, not clip art. Clip the sheet to the board and the plays are right there.
One tool for each job
All Basketball tools →Questions coaches ask
- Can I print the practice plan?
- Yes, with PRO: the whole practice on one sheet, every block with its start and end time, and each drill with its diagram.
- What is on the template?
- A practice plan with start and end times per drill, a daily emphasis line, announcements, a quote of the day, a ruled notes area, and a page of real play diagrams. It comes with a filled-in example practice and a blank copy.
- How long should a basketball practice be?
- Rarely more than 90 minutes. The example plan in the template runs 90 minutes with warmup, skill blocks, team play, and end-of-game work, and puts about 20 percent of the time on shooting.
- Does this work for youth and travel teams?
- Yes. The sheet does not assume an age group: you set the block times. Younger teams usually run shorter practices with more, smaller blocks, so a 10u session might be 60 minutes in eight blocks where a varsity session is 90 in five. The blank copy has empty time rows for exactly that.
- Can I edit the template?
- It is built for paper: print it and write on it. The blank copy has empty time rows for your own drills.
- Can I make my own play diagrams for the back?
- Yes. Draw plays in ClickPlays and print them as clean sheets, one, two, or four diagrams per page.
You are going to draw it again anyway.
Seven days free, and every play saves itself and prints clean.
The only thing you can lose is the play you were about to forget.
