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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aggressiveness in basketball is highly valued. It also can't be taught. During tryouts nobody is a teammate. Your kid should be doing everything he can to get his hands on the ball and scoring points. Unless he is a giant of course. [/quote]

A lot of lack of aggression is based on fear of contact.  Whacking kids a ton with karate pads can solve that.

Some other ways to teach aggressiveness/comfort with contact:

-NBA drill: three kids under each rim grouped roughly by height.  Play until 2 kids from the group reach seven.  One point per basket, and they can only shoot in the paint.  No OOB and no fouls called short of throwing punches.  Low scorers from each group run sprints.

- Scramble drill.  Kids line up baseline in two line. Coach rolls out a ball, and when it gets to half court tells “go.”  Next two kids race for the ball.  Winner has to dive on it.  That kid is offense, other kid is defense.  Kids get one point for scoring.  Losers run.

- Line ball handling drill: kids make two lines 15 feet apart.  One kid dribbles, another defends. Goal for dribbler is to get over a line, goal for defender is to stop him.  If the ball is poked away or stolen, dribbler gets it back and keeps trying.  This is tough for bad ball handlers but will motivate them to practice.   [/quote]

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