35 Small-Sided Games Playbook for Player Development
Looking for small-sided game ideas for your basketball practices? Here are 35 of my favorite SSGs we use to train individual and team skill development. Included:
- 16 1v1 Games
- 8 Outnumbered games (e.g., 2v1, 4v3)
- 11 Team Games
Want to maximize your practice time? Using a pace and space offense as a template, Coach Tony Miller will show you how to use small-sided games to simultaneously develop your players skills while also teaching team offense. These resources will provide a framework for building individual and team offensive skills into both individual workouts and team practices. Included in the course:
- 53:00 presentation and Q&A
- SSG Drill book (diagrams & videos) (PDF)
- 3 Sample Practice Plans (PDF)
- 3 Sample Player Workouts (PDF)
SSGs for Player Development and Team Defense
Want to maximize your practice time? Coach Tony Miller will show you how to use small-sided games to simultaneously develop your players skills while also teaching team defense. These resources will provide a framework for building individual and team defensive skills into both individual workouts and team practices. Whether you’re a traditional man-to-man coach, Pack Line coach, or zone defense coach, there are SSGs for teaching transition defense, on-ball defense, closeouts, help defense, and rebounding. Included in the course:
- 30:00 presentation
- SSG Drill book (diagrams & videos) (PDF)
Whether you’re running some form of European ball screen offense or simply using ball screens within your offense, improve your players’ fundamentals and decision-making skills through these small-sided games (SSGs). Coach Tony Miller shares ideas for ball screen reads as well as suggestions setting up your SSGs.
Teaching with Small-Sided Games
Are you new to small-sided games, looking to incorporate SSGs into your practices? Are you a SSG veteran, interested in improving your teaching through the use of SSGs? Coach Tony Miller shares ideas for designing SSGs specific to your program as well as tips for maximizing the use of SSGs for player skill development and decision making. Included in this course:
- 36:25 presentation and Q&A
- SSG Drill Book (PDF)
- Links to SSG videos
Player Development Workouts with SSGs
Looking for ideas for small-group workouts to improve players skills and basketball IQ? Here are five workouts for improved decision-making and physical skills to prepare your players to perform better in games. Included in this course:
- 5 Player Workouts for small groups
- Diagrams for drills and small-sided games
- Embedded drill and small-sided game videos
