I took my high school basketball girls to a team camp this week. It was a lot of fun and I really saw improvement individually and as a team.
It’s interesting how team camps have changed over the years. When I went with my teammates back in the 80’s, camp was filled with drills and skills, and coaches didn’t participate (a college player from the camp coached our team). Now team camps are more like tournaments. Teams play a lot of games and coaches coach their teams. It would be nice if we could meet in the middle, more skills and drills for the players and games that coaches could be a part of, but either way these camps give the opportunity for growth for players, coaches and teams.
At camp this week our overall focus was on being more patient. If we didn’t have the fast break (BTW we won first place in the camp’s fast break league), we wanted our point guard to bring the ball up top and set up our offense. We also had a specific focus for each game; blocking out, catching in triple threat and bumping the cutter, for example. The camp was a success because as the days progressed players improved their individual skills, I learned some new drills during clinic times (and enjoyed being back on campus where I played college basketball 30 years ago), and most important, as a team we played harder, smarter and with patience, and after working through some bumps in the road, we became an even closer team.
Consider going to team camp to grow as a player and as a team.
