The Summer Work Out program consists of 4 work outs. It is a great progression work out for a beginner player just starting out and an intermediate player wanting to increase agility, ball handling, passing and shooting.

You can get the entire summer work out program here.

This is the best time of the year to work on getting better and adding skills to your basketball game.

No school. No home work. Just basketball!

I’ve been receiving a lot of questions on how to improve and work on shooting, ball handling and even confidence. Summer is the perfect time to work on these skills. I’ve found 3 resources to help you with your shooting, ball handling and confidence.

Prolific Basketball Shooting Program

Effectivie Ball Handling Program

Unstoppable Confidence Course

This time of the year also means its time for me to stock up on basketball DVDs. Each year I add at least 4 new basketball DVDs to my library. Why?

1) Because I’m always looking for different drills to use in my training.
2) Since, I’m back into coaching, I’m also looking for new concepts to implement or complement my team.
3) SALE!! Yes, ChampionshipProductions.com is where I get all my DVDs and they run an annual Basketball Summer Sale. DVDs at

ChampionshipProductions.com normally cost $39.99. During their sale, if you get 4 or more, you can get them for $25 each. You can not beat that..

Here are the DVDS I’m planning to get:

The Ultimate Speed Ladder Training Video: Innovations for Speed, Quickness, and Agility

Flex for Success

Motion for Success

Bob Huggins’ Drills for Man-to-Man Defense

Competitive Rebounding Drills

The Basketball Summer Sale runs til July 1. If you are planning to get some DVDs make sure to Enter Promo Code SS425BB at checkout.

Click here for Basketball DVD Sale! DVDs, Videos & Books — Championship Productions, Inc.

Last year, the inaugural tournament hosted 14 teams from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Illinois. Nine college coaches were in attendance including coaches from Alabama A&M, Arkansas State, Binghamton (New York), Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Missouri State, Pearl River, Ole Miss, Tennessee Tech and Three Rivers.

For information on the End of Summer Shoot Out Tournament, visit www.girlsbasketballexposure.com.

All Access Practice with Geno Auriemma DVD Cheat Sheet

Look through this list for drills to perform, especially dribbling: http://www.youtube.com/user/patoshajeffery?feature=mhum#p/c/C4E9E7CD9C15C26D

Video Transcript:
Hey, this is Patosha for the Girls Basketball Trainer and I want to share with you five end of season tips. These are things that I’ve learned this past season as a sixth grade coach at Hutchison here in Memphis, Tennessee and I want to share it with you.

Set Goals

Maybe you are a coach and you can relate to it or maybe you are a player and I’ll talk about the tips from a player’s perspective, also. So, the first tip was set goals. Set goals, what are your expectations or have the expectations?

Never go into anything without knowing what you want to do. Basically, that’s what I did. I started the season off with expectations or goals of developing the players. It wasn’t necessary wins or losses. These are sixth graders and I think it was more important to teach them the fundamentals of the games than to be worried about how many wins or loses that we will have.

My expectations were teaching young ladies how to shoot, how to dribble, how to pass, how to make lay ups both left and right hand.

Learn from Losses

Things like that. And so, how to make free throws. Those were my expectations. Those were my goals for the season. Tip number two. Learn from the losses and this can be as a team or as a player, as a coach. Basically, we started the season off 1-2. And so, I had to think about what was going… What did we need to learn?

What did I need to teach the young ladies? What do we need to go over? Especially, still in line with what my goals were.

Basically, to be honest, I didn’t know what to expect with sixth graders. I hadn’t been around at games, sixth grade games. I didn’t know if the teams press. I did not know if they did man to man. I did not know if they did zone.

Basically, I had to go back and look at my loss to see well, what do I need to teach these young ladies right now to help us overcome these situations? And that’s what I did. We started the season 1-2 and we finished the season 11-5.

Keep It Positive

As you can see, we learned from those losses. The next tip is to keep it positive. Like I said, we started the season off 1-2. It could have been very easy for us and for me as a coach to get down, and think that I’m not doing what I’m supposed to be doing. It would be easy for the young ladies to create a negative attitude and say, “Well, we suck.”

But, we didn’t. We kept it positive. I kept going into practices with motivational quotes.

I kept teaching the girls. I kept looking at the goals that we have, and I kept doing what I said I wanted to do, what my expectation were. Like I mentioned earlier, it really wasn’t about wins and losses but it’s hard to… When you are in a sport where it’s basically dictated on wins and losses to not have that concern but, we kept it positive and we kept improving.

I kept teaching the young ladies. They kept improving and they begin to win.

Don’t Take Extended Breaks

Lesson number or tip number four. Don’t take extended breaks. Basically, like I said, this is my first year as the coach and I didn’t really know what to expect, and we had a Christmas break. And it was a two and a half week Christmas break. Meaning the young ladies did not touch the basketball pretty much for two and a half weeks.

They weren’t around me for two and a half weeks. And so they lost the consistency that we had begun to have.

We were on a win streak but we begin to lose that consistency because we took that long break. When we came back from the Christmas break, everybody was rusty. And so, we struggled a little bit.

We had to get back into the form of things and back into our routines of things. And so that’s a lesson that I’ve learned, to not take an extended break. To stay in the gym either practicing or something. Being in a tournament, being in a holiday tournament or practicing or something, all right?

Develop throughout the Season

Tip number five. Develop throughout season and that was something that to be honest, I didn’t know. I didn’t really see that. We always talk about developing in an off season, using the off season to get better.

But, like I mentioned, my goals were to teach the young ladies the fundamentals of the game.

And that was something that I was working very, very hard on every practice. We were working on ball hand and we were working on lay ups. We were working on rebound. We were working on these things.

As the season begin to go on, the improvement basically begin to manifest and it was astonishing how the young ladies where to not even able to make a layup to making a left hand lay ups. To hitting threes. It was just amazing.

Don’t wait to the off season to try to get better. You can get better throughout the season. Take going through drills seriously. Stay extra. Come extra before… Come early before practice. Stay after practice. Use all the time that you have to develop and you will be amazed at how much you will be developing throughout the season.

Like I say, not just off season, but; throughout the season, continue to get better. And so, that’s it.

Those are my five end of season tips and again, set goals, set expectations for yourself for the season, before the beginning of the season. Learn from your losses even as a player. Learn, how did I defend this person. How did I go through this play? Look at how did I shoot my free throws? How did I box out and rebounds? Learn from losses. Keep it positive.

Stay positive throughout the season. Get you some motivational quotes. Say positive things to yourself. Stay around positive people. Just keep it positive when you hit that slump during the season, if you hit that slump.

Don’t take an extended break. You have a Thanksgiving break. You have the Christmas, New Year’s break. If you’re not playing on a tournament, get in a gym. Don’t take that break off. Develop throughout the season and like I said that’s something very powerful. Take your drills seriously when you go through drills at school.

Coming in extra, coming in early. Stay a little bit late.

And that’s it. I’m Patosha Jeffrey, the Girls Basketball Trainer and I hope you got something out of the Five End of Season Tips.

Please post a comment on this blog and let me know what you think about the end of season tips. Just scroll down to leave a comment. This should be your thoughts on what you heard in the video or other end of season tips you may have. I will be personally responding to the comments.

Patosha Jeffery, The Girls Basketball Trainer

Please post a comment on this blog and let me know what you think about confidence in girls basketball. Just scroll down to leave a comment. This should be your thoughts on what you heard in the video or other ways you have gotten your confidence back. I will be personally responding to the comments.

Patosha Jeffery, The Girls Basketball Trainer

I’ve made adjustments as a coach and my players have been wonderful at continuing to work and grow. 2nd half of the season begins January 3rd..

I will use the rest of December to relax and regroup. It has been a long and exhausting year hosting tournaments, camps and now coaching.

We won our first game 24-9. Lost second and third games 15-14 and 30-19. I have to be honest. I needed all three of the games-wins and loses. The win showed me that my players can implement what we go over. And my loses showed me that my players can implement what we go over. LOL!!!

I did not know what to expect out of 6th graders. I did not know if teams would press, play zone or play man-to-man. Well the game we won- the team did not press and played zone. The games we lost the teams did press and played man-to-man.

Guess what I had been working on for the first month of practice?? Offense against a zone defense.. Guess what I’ve been working on for the past week and a half?? LOL!!!