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RAYBA Coaching & Development

As we continue to honor the commitment to help our youth and support our local basketball players this season; it has become increasingly important for RAYBA to create a program with a focus on core fundamentals and development.

New this season, we are implementing the following RAYBA Coaching Series which is a program wide skills & development curriculum for all players and coaches at all grade levels. The intent of this program is to create additional structure to our practices in an effort to build upon key skills and core fundamentals year after year. 

All coaches are asked to make a commitment to our 6 core fundamentals, by dedicating a minimum of 1/3 of each practice to the specific drills outlined below. We estimate that each of these core drills will take roughly 5 minutes per practice.

RAYBA Coaching Series: 6 Core Fundamentals

1. Team Offense 

2. Team Defense

3. Shooting

4. Individual Offense

5. Individual Defense

6. Total Athlete

Additional Advanced Skills

1. Critical Tips To Beat Your Defender Off The Catch

2. Lay Up Tip

3. Euro Move

4. Foot Speed And Basketball Footwork

1 - Think Shot

2 - Rip Below Knees

3 - Hips Down

4 - Shoulders Below The Defender's Hips

5 - Attack Past Defender

1 - Rip the ball to the ear

2 - Progress out to the 3-point line

3 - Get to the basket in one dribble

1 - Jab Step With Explosion

2 - Pound Ball On Jab Step

3 - Rip Over Or Under

4 - Long Steps

1 - Fast Feet

2 - Wideouts

3 - Lateral Line Hops

4 - Vertical Line Hops

5 - 1 Leg Lateral Line Hops

6 - 1 Leg Vertical Line Hops

7 - Lateral Shuffles

8 - 4 Cone Agility Drill

9 - Split Squat Drives