Skills Table & Development Chart
Cohasset Recreation Basketball
Fall/Winter 2007/08
Level l = Grade 1
Focus: Having fun !
Game
a) 40 minutes drills & skills
b) 4 6 minute quarters
c) players 4 on 4
Skill Development
a) dominant hand dribbling
b) two handed chest pass
c) set shot
Rules
a) Coaches officiate ~ using their discretion to stop play to instruct on traveling, double dribble, fouls
and other basics of the game.
b) Defense retreats to beyond half court and begins man to man defense
c) There is no stealing
Cohasset Recreation Basketball
Fall/Winter 2007/08
Level ll = Grades 2 & 3
Focus: Having fun !
Game
a) 40 minutes drills & skills
b) 4 8 minute quarters
c) players 4 on 4
Skill Development
a) pivoting without travelling
b) defensive posture & slide
c) move without the ball
d) bounce pass
e) dominant hand layup
Rules
a) Trained parent/teen officiate ~ using their discretion to stop play to instruct on traveling, double dribble, fouls and other basics of the game.
b) Defense retreats to beyond half court and begins man to man defense
c) There is no stealing
Cohasset Recreation Basketball
Fall/Winter 2007/08
Level lll = Grades 4 & 5
Focus: Having fun !
Game
a) 20 minutes drills & skills
b) 4 10 minute quarters
c) players 5 on 5
Skill Development
a) jab staps
b) guard, forward & center positioning
c) jump shot & foul shot, lane positioning
d) non dominant hand dribbling, cross over dribble
e) non dominant hand layup
Rules
a) Trained parent/teen officiate
b) Baskets count, scores reported, playoffs
c) Individual & team fouls tracked
d) Man to man defense, defense retreats to offensive court in first half; in second half man full court
e) back court, 3 second and lane violations called
Cohasset Recreation Basketball
Fall/Winter 2007/08
Level lV = Grades 6,7,8
Focus: Having fun !
Game
a) 10 minutes drills & skills
b) 4 14 minute quarters running time, 8 minute halftime
c) players 5 on 5
Skill Development: Skills should be worked on by players focusing on individual areas of improvement
Rules
a) Trained parent/teen officiate
b) Baskets count, scores reported, playoffs
c) Individual & team fouls tracked
d) Man to man defense, stealing allowed
e) Double teaming not allowed
f) back court, 3 second and lane violations called