Dan Hughes' Practice 'Gold Mine': Daily Individual & Team Drills + Powerful Set Plays For Almost Every In-Game Situation

with Dan Hughes, Seattle Storm (WNBA) Head Coach from 2018 through 2021;
2x WNBA Coach of the Year (2001 & 2007);
2x WNBA World Champion with the Seattle Storm (2018 & 2020);
USA Basketball Women's Assistant Coach (2020 Tokyo - Gold medal);
2019 USA Basketball Women's USA AmeriCup Team Co-Coach (Gold medal) San Antonio Stars (WNBA) Head Coach from 2005 to 2009 and then 2011 to 2016;
Cleveland Rockers (WNBA) Head Coach from 2000 to 2003;
More than 30+ years coaching experience - with 20+ years as a professional coach in the WNBA and serving as a coach of both men's and women's programs at the college and high-school levels;

Few coaches have the pedigree and background of Dan Hughes. As a basketball coach with 30-plus year’s experience, Hughes is a coach who seen it all – whether coming up and developing his coaching skills in the high school and college ranks, to working more than 20+ years coaching in in the WNBA, to coaching in international competition – this is a coach who has assembled vast stores of knowledge and acumen within him.

Now, in this excellent, on-court video presentation, Hughes supplies viewers with heavy doses of coaching tips, proven strategies, practice drills and game-tested set plays.

Empowering, Developing Assistant Coaches & Practice Drills

The very best coaches all have one trait in common – they surround themselves with a valuable support staff and delegate important team matters to their assistant coaches. Hughes kicks off the action with valuable insight on basketball coaching staff development, where the coach provides experience-based on what he calls ‘coaching the coaches’ and the importance of empowering and developing the assistant coaches, as well as some detailed thoughts on cultural considerations in a diverse team setting.

From there, Hughes dives right into the deep end of the pool and hits viewers with some terrific practice drills, beginning with a series of drills that include, the ‘Post Power-Cuts Drill,’ the ‘Four Backdoor’ and ‘Dagger Drill.’ 

Keys To Defensive Transition, More Drills and Effective Set Plays

Hughes transitions into an in-depth conversion on the importance of continually improving your team’s defensive transition and how it’s more important to your overall team’s success than you might think.

The 20-plus year WNBA coach then jumps right back into the details and demonstrations of more useful practice drills – offering up drills that can improve the skill sets needed to execute specific set plays – before placing the ‘cherry on top’ of this ‘basketball sundae’ by going over his favorite game-tested set plays.

Viewers get to watch demonstrations on the ‘Drags-And-Quicks Drill,’ an early offense set and a drill that helps perfect it and a great drill called, ‘Here, There and Back.’ Hughes then provides an inside look at some highly effective sideline and baseline out-of-bounds plays.Things transition into Hughes’ thoughts on running an organized practice. The veteran coach offers time-tested tips on practice planning and the importance of empowering your players, before diving back into a great warm-up drill, the ‘Drive, Kick and Pass Drill’ and then dives into drill work that focuses on a pick-and-roll series with spacing actions.

The jam-packed video follows with a sideline out-of-bounds play he calls ‘Red Action’ and a baseline play called ‘Lips Action,’ and several ‘Rush Drills’ that enhance play execution, before finishing with a flurry of work and coaching points for several late-game situations.If you want to arm yourself with a slew of terrific coaching ideas that will enhance your next practice and turbo-charge your offensive playbook – then Dan Hughes has provided an on-court video session that is a must-watch coaching event!

77 minutes. 2022.