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August 2017 Greenvale Newsletter
Annual General Meeting 2017
Our Annual General Meeting for the Greenvale Basketball Club is being held:
- on Thursday 3rd August 2017
- from 7:30 – 8:30 pm
- at the Greenvale Recreation Centre, Barrymore Road Greenvale.
The committee is seeking mandatory attendance from every team. We recommend as an absolute minimum the team manager and coach, plus as many parents/guardians that can make themselves available. Remember this is your club!
As well as the usual formalities of reports and committee elections for next year, we will be discussing:
- Grading of teams & players
- Uniforms & merchandise
- Club support & sponsorship
- Presentation Day 2017-18
Please follow the links to the meeting papers in preparation for the AGM:
- Annual General Meeting agenda
- Minutes from last year’s Annual General Meeting
- Life Membership policy
- Nomination form to join the committee for the upcoming 2017-18 club year.
Committee nomination forms are to be returned by Thursday 3rd August 2017:
- by email to secretary@greenvalegrizzlies.org, or
- by mail to PO Box 2222, Greenvale, Victoria 3059, or
- by hand to one of our current committee members, or
- in person at the Annual General Meeting as detailed above, on 3rd August 2017.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting one of our committee members, or email: secretary@greenvalegrizzlies.org
We look forward to seeing all of you on Thursday 3rd August to show your support for your club.
Broncos Holiday Camps and Tournaments
Hume City Broncos are hosting holiday camps and 3×3 tournaments these upcoming July school holidays. Follow the link below for more information and to register for these great events.
http://www.broncosbasketball.com.au/
Child Safety at Our Club
The Greenvale Basketball Club is Child Safe club. We are committed to the safety and well being of all children and young people and will act without hesitation to ensure a child safe environment is maintained at all times.
The new Victorian Child Safety Standards (Victorian Government legislation as of January 1, 2017) now applies to sporting organisations that operate and provide sporting services to children within Victoria.
The Standards apply to organisations as a whole, not only the areas that work with children. This includes:
- Board of management/committee members
- All volunteers (coaches, officials, administrators, scorers etc)
- All students on placement
- Any contractors that are engaged.
Follow the links below to read our Child Safe Policy.
Greenvale Basketball Club – Child Safe Policy 2017
Attachment 1 – Child Safety Reporting Process
Attachment 2 – Child Safety Risk Management Plan
Our club contact for matters of Child Safety is our Vice President who can be contacted at vicepresident@greenvalegrizzlies.org. See our reporting process below.
Where a child is in immediate danger, dial 000.
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Over 100 hours of basketball coaching videos
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has a number of useful resources for coaches, including an awesome free resource of over 100 hours of coaching videos.
- YouTube channel of basketball fundamentals – 125 basketball coaching videos – professional coaches teaching the fundamentals of basketball including Gregg Popovich, Holger Geschwindner and Željko Obradović!
For other coaching resources, view our coaching pages:
If you find any great content online, that could help our coaches/ teams, please let us know and we’ll add it to our pages.
Get an Open Shot on Every Possession. Here’s How …
I received this great email the other day from Coach Mac – it doesn’t link to a post, so I’ll quote the whole email …
Hey,
I always say there are two overlooked traits of great teammates…
- They set great screens for their teammates.
- They cut hard regardless of if they’ll receive the basketball or not.
Today we’re going to focus on the first trait… Setting good screens.
Lazy screens are one of the key things that kill an offense.
Coaches have to make setting strong screens a key point of emphasis throughout the entire season…
If we don’t, our players simply won’t try hard when setting screens. It’s not always that they don’t want to, it’s simply because they don’t understand how important they are.
We need to teach them how important they are.
Getting players open, more often than not, begins with setting good screens on offense.
Here are the 4 rules you must teach your players about screening an opponent…
1. Players must set the screen on the correct angle
How often do you see players set screens that the defender simply slips under and easily picks up their offensive player again?
I see it all the time in youth basketball.
This issue usually arises from the angle the screen is being set on.
Players think (and some are taught) that they should be setting the screen on the opponents shoulder… directly on their side.
The problem with this angle is that it allows the defender to easily slip under the screen when the dribbler attempts to use it.
What we need to do is teach players to set the screen on the backside of the hip the offensive player is driving towards.
This allows the dribbler to attack the ring while their defender is forced to fight over the screen and must defend from behind.
2. The screener must sprint to set the screen
The first time I really thought about the impact of this was when a coach talked about it at a camp I attended.
He explained to the group of players and coaches how a national team (I forget which one) had dominated them because the screener created space between themselves and their defender before they would set a screen.
They did this in a number of ways…
- Slightly pushing off on their opponent before sprinting to set the screen.
- Screen-the-screener actions.
- Faking with their body before exploding out to set the screen.
This meant that either there was no help on the screen or the second defender was late. This allowed the to attack at full speed or simply stop and shoot an open jump shot.
3. Make contact when setting a screen
Another big problem with screening is not making contact when setting a screen.
I’m not talking about barreling the on-ball defender over… but making just enough contact that they have to fight around the screen.
If players set the screen too far away it becomes too easy for the defender to maneuver around.
This also solves another common problem that happens all too frequently in youth basketball…
Players setting a screen on a space and not a player
4. Hold the screen until the defender has fought around it
After the screen has been set, don’t bail the on-ball defender out of having to fight around the screen by ending the screen too early.
I remember reading an article a while back on the great Coach Rick Majerus. He always said that he wanted at least 1 illegal screen called against his team every game…
Sounds like an odd request from a coach, huh?
By getting called for at least one illegal screen a game he then knew that his team was setting and holding good, hard screens.
Wrapping up…
Everyone can set a good screen if they want to. It’s up to us to make players realize how important they are to a good offensive team.
Here’s what I want you to do…
Next practice, take the first 3-4 minutes to talk about the importance of setting good screens. Go over the points we talked about above.
If your players buy in, your team will immediately become much, much better.
Trust me.
Good luck!
– Coach Mac
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T-shirt and hoodie sale on TODAY so you can wear our club colours at the NBL tomorrow
Show your support for our club by buying on of our new club t-shirts or hoodies. And if you’re heading off to the NBL for our club day tomorrow, what better way to show off our club, with pride!
We have tables at both Broadmeadows Leisure Centre and Stadium this morning, Sat 5 Dec, between 8:30 am and 1 pm.
$20 for t-shirts
$50 for hoodies
Bring correct change, if at all possible please 🙂
See you this morning – and you can wear our club colours with pride!
Reminder about our big day out
With less than a week to go for Greenvale Grizzlies’ big day out with the Melbourne United, the excitement is building.
Have you bought your tickets for Sunday 6 Dec yet?
We have a bay put aside especially for us and you get 20% off silver reserve and general admission if you use our special codes, but these seats won’t last for long!!
Silver reserve: http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=UNITED0916 and enter the promo code MUGV16.
General admission: http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=UNITED0916 and enter promo code CTIMU530.
From Wednesday this week, these seats will be released to the general public so please buy your tickets ASAP!
Everyone is welcome, you don’t just have to be one of our Grizzlies to join in the fun! Don’t miss out on this awesome initiative.
Greenvale Grizzlies – we’re going to the basketball (NBL, that is)!
Our Committee have been working hard to bring you a special deal … we have been invited to watch the Melbourne United game vs the Adelaide 36ers on Sunday 6 December at Hisense Arena (3pm tip off).
Not only are there special seating deals outlined below, but we will also receive:
- Foam hands and clappers for our kids
- Pre-game entertainment includes – jumping castle, outdoor hoops, shooting arcade games, face painting and more!
There are two seating options:
Option 1: We have been allocated silver reserved seating in bay 33, dedicated to members of our club only. By using the code promo code MUGV16 will give us 20% off silver reserved ticket prices and will allow us to buy our tickets individually but be automatically allocated into this active section, so we will all be seated together! Booking tickets is simple.
Simply click on the following link http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=UNITED0916 and enter the promo code MUGV16.
Option 2: There is a cheaper option to sit in general admission seats but you need to get to the game early to secure the best available seats, as the tickets are for un-numbered seats. Again booking is simple.
To book using the 20% discount off general admission tickets, enter promo code CTIMU530 when booking your tickets via http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=UNITED0916
There are limited seats in our reserved section, so make sure you book fast to avoid missing out on this exciting opportunity!
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