(5 stars) - An Excellent Basketball Drills Video With Extras! - 8/3/2009 - Victor Green

This is the best basketball instructional video out there. I'm a coach for middle school aged kids (6th, 7th, 8th graders) and I have watched a lot of these. The production qualities of other videos are generally a crap shoot with spotty audio or limited camera angles. This video has great production value and flows well. Sometimes instructional videos focus only on individual play and not enough team, or vice versa. There is a great balance here. Coaches looking for useful drills will benefit from this program. Often times the instructors speak over the target audience's heads. In this video, the narrator does an excellent job and offers hints if you listen closely. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

 (5 stars) - Pure Basketball At It's Best! - 8/3/2009 - E. Derosa

Excellent drills that are explained in detail with nice graphics. I was advised to play close attention to the narrator and I am giving the same advice to all who are fortunate to view this great program. Your team will love the shooting drills best but look at some of the rebounding and defensive drills. EXCELLENT! Perfect for any organized basketball team. 100% PERFECT FOR GYM RATS COACHES, PLAYERS & PARENTS!

 (5 stars) - 48 Championship Basketball Drills - 1/6/2009 - Wayne Judkins

Great instructional DVD/Video for youth basketball coaches! Not to basic, but not to complex for beginners to understand. Our department has purchased a number of these to loan out to all our volunteer coaches for review. It offers good instruction & explanations of all the drills. It also suggests the time involved in each drill as well as the appropriate age levels each drill applies to. It's easy viewing as a sit-down "watch it all at once" instructional film, but also works well as a quick reference to a particular drill or instructional segment. Very well done and a worthy investment.

 (5 stars) - Coach Schupak Does It Again! - 11/11/2003 - Rick Krammer

Just exhausted watching coach Schupak's "59 Minute Baseball Practice" going from fall baseball to recreation basketball. Thought the baseball video was great! This basketball DVD does it all also! Only objection is that in some of the drills, the players are dribbling with their heads down unlike what we dads were taught in "Ball Handling 101". Nevertheless, great flow and very creative.Hey Coach, I need you to produce a rock solid Lacrosse video.

 (5 stars) - Great Item! - 11/9/2003 - Paul Duke

This basketball DVD is a great item for all who love to improve their youth league basketball team. Some of the drills I was familiar with but others were a plus for someone like me who thinks I know it all coaching youth basketball for 14 years. I don't and neither do you! So this is a first rate item. First year coaches will love it. Dedicated experienced youth and school coaches will also benefit and should do like I did, take your laptop to practice and show your squad some of the drills.Many sports instructional items aren't worth the money. This one is worth every penny!

 (5 stars) - First Rate Basketball Drills - 9/27/2003 - Dedric Flores

This DVD is first rate for those looking for a variety of basketball drills. The drills are divided into different topics such as shooting, rebounding, passing etc. The DVD menu makes it easy to navigate and all the drills seem useful though I always found myself going back to the wonderful shooting drills. Basketball technique is not the main objective but there is a nice section on form shooting. Coaches from the youth level through middle school will achieve the most success instituting these drills in their practice sessions. This is a definite thumbs up!

 (5 stars) - Four sample practices and ten basketball coaching - 8/3/2009 - Midwest Book Review

48 Championship Basketball Drills is a 42 minute, full color, basketball training video ideal for viewers ages 12 to adult. Experienced basketball coach Marty Schupak draws upon his more than fourteen years of teaching basketball to provide detailed and authoritative instruction in the form of 48 specific basketball drills cover every aspect of play including: shooting, conditioning, defense, rebounding, ball handling, passing, and foul shooting. There are also the added bonuses of four sample practices and ten basketball coaching tips. No highschool or college Physical Education program with a Basketball section to its curriculum can afford to be without a copy of Marty Schupak's 48 Championship Basketball Drills video.

 (5 stars) - A Winner! - 8/23/2001 - William Crane

The video is a winner! Lots of drills that look useful. Some are a little hard to follow but with a little instant replay with the remote and it makes sense. Kids 10-14 should get the most out of this. No real negative points except maybe some of the techniques the players do could be polished a bit. But hey, they aren't the Lakers so take it for what it's worth.

 (5 stars) - Very Good with Valuable Drills! - 8/21/2001 - Allen Marino

I'm not sure if the drills in this video are really championship calibre. However, most of the drills that I used with my team were effective. This video is for the first or second year Junior High coach (like myself) or any coach on the recreational level (ie. CYO and/or PAL coach or just in your driveway with your son or daughter). They are not too difficult to follow and supplementary drills can be created easily enough. The narrator uses the expression "dual purpose" drills which translates into getting more than one benefit from any drill. Combining shooting along with conditioning is used in most of the shooting drills. For instance, a drill with 3 players, one shooter, one rebounder and one passer. A simple drill but after the shooter shoots, he sprints to the wall and then back to his spot. The timing is such that when he gets back to his spot, the passer is already passing the ball. Thought this aspect of the drill was just staged for the video but when I tried it, it worked great! Other drills also worked well like "shots across the lane" and a few of the rebounding drills. The explanations were mostly of the drills themselves and not too much on the X's and 0's. Added tips are given if you listen close enough and the foul shooting and regular shooting techniques are discussed in a clear concise manner which turned out to be my favorite part of the video. The drills are forty five seconds to about a minute long. The sample practices given at the end of the video will be extremely helpful to any recreational coach. The video could have been more detailed with more theory (which I like), but in truth, it gives you just what it says. Some very good drills along with a superior format for a sports instructional video make this a buy.

 (5 stars) - Great Value! - 8/20/2001 - Sean G.

I have faithfully used this video over the course of a CYO basketball season consisting of 12 year old boys and saw visible results. This has been my third year coaching and I have taken bits & pieces from books and videos through the course of each season to help me in organizing the offense, defense and practices. This has become my favorite resource for practices and some individual skills. Out of the 48 drills, I rotated using about five or six at each of our practices. The results were positive. Toward the middle of the season, I knew which of the drills worked best for my team and which ones they enjoyed most. There are also numerous tips that coaches wil find useful. Our team's favorite drills were the creative shooting drills. There were probably 20-22 of them. All in all I would say this is very worthwhile to the following: parents, youth coaches with kids ages 8-16,and middle school coaches. What this video may lack is absolute perfect basketball technique, but it makes up two fold in overall creativity and usefulness. Great value!