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Ten and Twelve week practice programs! Click here to sign up for Boston NTL Programs and Play Forever League Online! (Get Some Green in Your Game!) Boston 2012 Calendar (updated 01/05/12)(***Note the New +++ Three Programs!) Sunday beginning 01/08/12 The Beautiful Basics (10 weeks +++Three!; $200) The Brazilians call their brand of soccer, "The Beautiful Game". Here at NTL, we call the process of studying, practicing, eating/sleeping/fully assimilating into bone marrow the fundamentals of basketball, "The Beautiful Basics". On a Sunday morning in Porter Square join Coach Emeritus Adam Pritchard in worshiping the game (and get a great sweat while doing it!). Click here to register! Adam Pritchard 9-10:30am Kennedy School Intermediate Plus+ Skills & Scrimmage Clinic (10 weeks+++Three!; $200) -- Click here to read reviews! Dazzling combination of structured drills and game-like scrimmaging, just like a college or pro practice! Approximately 1/3rd of the time is spent on individual skills work (ballhandling, shooting, shot fakes, post moves, etc.). 1/3rd on team skills (screening, shaping up off screens, spacing, where to go on the floor and when to go there, team defense, fastbreak situations, etc.), and 1/3rd of the time in controlled scrimmages during which the coach blows the whistle to remind players of the things we were developing and hoping to implement into our "games" during the drills. Really, as a player hoping to further develop skills, what could be better? Click here to register! Adam Pritchard 10:30am-Noon Kennedy School +++Three means sign-up for a 10 or 12 week practice program and you get to come to three additional practices anytime, any day or night during the term. HooWee! (Limit of one +++ Three per person.) Monday beginning 01/09/12 Individual Offensive Skills Clinic (10 weeks; $200) (Totally New!!!) Sure basketball is a team game and we harp on that all the time at NTL, but sometimes (in 5 on 5 maybe 20% of the time?) you have the ball in your hands and the "team game" can be enhanced by the individual skills you apply. Do the "Euro-step" to get deep into the lane and you draw additional defenders. Drawing additional defenders frees teammates and allows you to dish and your teammates to score. Team ball! Knock down a couple pull-up jumpers on the break and the opposition now needs to consider not sending so many players to the offensive glass - they need to get back! - you've made your team a better defensive rebounding team. Be a threat in the post - everyone can post someone up! - and the defense has to double-down; you then pass the ball back out. All that's left is telling your teammate "nice shot" and hearing that temammate say "nice pass"! It's a team game! Click here to register! Bzomowski 7-8:30pm Kennedy School Coached Scrimmage Clinic! (New Again!) (10 competitive week; $240)It all comes down to execution; having a plan and learning as a group how to put that plan into a well functioning reality. At "Coached Scrimmage" we give you the plan and stay on you week after week, whether winning the scrimmages or losing, to read the defense, take care of the ball and execute more effectively. Defensively we challenge you to understand the impact you can have on the game when you dictate play. I mean you can sit back and react, but how does that make the world a better place? Let's learn how we can get the job done, and have fun doing it. (Open to hi-Novice through Advanced and limited to the first 18 players.) Click here to register! Staff 8:30-10pm Kennedy School Tuesday beginning 01/10/12 Intermediate Skills & Scrimmage (12 weeks); $240) Curtis Hall is in the beating heart of Boston basketball. A third floor gym, with a shiny new floor and NBA type backboards. Even though it's a touch on the short side, it's a gym that expects your best effort. The participants in this clinic come to learn and come to play. The scrimmages are always a nice extension of the drills and everyone seeks to make, recognizes, and acknowledges a good play. We always look forward to coaching the Wednesday night clinic. It's been a great one for years. (Open to Intermediate and higher level players only!) Click here to register! Bzomowski 7-8:30pm Curtis Hall Saturday beginning 02/25/12 (call 1-888-NTL-HOOP for info) Spring 2012 Play Forever League (PFL) (13 weeks plus Draft Day: $190/$150) A league for players who want a no-hassle, well-organized, professionally run, totally fun and competitive basketball experience. Appropriate for high novice through low advanced men and women adult players. (If you are really good or, worse yet, think you are really good, this probably is not the league for you. Though we have plenty of good players, they manage to remain humble and honor the effort and desire of others.) Come to Draft Day (Saturday, 02/25/12), show us what you got, or don't got, and we place you on a team. (But sign-up beforehand; the league always sells out.) Players can request 1 or 2 or 3 specific teammates, but every effort is made to create teams of equal strength. Players receive numbered jerseys or shirts. We print full and accurate software generated NCAA-type box scores (example) with field goals, free throws, three-pointers [made and attempted], rebs [off. and def.], assists, turnovers, blocks, steals, fouls and minutes played to distribute at game's end. Cumulative season's team and individual stats (example) are kept as well. Referee and electronic scoreboard. 10 regular season games and 3 playoff games for all ten teams. Ball movement, team play, equal playing time, and competitive but sportsmanlike spirit are emphasized. PFL Game Procedures / PFL Format and Rules Click here to register! Esteemed League Commissioner Saturdays, 8:30am-1pm Kennedy School |
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