Basketball Balanced Scorecard

When developing a balanced scorecard for off-season basketball workouts, you'll want to establish clear and measurable metrics for each of the key areas you've identified: dribbling, speed, agility, and shooting. Here are some possible metrics to consider for each area:

Dribbling:

• Number of successful dribbles per minute

• Dribbling speed in seconds per distance (e.g. how many seconds it takes to dribble a certain distance)

• Ability to change direction while dribbling (e.g. measured by cones set up in a zigzag pattern)

Speed:

• Time to complete a set distance (e.g. sprinting from baseline to baseline)

• Number of sprints completed in a given time period

• Ability to maintain speed over a longer distance (e.g. a timed mile)

Agility:

• Time to complete an agility drill (e.g. running around cones in a specific pattern)

• Number of successful repetitions of an agility drill in a given time period

• Ability to quickly change direction and stop/start (e.g. measured by a shuttle run)

Shooting:

• Shooting accuracy (e.g. percentage of shots made from various locations on the court)

• Time to make a certain number of shots

• Ability to shoot from different spots on the court (e.g. corner, wing, top of the key)

  You'll want to choose metrics that are relevant to your team's goals and abilities, and that can be easily tracked and measured. It may also be helpful to set specific targets or benchmarks for each metric to help motivate players and track progress over time.

  There is a lot of variance between a balance scorecard for guards and forwards and players versus teams. As you plan your offseason think about some of the objectives that you wanted from last season and list out the reasons why they were not achieved. This goes a long way in determining what elements you will bring in to your offseason plan as opposed to what elements you are looking to develop in preseason.