I was fortunate to spend 4 days last year observing Tom Crean's practices at Marquette. What I learned from Coach Crean was to make everything competitive. Coach has everyone in practice on their toes; the assistant coaches and managers' work as hard as the players. Although completely organized as a staff, Coach Crean runs practices off the top of his head. He makes everyone in the gym react to him. If you get a chance, go see his practices at Indiana. His players compete, they communicate and they react to the constant curveballs he throws at them. They are genius, and reflect his personality.
I try to get better as a coach every day. Fundamental to my growth is taking from the best in the game and to mold their ideas into my values on basketball. Great practices have to adhere to your personality in order to get your players to buy in. I have taken all the things I have observed from great coaches and shaped them into my philosophy on the game of basketball. Components I feel are essential to great practices include:
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