Great athletes seem to do little more than perfect the fundamentals.

No need to overcomplicate any game.

Basketball Yukon coach and president Tim Brady has spent the past 21 years in Whitehorse breaking down the game's complexities into communicable terms.

But like any great teacher, the Sport Yukon Hall of Famer never stops learning.

Earlier this week, Brady was one of 25 coaches nationwide to attend an Ontario-based coaching seminar held by Renato Pasquali, assistant coach with Canada's Senior Men's National Team and technical director for Canada Basketball.

"One of the things that we really worked on over the past week is slowing things down, and making sure that the skill in those areas is being applied correctly,” he said, adding that young players tend to overcomplicate the game.

"I think that as kids play, as teams play, they have a tendency to play fast – too fast.

That's one of the things that we're aware of, and we're trying to come up with systems of play that are based on these fundamentals, the footwork and the execution.”

Brady will hold shooting camps at F.H. Collins Secondary School on Dec. 29 and 30.

The camps will be split into two divisions.

The first session on day one will be for girls aged 14-17, and run from 10 a.m. to noon. The second session on the first day will be for 14-17-year-old boys, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Day two will start with a session for 10-13-year-old girls, from 10 a.m. to noon, followed by the 10-13-year-old boys at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Interested players can sign up at Sport Yukon or drop into the session, which costs $25 per player.

"Shooting is a fairly complex skill … and you develop a bunch of habits over the years simply because of how you shot the ball, correctly or incorrectly over time, you sort of develop a circuitry, or muscle memory, that at times needs to be broken

down and corrected,” Brady said.

"It's typically under taught. Shooting is something that everybody can always improve on. I think there's a method and a progression for teaching shooting.”

Brady will apply the techniques he learned during the four-day seminar with Pasquali.

"What Canada Basketball is really trying to do nationally is develop specific skills by using a similar approach to teaching those skills (shooting, passing, one-on-one),” Brady said.

"They're very much the fundamental skills. When our national team plays at high-level tournaments, those fundamentals are on display in a game situation. The reason that we want to work on those is obviously there's a belief that we can do a

better job in those areas – and we need to.”

Brady called his time in Ontario a great learning experience, one in which all the coaches put themselves in a position to be evaluated and critiqued by their peers.

Not to mention the "tremendous” athletes he got to work with: targeted athletes, primarily Grade 12 elite players who have received individualized programs and resources after demonstrating the potential to grow into special players.

Brady said a shooting seminar could benefit every player.

He's been training with a group of 15-17 year olds from September to November, and had been working on similar fundamentals.

"I got a feeling that there's a lot more kids that are out there playing basketball that would benefit from a two-day type of program. Even a couple hours going over the proper foot and hand preparation for shooting, the phases of shooting, and giving them some drills that they can use on their own.”