Does conditioning and whatever fall under the practice time rules?
If coaches are present, yes. But it's pretty standard for players to have things to work on without the staff present, strength and conditioning staff, trainers, managers, and the players themselves can all supervise conditioning.
Mixed Nutz, two things.
1. Injuries occur more often to players and teams not well conditioned, injury management is best handled by a fit squad. It's basketball, conditioning is absolutely the issue.
2. You seem to infer that we should be training to prevent injuries; without getting into a philosophical conversation, there is only so much you can do to prevent injuries in a contact sport. Injuries in contact sports is often a matter of luck I have no idea how you train for injury prevention but that seems like a waste of time. Just get your team as fit as possible to play 40 minutes twice a week for 5 months.
