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Concepts Shooting is Repetition The difference between a good shooter and a great shooter is about 30,000 shots in the summer. Dick Motta This repetition is even more important than the fundamentals. There have been great shooters who have glaring flaws in their fundamentals. The consistency of the repetition, however, overcame the poor fundamentals...
You will often find your team going up against another team who has a deadly accurate shooter. He may not only be accurate, but he may understand how to move without the basketball, how to read the defense, and how to catch in a position to shoot quickly. A good shooter can be difficult to...
Rebounding is an essential part of winning basketball games. I wont say its overlooked, but I think many coaches dont emphasize the importance enough. Games are won and lost in a variety of ways but if your team consistently loses the rebounding battle, you will find yourself on the losing end more frequently. Rebounding is...
At all levels of basketball there is a fine line between shooting ability. There are great, good, average, and awful shooters yet most all of these think they are in the good category at a minimum. In my 34 years of coaching Ive worked with all types of shooters and scorers. As a graduate assistant...
Individual defensive techniques are very important in your overall defensive scheme. These ideas and tactics should be emphasized with your players as you teach one-on-one skills within your overall team defense. We know the importance of helpside defense and how a good team defense can utterly disrupt an opponent, however, each individual defender must also...
Effective communication is critical in building a great basketball program and it begins from the ground up! Young players MUST learn how to communicate; whether it is with their parents, teachers, siblings, coaches or teammates. Communication is the glue that holds most relationships and teams together. When I first started coaching, I found myself at...
Players like Chris Paul, Kobe Bryant, and Derrick Rose have the uncanny ability to beat defenders off the dribble. They are great athletes, but they are also very skilled at ball handling and having good footwork. Below I have 5 tips on how to make a dribble move to beat someone off the dribble. Stay...
We love to play up-tempo basketball. Our style of play is to run and attack! We push the ball up the court at every opportunity. As we push the ball up the court, we look to score primary break to secondary break, secondary break to one of our set offenses. Our primary goal on...
Every basketball player has a weakness. Yes, even the great players have a weakness or at least something they are not as good at in comparison to what are their obvious strengths. To find these individual weaknesses, it does take careful observation. A smart coach and intelligent player will detect these weaknesses and adapt...
Coach Jack Ramsay was a proponent of playing pressure defense. He believed that applying pressure would force offensive teams into difficult situations. What follows arehis set of 10 Principles of Defensive Team Play developed and adopted to best incorporate pressure defense into game strategy. Maintain a defensive stance, knees flexed, head up; foot nearer vertical...