Category: Skills and Techniques
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How to Improve Your Basketball Passing Skills
Basketball is more than just a game; it’s about teamwork, strategy, and, most importantly, passing. Good passing can make or break a play, and mastering it can elevate your game significantly. This blog aims to explain the importance of good passing in basketball and provide players with drills and techniques to improve their passing accuracy…
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The Core Basketball Fundamentals
Remember the old school Gatorade commercials about MJ, where kids sang “I wanna be like Mike!”. Maybe not, but the same mindset still remains true where young basketball players are trying to emulate stars like Lebron James, Russell Westbrook and James Harden without gaining the fundamentals first. They want to do fade-away Jumpshots, step-back threes,…
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How to Dribble a Basketball
Who doesn’t want to have handles like Kyrie Irving, Chris Paul or Steph Curry? We all do right? The way to get there is by starting off with the basics and perfecting the fundamentals. Before these guys were dribbling between 3 defenders and throwing the alley-oop, they were doing the same drills I am going…
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How to Improve your Basketball IQ
Basketball Intelligence is measured by the way you play the game of basketball and how well you can anticipate what will happen based on your prior knowledge. The best players on the court often have the highest Basketball IQ. If you take a look at college basketball, nearly every player can pass, dribble and shoot.…
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How to Pass a Basketball
There is nothing more gratifying than making a great pass to a teammate that leads to a bucket and the crowd goes crazy. Okay, I may be a bit bias a point guard but it still is a great feeling. I wish more players took pride in being a great passer but that discussion is…
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Basketball Training | 10 Ways to Improve Your Game
Basketball Training: 10 Ways To Improve Your Game Basketball, like any other sport or musical instrument for that matter, is a progression of skill that is achieved through two primary elements: time and effort. There is no shortcut around skill development, regardless of natural ability–which can help a great deal, but drilling and practice are still…
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Coaching Youth Basketball Rebounding – It’s all About Desire
Every coach wants to be able to coach a team at a championship level each season… but you will never do this consistently if you are not teaching your team to rebound like the champions that you know that they can be. When on the defensive side of the court, having the ability to secure…
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3 Keys to Playing Offense Fast
Coaching youth basketball is just as important as coaching in the NBA. Whether for junior high school or high school varsity teams, coaches are committed to excellence in helping players excel on the court. Clubs also learn vital life skills from coaches, as well as fostering team unity and competitive — but fair — play…
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Youth Basketball Tips 3 Ways to Improve Your Shot
Many times players believe that they need to dramatically change their shooting form and spend a ton of time improving to completely rebuild their shot. While in some cases, this may be the best course of action, in other cases, implementing a few small changes in certain areas of emphasis could make all the difference…
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Reducing Turnovers: Ball-Handling and Passing
Reading the sports page during basketball season, you will typically run across more than a few headlines like “Tech Turnovers Cost Game” and “Turnovers Costly for Badgers.” In addition, when TV analysts break-down games, they always speak on turnovers… but also “points off turnovers.” Meanwhile, point guards are judged on their “assists to turnover ratio.”…