Archive for the 'Individual Skill Development' Category

Three Parts to Your Perimeter Game

 I wrote this as a handout for our players at Alodia Basketball Academy and thought it was worth posting on the blog as well. In your individual workouts and as you play 5 on 5, make sure that you have a plan and a series of drills to expand these three areas of your game.  [...]

Post Basketball Workouts

Sheridan College Generals Basketball A couple of Days ago, I published Coach Steve Smiley’s Perimeter workout.  Here is his post workout: Post Skill Development Workout POST WARM-UP (Approximately one minute on each of these, SIT INTO YOUR GAME) Two Ball Dribbling Sequence + Shelton Drills Dribbling and Juggling Take Infield with tennis ball (Low and [...]

Steve Nash Advice for Point Guards

Words of wisdom for point guards (presented by Steve Nash at the Nike Point Guard Academy “You should always want your coach to be critical.  It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity.” “You maximize your potential by being humble develop a work ethic, strive to be a good person, and to [...]

Validate Your Basketball Drills

During Tuesday evening’s HoopClinics webinar with Coach Bob Hurley, he gave us a lot of great information.  One of the things he said that resonated with me was the idea of validating drills.  He said that he picked it up from Coach Vance Walberg of Dribble Drive Motion fame. Consider telling your team at the [...]

Finish the Game Pressure Free Throw Shooting Drill

This drill simulates pressure free throws at the end of a game and emphasizes the damage done by missing free throws late in a close game. Run the drill at the end of practice to more closely simulate the mental and physical fatigue form the end of a game. Line up the team in the [...]


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