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 be the best teammate you can be.”
“Use your scoring ability to be a better passer, and your passing skills to become a better scorer.”
“You can’t be a point guard who gets into the lane and always passes. Capitalize on the real estate you have gained.”
“Point Guard must be able to pass with both hands equally off the dribble.”
‘”I am always thinking how can I get myself better.”
“On the fast break, after 2 or 3 hard dribbles you should see the whole floor and know where all your teammates are.”
These ideas from Steve Nash were sent to me by Coach Eric Musselman
The video below was contributed by Mason Waters. Mason is a college student and aspiring basketball coach.
The video is 11 minutes long. I know that most guards will not be able to make all of the moves, but I hope you can find an idea or two that will help your guards play better.
Please make sure that your sound is on.
Good stuff
but what if you struggle on
becoming a score because
your always trying to pass ?
The pass 1st mentality seems to be
disturbing my offensive flow
for shooting
I wrote this first after listening to Steve at the Nike Academy. I believe you should give our website the proper credit.
http://www.basketballsbest.com
Glenn Wilkes
This is to Jeff Menzi:
Jeff: A point guards main responsibility is to get the offence going and distribute the ball to players in the best scoring position. Your comment sounds a little selfish for a point guard. If you understand what Steve is saying, use your scoring to bcome a better passer. If you can score, that means the defence has to concentrate on that ability leaving teamates open for opportunities and contrary to that, if you are a great passer, then that ability will set up your scoring opportunities.
One thing that is important to add is that the point guard not only needs to know where her teammates are in two or three dribbles, but where the defenders are. Numbers are critical. Point guard needs to know whether to attack or not. It is a myth that teams that push the ball down the floor are expected to have more turnovers. They will have more turnovers ONLY if they lack discipline and discernment. It makes no sense to hurry down the floor just to turn the ball over or throw up a bad shot during the normal course of the game. Our goal is to force our opponent to sprint the floor. If they do that, then we run secondary break and get into our offense. If they fail to do that, we will score lay-ups. Nowhere in our goals does it say, “Hurry up and turn the ball over or take the first shot we get no matter how bad it is.” We can get bad shots all night. Our opponent will give us those. “Think numbers” is what we tell our team.