How To Know What To Do???

One of the most important things for a coach and player to know is what to work on in the game of basketball. If you are a coach, you have many areas to workout including team play, individual play, conditioning, skill development and the list goes on. If you are a player, you need to become a better player. Obviously you need to learn offenses and defenses and tactics and all the rest, but if you are not a good player regarding your individual skills- forget about!

Here are some things you need to do to evaluate yourself:

1. Create a shot chart. This chart should involve shots from all areas on the court (point, wings, corners, short wing, short corner, inside the lane, and various layup shots). Now you want to give yourself roughly 3-5 days of shooting a minimum of 10-15 shots per day from all these spots. Chart how many you make. At the end of the 3-5 days look at your performance in all these areas. If you are weak in certain areas then you need to spend more time on these spots so it is no longer a weakness.

2. Dribbling chart. Create 8-10 different dribble moves that you would have to use on the court and 8-10 ball handling drills to improve your ball handling skills. Perform these drills each day for 3-5 days spending at least 1 minute on each drill. The drills that you consistently struggle with should be the ones you focus on more so they are no longer weaknesses.

3. Passing Chart. Use a partner and a wall to design passing situations from different spots on the floor (feeding the low post, wrap around passes...). Also perform passing drills where you are dribbling up court on a fast break situation. Make the passes with both the right and left hand. Also, create 8-10 passing drills where you must hit a target on the wall using both hands, right and left hands... Once again chart how you did and bring the weakness up.

4. Offensive moves. Here you will chart how well you can perform offensive moves from a triple threat position, low post area, and coming off a cut. You will want to use moves such as the jab series to the right and left, reverse pivot and face up, catching the ball off a cut using a hard swing move and driving to the hoop. Chart 8-10 different moves and once again focus on bringing up the weakness.

The reason I want you to do this over 3-5 days is because you want to see consistent results. You could have a good or bad shooting day but over 3-5 days the truth will shine through.

Once you have charted all these skills get to work on creating a workout plan where you can increase these skills.

Love to hear your feedback!

Play Hard,

Lee

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