I went back through all of the posts that I've made so far to this blog (950 if you can believe it) and I didn't find one that talked about stance, specifically defensive stance. Hard to believe I've missed talking about something so fundamental. Anyways, I was watching our Varsity coach the other day working [...]
July 4th, 2011 | Posted in Basketball | Comments Off
I promise, this will be my last post on shooting for a while. It's the end of the school year and I was sitting in the gym and watching a coaching friend running practices with his club team getting ready to go down to Seattle next week for a summer tournament. He was doing some [...]
June 30th, 2011 | Posted in Basketball | Comments Off
We here it all the time, coaches that will say "that shot is out of your range, shoot within your range." The problem is, most players haven't the slightest clue what their shooting range is. They think that just because their shots can hit the rim, then that is their range. Most people agree on [...]
June 26th, 2011 | Posted in Basketball | Comments Off
I think we would all agree that players need both a stride step (also known as a 1-2 step) and a jump stop (also known as a hop step) to get into your shot depending on the situation. For example, for any catch and shoot, you want to use a jump stop. Coming off a [...]
June 20th, 2011 | Posted in Basketball | Comments Off
Well, I kept putting it off and putting it off, but with so much going on with teaching and coaching, I really didn't have time until this past weekend to get all my stuff back online. I took at a few different options, but ended up going with Google Docs because it was the easiest [...]
June 15th, 2011 | Posted in Basketball | Comments Off