As players become better at their change of direction moves, it is important to keep challenging them so that their moves can become quicker and more game ready. The 12 cone ballhandling drill does just that. By randomly placing 12 cones inside the lane, you create tighter spaces through which the ballhandler must navigate through while making their moves. These tight spaces force the player to make their moves. It also requires them to work on their footwork in order to be able to change directions quickly.
The 12 Cone Ballhandling Drill is usually done for a specific period of time (ex. 30 seconds) with each move. The players can and should incorporate all their change of directions moves into the drill. As the player gets more advanced, they should also use double change of directions moves in order to make the drill more challenging. While doing this drill, it is important to make sure that the player is moving quickly fom cone to cone, staying low with their body and the dribble throughout the entire segment of the drill, and moving past each cone explosively as if to simulate beating a defender. Ultimately, this is a great drill for guards to build up their guard skills, but it can and should be used by all players looking to develop better ballhandling skills.
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In April of this year, Elite Basketball Training expanded to include what I feel is the best one-on-one recruiting service in the entire country, The Highlight Reel, Inc. The Highlight Reel has been a successful national recruiting service for the past four years helping high school student athletes realize their dreams of playing college sports and getting an average of 65% of their college tuition paid for. Now, as the owner of The Highlight Reel – Central Jersey I will be getting the opportunity to do the same by helping student athletes utilize their talents as a way to further their education and earn a degree. For more information on what we do at The Highlight Reel and how we separate ourselves from the competition by being more than just a recruiting service, please visit www.sportshlr.com (our corporate site) and/or www.thrcentraljersey.info (my site). In the meantime, here are some simple tips that you can use to get started on the college recruiting process.
Decide what level you can play at. (Division 1, 2, 3, etc.)
Decide where you want to go geogaphically.
Decide what schools are a good academic fit. Do they have the programs that you are looking for. Remember, the goal is to use your talents to obtain an education and degree.
Decide what size school is best for you.
These tips are used with every client of The Highlight Reel as part of our College Advisory Package in order to generate a list of schools that we will then send your information (which appears on a password protected site) to. Hopefully, this has been helpful for you and keep your eyes open for more college recruiting tips in the coming months, courtesy of The Highlight Reel – Central Jersey.
About two weeks ago, I was at an AAU event promoting my new recruiting service for high school student athletes called The Highlight Reel and I was able to catch a few of the basketball games. Although the skill level was high and the games were exciting, I could not help but notice that something was glaringly absent from every player’s game…the back-dribble. On countless occasions I saw the guards sprint the basketball up the court (usually the sideline) with a defender chasing on their inside hip. Instead of changing pace and directions, the players would continue toward the rim and shoot a contested shot. This begs the question, what ever happened to the back-dribble? In many of these situations, the guard would have done well to use their back-dribble to change pace thereby creating space between themselves and the defender. This would have caused the defender to then be off balance and allowed the ball-handler to change directions, attack the rim, and most likely get a better shot at the basket or perhaps an assist. It is hard to say why the back-dribble has seemed to disappear (this event was not the only time I had witnessed this) but I left that tournament thinking that it was something that needed to be incoroporated into many of my Elite Basketball Training workouts. One thought is that the player is uncomfortable changing speeds and directions and it is simply easier to push the ball ahead and try to outrun their defender. Another possibility is that the player has a weak opposite hand and does not want to back-dribble and change directions for fear of having to use that hand. Either way, the back-dribble is all but lost and needs to make a reappearance. Below is a simple drill that will allow you to practice using your back-dribble to change speeds and directions.
