Using 3 on 3 to Develop Your Team’s Offense

Three on three basketball can and should be used to develop your team’s offense because the games can be altered in many ways in order to fit your offensively philosophy. At yesterday’s practice, we worked on multiple variations of three on three basketball in order to help develop our team offense and defense (which will be covered in the next post). Each game was to one point and the loser would rotate off while the winner stayed and played the next team.

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The Keys to Effective Transition Defense

Transition defense is an incredibly important aspect of defense in basketball, but it is also the most overlooked. Basketball coaches almost take for granted that their players will simply get back on defense and prevent their opposition from scoring. However, this is not always the case and there is a significant amount of strategy and technique that goes into how transition defense should be played.

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The 6 Keys of Basketball Skill Development

Kevin Eastman is widely regarded as one of the best in the world at individual skill development, so in order for me to better the Elite Basketball Training brand I felt that it was necessary for me to attend. During Kevin Eastman’s presentation on skill development, he discussed what he considered to be the six keys to basketball skill development.

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