The following list is a list of what Boston Celtics assistant and world reknowned skill development coach Kevin Eastman feels are the five must haves when developing your basketball skills.

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My Elite Basketball Training workouts always focus on developing great skills while getting you in the best basketball shape possible. I want them to be warriors on the court so my workouts are always harder than the games themselves. Honestly, what good is a basketball player who can make all their jumpshots while standing around and shooting but is not in good enough condition to get open or even get up and down the court?

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When I create my basketball workouts for the players that train with me, my goal is to keep them as efficient as possible. This means incorporating as many different skills as I can into the drills used in the workout. This includes the obvious skills of dribbling, passing, and shooting but also the skill of agility which is highly important yet often overlooked.

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Acai berry has been tagged one of the superfruits of the world. It got most of its popularity from being mentioned on Oprah with Dr. Oz discussing what he felt were powerful foods everyone should be eating.

He mentioned Acai berry as a powerful antioxidant fruit and briefly mentioned that there was 1 study conducted that indicated there may be potential for it to help with weight loss.

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I have never been able to figure out why more coaches do not use the ball screen more often in their offenses. Simply put, teams and players, especially at the high school level, do not know how to defend the ball screen well. Defending the ball screen is just not an aspect of defense is not worked on all that often…The following are eight ways in which basketball players can use the ball screen effectively and get themselves or their teamates good shots throughout the course of the game.

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