Basketball skill development is a key component to becoming a good basketball player as is something that is worked on daily with my basketball team but also with my players that train at Elite Basketball Training. Elite Basketball Training focusses on the development of multiple skills as well as speed, quickness, agility, and strength. Two of those skills are ballhandling and finishing or shooting a jumper off the dribble. The Three Chair Attack Drill is a excellent drill to work on both of these skills
Three Chair Attack Drill
Four Line Sprint With Defensive Slide Drill
As a long time basketball coach and trainer, I have always been an advocate of incorporating movements and skills of the game into the drills that are used for conditioning. The Four Line Sprint With Defensive Slide Drill is a perfect example of that. This drill combines, sprinting with another important game movement, defensive slides. In doing so, the drill becomes more specific while including elements of conditioning, speed, and agility.
8 Ways to use the On Ball Screen
This Pick and roll is an excellent way to get an easy shot off and other than at the higher levels, mainly pro, it is underutilized. This could be a result of players not knowing the proper way to use the ball screen for the best results. This post will provide you with eight ways to use the ball screen based on the defender’s reaction.
65 Shot Drill
Shooting the basketball is a necessity in daily practices and could never understand how coaches could neglect this. Good shooting is based on repetition and if players do not keep up with this during the season, their shooting percentages will plummet. This post will give you a great shooting drill to incoroporate into your practices.
Basketball Strength Training Tips
This post answers two questions on strength training for the hamstrings and improving an athlete’s grip strength. Both the hamstrings and the forearms and hands are of great importance for many sports and often seem to be two of the most forgotten parts of the body to train. This post will give examples on how to train these parts of the body that is practical for sports as well as provide a video demonstrating an exercise for each.
