Yes I can give you a video of my free throws and the halfcourt trap is when I cross halfcourt.

Make sure I can see the arc in your shot? Is your shot getting better now that you are working on the arc?

I never wanted my players to dribble across half court vs that trap... we wanted to pass it across... now IF the time is running out.. we told our players to attack the gap between the defenders and look for a safe pass. The LAST thing you want to do is to dribble across and pick up your dribble.

OK, as for the half court trap... there should be a player opposite and behind you BEFORE you cross half court - bring the ball up strong and SELL the fact that you are going to dribble it across.. then stop and reverse the ball and that player should try to enter the ball to the middle or sideline (middle is the first look) once in the middle all that player has to do is to pivot and face the basket and look for both wings cutting to the basket.

You are pretty much looking at a 2 - 1- 2 set.

Once you pass (reverse the ball) you should step behind him so he can reverse it back to you IF he cant enter the ball...... 10 seconds is a long time so don't panic. You can always play defense if you get called for that.... but its hard to play D on a steal and breakaway lay up.

As for all those drills.. I think that there are videos that you can view on that site.

Here's a thought Ben...

Set up a couple of chairs / cones etc and if you can get your dad or someone to pass the ball then you can do a drill like this....

Set up away from the object ... make a good V CUT and come off the object with a good hand target..... catching the ball on your inside foot, square up and shoot - do this going both ways.

Once you get comfortable doing this... do it at game speed.

Okay, thanks.

I have a game today so I'll post the stats summary after the game.

Good luck!!

Here they are:

3-5, 2-2 on 3s and one 15 foot corner shot. I had eight points.

On the first miss I tried to take into the defenders body on a fasbreak and the guy slapped me, but they didnt call the foul so I ended up taking a wild shot, it was not pretty:(

The second miss was I was trying to make a reverse layup but I got to far under the basket and too far away.

We lost on a last second desperation 3 right over our center. 52-49.

Those are GREAT numbers Ben! You should be proud of that kind of shooting.... so you had a pretty ugly shot eh? I would have loved to see that one.

Sorry to hear that you lost but sometimes you can learn from losing just as well as winning... of course, I always liked the lessons we got from WINNING :-)

You keep up the good work, you're going to be a nice player.

Did you face the half court trap today?

I did face the halfcourt, but I wasnt the point guard I was a wing.

Do you have any advice of how to help the point guard in the trap.

Well, not being able to see the situation... did he dribble over half court? Or was it off a pass?

Never dribble into a trap situation for one... pass the ball before you get trapped... look back at what I said about reversing the ball BEFORE half court.... its a little easier because the zone will have already shifted... reversing the ball gives you some time to either attack the gaps or pass to the center. Tell your center to make himself available.. work hard to be open for a pass....

The wings have to be in a passing lane IF possible.. that way you can help the guy with the ball.

Some of my teams were very small and if teams went to trap us high... I told my players to attack the inside shoulder of the player coming to trap... get a piece of his shoulder and force the ref to make a call.

Too much information or does that help?

By the way, nice shooting from the arc Ben!! :-)

Ken

The only thing is that the refs in NJB(National Junior Basketball) never call a foul. They only call fouls if you slap the person. No body fouls unless you push out at the person.

I also forgot to mention about NJB is that there is 5 periods and each player gets to play 1 quarter each half 2 quarters the 1st half and 3 quarters the 2nd. The 5th period is like regular basketball, you can sub whenever you want. The first 4 periods are 8 min running clock and stops on shooting fouls and the 5th period it stops on fouls, violations and out of bounds.