getting ready for next season

WTG!! Have some patience - are you getting the backspin now?

Just keep working at this... and as you get comfortable with this shot - you can work your way out a little more. REMEMBER ... you have to make five in a row before you can mover further out.

Good luck and keep after it.

yah, thanks

on youtube, xtremebasketball presesnts signature moves;Chris Paull what its called, has like 19 videos posted up all showing different moves. the person that teaches knows what he is doing and teaches them in a very good way.

Its something to worth check out, and if you do, what do you think of it?

OK, I got to watch one of those and it seems like he is doing a good job of explaining how to do various moves.... learn one before you move on to the next one... do it slowly at first until you have it mastered... then increase the speed until you can to it at game speed.

Then add another one.

how much time should i spend on one, until i master it or certain time limit?

Until you know what you are doing... and can do it easily..... master it - I guess so.... remember, we can always improve upon things we do in our lives.

Coach Sar wrote:we can always improve upon things we do in our lives.

that's one good quote

thanks

You're welcome... that on comes from me.

man its so fun watching Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire doing the pick and roll. That's probably the best combination I've ever seen in my life, they do it so successfully

There are some very special players in the NBA.... they are two of them.

when doing a stationary dribbling workout for the first 5 minutes... pretend I'm doing figure pounds, then figure 8's then something else after it
When I'm arms get tired and i start to move the ball very slowly should i stop and rest and then start from where i left off
or should i just keep going?

This is what i do now:-
5 min:- Stationary 1 ball or 2 balls drills, no moves
5 min:- 1,2 (do like a crossover and then through legs, pause a second or two and then another combination, etc; as many different combination's i can as fast as i can)
should i do one day 2 move combinations and next day 3 move combinations
5 min:- Freestyle ( take a break and rest when i get tired and start again)

It's ok to take a short break between drills.... and as you gain more strength you will be able to go longer... keep working at it until you you can go longer. Set a goal for yourself... something you can achieve at first and slowly but surely make it more difficult.

Let us know how it goes.

now i realize why i had a problem setting a goal, in every other aspect its okay, like shooting, but for
ball handling, i got no clue what kind of goal to set, that's why i fail to practice my ball handling properly
thanks for reminding me

No problem... set your goals and then set them higher as soon as you achieve the original ones. Good luck

about that...i don't know what kind of goal to set for ball handling
lol

Write down every ball handling drill that you do - then you need to set a baseline... meaning... how much can you do in 20- 30 seconds ..... That is where you start.... then as you attain those numbers you increase your goal. It will then become about speed, how fast you can do something and do it WELL.

Hi Ekam,

I've been following your posts on here and fortunately, I can remember being in your shoes. I hope to give you some insight, so you can learn from my training mistakes as a high school player.

When I was in high school, I tried to master every move, every combo move, every triple move. I litereally had a list of 24 combo moves that I would TRY to go through. You know what happened? I was mediocre at best for all of them. I was trying to do too much and never got really good at any of the moves. Coaches and players often fall into this trap where they try to get good everything. There is not enough time in the day. So they end up being okay at everything.

If I could do it all over again, I would pick one dribble move & a counter move. Maybe it's your favorite move, maybe it's your best move. Practice the two moves in different situations over and over and over, so you perfect it. For example, if you have a crossover move that is pretty good. Practice that move over and over until it is unguardable. You could add a inside-out dribble or hesitation move as a counter to the crossover. That way, you can keep the defender on his toes.

Maybe your main move is a hesitation move and you use a crossover or behind-the-back move to counter it.

It's way better to have one or two moves that are unguardable than a hundred moves that are guardable.

Maybe after practicing these two moves all summer, you'll be ready to add another move next summer. Michael Jordan would come into the offseason every year and pick something he wanted to improve on. He wouldn't try to improve at 20 different things. We all know what kind of player that he became.

thanks guys that helped a lot
I'm gonna work on my crossover first

ok so now my jump shots feel natural and comfortable, my brother says when i shoot a jump shot, i jump very low, and got to my head little bit
but i should probably ignore him... im ready to add shooting drills now and work game speed

Unless he is a GREAT shooter, I would worry about yourself. You are not exactly Michael Jordon
(neither was I)

I never worried about how high I jumped... I was concerned about the ball going in and when it wasn't, what was I doing wrong. Add your shooting drills... get comfortable with them - to the point that you don't have to think about it... and then get after it at game speed.