Rookie to Elite: Basketball Skills & Drills To Improve Your Game

By Willie Gooding

This book is designed for people who want to raise their game to the next level. With this book you will learn many different skills, strategies, and drills to help you personally evolve your basketball IQ, skill set, and understanding of the game.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781105443091

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Contents

Chapter 1: WARMING UP & STRETCHING

Knee-to-Chest Exercise

Guidelines

Quads Stretches

Quadriceps Stretching

Standing Quad Stretching

Side-Lying Quad Stretching

Prone Quadriceps Stretching

Hurdler Stretches

Modified Hurdler Stretch

Hurdler Hamstring Stretch

Touching the Toe

Guidelines

Legs Straddle

Guidelines

Chapter 2: DRILLS, PLAYS & STRATEGIES

What are drills?

Kinds of Drills and their uses

Instructions for Performing:

Instructing Points:

Loose Ball Drill

What are Plays?

Kinds and Uses of Plays

UNI Play

Cutters

Overload

Rolling

Shallow

What are Strategies?

Basketball Defensive Strategy

Offensive Basketball Strategy

Chapter 3: COORDINATION DRILL

Circling the ball around the waist

Ankles

Waist

Around the Head

Around the world

Circling the ball around the leg

Around Legs

Around Right Leg

Around Left Leg

Double Leg, Single Leg

Throwing the ball in the air and catching

Throwing the ball in the air, clapping, then catching

Jog runs by sprint

The Basics

Rules

Slingshots

Line runs and gassers

Gassers

Tips

Chapter 4: CONDITIONING DRILL

Relay races

Catching the Tiger's tail

Tiger Tales

Coaching Points:

Movements:

Stuck in the mud drill

Readiness

Clarification

Movement

Coaching Points

What Coach Says

Chapter 5: DRILLS FOR DRIBBLING

Right Left Drill

Dribble around cones

Dribble around the defender’s drills

4 On 3 Overload Drill

Set-Up:

Guidelines:

Marks of Emphasis:

Coaching Tips

No Paint Defense Drill

Set-Up:

Guidelines:

Varieties:

One to one dribble

Coaching Points

Basketball Drill Instructions

Three player's weave drill

Following the leaders

Directions

Marks of Emphasis:

Inspiration/Teaching Tips:

Chapter 6: PASSING DRILLS

Swing Passing

How the Drill Works:

Reason:

Guidelines:

Varieties:

Coaching Points:

Monkey in the middle drill

How the Drill Works:

Reason:

Arrangement:

Directions:

Varieties:

Coaching Points:

Fast break passing drill

Beat the Trap

Guidelines

Places of Emphasis:

Four Stop Shooting Drill

Guidelines

Touching down passing drill

Instructions

Moving the stick pass drill

Shuffle passing relay

Instant backward and forward passing drill

Directions

Inspiration Tips:

Triangular passing and receiving

Drill Setup

How it Works

Coaching Tips

Chapter 7: DRILLS FOR SHOOTING

Jump shot

How does the jump shoot work?

The Starting Position

Jumping

The Landing

Regular Mistakes

Dribbling down and Shoot drill

10 Basket team drill

Number 1 – Cutthroat

Number 2 - Curl, Fade, Cutting

Number 3 - Two-Ball Dribble

Number 4 - Full Speed Shoot

Number 5 - Post Crab Dribbling Moves

Number 6 - Two Ball Pass

Number 7 - Full Speed Dribble

Number 8 - Defensive Lane Slide

Number 9 - Mikan/Reverse

Number 10 - Muscle Memory Shoot

3 to 3 shooting drill

Coaching Points

Basketball Drill Instructions

Low post-shoot drill

Coaching Points

Basketball Drill Instructions

Heading fake and go drill

Elephant, horse, and pig drill

Chapter 8: DRILLS FOR DEFENSE

Defensive shuffle

Description:

Directions:

Number of Players:

Tips:

Varieties:

Abilities:

Trapping drill

Circle Trap Drill

The Drill:

Mirroring drill

Coaching Points

Basketball Drill Instructions

1 to 1 Defense

Defense

Defensive Stance

Ready Defense

Guarding One Pass Away from the Ball

Shielding Two or More Passes Away from the Ball

2 to 2 Deny Defense.

Qualities of the 2-1-2 Zone Defense

Shortcomings of the 2-1-2 Zone Defense

Collaboration.

Troublesome Decision Making

Who should utilize the 2-1-2 Zone Defense?

Chapter 9: DRILLS FOR REBOUNDING

Rack Up Rebound Drill

How the Drill Works:

Reason:

Arrangement:

Guidelines:

Varieties:

Coaching Points:

Closeout Box out Drill

Directions

Marks of Emphasis

Inspiration/Teaching Tip

Finding and seeking drill

Seesaw Rebound

How the Drill Works:

Reason:

Arrangement:

Directions:

Varieties:

Coaching Points:

1 to 1 Drill

Box-Out Circle Drilling

Arrangement:

The Drill:

Chapter 10: PICK SETTING DRILL

Basic Pick drill

Pick and roll drill.

Drill No. 1

Drill No. 2

Drill No. 3

Pick and Roll Defense Drill

1. Split the Defenders

2. Assault the Hip

3. Turn Down the Screen

4. Back Out

5. Shoot the Basketball

Types of Pick and Roll Drill

Celeb experts

Chapter 11: DRILLS FOR INBOUNDING

About Inbounding drill

Outlet Pass:

Outlet Pass Following a Full-Court Lay-up:

V-Cut Pass:

Persistent V-Cut:

Stack:

Double Stack:

Tricks and tactics

Discernment Action Coupling and the Inbound Passer

Celeb Experts

Chapter 12: Outlet Drills

About Fast Break Outlet Drill

Running the drill

Proceeding with the drill

Rebound Outlet and Lay Up

Drill Purpose

Directions:

Educating Tips:

Varieties:

Tricks and tactics

Teach Rebounders

Outlet and Chase Drill

Point of Emphasis.

Drop Step Drill

Instructions to Drop Step towards the Middle

Tips:

Progressed Variations:

Drop Step Countering

Instructions to Drop Step Towards the Baseline, Inside Pivot, Jump Shot

Tips:

Accomplice Shooting - Change Location of Passer

Shooting Drills By Yourself - Spin Outs

Utilizing Chairs - For Cuts Where Spin Outs Don't Work

Utilizing Chairs With a Helper

Chapter 13: OFFENSIVE STRATEGIES

Motion Offense

Experts of Motion Offense:

Cons of Motion Offense:

The Pick and Roll

Triangle Offense

What is the Triangle Offense?

Where Did the Triangle Offense Originate?

The outcome?

Benefits of the Triangle Offense

Disservices of the Triangle Offense

Who Should Run the Triangle Offense?

Triangle Offense Positions

Princeton Offense

Who Should Run the Princeton Offense?

Princeton Offense Team Requirements

Strengths

Weaknesses

1. Low Post Series

2. Point Series

Conclusion

Chapter 14: DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES

Man-to-man Defense

Zonal Defense

Hybrid Defense

Full Court Press

Half Court Press

Chapter 15: TACTICS IN BASKETBALL

Court

Paint

Position

The Center

The Guard

The Forward

Scoring

Timing

Tip-off

Chapter 1: WARMING UP & STRETCHING

Basketball trainers are in a consistent inquiry to track down the best techniques for improving athletic execution for their players. Given the circumstances, a more significant, quicker, more grounded, more adapted player will overwhelm on the court with all else equivalent. This prompts the inquiry: What is the ideal approach to set up a basketball player genuinely and intellectually for rivalry? It has been acknowledged as the standard to do a light warm-up followed by some static stretching for a long time. You can practically go anyplace on the planet, from secondary school to expert, and see most practices start with taking a couple of laps around the rec center and doing some light stretching. This sort of warm-up has been around for such a long time and is instilled in pretty much every coach’s head, as to infer it is the best way to prepare to play. A functioning or dynamic warm-up is a superior method to plan for actual work. And this idea is unquestionably not new. Olympic-style sports coaches have utilized it for quite a long time. A thorough dynamic warm-up does not take any additional time than the more traditional technique for stretching and is significantly more powerful.

The hypothesis of an overall cardiovascular warm-up for 5-10 minutes (or until light perspiration has been broken) is one I concur with. I accept a comprehensive introduction of this nature raises the body's center temperature enough to make the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and joint constructions more flexible and securely start the readiness interaction for the exercise ahead. This segment of the warm-up can be refined severally. Preferably, you can have your players gone through drills that include jogging, backpedaling, and defensive sliding to ensure they address a similar muscle team utilized when playing. They can likewise bounce rope or perform distinctive footwork designs in a speed-stepping stool. I value the bounce rope as a type of warm-up because it also warms up the upper body and doesn't take a lot of room. There is a few diverse footwork penetrates and designs you can use to remain mentally invigorated. Another advantage of this underlying warm-up is to set up the brain for the exercise ahead. It is a period for every player to center, focus, and intellectually get ready, and an opportunity to leave every single external interruption (stressors, for example, schoolwork, relationship issues, and so on) at the entryway. As a coach, it is essential to ensure your team's underlying cardiovascular warm-up is not kidding and free from messing about.

Knee-to-Chest Exercise

For any time you feel like you, by one way or another, come up short when you endeavor a low back stretch—even though you realize those muscles are tight and you bend over backward to deliver them—you are in good company. For large numbers of us, stretching the hip, neck, calf, and different muscles is a beautiful, precise arrangement. For your wellbeing, begin doing the knees-to-chest stretch with one leg as it were. On the off chance that, after a couple of days, you're performing it without torment, it's probably an ideal opportunity to progress to lifting the two legs, If you are uncertain whether a twofold or single-legged knees-to-chest stretch is protected given your specific back condition, talk with your medical services supplier.

Guidelines

1.      Lie down on back with the knees twisted and your feet level on the floor. This is known as the prone position.

2.      Delicately raise one bowed knee enough so you can get a handle on your lower leg with two hands. Entwine your fingers simply under the knee.

3.      On off chance which you are doing the two-legged rendition, bring one advantage and the other. Since taking both up, simultaneously takes a great deal of abdominal strength, beginning with one and then rapidly following with the other is likely more secure, particularly for weak backs.

4.      Likewise, with the single-legged variant, if you are taking both up simultaneously, join your fingers or catch your wrists between the lower legs, just underneath the knees.

5.      Tenderly force your twisted knee or knees toward your trunk, utilizing your hands.

6.      While you are pulling, attempt to loosen up your legs, pelvis, and low back however much you can. The knees-to-chest better arrives at low back muscles when utilized latently.

7.      Hold for a couple of moments.

8.      Return your leg to the floor.

9.      Repeat on the opposite side.

Do the stretch around 10 to multiple times, a couple of times each day, or on a case by case basis.

Quads Stretches

Quadriceps Stretching

A stretching plan for your quads is an extraordinary method to improve adaptability in this muscle team. Your actual advisor can survey your condition and offer you techniques to stretch your quads.

Here is a bit-by-bit quad stretching movement like one that your PT may endorse. Before attempting this—or some other exercise program—registration with your PCP to guarantee that the activity is ok for you to do.

Standing Quad Stretching

Your stretches might be somewhat more agreeable on the off chance you warm up a piece before stretching. A couple of moments of strolling or trekking can get your quad muscles warm so they can pull somewhat simpler.

Here is how you do it:

1.      While standing, clutch a ledge or seatback to aid balance.

2.      Twist your knee back by getting a handle on your lower leg with one hand.

3.      Help with twisting your knee back quite far.

4.      Keep up the situation for 30 seconds.

5.      Get back to a standing position.

6.      Repeat practice 3 to multiple times with every leg.

Make sure to stop the stretch if you feel any sharp torments. See your actual advisor be particular you are playing out the space appropriately.

Side-Lying Quad Stretching

The side-lying quad stretch is an excellent method to get a decent stretch to your quads. Lying on a floor in a supported position can help you center around the stretch in your courts. Here is how you do the side-lying quad stretch:

1.      Lie on your side.

2.      Curve the knee of your top leg to the extent you are capable.

3.      Keep up the situation for 30 seconds.

4.      Get back to the beginning position.

5.      Repeat practice 3 to 5 different occasions with every leg.

Prone Quadriceps Stretching

You can stretch your quads while lying on your stomach too. In this position, the floor assists with settling your pelvis, limiting shaking, and boosting stretch. Here is how you do the flat quadriceps stretch:

1.      Lie on your stomach.

2.      Curve your knee back to the extent that you are capable. Get your lower leg to pull your knee towards your butt.

3.      Keep up the situation for 30 seconds.

4.      Get back to the beginning position.

5.      Repeat practice 3 to 5 different occasions with every leg.

In any case, investing energy stretching your