(Untitled)- February 26, 2006 Basketball Defense On The Ball Defense: One of the most important defensive concepts is the theory of keeping your body between your man and the basket. Your defensive positioning should always be between the ball and the man you are guarding. Be within an arms reach of your man, so you can put pressure on the ball. Focus on his belly button...where it goes, he will go. You can be faked out byhttp://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/basketball-defense-on-ball-defense-one.html (Untitled)- February 26, 2006 Basketball Measurements A Numbers Game: Good question! A standard basketball court is 94 feet long, although many high school and college courts are 84 feet. In both cases, the court is 50 feet wide. And, a few more measurements for your information include: a backboard is 6 feet wide and 3.5 feet tall. The rim is 18 inches in diameter, and the top of the rim should be exactly 10 feet off thehttp://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/basketball-measurements-numbers-game.html (Untitled)- February 26, 2006 Basketball Conditioning Four Squares: Find a place on the floor where two line intersect. These create four areas that are numbered one through four. Jump 1-2-3-4, then 4-3-2-1. Count the number of times you return to square 1 in thirty seconds. Try to better yourself every day. Intense practices: During the season it is best to do a majority of your conditioning within the body of thehttp://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/basketball-conditioning-four-squares.html (Untitled)- February 24, 2006 Basketball: Ball Handling Figure 8 Dribbling: This is a drill to practice your ballhandling. Dribble the ball as quickly as possible in a figure 8 through and around the legs. Use the fingers when you dribble, and dribble very low and quickly. Switch from the right to the left and back to the right. Example: start with the right hand dribbling the ball in front and then dribble through yourhttp://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/basketball-ball-handling-figure-8.html (Untitled)- February 23, 2006 Basketball Rebounding Every missed shot is a pass to you! Perhaps the most important key to being a good rebounder, offensive or defensive, is to assume that every shot will be missed. If you do this, you will always be willing to get in position, ready to be a rebounder. Boxing Out & Rebound If you are real close to the basket when the shot goes up, you must "box out" and create some space tohttp://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/basketball-rebounding-every-missed.html (Untitled)- February 23, 2006 Basketball A WALL - A GREAT PLACE TO DEVELOP A SHOT MOTION A great way to practice and learn the above stuff, especially the first two, is to work against a wall. Stand just 5-6 feet from the wall and start first with no leg power. Shoot upward, with the goal of having the ball glance the wall on the way down, rather than at the top of the arch or on the way up. Without the distraction of ahttp://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/basketball-wall-great-place-to-develop.html (Untitled)- February 23, 2006 (3) Basketball: IS THE FOLLOW THROUGH CONNECTED TO THE BASKET One last thing you can point to that could make a big difference quickly is what happens in the Follow Through. The Release and Follow Through are the major determiners of shot direction. If these actions are in line with and connected to the target, accuracy will be high. If theyre unstable, then accuracy will be inconsistent.http://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/3-basketball-is-follow-through.html (Untitled)- February 23, 2006 (2) Basketball: IS THE RELEASE REPEATABLE, OR IT IS FULL OF VARIABLES Watch the Release action, how the arm, wrist and hand work to propel the ball to the basket. See you can tell (and ask the players to observe) if the motion has a lot of variables to it, or is it pretty consistent The way to tell is to watch how the arm and hand end up in the Follow Through. If the arm stays straight towardhttp://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/2-basketball-is-release-repeatable-or.html (Untitled)- February 23, 2006 1) WHERE DOES POWER COME FROM ARE THE SHOTS FLAT Is it more from the UPPER BODY, or is it from the WHOLE BODY, lower and upper working in unison The height of the shots will be an indicator of what the source of power is. Upper Body shooting tends to be flat and hot, with variables in the arm, wrist and hand action that are hard to predict and control. Whole Body shooting is generally higherhttp://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/1-where-does-power-come-from-are-shots.html (Untitled)- February 23, 2006 Improve Your Shooting Repetition is the key to improving your shooting. There are many basketball shooting videos out there to help you with technique. But no basketball video can make you go outside and shoot 1,000 shots a day. If you need help with your technique, find a shooting video that can instruct you on how to fine-tune your shot. After honing your technique, get a ball and a hoop andhttp://basketball4lyfe.blogspot.com/2006/02/improve-your-shooting-repetition-is.html |