Basketball Content for Intellectual Coaches, Smart Players, Informed Parents and Students of the Game.
Today we’ll finish our three article series on ideas to help prepare our players for the various double team types and locations that they’ll possibly encounter over the course of the season. Thus far we’ve covered a number of double teams that are backcourt oriented. Today we’ll discuss some common Read More
In a previous article, “Pivoting: Basketball’s ‘Stepchild’ Fundamental”, we discussed the various pivots a player has at his disposal, how to drill them and we finished with an important concept for players at every level to master-pivoting out of trouble after a used dribble. Today, we’ll expand on that and Read More
Today, we’ll add some thoughts on handling several other double teams. When we discussed Diamond Press doubles in our last article, we operated on the premise that our hypothetical double teams are very good and our ballhandler just can’t simply beat two men off the bounce (even though that obviously Read More