Individual Development Workout: 
Building Your Post Play

Reedy Basketball

Do you have a basketball? 

Do you have a basket? 

Do you have a constructive, consistent workout program?

• Work outside of practice
• Do I really want to compete at my highest level?
• There comes a time when winter asks what you have done all summer.
• Enjoy working on your game and develop work ethic and work habits.
• Player learns about himself and coach learns about player.

Teach and coach to your personality

• You can stress competition, sound fundamentals, conditioning. What do you value?
• Is isn't what you teach, but what you emphasize.

Great players eagerly accept coaching and learn

• Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.
• Distinguish between criticism and coaching.

Great players teach themselves

• See the skill correctly
• Feel the skill correctly
• Repeat the skill correctly and quickly
• Mimic the move without a ball.
• Make conditioning specific skill development...Jim Kaat, Billy Jean King, Larry Bird
• Know who you are and what your game is.

Compete with yourself

• Intelligence, intensity and ability to make without competitive for maximum improvement.
• Use your imagination during workouts.

Spacing, Angles, Momentum

• Take up space - to get angle for attacking basket
• Land closer - move should bring you closer to basket
• Put a body on first - Key for two points above
• Timing
• Leg whip
• Quickness, size and strength will determine how you play the post.

Critical parts of post play

• Low body balance base of support - wide and low - Maximum balance and optimum quickness
• Compact - see hands when posting - keep ball close to body - tight with your game - explosion from being compact
• Economy of motion - no wasted movement - 60% weight on pivot foot to eliminate travel coach can put his foot on pivot foot so player can feel travel - feel the move - less is more - simple is better.

Making Moves
1. GET OPEN

• Get work done before you catch the ball
• V-Cut - take lower, take higher, then explode
• Finally, put body on first (don't just turn around)
• Seal as close to basket as possible, try to catch with both feet in lane
• Seal the defense - Don Nelson Move (face lane, foot in crotch, leg whip)
• Move to open area - I-cut on penetration, draw and kick

2. STAY OPEN

• Seal and push step; show your numbers
• Sit on front leg of defender with push step
• Make sure the ball can see you
• Back straight, head up, weight back for knee bend and light feet. Fight front leg.
• Call for the ball
• Hold your seal - Don't chase ball

Drills for Developing Your Catching Skills

• 1. Bad pass reaction
• Catch ball with your: feet (get behind ball), eyes (look ball into your hands), hands (hand behind ball to block it).
• CHIN BALL
• Push yourself and your practice mate. Do not be afraid of making a mistake.
• 2. Back to the passer (you can score off these)
• One hand catch - learn to block the ball
• Two ball passing - odd size balls, crazy ball
• Back board slams and power, make layups clean
• Hands, Heart and Head - Keys to great post play.

3. RECEIVE SAFELY AND SCORE SIMPLY

• Step, Bounce, Hop
• Up the court
• From the elbow
• Five Clean Layups and Two Clean Free Throws
• Develop concentration early in workout

FOUR MAN'S POST MOVES

• Jump hook with strong hand
• Turn around jump shot when turning other way
• The law of diminishing returns

FIVE MAN POST MOVES

• Jump hook both ways - better angle for backboard
• Jump hook to middle in the key move

Coaching Points for Jump Hook

• Receive as deep in the paint as possible
• Make quarter turn in air as you catch to get closer to rim
• Point shoulder at the rim
• Ball off your ear
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Grooving the jump hook - 11 o'clock and 1 o'clock

• 11:00 release if right-handed
• 1:00 release if left-handed

Step, bounce, hop

• With two-inch shot fake and leg whip
• Vary your rhythm, slow down, change speeds

Score and make a transition

Find your target early

Up and Under

POST WORKOUT

• Two-Ball Dribbling
• Look under the net
• Ball Quick
• Stationary and on the move.
• Control (rhythm and non-rhythm)
• Speed (rhythm and non-rhythm)
• High-low
• Step, bounce, hop
• 5 clean layups - develop concentration early in workout
• 2 clean free throws
• Shooting Progression
• Wrist extensions
• On back without ball - elbow next to body on floor; hold a high one-second follow through
• On back with ball - with or without partner
• Swing arm to find shooting pocket
• Groove shot - with and without backboard
• Post players can raise shooting pocket some because they don't need range
• Jump hooks to middle and baseline
• Easy to work out three people
• Review of moves
• Jump hook to middle
• Some will use regular one foot hook (runner)
• Leg whip to baseline for power move
• Jump hook to baseline
• Jump hook is great in traffic
• Free throw swish
• Plus two and minus two
• You rest during free throws, no breaks
• Five in a row, putbacks count
• Make a transition
• Don't let ball hit the floor on any miss
• Go to move and counter move
• Go to the free throw line between each drill. Run a consecutive string if you win free throw swish.
• Work on all the moves but find your favorite side of lane and go to move. Build a strong counter move for your go-to move.

Be a great post player for your TEAM. 

Work hard in your workouts for your TEAM. 

Remember that great guards make a post player great by getting him the ball.

 

 

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