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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

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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