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Re:Help with Basketball Practice - 2007/07/28 19:53 Agree...any gain in "take-off foot loading" or arm/ball generated vertical momentum would be hardly worth the risk increase in ball-strip vulnerability. If you lose the ball it doesn't really matter how high you got off the floor.

At higher levels of play, a legitimate movement of the ball across the body might be for a quick ball fake to freeze the defender, but this is a deliberate and skillful action that is not without risk.

Rick Allison
LoneStar Basketball Academy
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Re:Help with Basketball Practice - 2007/08/14 21:53 Thank you for all the input. These past few weeks i've really been working hard on that drive.

Im getting there and i can't tell you how happy i am. For some reason one day i just seemed to be getting to the hole easily. I'd make a strong drive and beat the defender, then i would pull up. So as beating the defender became easier, i started to take it all the way. I'd use the runner a lot, but as i keep playing i'll get to the hole easy and have layup. Now im just working on finishing around the basket. I think that will come as i get to the hole more often. My confidence has just blown up this week. I have never improved so much these past few days. One thing that has helped a lot is getting low on the drive and drving by the defender not around him. Also i don't hesitate anymore. A defense collapses i still go without any hesitation. One guy showed me some pointers on defense and im starting to lock up the offense.

I used to have struggles breaking the press. But as my handles, vision, and court sense gets better i break it without much trouble.

Now right now my main goal is just to try work on my court vision. People call it Tunnel vision.

Thank you for all the help you guys have given these past few months. Im off to highschool in a few days and my game is at its peak. I couldn't be happier.

I made it my goal to develop a drive this summer, and it has developed tremendously.
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Re:Help with Basketball Practice - 2007/08/27 03:20 Do you have to do something specifically to develop quick handles? - andy

Andy-
The best person that I have seen to teach ball handling is Jason Otter. If you got o Jason Otter school of basketball he is amazing. i am in teh same business as he is and I can honestly say that he is the best in teaching quick handles and being a good ball handler. Check him out and let me know what you think.

Mark Crouch
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Re:Help with Basketball Practice - 2007/08/27 16:35 I've seen some of his clips and I wouldn't recommend it.

A quick handle depends on your footwork. Stationary drills may improve hand quickness and hand strength (use a weighted ball or racquetball too), but a quick handle involves coordination, footwork and more. I have slow hands and can barely do the spider drill, but people tell me I have a really quick cross over. Hand quickness is just one element on the ball handling skill.
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Re:Help with Basketball Practice - 2007/08/27 16:40 I completely agree with the footwork aspect and i believe a change in pace and direction are the most key aspects in ballhandling but having quick hands can definetly improve a ball handler. I also think that Jason Otter makes things fun and intense. I just had a client come back from his camp and he said it was the hardest thing he has done due to the intense, oganized focus.
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Re:Help with Basketball Practice - 2007/08/27 17:08 I'm just going off a couple clips of his DVD that someone sent me. However, to me, hard does not equal good. I know trainers who are "hard" and their players get worse. I know lots of "hard" coaches and their players do not improve. It is easy to be hard. It's hard to be good. Too many people confuse a hard workout with a good workout or one that will help them improve. A hard workout can be a good workout, but it is not necessarily the case.
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