Full Description
Before you can make that winning buzzer beater, you need to master fundamental skills in all phases of the game. The fourth edition of the best-selling instructional resource Basketball Skills & Drills provides the perfect blueprint for building the foundation that all well-rounded players and championship teams need.
With complete coverage of individual skills and team play, you'll find 103 developmental drills covering everything from stance and footwork to scoring plays and transitions. Enhanced with an online video library featuring 42 clips demonstrating the drills in action, you'll have the optimal guide for mastering these fundamental skills:
• Player positioning
• Footwork
• Moving without the ball
• Ballhandling and court vision
• Shooting
• Perimeter moves
• Post moves
• Rebounding
• Team offense
• Team defense
Recognizing that individual skills are effective only when used within the team concept, the book also covers team principles for both ends of the court. Tactics for offense, including special situations for out-of-bounds plays, will improve spacing, ball and player movement, shot selection, and scoring. Defensive tactics emphasize positioning, pressure, and various systems to apply in each zone of the court.
At all levels of basketball, success comes with mastery of the basic skills. Basketball Skills & Drills is your best-selling guide to becoming that dominant force on the court.
Contents
Chapter 1. Body Control and Fundamental Footwork
Quick Stance
Quick Starts, Steps, Turns, and Stops
Quick Jumps
Basic Body-Control Drills
Chapter 2. Advanced Body Control
Concepts of Moving Without the Ball on Offense
Basic Moves or Steps Without the Ball
Screen Moves
Drills for Moving Without the Ball
Chapter 3. Ballhandling
Passing and Catching
Principles of Passing and Catching
Types of Passes
Catching Principles
Communication of Passing and Catching
Dribbling
Basic Ballhandling Drills
Chapter 4. Shooting
Field-Goal Shooting
Shooting Mechanics
Other Types of Shots
Free-Throw Shooting
Shooting Drills
Chapter 5. Outside Offensive Moves: Playing the Perimeter
Fundamentals of Live-Ball Moves
Fundamentals of Dead-Ball Moves
Perimeter-Play Drills
Chapter 6. Inside Offensive Moves: Playing the Post
Post-Play Fundamentals
Post Skills
Post or Inside Moves
Post Drills
Chapter 7. Individual Defense
Fundamentals of Defense
Essentials of Defense
On-the-Ball Defense
Off-the-Ball Defense
Post Defense
On-the-Ball to Off-the-Ball Defense
Off-the-Ball to On-the-Ball Defense
Special Defensive Situations
Pressuring the Shot
Defensive Drills
Chapter 8. Rebounding
Rebounding Tools
Motivating Players to Rebound
Rebounding Rules
Defensive Rebounding
Offensive Rebounding
Rebounding Assessment
Rebounding Drills
Chapter 9. Team Offense
General Offensive Principles
Player Positions and Responsibilities
Offensive Team Tactics
Drills for Team Offense
Chapter 10. Team Defense
Defensive Court Levels
Defensive Categories
Drills for Team Defense
