Becoming a Basketball Player

The drills in this video should help players develop their lateral quickness necessary for playing defence. It should be useful for novice coaches, more experienced coaches and players.

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This video series provides a complete programme of innovative drills and learning progressions that will help players develop every area of their game. Developed by Hal Wissel, a scout and coach for over 20 years, the series is useful for novice coaches who want to learn how to each specific basketball skills, more experienced coaches who want drill ideas for their practices and players who want to work on basketball skills on their own. This video covers defence and rebounding. The drills in this video should help players develop the lateral quickness for playing defence and the jumping ability important in rebounding. Other videos in the series include: shooting, which teaches correct technique for the range of basketball shots; offensive moves, which teaches players a variety of offensive moves - like the crossover dribble, drop step and ball fake - that will help keep opponents off balance; ball handling, which should help players develop confidence in dribbling, passing and catching the basketball; and offensive moves off dribble, which provides additional offensive moves, including power moves, changes of pace, reverse moves and speed and footfire dribbles.