Tag: technique

There are lots of flashy moves with a basketball – you’ve seen them through the years. The driving speed dribble and on-the-move dribbling of some of the greatest players ever to grace the court are amazing to watch – but it all begins with the fundamentals of ball handling. No one will ever be great – or even adequate – on the boards without a firm mastery of how to dominate the ball in the face of defenders. I never get tired of saying it: practice, practice, practice! (Although I’mย sure they’re probablyย tired of hearing it here at the Basketball Goal… Read more »

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It seems every day that youโ€™re having to tell your kids to take the bucket off the dresser and bouncing the basketball off the walls. (One kid I know actually put a trashcan in the top drawer of a chest of drawers and used duct tape (!) to tape the drawer tight so the can would stay put โ€ฆ) Itโ€™s time to get the fledgling basketball star out of the house and onto a home court. But you have to be careful โ€“ thereโ€™s nothing that will squash the enthusiasm of a youngster faster than trying to make a basket… Read more »

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Sure wish I had known John Wooden.

He applied what he knew about life to basketball – and had it right because the โ€œWizard of Westwoodโ€ was the winning-est coach in NCAA history.

We all tell our kids that practice pays off and if you want to be really good at something โ€“ sports, academics, painting โ€“ whatever โ€“ you

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