Alright, now, the importance of squaring all the way up is this: If I catch the ball and my defensive man is on me and I pivot off my back foot, I cannot get squared up because he is going to get the pressure on me and I am going to have throw a pass. It is not a square up pass, and I am never going to make a good one. But if I can catch the ball then pivot on the outside foot, now I am squared to make the pass. If you over played me, I could actually take him on the dribble, which we do not teach him this, but I could take him and I get into a good triple threat position.
So what we are trying to do is teach it fundamentally, in a solid way and go from there. Now let us balance through. Okay we are fine, okay, we are going to let the Blue’s- let us run it one more time through and what we would say is this, “As a coaching point I would say run it for one minute without taking a shot.” We will do it for your sake for 20 seconds, ready, go!
Good pass, square up, everything right, do everything right, good. Come on, pivot on your outside foot now, think about what we are learning, outside foot, square up quick, keep it going all the way through, diagonal cut, good, good pressure, great, good job, good square up at that time, great, hold it up. Blue Team step on, White Team step off please. Fill the spots.
Bring me two guards down here, you are going to dribble into it and this is really easy because we are dribbling right into the double side and that is what we want. So as you can see we can get it across, you fill your spot, and when he stops that dribble, you make your cut. Now, what are we thinking about Blue, you had the chance to stand over there and rest a little bit, what are we thinking about? I come hard to the foul line. I plant, I catch it on that outside foot and I square up. I pass and I give that lead handed target, not two but one, these are the areas that will make it or break it. All right, here we go.
That is pretty good, good, good learners, good, good, good, if you sleep on me now, the game is on the line. We are running it because the game is on the line. That is great, hold it up, now, here is another point, we are not dribbling at all. Many times you have people that are not capable of dribbling from these spots. But we do not use our dribble when we do not have to. We can always escape pressure by using our dribble, but we are going to try to score without using our dribble first. It will happen the ball will get battered away, we will have to reset. But this keep things spread out and it enables to save our dribbling in case we will need it. Continue.
Good, good, good, good, square up big guy, good, good, hold it up, alright. I think this group understands it. As we define the game and as they understand it and we correct everything. Here is a good coaching point, when I tell this young man to do it in a specific way, if Johnny over there is asleep, then he is going to make the same mistake. So as a coach, I not only demand he does it the right way but I demand that the other 11 players listen and watch so we do not have to correct 12 people one time each. And as a coach I think if you make your players understand, when I speak to one, I am speaking to you all, it is a great coaching point to expedite or speed up your process of learning when we are on the learning stage.
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