This week's individual player session has been designed to improve your aspiring shooting guards' skill and shooting percentage (to be used as a supplement to game practice).
Shooting Guard position - Core duties:
A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team (shooting guards typically average 35-40% of shots from three-point range). For this reason shooting guards need to be:
Use this session with your shooting guards to help them improve their game today!
Rebounding is the least glamorous thing in basketball and one of the most decisive. It is also almost entirely a habit, which means it is entirely coachable.
Good spacing is only the start. The best modern offences teach players to attack the defence's rotations and play in a permanent 4-on-3 - here is how to coach that read.
The ball screen produces almost half of all professional offensive possessions, yet most teams still teach it as a memorised play. The modern approach trains the read - giving players a framework to decide based on what the defence does, not what the coach called.