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!
Good team defence is five players guarding the ball, not five separate one-on-ones. The shell drill is where that starts, so here is how to teach help-side positioning and rotations from the first week of the season.
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.