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What is a greater thing to do in basketball, I wonder all the time...to make a difficult shot go in, or, to put yourself in a position to have an easy scoring opportunity. In my search for the answer, the only conclusion I could get is that the greatness is in the eye of the beholder, and, everything is good as long as the basket goes through the rim. Video after video, game after game that I watched, one sentence started echoing in my mind, that back in my major league days my coach

Kevin Durant has one of the best crossover moves in the NBA. Every aspect of the technique of this dribble move is at is best, and if we combine it with his size and wingspan, we are going to get the motion that is almost impossible to defend. As always, coach Trey Slate will help us break down this action. The more we pay attention to the detail, the more we will be able to understand and then teach our players some of the elements that the games best players are using.  

In basketball, it is important to teach your players that there is not just one way to beat the defender. While everybody is training the be speedy, it is rare that the basketball player is learning how to stop fast. Being able to change the rhythm is in many times more useful than being able to run fast. Today we are going to analyze this move done by Isaiah Tomas. As there are more good basketball elements to see, this video is perfect for our next article. The coach that will help

Back when I was a kid, I really enjoy hanging out with my friends after school. Every day we use to stick around the school grounds to play basketball. We were throwing a ball at the rim and on those rare occasions that the ball actually got through the basket, we yelled JOORDAAN or MAIL MAAAN. It was a thing that we really loved as kids and that friendship translated to workouts for the local team and later in life we all had a more or less successful player carrier. We developed gr

If you want to be an amazing athlete there are three things that you need to do. You need to eat amazing, you need an amazing workout, and you need to rest amazing. The workout is then divided into three parts: first, you need to hit the gym and get some bigger muscles, then you need to do plyometrics to make those bigger muscles functional, and at the end, you need to learn that body to play basketball. One hour in the gym demands two hours with the ball. The law! Today we are goin