Thursday, April 4, 2024

Basketball: Three Play Breakdown

When "Basketball IQ" meets execution, great happens.

Basketball is a game of vision, decision, execution. 

  • Draw 2
  • Move the ball (off the short roll)
  • 0.5 second decisions 
  • "One more pass"
  • Executing the scoring moment

Ball reversal runs through the post, skip passes, or around. Here the Celtics go around and get a matchup that works for separation.
 

Live ball turnovers kill dreams. At every level of basketball, lazy wing to top passes get picked and converted. You've seen it a thousand times.
 

Core principles show up at all levels of basketball. Do our players watch enough film and internalize that proxy experience?