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TIMING‼️‼️
— Steve Dagostino (@DagsBasketball) April 13, 2024
Players that miss short often have issues syncing up the timing of their upper and lower body. When you shoot the basketball it should feel ‘easy’ to get it over the rim.
When your shot feels ‘easy’ you know your timing is solid 👍👍 pic.twitter.com/YyvtEjddlr
In Sources of Power, Gary Klein writes about "recognition-primed" decision making. Firefighters don't fly to fires to have meetings. They use knowledge and experience to fight the fire. Military radar operators assess flight paths and acceleration (timing) to judge whether an ascending object is a commercial aircraft or a threat like a SAM.
Timing changes everything.
1) CARE - concentrate, anticipate, react, execute. Defenders may anticipate a player's "favorite" move, get legal guarding position and a stop or draw an offensive foul.
2) On-time and on-target passes turn separation into hoops. Look at the high post a certain way and he slips to the basket for an easy lob and score. Similar action occurs between a point guard and a backdoor cutter.
3) In the "run-and-jump" defense, knowing when to leave, then "trap and go" to disrupt offense takes practice and experience.
4) When receiving a screen, learn to 'wait' for the screen, set up the cut, and explode. We taught players to say, "wait, wait, wait" to help.
5) Timing the steal off the dribble is personal. Players like Kawhi Leonard go for the downbeat. I preferred attacking the upbeat. Leonard also goes for "poke" steals with the outside hand and other techniques.
3. Timing is Everything!
— Michael Lynch (@CoachLynch_21) April 12, 2024
As the driver comes to a stop that is your CUE to start cutting!
Being an elite cutter is more about timing than anything else.
7) Disrupting timing adds value. Fly-bys on three-point shooters forces some to reset after a shot fake or to side-dribble. Many players are less efficient than with catch-and-shoot threes.
Lagniappe. Get players on the same 'team defense' page.
5x5 CORE DEFENSIVE PRINCIPLES
— Matt Hackenberg (@CoachHackGO) April 13, 2024
▪️5 defenders on a string
▪️5 defenders guarding the ball
▪️5 defenders in a stance
▪️5 defenders communicating
▪️5 defenders with pride to get stops
Lagniappe 2. Excellent thread on cutting.
Off-the-Ball Cutting
— Michael Lynch (@CoachLynch_21) April 12, 2024
I was listening to a few podcasts this week and wrote down 5 thoughts on cutting off the ball.
I think we can all apply these: ⏬
Lagniappe 3. Curry mechanics, an excerpt from his MasterClass. Few young players have the discipline to warmup correctly.
Steph Curry on the value of Form Shooting when you enter the gym 🗣️🗣️
— Hoop Herald (@TheHoopHerald) April 18, 2024
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