Today's Quotes:"Players are made in the off season, teams are made during the season."
Today's Theme: Developing Your Post Players
The off-season is a great time to develop your post players. Here are several pages and drills that should help.
Post Play and Moves
This article details general post play and post moves with tips on playing the low post and high post positions.
Post Player Breakdown Drills
This article presents a number of post-player breakdown drills and video clips to help post-players develop their footwork, post moves and skills.
Tim Springer's Post Player Workout
This article presents a post player workout with coach/trainer Tim Springer featuring individual post player basketball drills.
Tips for Short Post Players
Rather than battling inside against a taller stronger defender, short post players should look for "separation instead of confrontation". Use the high post (elbows and FT line areas) and the short corner.
How to Use Your Post Player in 4-Out
How you use your post player in the 4-out motion offense depends somewhat on the post player. If he/she is most comfortable inside playing back to the basket, keep him inside near the blocks. If he/she is not a scorer, use him/her as a screener. Otherwise, give him freedom to move from low to high post and vice-versa, get the ball to him and let him score .
Rebounding Mentality and Fundamentals
This article discusses defensive and offensive rebounding, team rebounding, rebounding free-throws, and zone rebounding, with video clips.
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