3 Things Holding You Back From Scoring More Points

This video is going to help you stop making some crucial mistakes. Today. I want to talk about myths, and these are myths that you've probably heard from different coaches and trainers, probably multiple times. And at least a couple of these myths you probably have bought into. These myths can hold you back from being as effective as a Hooper as you can be. So in this video, I want to not only expose these myths, but leave you with the truths which, like I said, can completely change the game for you. These truths are going to help you to score more points, make more plays, and just in general be a more successful player. Let's Get Into It One of the biggest myths in the game of basketball is the myth of the one dribble pull up. A lot of players growing up work on the majority of the time two different shots, which is the catch and shoot three and the one drill pull up. When you think about as a basic shooting workout, it's probably going to be mostly focused on those things. And while I agree that the catch and shoot three is probably the most important shot in basketball, I think that the one drill pull up is pretty much the opposite of that. And the reason for that is that one drill pull ups just don't really happen all that often in games. Pull ups in general happens significantly less often than a catch and shoot three is going to happen, or a finish at the rim is going to happen, or really these days, even less so than like a floater or a runner is going to happen. The majority of the pull ups that do happen though are going to happen off of two or three dribbles and the film is going to back this up. No matter what level of basketball that you watch, the majority of times when mid range pull ups happen, it's coming off the ball screen or it's off of a closeout that's getting attacked. Now on a ball screen it's pretty much always going to be more than one dribble unless you're shooting a three. But I'm talking mid range pull ups here. When we get to mid range in a ball screen and we get to a pull up, it's going to almost happen every time off of either two, three dribbles, maybe more than that depending on how you set them up. And again, I'm going to put some clips here, they're going to show that as well. But majority of time is going to be off of more than just one dribble and every time will be when it's a ball screen and then even when it's a closeout right and that defender is closing out to you, you attack. Generally you need to create more space or the open space is farther away than you're going to be able to get in just one dribble. So most of the time is to be off of two. Now the only time when one drill pull ups really do happen is off of a shot fake. Because a lot of times when you shot fake and that defender bites on it and they jump and they clear out of your way, then there's a ton of open space around you. All you need to do is really reset your feet. So one drill pull up might, might be something that you do now more increasingly today, if you're shot taking a defender on the three point line and they're flying by you, you're probably taking a dribble and shooting a 3, right? You probably just resetting your feet. The majority of the time you're not taking one dribble into the mid range and shooting that shot. Unless you can't shoot threes, which is a problem. I think it's important to understand that, that you know that shot is becoming incredibly obsolete in the game of basketball. Again, the majority of time anyway you're going to be shooting it off of two or three dribbles. When we think about the purpose of the mid range pull up, it is as a counter to getting to the rim, right? If you catch the ball and ideally you can shoot the ball. So your first thought is if I'm open, I'm going to shoot it and get the shots worth three. If you're not open, the next thoughts got to be get to the rim. And if you can't get to the rim because the help is there, the defender is trying to turn and recover and not get that lane to the basket, that's when you get to that pull up as the counter because that's what's being given to you. Or depending on where you play at, you drive and you kick it. And that's increasingly becoming what basketball is about is we're not going to shoot the mid range, we're going to get a three, we're going to get a layup or a floater. So instead of working on one drill pull ups pretty much get them out of of your regiment because they're just not very important and not very useful. Instead of that, work on two drill pull ups coming off of ball screens, coming off of rip throughs, whether it be a straight up rift through or a jab or some sort of jab variation could be coming off of like, drop footwork. If you don't know what drop footwork is, click the top link in my description below to get my free elite perimeter score program where we go through all the drop footwork stuff. So if you don't know what drop footwork is, this will completely change the game for you. So make sure you go down and get that completely free if you don't know what I'm talking about. But you can get to two drill pull ups coming off of drop footwork. That's where you can actually find some value in the pull up right there. And this is going to prepare you much more for the shots that you may take in games. The second myth that I want to dispel here is the myth of getting to the basket in one dribble. I think if you're listening, you've probably heard the phrase get to the rim in one dribble or something along the lines of that said, you buy a coach at some point or another. And the thing is, I think that most coaches mean well by this. At the end of the day, what they mean is, don't waste dribbles, Be efficient, be fast. But in reality, always trying to get to the rim in one dribble is the absolute worst thing you can do. And I see this with a lot of players that I work with where they don't understand this concept. They try and get. They try and cover as much ground as possible with every dribble when they drive, and then they wonder why they don't finish as well. They're not as on balance. It's because it's been ingrained into them. Hey, you got to get there in one drip. You really break it down. The more distance that you cover with a dribble, the less powerful you're going to be, meaning it's going to be much easier for you to get bumped and pushed around and have that affect your actual finish. Right? You're going to be a worse finisher if you consistently are trying to get to the basket in one dribble and there's defense around you where you're just going to consistently be worse. When you try to get to the ribbon one dribble and finish, you set yourself up to be very weak on your drives and on your finishes. On the opposite side of that, when you get there in two or three dribbles on your drives, you become much more powerful and defenders are going to find it harder to bump you off of your line, and they're going to find it harder to really impact Your finishes. This is for a couple of reasons. By first of all, by using extra dribbles on your drives, you give yourself more options. So if you're going to get there in one dribble, you're pretty much dead set on what you're going to do when you take that dribble. But if you're taking two dribbles, you might take that first dribble and notice that the defender help defender over committed, right? And maybe they left a gap for you to try and get through with like maybe a Euro step or maybe with a, you know, like a hop step or something like that. You get that because you have. You have another dribble that you're using. You're not trying to cover all that distance in one dribble. You might take that one dribble and then, you know, realize, oh, I'm going to have a teammate open if I change my angle and my drive a little bit more so I can kick it out to them. And you're able to change your angle a little bit on that second dribble, I can drive here, and on that second dribble, I can change my angle a little bit. And next thing you know, I actually have a finish here. Extra dribbles gives you more options, which makes you a better player. The other thing is that it's going to make you so much more powerful and under control. It's going to allow you to get to two foot finishes much, much more easily, which is going to allow you to be able to finish better again. If you don't know what I mean by two foot finishing or if I say a stride stop finish, make sure you click that top link down below. Get my free program. We go through the stride stop stuff. This is really, really important, and it allows you to get to that sort of stuff and become just a much more versatile, powerful finisher. And you're going to notice by consistently taking two or three dribbles on your drives to the basketball, it's going to allow you to finish at a much higher rate. And I think this is one of the most. This is one of the biggest myths that is portrayed in basketball, is getting there in one dribble. My word of advice to you is leave the one dribble drives for the pregame layup lines when there's no defense, because it'll work for you. Then it's not going to work as well for you in actual games where there is defense trying to stop you. And the last myth that I want to go through is the myth of the hop versus the 1, 2. When it comes to shooting here, and there's so many coaches out there, and maybe you've experienced this too, where they'll, they want you to shoot a certain way. Cam Johnson of the Brooklyn Nas was just talking about on a podcast a few weeks ago about how when he was in college, he had a coach who always told him, hey, you got to step into your shot left, right? And every time they'd work out, he would say that. But then you go watch the film and you'd see like, oh, I don't actually do that, right? And J.J. redick had the same sort of sentiment, which is, we have to work on the footwork that we actually do in games. When you look at the hop versus the 1, 2, they both matter in different situations, right? We spend a ton of time on the hop, and if you've been through any of my shooting workouts recently, we spend a ton of time working on the hobby because it allows us to, a lot of times shoot the ball quicker and be able to utilize a little bit of, you know, energy, give back. And it just allows us to extend our range a little bit, be a little bit of a faster with our shot. So a lot of times it's, it's, it's ideal, especially, you know, when you're coming off of, like a driving kick or something like that. But there's also times where a 1, 2 makes sense. Maybe you're, you're in transition, right, and you're stepping into the shot that way. There could be certain situations on a driving kick where just your feet happen to be in a position where you're stepping into it more like a 1, 2. So from that perspective, you have to be able to do both of them. And I think this is where a lot of coaches miss the mark, is they want to make players repeat everything every single time the same way. And there's this false belief that if you just do something the same way, every single time in practice is going to make you good in games, and it's not true, because games are so unpredictable and so random that you have to be equipped to be able to do things different ways when the situation calls for it. If you can only shoot off of a hop, you're going to be limited. If you can only shoot off of a one, two, you're going to be limited. If you watch the film, and there's been plenty of clips of them playing here, if you watch it, you're going to see there's different situations that call for different types of footwork and they make sense in those situations. So I think it's really important. Players work on being able to do both. They don't limit themselves. They don't box themselves in. You're a coach or a trainer watching. Don't box your players in. Give them multiple solutions to this. And you know, if you're a player and you focus on this and you focus on developing both types of footwork, it's going to help you to be prepared to make shots in a variety of different situations, which is how you become a great shooter overall. Let me know down below if there are any other myths that you know of that you want me to talk about. Like I said as well, make sure you click that top link in my description down below to get my free Elite Perimeter Score program. That's going to help you with some of the stuff we talked about, but just in general going to help you take it to the next level. So make sure you guys click that down below completely free. Drop A Like subscribe if you're new. I appreciate you for watching. Talk to you soon. Peace.