Basketball Trainer Reacts To Social Media Drills

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Yeah, this shows trash next. So today we're going to be reacting to a bunch of basketball videos and basketball tiktoks Going to give you my thoughts on whether I think that they're good or I think they're terrible and a waste of time or what I would do to maybe adjust them and make them a little bit better. Hopefully this helps you guys out when you guys are scrolling and trying to figure out what you want to do for workouts. Just giving you guys some ideas of how to adjust what you're doing to make it a little bit more effective for you. This is a different type of video, so let me know in the comments down below if you like this type type of video, you want to see more of it. Without further ado, let's get into it.

If you're serious about becoming a better Hooper, this is how you work out. You don't want to come into the gym and take random shots and work on nothing. Don't train like a casual. We're going to do this right. You're going to work out like a pro. You're going to start off close with form shooting. Smooth out your shot by working on pound dribbles to jump shots. Then you have to do some balance work, shooting off one foot or shooting right off that pickup. The goal here is to be as balanced as possible and we're just getting started because that's just your warm up. From here you're going to go into your one dribble and two dribble pickups because you want to be as efficient as possible. When you're getting your buckets you ain't got no time to be doing all those fancy dribbles at the next level. Then you want to work on one or two counters and master those. Then to finish the workout it's time for a little bit of cardio. You're going to work on transition jump shots because if you're a scorer these are the type of shots you might get in the game. Then you can beef up your workouts with your free throws. You can hit your free throws in between your sets or just take a bunch at the end of your workout. This will give you two to 300.

Shots if you're serious about so I like a lot about this here. First thing I would say to his end point is if I was doing this I would probably say spread your free throws out between your drills just to make them a little bit more game like shoot them when you're tired. And also I Think too at the end, instead of necessarily shooting 50 free throws, you could mix in some catch and shoot threes, which is probably the only thing that I would say is really missing. It's just like the majority of threes you're going to shoot, unless you're like a really ball dominant player, are going to be catching shoes, right? So maybe, maybe taking away, even if it was like you took away 25 of those free throws and said five makes it five spots, just catches you threes at the end. Just as a way to work on that as well because again, that's probably the majority of threes that you're going to shoot. So I like, I like maybe adjusting it from that regard as well. I think the point that he makes is valid. Like you definitely don't want to go to the gym without a plan.

If you want the ball on a string, you've got to stop doing ball handling like this. Now before all you casuals come at me in the comments, they don't know what I'm talking about. I'm not saying this is wrong, but what I am saying is this is relatively elementary. It's time to level up and graduate to ball manipulation. So if you want to handle like this, do these four ball manipulation drills that I'm about to show you. This last one I guarantee you haven't seen before. And once you get the hang of it, you're going to feel like the ball is on the string. This first one I call the Yo Yo. You're going to pull that ball to the back hip and then push it through. Being able to play with the ball on your back hip is essential as opposed to point guard. The second one is going to have all your ball manipulation. Front cuffs feeling like they're on 10. And like I always say, you should be able to do it equally on both sides. So make sure you put those reps in the third one. You're going to manipulate that ball over the top and then bring it behind the back all the way to that other side. And then finally you're going to put all these together. Trust me, this is a lot harder than it looks. Do this for about 15 to 20 minutes every day. I post drills like this to help.

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So I like that a lot. The concept of manipulation when it comes to ball handling I think is one of the most difficult traits to develop. A lot of stationary ball handling is all pound focused, right? And everything's just straight up and down. In reality, in a game, there are so many times where you're manipulating the ball by putting up, moving it from one spot to the next, Whether it's an in and out or a push cross, or you're just protecting the basketball or a spin move or even just like a change of direction in general. Like, there's a lot of times where your ball, your hand is going to be on the side of the ball, not directly on top of it. So being able to control the ball, manipulate it is so important. So I like this a lot. The one thing that I'd say, and I posted workouts like this before is I love finding ways to work manipulation dribbles into like moving ball handling drills as well.

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So I think these are good. But then also using drills that actually have you moving and working on manipulating in that context as well, because obviously that's going to be much more game like. But overall, again, I like that a lot. I think manipulation is a really important area to focus on with your ball handling.

I have no sympathy for people who cannot dribble the basketball. Dribbling is the easiest skill to work on. All you need is a ball and about five open feet around you. And with these two things, you can become the best ball handler in your team, your league, your city, whatever. And if you don't know what drills to do, I got you covered.

What I would say is that this is like, when I think about ball handling, this is like the traditional way that people work on it where it's like stationary stuff. And again, kind of what I just mentioned with the manipulation stuff, like this is like the opposite of that. So everything is hand on top of the basketball. We're not really working on moving the basketball and controlling it from that aspect right there. So if you're a younger player who really has no control the basketball at all, like, this will. This will work you to a point. But again, we get into a game and if you watch the best ball in the world, like they're doing way more than just pounding the basketball. I do pretty much zero stationary ball handling with any players that I work with, except for stuff working on drill manipulation like we saw in the last video right here, it's like the pound stuff. Like I'm just not going to do it. Like a lot of them will do it outside of our workouts. But to me, I think a lot of times it's a waste of time, especially when you get to high school. And that's not usually a limiting factor. Like there's way more important things. The other thing too is that with this there's no sort of reaction, there's no difference. Everything is pre planned. So you get into a game and all of a sudden you have to react to different things and make decisions and you might have to pull off different types of dribble combos that you haven't done before because someone reached for the basketball. You have to do a quick between the legs to protect it. And then maybe a defender jumps, you know, in help and you have to go behind the back. And if you haven't worked on that, right. So adding some sort of like variability between these two or maybe instead of saying, hey, we're going to do this same double combo every time, maybe it's a double combo but switch it up every time. So maybe one time it's between the legs behind the back and then it's crossover behind the back and then it's between the legs, crossover, whatever. But we get some work on being able to switch up what we're doing. So we get into a game and we're able to do those different sorts of things right there. There's better things to do. It might not be bad, but there's better uses of time than this, I think.

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So I love this. First of all, I love Ross, I love Bobby, I love what they, what they're doing over there. But I think that the point of this video is to say that there needs to be challenge in the drills that you're doing if you want to become better at something. Right? So take all the different things, right. We just talked about like this. The ball handling, that's not very difficult at all, right. At some point it's going to stop giving you return. You're going to wonder. I'm spending all my time working on this basic stationary ball handling. I'm not seeing results in games. And I can say this because I speak from experience with that. You spend all your time doing this basic stuff that doesn't translate and then you wonder why you won't. You don't see results in games. It's because your, your ball handling is not challenging you. And then you get to a game where you are Being challenged and you're not prepared to meet that and rise to that challenge right there. Same thing with, with dunking where you're saying, hey, you know, instead of doing all these jumping exercises where you're, you know, jumping onto a box or whatever, again, not those necessarily are bad, but the best way is just go dunk, right? And maybe you got to lower the rim a little bit, but eventually you'll be able to consistently get dunks at that height and then you can raise the rim more and you're going to become better at jumping is. Jumping is a skill, just like shooting is a skill. So the more you practice it, the better you're going to be at it. And then obviously with shooting, he's saying, you know, instead of standing around and shooting these form shots that are easy that you can make with your eyes closed, adding challenge to that by changing up your feet or the way that you're turning, all that sort of stuff is going to again, allow you to be prepared to handle that challenge that you might see in games right there. A lot of shooting workouts will like a non negotiable is like, oh, you got to shoot form shots, you got to do it. And that's the other thing. Like I, with certain players who might need it, like they're working on a certain thing, okay, we're trying to fix their form. We might do a lot of form shooting if I'm working with a good shooter. Rarely are we going to start with form shooting. They might come in the gym themselves and do it.

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But I'm never going to do that because I'm like, listen, especially you guys are in high school, like, you're going to be waking up on a Sunday morning playing AAU at 9am and you're going to have three minutes to warm up and there's two basketballs for 10 people on your team. Are you going to be able to shoot 25 form shots before you go in the game or you just have to go in the game and make shots, right? So I kind of like to think about it from that perspective as well. But like I said, love Ross, love.

Bobby, love what they're doing Sam.

So I love this. And by the way, shout out to Tyler TJL actually he made a video like this. And I was like, man, that's an incredible idea. So shout out to him for the idea for the video. This is a great video too. Like, and it goes to what we've been talking about. A lot of times solo workouts are just so pre Planned, Right. Everything is so structured. I'm going to dribble through these cones, doing this move every single time. And then you get to a game, you're never making moves like that in that sort of pattern. Right. You're asked to do different things randomly a lot of the times in a game because you don't know how defenders are going to react. Right. Everything is different. So when everything is super pre planned, every form shot is the, or every, every type of shot you shoot is the same way. You're doing spot up shooting. But there's no, like everything is just normal catch and shoot. Normal catch, shoot, normal catch and shoot. There's a place for that. But I think that it's really important to be able to mix up what you're doing and make it variable. Which just means that every shot, every rep is a little bit different than the one before. Because in games every rep is a little bit different. The pass you get is going to be different. The spot in the floor you are is going to be a little bit different. The defender that you're playing gets a little bit different. That's going to dictate how you control the basketball sometimes. Right. So finding ways to account for that and to work on that in our workouts I think is a really important thing. So love the concept right here. I think if players really understand this, they're going to help take their game to the next level.

And then once you get into what I call the bullet rickshaw, where you try to throw the ball very hard, catch it behind, that's one.

Yeah. This drill's trash. Next. But in reality, just to kind of talk about why that is, obviously nothing about this is at all realistic to anything you would ever do in a basketball game. Right. You got two hands on the basketball, like spiking it between your legs, catching and bringing it back. There's no movement, there's no defense. You're dribbling ball with two hands, which you never do. And you know, in general, like, people look at Pete Maravich and they say, well, if he was doing this drill, then it must be worth something. If you like read or watch anything about Pete Maravich, is that like growing up as a kid, he just had a basketball with him everywhere he went. Like I still remember in the movie where he was like, he would like go to the train tracks and he would dribble the basketball on the train tracks. Like, you know how narrow that is. So you have to dribble it perfectly. And he would do that all the time. Right? So that's a kid who just had a ball like glued to his hands. And that to me is like the biggest way to become a great ball handler is just to dribble as often as you can. Wherever you go, go dribble ball with you. And I think that is way more responsible for what he is, the ball handler than anything that like this be.

A 30 minute workout you can do every single day after school. Stay tuned to the last drill.

It's super fun.

We're starting off with our dribbling series. We're going figure eights to start moving into pound kills.

If it's too easy, go through the legs on these.

And then we're finishing off with V dribble pound.

We're really just using this to get our body moving and get work done. Next we're working on catch and shoot. Get creative and use something to throw the ball up.

Personally, I just use my truck trash.

Can and there's really no excuse. Then we're moving into a move today with a pull up. You want to stick with one move.

Of the day throughout the rest of the workout.

And everything we do is 15 minutes.

We're going to also work on some of our footwork with our floaters.

We're going to go two foot floaters and one foot floater and then we'll.

Get a little creative with that. We'll add in some trust. And then this is my favorite thing to do. We're going to add in some glowing rig dou. Make sure you're coming from both ways and off one to two feet. Just be sure not to break your ring.

So two things I'll start off saying that I like about this is I like the move of the day concept. I don't. I've never seen this guy before, so I don't. I'm going to assume that that means that you're changing up that move every day or at least you're changing it up periodically. I like that because again talking about what we've been talking about, you can add in more variability to your workouts than if you work on the same exact move every single day. So I like that concept a lot right there. And I also like the lower dunking concept a lot too. That was kind of like what we mentioned to what watching Ross's video is like. A great way to become better at jumping and dunking in general just to work on it. And if you can't do that on a 10 foot rim, lower the rim and work on the van and eventually you're going to see yourself start to be able to raise that height on the rim until eventually you do get to 10ft right there. But I love that concept. One thing that I don't like is again going back to the ball handling stuff. I just don't feel like it's super. It's gonna be super helpful for a lot of players right there. If you're going to take that little amount of time to work ball handling, just I think finding ways to add more movement to it, maybe making more of a freestyle. Maybe you do like some sort of change of speed freestyle where you're going between dribbling at like 20%, really relaxed to 80%, 100% and maybe back to 20. And you're just giving yourself maybe 30 seconds to just mess around and change up your speeds in like a six foot area. Right. I think that's a really good way. You know, a lot of time to work on type ball handling you're going to be doing in games right there. You want to see those results right there. But that's really the only thing that I would say that I personally would change about it.

Three shooting drills you need to be doing every day to improve your jumper. Number one machine gun shot. This drill is going to help you.

Shoot off the dribble.

On your last dribble, make sure to grab the ball, but don't reset your hand. Once you have the ball, quickly locate the rim and shoot yourself. Make sure to pound the ball as hard as you can for three to five. Number two dribble release shots. All you're going to do is pound the ball and let it fly in the air. Once you're ready, quickly grab the ball and reset your feet and get into your shot. Make this drill more of a challenge by waiting longer, longer to grab the ball out of the air and then when you grab it, don't dip the ball. Drill number three, dribble release. 180 shots. Same principles as the last drill, but.

Now we're getting our feet involved.

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Okay, so what I'll say about the first one is I like it. I do it for different reasons. Like we do a drill like that where we're like intensely pounding the basketball. I'll play that back right there. Like we'll do, we'll do something like this, but we're doing it not so much to work. You're shooting off the dribble. Let me put it this way. Basketball is a very Interesting sport because you're playing offense and you're playing defense, too, right? So a lot of times when players are working on shooting, all they're doing is working on, okay, shoot, shoot, shoot. You might shoot for 30 straight minutes without doing anything else, right? In a game, though, you're gonna be on offense, you might take a shot, but then you gotta go play defense for 30 seconds before you get a chance, another shot. You might go four or five possessions before you shoot the ball again. All the while you're going down there and you're playing defense. You're boxing out, getting rebounds, spraying the floor, chasing offensive rebounds, diving on the floor, and then next thing you know, you got to make another shot. So going from like that fine skill of being able to make a perimeter shot and then going and doing maybe a much more physical skill, like boxing out, pulling a rebound, taking a charge, whatever the case may be defending somebody in the post, you have to go from doing those super, like, physically taxing things to now being able to, like, relax, shoot basketball. So a drill like that will use that to say, hey, we're gonna go all out effort on this right here. Say, be like we're playing defense, and then on I'll give. I might give them a go call and they're gonna pick the ball up and shoot as quick as they can. So now we're working on being able to flip that switch quickly from intense effort that you might give them a defensive end to being able to just make a catch. You shot right, nice and relaxed right there. So that's why I would do something like that. So I like the drill. The next two right there. I think there's ways that you can do that. I think changing up where you catch the ball, where you bounce the ball, is a really good way of using that drill. That's, that's. That's definitely how I would do it with my players right there. Like, sometimes you catch it low, you catch a high, sometimes you bounce to your left, to your right, behind you, even way out in front of you, whatever. But I like that as a way to just kind of switch things up. I like this last one, too. But what I would say is change up the spot you're shooting at every time, right? So I like that we're now mixing up where our feet are. But I also think the way you can make that better is saying we're not going to stay at the top of the key every time. We're going to change and shoot it on the wing. And I would say that applies for all of these shots too but specifically for this one right here that's what I would adjust with that right there but I like a lot I like a lot of parts of these drills for sure. Like I said let me know down in the comments below what you think about this video. If you guys have videos you want me to react to send me a DM on Instagram at vision driven basketball or on TikTok at vision driven Basketball as well. Go check me out there if you have something you want me to see. Let me know in the comments if you like this video. Also be sure to click the top link in my description down below to get my free Elite Perimeter Score program which a lot of stuff that we talked about in this video today is included in that as well so make sure you check that out. I appreciate you for watching. Drop a like subscribe if you're new. I'll talk to you soon. Peace.