How To Add 6-8 PPG To Your Average RIGHT NOW

If you want to add six to eight points per game to your scoring average right now, this is the video for you. Now, every player wants to increase their scoring average and players want to make these massive jumps, right? And it's certainly possible. And I've seen players make huge jumps going from scoring less than 10 a game to 20 a game the next year. Right? That sort of stuff happens. But usually when that happens, you also have like, physical improvements maybe, you know, you have a. You get bigger, you get stronger, you just get more skilled, whatever. I want to talk about ways you can add six to eight points per game to your average right now without necessarily having to increase your physical skills or your physical abilities little. Just by understanding the game a little bit better, at a little bit higher level, you can easily add points per game to your average. You can become a more consistent scorer. And this is how you can. You can take yourself from being stuck at, oh, man, I can only score this amount of points per game. And you can immediately find ways to add easy points and really transform who you are as an offensive player just, just by understanding the three concepts that we're going to talk about today. So I'm super excited. You can take these things and immediately apply it to the games that you're playing, to your upcoming season, and you're immediately going to see results, you're going to see improvements when it comes to you scoring points. And so it's very, very important. So I want to dive into these three things because it's three things that are, that are foundational to being a successful player. But first of all, it's not focused on a ton, right? We spend so much time focusing on, okay, I got to become a better shooter, I got to become a better ball handler, I got to become a better finisher, I got to become better, you know, faster, stronger, I gotta be able to jump higher. And those things are obviously important. Like I said, if you want to make, you know, a huge jump, like, yeah, you're have to get better at your physical skills, put in that sort of work. Right. Generally when I talk to players that they're already focused on those things, though, they're already doing their workouts, they're already in the weight room. Right. There are certain things you can do, though, and certain, certain areas you can focus on when it comes to just your understanding of how to approach the game that will immediately impact you. And on top of that, when we combine that with you focusing on improving your physical skills, that's where you can make a complete transformation when it comes to who you are as an offensive player. So let's dive into these three things. The first thing is understanding how to read screens. Okay? Screens is a massive part of the game of basketball, right? In any offense that you'll ever be in, there's going to be screens involved. Even when you're playing pickup, people are setting screens like it's just a. It's just a key part of basketball. And it happens hundreds of times a game, right? Depending on the game, maybe maybe a thousand times a game that there's screens that are being set. The problem is a lot of players don't actually understand how to effectively read these screens. And because of that, they don't understand how to use them the right way. There's so many wasted opportunity, right? There's points that you are leaving on the table because you don't understand when to do what. When it comes to using screens, pin downs, away screens, down screens, we have to understand that we're not just coming off of a screen just for the sake of doing it, right? This is where a lot of players get stuck is they just say, oh, screen's coming. So I'm just gonna kind of do whatever, I'm gonna go fill out to the perimeter every time. And it becomes almost like a go through the motions sort of thing, so nothing ever happens from them. And so we start to think like, oh, you know, screens aren't that big of a deal, like, whatever. When you really understand how to use screens, how to read them, and then effectively make a decision on how you're gonna use it, you, you're going to score easy points, you're going to find easy ways to score both for yourself and you're going to create for your teammates as well. Okay? So this is such a crucial thing to understand because it will immediately apply to any team, any offense you play in. So running through it quickly, the most important things to understand when it comes to how to read screens is just understanding how your primary defender guards you when you use a pin down. Okay? So really at its base, we're thinking about two things. Number one, if they are chasing you over the screen, meaning they're trailing you, they're on your back. We want a tight curl to the basket, we want to go around that screen, tight curl it, get to the basket. Because we're going to have them trailing us, meaning theoretically we're going to have an advantage. We're going to be in front of them and we can catch a pass and be able to get to the rim. For layup. Okay. So we want to understand that if I'm being trailed, I'm tight curling to the basket. And then on the flip side of that, if they don't trail you and then instead they go under the screen to try and like beat you through the screen, they shoot the gap. Then we want to flare out to the wing, out to the perimeter. What this is going to do is they might get caught and we might get out to the perimeter, we might have an open three or we're going to get ourselves out to the perimeter and then they're going to be like frantically closing out to us and we're going to have a close up to attack which we'll talk about a little bit later. Okay. So those are the two most foundational reads when it comes to using pin downs, away screens, down screens, whatever you want to call them. And then the third thing, third read that we could make using these is a backdoor read. So we, whenever you're being overplayed, okay, they start to get, you know, really comfortable with the offense that you're running or they start to anticipate screens and you using screens a certain way and they start to jump that, that's when we want to backdoor to the basket and be able to keep them honest. And you can get a couple easy buckets every game just by looking for opportunities to take that backdoor to the basket. And a lot of times you're going to catch defenders off guard, especially when they start to fall asleep and they start to anticipate. So really, really important that first of all you understand how to read screens, you understand the importance of it and then you commit to doing it. Right. I think that's where players a lot of times get so caught up in, oh like everything that's going on. Like, you know, I missed that shot, I made that shot instead of being so focused on the present moment. Okay, how do I make sure that I, I, I effectively utilize the screen right here? Okay. And, and a lot of times players will get away from that and they'll get tired and then they'll go into the motions of just kind of doing whatever and they get stuck, they get frustrated. Right? So, so you want to separate yourself, right? Don't be that player, be the player who's going to consistently be purposeful with using screens and you're going to find that you're going to start to score easy points every single game just by doing that. Okay. And that takes no improvement physically. It literally is just, hey, do, am I disciplined? Enough to continuously read this here. Number two is recognizing the best opportunities to cut to the basket. Okay, this is such a huge thing as well. But players get so stagnant sometimes on the perimeter, just kind of waiting and watching the ball, not recognizing there are great opportunities to cut and potentially score easy points just by doing that. One of the best situations for this is what's called a 45 cut. So a 45 cut is going to happen whenever you might have two different situations. You might have a teammate who drives from the opposite side, and you're going to be on the wing. So maybe you're in the left wing and they're on the right side of the floor. They drive on the right side of the floor, and that attracts defensive attention, your defenders, and help, and they might start to focus on that. So by you just making this 45 count, which is essentially just a cut from the wing to the basket, a lot of times you're going to be wide open, right? And this is something that I recognize all the time. Like, even when I'm playing, the amount of times where I'll be open on a 45 cut just by going right, it seems so easy and so simple, but it's. It's a lot of times they're very easy. Way to get a couple free buckets every single game, just by recognizing when you can do that, okay, And I kind of already mentioned it, but recognizing opportunities for backdoor cuts, okay, there's so many times where your defender falls asleep and so it's a ball watch. And when you recognize that, okay, my. My defender is either overplaying this and anticipating something, or they're really focused on the ball right now and not on me thinking about just backdoor cut and seeing what comes of it. A lot of times it's going to get you a couple easy buckets just by doing that, just by recognizing those opportunities. So the big thing to remember on offense is that you don't want to be stagnant. You don't want to be a spectator on offense, okay? You've got to constantly be hunting opportunities to cut to the basket and recognize, okay, what is my defender doing? What are they watching right now? And am I able to use that to my advantage right there? So that's the second thing is recognizing the best opportunities to cut to the basket. And then the third thing, and the area that I think is so crucial for consistent offensive success is recognizing when the defense is at its most vulnerable. So being great on offense, being consistent on offense is all about creating advantages and then taking, taking advantage of that. Okay? So we want to. We want to be able to create advantages. And we do that by attacking vulnerable parts of the defense. So, for example, if they switch the ball screen and now they have a slow, big guarding, a quick guard, well, that's an advantage that we want to attack. That's a vulnerable spot. So we want to take advantage of that. We're always doing that on offense, trying to find the best situation where the defense is going to be at its most vulnerable. And one of the situations where this is always apparent, this is always a thing, is in what's called point five situations, okay? All of that means is in the first half, second that you catch the ball, that is when that is the best time to do something with the basketball. Because the defense is rotating, their momentum is coming towards you to close out. And so that's the hardest thing to do on defense, is to successfully close out over and over and over again. Because everything's working against you. You're going away from the basket. You don't know what the offense is going to do. You have to take away not just the drive, but also the shot as well, right? So we have to start to recognize those things too. And so we want to try and understand and look for opportunities to, to attack and make decisions within half a second of catching the basketball. So all that is going to mean is that when you catch the ball, you are either going to shoot, drive, or pass it right away. The one thing you can't do is hold it. Now, obviously this is different if you're supposed to be running a play or if you are letting an action develop, right? So if your team passes you the ball and they're going to set a pin down, well, like we just talked about, hopefully our teammates going to read that pin down. And if they do read it well, they might be wide open, but you might have to wait for a second or two seconds before that that action develops, right? What I'm talking about is like your teammate drives to the basket, kicks the ball out to you. And now we're not waiting for an action, we're just playing and we're thinking, okay, I have half a second to shoot it, drive it, or make another pass. And when you do this, when you recognize, like, hey, if I attack within half a second to catch the basketball, that's the best time to drive to the basket. You're going to find yourself getting paint touches, getting to the rim all the time, getting to pull ups all the time. You, you're going to find that that's the best time to, to catch and shoot open shots is within that first half a second. And ultimately it's going to allow you to play so much more decisively and so much more efficiently because you understand that, hey, the one thing I'm not going to be is a ball stopper. I'm going to, I'm going to shoot it, drive it or pass it within half a second. And that's going to create so many opportunities for you. And again, this isn't about improving anywhere. This is literally just saying, hey, I'm going to make sure that when I'm in these situations that I'm already in, I approach it the right way, okay? I mentally know what I want to get out of this. I'm going to do things the right way. So recognizing those point five opportunities where your team passes you the ball, your, your defender is closing out to you, okay, half a second to do something, I'm going to take advantage of them when they're in their most vulnerable spot because if we wait, we give them a second, two seconds, and they're fully closed out and stationary, they're not vulnerable anymore. It's a lot harder to, to attack that, to drive against that, to shoot against that. Because they're set, we want to attack them when they're on their way to being set. And, and that's going to happen within the first half a second, right? So if you take these three areas, learning how to read screens, both, both on ball and off ball, recognizing when to cut to the basket using 45 cuts and backdoor cuts, and then recognizing when the defense is at their most vulnerable and attacking in those point five situations, you're going to easily add points per game to your average 6 to 8 points is something you can easily do. And I think that it's, it's something that every player needs to understand and will immediately make an impact. Now, I think this stuff is a great start. And if you want something that's going to absolutely take your game to the next level when it comes to stuff like this, right, stuff that you can implement right away, that's going to change the way you see the game, I think that's such an important thing because you can get better, you can improve your physical skills, but if you don't understand mentally how to play the game, you don't have the basketball IQ to match that, then none of it matters and you're going to be stuck in the same box that you've always been stuck in. So if you don't want that to be you. If you want to truly make a transformation and become the player that you want to be, check out my free basketball IQ masterclass. We go in depth and do a lot of stuff we talked about already, but even more the mindsets that you need to be great. Different opportunities. Like we really dive deep into the 0.5 situations and exactly what you should be doing when you should make different reads. When do I drive, when do I shoot? And making that become a part of you, right? So now all of a sudden our baseline of six to eight points per game, that can go easily way up from there. Just because the sub. We talk about this masterclass completely free. It's an hour long. That's top link in the description down below. I've gotten so much great feedback on it. So I think it really can help you transform your game and transform who you are as a basketball player. So like I said, top link down below, completely free, an hour long. You're going to want to check that out. You're going to want to lock in, take notes. It's going to be the most valuable thing that you've watched for basketball maybe ever, right? I'm not trying to toot my own horn, but I think it's a really, really valuable, valuable masterclass. So make sure you check that out. Top link down below. I appreciate you for watching. Talk soon. Peace.