Basketball Conditioning - The Importance Of Being In Shape
While I was playing high school basketball a team came out of nowhere in California to catch college basketball by storm. Loyola Marymount University was an amazing team to watch. I grew up in Utah and would stay up as late at night just to watch them play on television. It was a show. The thing that made them most unique was their desire to score lots of points and to put lots of shots up. They wanted to average a shot every 6 seconds. They had great players like the late Hank Gathers, Bo Kimble and a baseball player named Terrell Lowery. They would full-court press, run as fast as possible and score lots of points. They had a shooting guard named Jeff Frier and he was my idol. He was my idol because he was able to shoot whenever and wherever he wanted to. It was crazy to watch. They were coached by Paul Westhead who used to coach the Los Angeles Lakers when Magic Johnson was playing. Westhead was interviewed on ESPN and gave his secret to how his team could play this way. It was no surprise that the answer was conditioning. How he conditioned them was what set them apart from all the other Division 1 college basketball teams.
A Fresh Approach To Teaching The Shell Drill
For many years the defensive Shell Drill has been a staple for basketball coaches. The Shell Drill is the best tool for teaching your team the concept of team defense. In this article I present two fresh approaches to the legendary drill.
First, a main consideration when teaching Shell is whether the players understand the concept of one pass away and two passes away. This can be taught by walking through the drill, explaining that you either:
1. Are guarding the ball, 2. You are one pass away from the ball, or 3. You are two passes away from the ball. Your positioning on the floor are determined by the location of ball and the location of your man.
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