There are a lot of people out there
that work on their game during the summer. Some people improve their game, some
people stay the same and some people don’t. The thing that bothers me the most
is to see people not even trying to work on their game. Some guys would go on
the court with flips flops on and start shooting. They would shoot without
jumping and they would stay at the same spot and just shoot. That is not
working in your game, that is having fun. If you want to be great you have to
do more than just shoot at the same spot the whole day.
Many
guys that play basketball don’t like to run. Also, they think that is not that
important and you don’t need to run to be better at basketball. This is not
true, running is important in basketball. In every game you run back and forth,
and if you can’t catch up that’s not good. You need to be in shape when you are
playing basketball. The thing that I do to get in shape is at least run 10k at
least 3 times a week. If running 10k is too much for you then you can run 5k,
3k or 1k. Just do what’s best for you. A lot of people say this doesn’t help
you improve your game at all, but trust me it does. I can tell, because after my
first 2 months of running I noticed that I have more endurance then I used to
have. I also noticed that my speed improved. Running is a great way to keep your
endurance up and improve speed.
Another
thing that people don’t work on is their layups. I know that layups can be
boring to work on, because why would work on them when you can make every
single one? Layups are just so valuable. Almost all basketball players don’t
miss layups, but they start missing when someone is guarding them. People that
practice layups a lot of times are the people that know how to use the back
board well. You should at least do 50-100 layups on each side everyday if you
want to be good. 50-100 layups can improve your footwork and vertical.
One
of the last things you can do is ball handling. This is really important to
guards. Many guards out there still dribble while looking down, because they
don’t work on the handles. Some people don’t work on their game just because
they don’t have a basketball court. The great thing about working on ball
handling is you can do it anywhere. You don’t need a court to work on it. You
can work at your ball handling at a sidewalk, basement in your room or
anywhere. There are many great ball handling drills out there. You can look it
up on YouTube and you can find many great videos on improving your ball
handling. Here are some of the drills that you can do anywhere:
In
basketball you need to work on your endurance, your ball handling skills and
working on your layups. You need to be running at least 3 times a week and
doing at least 50-100 layups on each side to improve your game. Also, you need
to work on your ball handling skills. After you work on all this you can start
working on your jump shots. If I were you I would create a calendar at http://www.keepandshare.com/myhome/
to keep track of what you are going to
do every day. It’s good to write it down on paper, because it reminds you of
what you need to do today and the day after. Thanks for reading this and I hope
it helps.
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