"The benchwarmers of today can be the stars of tomorrow." You are in charge of your skills. It takes a lot of dedication, a lot of practice to perfect your skills. Take every bit of coaching that will make you better, and use it to better your game. Work on every part of your game to be the complete player that will make you shine!
Better Post Play explains all the fundamentals and basics of post play, and then dives into unmatched detail
The video contains 10 chapters, plus sections by Jermaine and Tamika. Thanks to eye popping graphics, demonstrations by over 30 players, and footage from five different locations, the video is not just a great improvement tool, it's fun to watch
The new standard for what a sports improvement video should be
Like all the Better Basketball videos, Better Post Play was written, filmed, and edited over nine months with the goal of helping players who have a true desire to do whatever it takes to take their game to the next level
In this 8-DVD-Set, you get over 13 hours of basketball techniques, drills, and workouts. Master the basics and advanced fundamentals with the entire Better Basketball video or dvd set.
Better Shooting DVD, Better Ballhandling DVD, Better 1 on 1 Defense DVD, Better Passing DVD, Better Post Play DVD, 1 on 1 Offense, Better Moving Without the Ball, and Better Free Throws.
Is it possible to develop qualities like court sense, vision, and the instinctive ability to make the right pass at the right time? The answer, thanks to this basketball video, is yes! With Better Passing's 42 game situations, you'll learn how to read the court and develop that sixth sense that all great passers have!
Coaches need stoppers, basketball defense wins championships. This video isn't for the flashy player, it's for the player who truly wants to win.
Like all the Better Basketball videos, Better 1 on 1 Defense was written, filmed, and edited with the goal of helping players who have a true desire to do whatever it takes to take their game to the next level>
Over 3.5 hours of detailed techniques to make you a scoring machine! With bonus sections from professionals Sue Bird, Chauncey Billups & Rick Barry!
Our newest and best basketball video Better 1 on 1 Offense may be the greatest basketball skills video ever created.
With nearly four hours of techniques, you really can't appreciate this thing until you see it for yourself.
The basketball video details all the tools any player needs to build a perimeter scoring repertoire. This includes the basics from triple threat, a chapter on maximizing your quickness potential, working the ball screen, and learning to read and react to the defender whether you're working from a pivot, off the dribble, pressured tightly, or finishing at the goal. Plus, bonus sections from Sue Bird, Chauncey Billups and Hall of Famer Rick Barry.
30 application specific workouts; need to improve your cross-over, there’s a workout for that; need to develop your off hand, there’s a workout for that. What about improving hand strength? Yep, there’s a workout for that too. And 27 others!
Almost 200 individual drills so you’ll never get bored.
3 hours and 10 minutes.
The more you can practice dribbling in a high variety of ways, the sharper your handles will be. Better Ball Handling gives you the tools to do it.
Strength, Control, and Speed Workouts are designed to build the particular handles that you need on the ball in order to perform the moves and combinations that you’ll find in later workouts.
Two and Three Ball Workouts are meant to train two components of your dribbling behavior. The first is overall coordination with both hands – this will not only improve your dominant hand, but will drive your towards becoming ambidextrous, equally skilled with either hand going any direction. The second is to increase your confidence. If you can handle two or three balls, then one ball is a piece of cake.
Moving and Moves Workouts add a realism to the stationary workouts. Eventually, you have to exercise your skills while on the move. That’s the way the game is played.
Tennis Anyone? These tennis ball workouts are the single best way to train you to keep your head up and not watch the ball while you dribble. Eye-hand coordination is a premium for these workouts.
Specialty Workouts are named for special situations. Perhaps you need to develop a killer crossover or some particular dribble. I hear comments about how certain players need to work on their weak hand. Well, depending on which hand is the weaker hand, you’ll find a Right Hand Workout and a Left Hand Workout where you never touch the ball with the other hand. These are also great for those times when one hand is injured, or anything is injured. You can really work on your weak hand!
Four All Around Workouts are designed to build your All-Around Skills within a specific time bracket. There’s a 5-minute MVP, a 10-minute All-City, a 20-minute All-State, and a 30-minute All-American workout. You can combine them to accommodate any schedule. As an example; if you only have 15 minutes, then combine the 5-minute MVP with the 10-minute All-City workout.
You’ll need a half-court or a full-court for the Imagine the Game Workouts. They are designed to imitate as many game-like actions as possible. Within each workout, there are opportunities for you to exercise some imagination and choose your dribble move.
I organized Better Ball Handling this way specifically so that YOU can choose the workout depending on your level of expertise. They all begin with simple, easy dribbles and then progress to more challenging levels. Even the workouts themselves are arranged from simple to complex. Many of them last only a few minutes. Now … I could have easily made them longer by increasing the number of reps, but that would have limited the number of workouts on the dvd. If you want to lengthen the workout, then just repeat the workout or double the reps yourself. I encourage you to personalize your training by choosing different workouts from different chapters and coming up with your own combinations. With 30 workouts, you could make a different combination each day for an entire year and still have a variety left! It’s limited only by your imagination!
Learn and practice with Comprehensive is the most extensive instructional video on the market. Packed with over two hours of skills and drills, this program will help you become the best player you can be. Learn and practice with the game's best, including Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Carmelo Anthony, Amare Stoudemire, Diana Taurasi, Rip Hamilton, Kenny Smith and legendary California High School Coach Gary McKnight.
Magic Johnson's Fundamentals of Basketball: Conditioning provides unique exercises and stretching techniques to help you improve your strength, speed, quickness, and vertical leap and includes:
Stretching and warm-up exercises
On-court and in-home drills to improve footwork, speed, quickness, and agility
Exercises and drills to get stronger and jump higher
Magic is joined by world renowned conditioning coach Chuck Williams, Amare Stoudamire, Rip Hamilton, Carmelo Anthony, and Kenny Smith.
Magic Johnson's Fundamentals of Basketball: Advanced is ideal for junior high and high school level players and coaches and includes:
Tons of drills to advance ball handling, passing, and shooting skills
Strategies for getting open on offense, positioning for defense, and playing the post
Learn the "Power Offense" from legendary high school coach Gary McKnight
Magic is joined by legendary California high-school coach Gary McKnight, Amare Stoudamire, Rip Hamilton, Carmelo Anthony, Kenny Smith, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and top high school talent.
Magic Johnson's Fundamentals of Basketball: For Kids teaches the basics that every beginner needs to start playing the game:
The basic fundamentals of shooting a basketball
Learning how to dribble and make the basic passes
Basic stance, positioning, footwork, and moves
Magic is joined by youth instructor June Banks, a terrific team of kids, and this includes highlights and interviews with some of today's brightest stars.
with Ganon Baker,
Nike Basketball Training Specialist, Ambidextrous Shooting Coach, World-renowned Instructor and Clinician
with Boo Williams,
Legendary Coach, Clinician, and AAU Boys Basketball National Chairman
Ganon Baker tackles another basketball building block with this excellent DVD on passing. The lost art of passing is introduced, broken down and drilled throughout the presentation. With the help of Boo Williams and his Youth AAU team, Baker puts the skills and fundamentals of passing on display. Without solid fundamentals, players are at a disadvantage in today's competitive arena. Once a player learns skills, the key is repetition and a desire to reach your potential as a basketball player. A total of 21 drills are explained and demonstrated. Drills are suitable for the individual, partners and teams, and progress from stationary work to full court competitive drills. To progressively learn passing technique and skill, Baker emphasizes form, speed and contact. Players should concentrate on good form to ensure rapid skill improvement. The Sweep series is the backbone of passing proficiency, teaching players to pass around the defense without turnovers. Two ball partner passing, "triple pivot," "Don't Walk" and the Russian passing drill are crucial for proper player development. Aggressive defensive play helps players improve in the Door drill, and the "Live" Door" drill. Players are pushed in intense half- and full-court drills emphasizing 2-on-1 and 3-on-2 game like situations. To teach toughness and playmaking, Baker illustrates the Penetrate and Kick drill, Single exchange, 4 square pivot and Keep Away drills. Players and coaches who utilize these drills cover all elements of passing in game situations. With repetition and attention to detail, this DVD can open the way for great strides and improvement in passing and ball skills.
with Ganon Baker,
Nike Basketball Training Specialist, Ambidextrous Shooting Coach, World-renowned Instructor and Clinician
with Boo Williams,
Legendary Coach, Clinician, and AAU Boys Basketball National Chairman
Ganon Baker tackles another basketball building block with this excellent DVD on passing. The lost art of passing is introduced, broken down and drilled throughout the presentation. With the help of Boo Williams and his Youth AAU team, Baker puts the skills and fundamentals of passing on display. Without solid fundamentals, players are at a disadvantage in today's competitive arena. Once a player learns skills, the key is repetition and a desire to reach your potential as a basketball player. A total of 21 drills are explained and demonstrated. Drills are suitable for the individual, partners and teams, and progress from stationary work to full court competitive drills. To progressively learn passing technique and skill, Baker emphasizes form, speed and contact. Players should concentrate on good form to ensure rapid skill improvement. The Sweep series is the backbone of passing proficiency, teaching players to pass around the defense without turnovers. Two ball partner passing, "triple pivot," "Don't Walk" and the Russian passing drill are crucial for proper player development. Aggressive defensive play helps players improve in the Door drill, and the "Live" Door" drill. Players are pushed in intense half- and full-court drills emphasizing 2-on-1 and 3-on-2 game like situations. To teach toughness and playmaking, Baker illustrates the Penetrate and Kick drill, Single exchange, 4 square pivot and Keep Away drills. Players and coaches who utilize these drills cover all elements of passing in game situations. With repetition and attention to detail, this DVD can open the way for great strides and improvement in passing and ball skills.
with Ganon Baker,
Nike Basketball Training Specialist, Ambidextrous Shooting Coach, World-renowned Instructor and Clinician
with Boo Williams,
Legendary Coach, Clinician, and AAU Boys Basketball National Chairman
Nike basketball training specialist Ganon Baker puts cutting and moving without the ball on display. Using Boo Williams' AAU team as demonstrators, Baker helps players develop footwork and speed through intense drills. The fundamentals of cutting and getting open are crucial to young players as well as more experienced players. Warm-up drills shown include: High knees, Crazy Legs, Line Touches with the "fire walk", X's, Jabs and running in place. Heavy emphasis is put on the use of jump ropes for warm-up, strength, and conditioning. Boo Williams stresses the importance of jump rope to develop foot quickness and the ability to get open. The give-and-go series is an excellent segment that adds receiving the ball to cutting. The Hornet drill emphasizes vision on the ball and showing the target hand. Drills included are "door," dance steps and "fake the go" and all put fundamental teaching into practical drills. Because of the trend toward pressure defense, the back door remains one of the game's biggest tools. The athletic cut, L-cut and inside cut are three types of cuts that are demonstrated. All three cuts are useful and unpredictable weapons on the offensive end of the floor. This DVD concludes with Eastman's baseline touch drill, stop cut, 3-on-0 give-and-go, and "Keep away" drill. Keep away puts all teaching points together in an energetic drill that awards points to both the defense and the offense. The serious player and coach can benefit from cutting and moving without the ball. This presentation focuses on taking advantage of the defense, which will allow your team to score more points and add creativity to your practices.
Basketball Training Specialist, Ambidextrous Shooting Coach, World-renowned Instructor and Clinician
with Boo Williams,
Legendary Coach, Clinician, and AAU Boys Basketball National Chairman
Ganon Baker has done it again with a breakthrough shooting workout that has it all. Footwork, shooting mechanics, teaching points and drills are on display in this intense one-hour workout. On this DVD, Baker instructs youth-team players on "the lost art of shooting." Players learn how to find shots in four ways: Catch & Shoot, Shoot on the move, Dribble & Shoot and Shoot off the fake. Average players can become offensive threats by working on these four facets of shooting. Because many players waste practice time with half-hearted shots, this DVD preaches players to "practice game shots at game spots at game speed." The workout shows how the serious player can use practice time to improve his shooting and scoring ability daily. Shooting mechanics depend on "perfect feet" by pointing 10 toes to the rim. A quick "one motion" shot is demonstrated that will help players shoot quicker and straighter. Jump shot basics are covered with six superior drills, including the demanding five spot shooting drill. An underrated aspect of the game is shot faking. When the fake is short, quick and balanced, the defender becomes the victim. The Iverson Jab and the Kobe Jab are taught and used in these drills. Shooting on the move is illustrated with the Iceland drill, a new version of the elbow to elbow shooting drill. The Downscreen, L-cut, and America's play drills teach players to play without the ball and create good shots. Conditioning plays a part in Baker's drills as seen in the Intensity Jumper chair drill and the cone drill. By incorporating multiple aspects of proper shooting, players execute combo drills to refine their skills. The workout concludes with seven shooting drills that test player's skills and intensity. The Australian 3-man 2-ball shooting drill, X-out drill, Tip & shoot, Close Out 1-on-1 drill, Chaser, and the Eastman Baseline touch drill will push players out of their comfort zones. This DVD is a value to players and coaches because of the creativity and intensity required for each drill. Players will also develop multiple ways to get open, shoot, and score. A great approach to shooting that will push the individual to improve and the team to excel.
