Summer Accountability

The most important time to develop your amazing skills and game is the off-season.  The time spent here will determine if you will reach the potential that your coaches always say that you have.  

• You can not be a successful offensive player unless you can reliably shoot the basketball.

• There is not enough practice time during the season to fully develop your ball handling skills or your shot making ability.

• Typically 60-80% of in-season practice time is devoted to offensives or defensive schemes, not the improvement of skills.

• We understand that you may have commitments that make missing a week over the off season unavoidable - still document it.

To elevate your skills, you not only need repetition, but you need consistency and accountability.  You will improve your game doing 30 minutes of ball handling daily versus a 3 hour extended session once a week.   Shooting also  benefits by doing more sessions.  We say you should shoot 500-2000 shots a week.  You are better off doing 200 shots 5 times a week than 1000 shots in one day.

• Spread out your skills over 4-7 days

• It is best if you combine ball handling and shooting on the same day.  You can still do shooting  and ball handling drills without a hoop.  Check the suggested training videos.  

• Remember repetition with good technique is the goal.  A terrible excuse for a player is saying, "I've already done that drill. "   Push yourself with every drill,  just go faster with more intensity.

How to document your summer

1.   The week goes from Saturday to Friday.  Use manageable and repeatable chunks of 50 shots and 10-15 minutes of ball handling.

2.   Download the printable tracking chart from the button above.

3.   You should write notes to yourself after every daily session.  This will be unbelievably beneficial.

4.   Record the daily results on your phone or on paper.  Enter total results online at the BBA website (bearspawbasketball.ca) for the week.  

5.   Record changes of your routine in the notes.

6.   We will be reviewing the results.  Email us with questions, and we will try to help any way we can.

Ball Handling

1.   Ball handling ideas can come from the suggested videos or your own choice.  

2.   Don't push your ball handling sessions too long.  5-15 minutes then switch back to shooting.

3.   You are expected to be making  mistakes, that is why you are doing this. 

4.   Remember, the people in the videos have been doing this for years.  They are not showing you the videos of when they started.  

5.   Your garage or an unfinished basement is a good place to work on this.  You don't need a gym.  

Shooting

1.   Even if you take 1000 shots a day, if it is with bad form, it is worth nothing.    This is why you don't practice 3's until you can consistently make mid range shots.

2.   Start the day with Warm up/Form shooting  (see warm up shooting video).

3.   Form remains the same regardless of distance  (see video below).

4.   Start and end with 10  Free throws.  Count makes and misses - record.

5.   Mid range shots are taken outside the key but inside the 3 point line.  This includes the Free Throw line and these should at least be attempted every fifth shot.

6.   Mid range shots should change location after every shot.  As you improve you should add ball movement prior to the shot.

7.   Once you hit 50% of mid range shots (minimum sample size of 50 shots) you can incorporate 3 point shots.  

8.   Aim for 150 - 300 shot attempts per day, divided into manageable  chunks (50 is a good number).  3 pointers should be restricted to chunks of 10.

Ball Handling

SHOOTING