Pro Point Guard College: Basketball Passing 101

The Pro Point Guard College -Pro Basketball Training Courses with Trevor Huffman & Jason Otter- Basketball Passing 101 What if I told you, you are limiting your basketball career by the belief mindset and basketball training program you choose? Would you do anything different, if you had a training system that has created over 1000 college players? Could you become a college player if you had the right information? If you answered yes, then I think you've found the right place. My mission with the Pro Point Guard College is to help teach, educate, and inspire point guards to the next level, either through my Pro Point Guard College courses, my NMBA training center (email us here to stay & train all summer) or Jason Otter's youth basketball training system, Point Guard Elite camps, and more. Click here for Pro Point Guard College: Basketball Passing 101 video!!! Keep reading while it downloads, should take a few minutes. So, basketball passing, let's get started! Being an Pro Point Guard means you have to have deft, accurate, and multi-faceted passing skills, which requires a practice program designed to replicate passing skills at the highest levels. The best passers and point guards have timing, awareness, and quick release points from many angles, all the while understanding that practicing passing is a skill just like any other that can be learned in this world. What is the fastest way to learn Pro Point Guard passing skills? Much like everything else Jason Otter or I teach, it is built upon learning proper technique, then progressively increasing the intensity and workload through advanced basketball skill training techniques. 5 Basketball Tips: How Pro Guards Get Assists Find your big man or post player for the early seal, pin, or post up underneath the basket on transition. Specifically, look for a defensive player playing on the top side or ¾ front and lob the ball while in forward motion before there is defensive pressure. You must teach your big to keep eye contact with you while he posts up or pushes his defender up the lane to receive the lob. Tell him to let the defender fight for position on the top side. If you have athletic wings, forwards, or centers that beat defensive transition, tell them to create body contact, post up, and look for quick lobs in transition. Notice how fast Chris Paul gets the ball out of his passing pockets with lobs, early seals, eye contact, and other basketball passing skills here: Learn to create eye contact with players and quickly release the ball from from different pocket passing angles. For example, I usually make lob passes, either for post ups, dunks, or early seals between half court and the hash mark (the mark on the sideline at the top of the three point line) with quick one-handed flick passes. The faster you can get the ball (outlet), the more assists you will get. Once you get the ball, always keep your eyes up to pass the ball up the court first, then second, keep your dribble alive until you have a better option. Most point guards don’t practice pivoting, creating angles with explosive basketball moves, or learning how to dribble the ball with their heads up looking for better scoring opportunities. As you watch some my Basketball Passing 101 video below, start practicing our passing fundamentals with this beginner training system and then move onto our live training events or Jason Otter online training and you will begin to see things developing quicker on the court, which means more assists! Pass quickly with precision using two hands! Our basketball training system will create two hand passing- pocket passing, bounce passing, hook passing, pick and roll passing, and start creating pro point guard passing skills. Be patient but aggressive with the pick and roll, practice using ball fakes, no look passes, explosive basketball moves, and finishing jump stop (the two footed stop where you leave two pivot feet to choose from), 1-2 footwork (where you choose a dominant pivot foot to pivot from) to shift the defense. Again, let the defense choose how they play you and then read the situation as quickly as possible. My Pro Point Guard College Basketball Pick and Roll 101 will be coming in later weeks, but continue to implement pick and roll work into your basketball workouts. No baby dribbles, go nowhere, or meaningless dribbles! Make every dribble count for something. Baby dribbles are soft dribbles, where you cover no ground or create no angle for an easier pass or scoring opportunity. Again, sometimes the root problem for bad passing is slowing down, understanding how players are moving, keeping your head up, and not being able to create space because their offensive moves are so bad! You can never get good angles to pass with baby dribbles or practicing poor footwork, basketball dribbling moves, and inefficient basketball workouts. Okay, now you can watch the video! Sign up before space runs out at our live training events all year. Thanks, Trevor Huffman and Jason Otter