Which makes Biggie’s season last year all that more special...along with that freshman at OK right now.
His shot selection is soooooooo much better this year. he is playing well
This and feel like he isn’t forcing the 3 as much. He went through that slump but was still putting up 15 or more a game because he was driving. Also his moves when driving are impressive to keep defenders guessing.
Only one I can find right now. Mostly working on floaters but he does some high dribbles before a change of speed and take a shot. When he did that 4-1 fast break he did something similar
Well, I'm old, but don't get the high dribbles? Physics says for a given speed the longer the travel the more time the ball is not in your control and perhaps problematic in traffic, but not for speed dribbling. I understand the intention to make your last dribble before shooting a little harder to start push off the floor and get the shot going. That was one of the emphasis in the 1-2 step for Baumgartner. Another old teaching of the jab step was a 45 degree step as this is the only way to truly gain an advantage. If you step sideways with your step...you may just move the D sideways as well, but if you step at a 45 degree you not only move the D sideway, but back as well if you want to just pull up for a jumper..and then add a Rocker step to blow by. Carsen did make a floater the last game and don't recall him using that last year. Anyway, yuo can see he worked on his floater even if I don't fully understand some of the things going on. Thank you or the link and it is good to see these players wanting to improve outside of the team practices...
Actually, a change up whether pitching in baseball, running in football or in dribbling in basketball has always been practiced adn always taught. My question was not in speed change...fully understand that...my question was teaching a high dribble in traffic. Course a high dribble is part of a speed dribble, but a speed dribble is not a guarded dribble, but in speed down teh court where the ball is pushed farther out in front and higher.
I admit I don't know what the reason is. A layup has a high release and you don't dribble shoulder high for that. Again, the laws of physics say there is more chance to steal a ball the higher the bounce when guarded..AND somewhere I pointed out a jab step needing to be a 45 degree angle for full effectiveness and then to teach the Rocker Step as another option. There may be reasons "why", but I can't figure them out and I don't want to say they are wrong, because I could be missing something. Now, "IF" you are not really guarded...I could buy the higher bounce to get into a floater...but if you are going into traffic it takes longer to leave the hand, hit the floor and return to the hand than if you decrease that distance for a given force. If you want to steal a ball on the dribble, you make your move as soon as it leaves the hand since that is the most available time to make your move...
I’m not sure the reason but just my perspective here as a former swimmer and swim coach. We did a lot of stroke drills and some of them had exaggerated motions. One for freestyle was to drag you fingers along the water because it helped with proper elbow position. Perhaps the goal of this isn’t to do a high dribble but for something else
