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Monday, January 11, 2010

HELP YOUR TEAM THIS SEASON

You help your team this season when you make your defense foul you. Fouls help your team get to the free throw line, frustrate the other team, and keep the other team from playing too physical.
Keys to drawing fouls:
Maintain excellent balance. Strong pivots, and fake.


Fakes are critical in the game of basketball, but you have to practice fakes and execute them often. Watch how many teams work on fakes, practicing them in warm-ups. Hardly any! If we don’t practice it, we won’t do it. Sell your fakes, get in a mirror and make sure the fakes look like the real thing. Fake high, pass low. Fake right, go left. Shot fake then cross step. Fake to get open and cut backdoor. Use your fakes to your advantage!

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