How Planing And Practicing In Basket Ball Can Help You Grow In The Game

First and foremost, you should go out to practice with a plan. Having only an hour to practice
doesn’t give you much time. Know what you are going to work on and for how long. For
determining time, you can use a clock, number of repetitions, number of makes or bring some music
with you and work for a certain amount of songs. Anything to help you keep track so you know
when to move on to the next task.

You have to determine for yourself if you are going to work on weaknesses or shore up strengths,
both are important. But, regardless of what you decide you want to work on, two things that should
be done at every workout are shot repetitions and ball handling. Do those at the front of your
workout so you know that you will get them in. Use ball handling drills to warm up. Challenge
yourself and work up a good sweat. Stretch your comfort level and don’t worry about losing the
ball. Move on to shooting and do drills that will get you a high volume of shots. Really run after the
rebounds (that will help your conditioning) and shoot close to the basket. That will help you get off
more shots in a shorter period of time.
Once you have that done, work with some combination drills that allow you to work on several
skills at once, such as dribbling through a line of chairs and then pulling up for a jump shot.
Remember, in an hour, you can’t work on everything. Pick 1 or 2 things in addition to ball handling
and shooting, one strength, one weakness, put them in a plan and go to work