The post principle that was talked about in the post called “Real Estate with Players in the Post” and is part of Read & React Layer 6: Post Screens states you must have a good reason to change sides of the lane. One of those...
A clever ball handler that wants to drive to the basket can create "Real Estate" for themselves by simply Dribbling-At a teammate. The teammate cutting to the basket, creates the opportunity for for the ball handler to "Draft Drive". By training ball-handlers using the...
When your players move the ball, cut, and move their defenders and have good spacing, you are going to create open space where you can train your ball-handlers to drive called "Real Estate". With the "Click-Click-Draft" drill, we exaggerate the amount of space normally created...
As a coach, I have experienced frustration many times when a player drives to the basket at the most inappropriate time, drives at the correct time only to drive in the wrong direction and directly into a helping defender, or freezes, and does not drive,...