Learning How to do Basketball Tricks

Whether you’re a kid of an adult athlete, it’s never too late to learn a few new tricks.

Ball handling skills are essential in the game of basketball and anything that can help you improve the way you handle the ball is awesome!

Check out how to do a criss cross in basketball, spin the ball on your finger and eventually into an “around the world”, and how to do a behind your back pass:

What a great tutorial for anyone looking to learn basketball handling tricks!

Ball handling is very Read more

Get Ready for March Madness – Don’t Miss a Play

Sports just got “upgraded” on the television!

Now that analog television is obsolete, everyone’s watching shows in HDTV, they’ve got satellite and direct tv packages, etc.

Sports will never be “fuzzy” on TV again! No more “snow”, no more lines throughout! Never miss a play!

The thing is, if you don’t have DIRECT TV, you aren’t getting the BEST sports experience possible.

With NCAA Basketball coming to an end with all the excitement of March Madness Tournament on March 17, 2009. You must be prepared for it!

Only with direct tv packages will you be able to see every single game of this action-packed, sure-to-be-upsets, hard slamming, serious dunking tourney! That means with the NCAA Mega March Madness you’ll get up to 37 Read more

Basketball Is In The Air…

Since Spring is in the air, you must have a Spring in your step…

If you live up North in North America, you’re no doubt tired of this snow and cold!!!

If you love basketball, with March Madness on the airwaves and in sports fan conversations, you must be itching to get out and shoot some hoops…maybe a little one-on-one?

Be prepared…What does the basketball hoop in your driveway look like? Will your kids be trying to shoot hoops at their friends’ houses instead?

If you’re an avid basketball player, parent, or someone that gets together with their friends to play regularly, think about getting an Upgrade!

How cool would it be to have professional-looking, actual basketball court dimensions marked off on your driveway? Pretty cool, I think. For a young athlete that’s aspiring to get an athletic scholarship, who is constantly working on their game, this would be so handy!

Are you tired of those portable basketball hoop set-ups? Tired of them blowing over, or not being regulation height? Upgrade…inground basketball hoops are an awesome option and are really not that difficult to install.

I say all of this because I got to thinking about our “set-up”…It could be “Upgraded” too! So, I got to looking around online and found a website, dazadi.com…It got my brain racing with how we could “spruce” it up a bit…okay, a lot…

My husband LOVES to Read more

March Madness Excitement Is At Hand!

Oh…The excitement is at hand…2 more days until the NCAA Basketball Tournament and Finals begin!

It will be 19 days of men’s and women’s college basketball adrenaline and hard-core competition!

No doubt, as March Madness approaches, you, your friends and family will be calling who will win what game…

If you haven’t had a chance to watch this season’s games, and you need a crash course into figuring out who you want to go for, you’ll need to see some odds and points spreads for the NCAA tournament!

My dad and husband always print up the March Madness bracket, so they can fill it in as the teams play, marking who wins and who loses…Not to mention who was rooting for who and by what point spread, so no one can cheat…LOL

If you really want to get fancy, docsports.com archives the last 5 yrs of brackets for you to compare…

Don’t want to miss a thing? Well, the opening events started a few days ago…on March 16th, but the 1st round doesn’t start until March 20th!

Here’s a great page to have available for the March Madness Schedule of events…It even shows you Read more

How To Play Basketball: Secrets To Becoming A Basketball Court Legend

Basketball is not about looking pretty.
Basketball is not for wimps.
Basketball is not consistently won without fundamentals.

As much as I love watching And-1, that won’t cut it at school. You can’t turn the ball over that much and win. You can’t travel, and you can’t get away with crazy dribbling techniques…And although I love shakin’ a playa’ straight out his shoes, I “ain’t” kiddin’ I’ve do it all the time, but “it don’t win games”.

I am about winning. Basketball is about: going all out, leaving nothing on the court, sweat, blood, fundamentals, and guess what…

Winning!

How To Dominate The Basketball Court

What signifies a win?

…The highest score when you hear the last sound of that buzzer. Ahh, the sweet smell of victory.

Basketball is now, and always will be, won first by solid shooting, team defense, conditioning, getting to the free throw line and making them, staying out of foul trouble, taking shots when you have a good look, ball handling, putting more points on the board than the other team.

Every activity you do on the basketball court should:

1. Help you put more points on the board or
2. Keep the other team from putting more points on the board.

That’s it!

If whatever you’re doing isn’t accomplishing one of those two simple tasks, then you are wasting your time.

Don’t worry…When you do what you’re suppose to do, you’ll be shining already, and you’ll get the opportunity to “show your stuff”. Be patient. You’ll get your recognition because you shut down a baller, or you put points up on the scoreboard.

Basketball Offensive Tips

Get in shape. There’s no easier “bucket” than to wear out your opponent and go right past him/her because they were tired.

Learn to get as close to the basket as you can to take shots. Why? That’s were the “easy money” is made. That’s where you’ll find your highest percentage of shots and where you’ll get fouled, so you can get to the foul line.

Understand this: If the person guarding you is in foul trouble, they only have 3 choices.

1. Foul out
2. Lay back off of you
3. Put someone else in

That’s a coaches nightmare. If you are a real hooper, you’ll realize that means someone is in ‘trouble’.  Green light all day baby! Easy buckets.

Learn your offense. That’s the quickest way to get benched…not to knowing what you are suppose to do, or where you are suppose to go.

Become a fundamental superstar. This alone can get you a scholarship to college.

1. Hit your free throws
2. Make your lay-ups
3. Play solid defense

Basketball Defensive Tips

Get in shape. This is the key to great defense. As you can see, this is the first tip in both the defensive and the offensive tips above. It’s the most important thing to do. What good are you to a team, a coach, or yourself if you can’t play hard when you are needed? Is it easier to play defense in the first quarter of a game or the last?

Why? One word…Fatigue. If you really want to frustrate an offensive player, and keep him/her limited or shut out of the game, get in great shape and be wherever they are with your hands up and feet ready to move the whole game long.

Learn to read the court and keep your eyes moving. There’s nothing worse, as a defender, than to get caught “sleepin”.

So, stay “awake” in the game, be alert, and learn to see what is developing before, or as, it is developing.  This will increase your reaction time and readiness for defending the play.

Well, that’s all for today. Hope you enjoyed the post.

To Your Immediate and Lasting Success Always,

Kenney Jr.

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