Drillz and Skillz Basketball Academy

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Centro Escolar University is pulling all the stops to ensure that its already successful basketball program is continuously improving.

04/14/2021

INDECISION IS A PLAYER KILLER. TOO MANY OPTIONS CAUSES CONFUSION AND ERODES CONFIDENCE

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As coaches, we try to prepare our players for every possible situation they might face in a game. When we teach skills, we try to present things that that will help our players to excel in every area. In our desire to create a formidable basketball entity (team or player), we don’t realize how com...

04/08/2021

DO YOU THINK TOO MUCH?

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I am a huge proponent of leaving your brain at the door when you step on the court. I believe that over-thinking produces the most deadly of all game killers, Analysis Paralysis. Just by looking at the words (a good English project for players) analysis paralysis means what it says, you are unable t...

03/28/2021

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/the-mental-game/immediacy-the-forgotten-fundamental

The evolution of basketball marches on. The game is a living, breathing entity that, like a shark, must keep moving ahead or it will die. Those of us that have been watching for decades can readily see the changes. Those too young to remember the game in the 60s, 70s, 80s and even the 90s will see t...

03/24/2021

DOES PRACTICE REALLY MAKE YOU BETTER?

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/the-mental-game/does-practice-really-make-you-better

I have been coaching, effectively, for my entire life. Even as a child, I played while preparing myself to be a coach. While it is what I have the most passion for, I do do other things. However, no matter what I am doing, I see basketball in it. I often draw analogies from other things I do to bask...

03/16/2021

TOO MANY THINGS TO THINK OF HOLDING YOU BACK?

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/the-mental-game/consequence-of-choice

As coaches, we try to prepare our players for every possible situation they might face in a game. When we teach skills, we try to present things that that will help our players to excel in every area. In our desire to create a formidable basketball entity (team or player), we don’t realize how com...

03/09/2021

WANT TO BE A BETTER PLAYER? DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/the-mental-game/do-your-homework

You might not know it to look at me now, but I was a pretty good player. I was not very big, not very quick nor did I possess any other special physical tools. Still I was good enough to play in high school, with some distinction, and go on to play major college basketball.

02/27/2021

12 THINGS ALL GREAT SHOOTERS DO

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12 Things That GREAT Shooters Do

02/18/2021

ARE YOU ACTING SECOND AND LOSING CONTROL OF YOUR OPPONENT?

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ATTACK FIRST. MAKE YOUR OPPONENT READ AND REACT I have been known as something of a contrarian when it comes to coaching and teaching basketball. We all have different experiences and we are shaped by those experiences. When I started coaching, it was one size fits all, I was taught in a particular....