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Stationary Ball-handling Drills are a Waste of Time A thread.
For Years, as a player, I was told stationary âball-handlingâ drills were the way to go.
Standing in place, pounding the ball on the floor as hard as I could thousand times to build up âwrist strengthâ (?!) or to build a handle.
Standing in place, pounding the ball on the floor as hard as I could thousand times to build up âwrist strengthâ (?!) or to build a handle.
While in a game, some of best players ever (even back then) use only a few dribbles to get into and to attack space.
As ball-handlers we almost never dribble straight down or âpoundâ the ball.
As ball-handlers we almost never dribble straight down or âpoundâ the ball.
Ps. Trainers. I get it, sometimes you want to teach a specific skill (cuffing, controlling, manipulation) and youâd like to isolate that part for a few minutes before you get into actual basketball movement.
Iâm just saying that phase is overemphasized.
Iâm just saying that phase is overemphasized.
Build your handle by:
- adding in spacial, rhythmic and reactionary components as soon as possible.â¨
- emulating the greats in how they go about attacking space.
- stop drilling, start playing. Constraints can be applied layer by layer to get the desired results.
- adding in spacial, rhythmic and reactionary components as soon as possible.⨠- emulating the greats in how they go about attacking space. - stop drilling, start playing. Constraints can be applied layer by layer to get the desired results.
