"Being Deceptive"

A Smart Player is Never Predictable

Written by Tilden Corbett

For Sam and Peter Murphy

How to move without the ball (Read the Defense):

V-Cuts

Curls

Flashing

The High Shot

Pick and Roll (PNR)

Pick and Pop (PNP)

How to move with the ball:

Receiving the ball (Triple Threat)

Ball fakes

Jabs

Hands up

Step Backs

Low Post Moves (Drops Step, Up and Under, Spin, The Front)

Pass and Pick Away (PPA)

Drive and Dish (DND)

Give and Go

Reading the Offense:

Eye Reading

The Fake Open Man

Helpside and Recover

Tricks of the Trade:

Pick Your Man

The Fake Open Man

Trapping

The Back Door Signal

The Importance of COMMUNICATION

Verbal:

Defense: (Deny All Inside Scoring)

“Get Back”, “Help-side”, “Trap”, “Watch Mine”, “Deny”, “Switch”, “Slide”, “Look Around”, “Cutter”, “Deny Paint”, “Watch Mine”, “Watch My Back”, “Cut Off Baseline”, “Rotate”, “See Both”, “Back Door”, “Pick Left”, “Pick Right”, “Go Through”, “That’s weak”, “Step Up”, “Get on Top of That”, “Show Yourself”, “Watch Shooter”, “Hands Up (Leland)”, “Get Low (Nash)”, “See the World”, “1-Press 4 Help”, “Man Check”, “Box Out”, “Match Up”, “Find Yours”, etc.

Offense: (Execute)

“Swing It (The Ball)”, “Come Through”, “Motion”, “Pop Out”, “Turn Up The Volume”, “Execute”, “Flash”, “Stay Ball-side”, “For Me”, “For You”, “On Time”, “Stay Put”, “Other Side”, “Rub Off”, “Roll”, “Outlet”, “Crash the Boards”, “Read It”, “Look at the Hand”, “Cut Through”, “GNG”, “DND”, “PNR”, “PPA”, “PNP”, “Box Out”, “Follow Your Shot”, etc.

Non-verbal:

Back Door Signal, Player Control, Use against tight playing defenders

Come Through Hand Wave, Use to tell teammate to rub off pick

Pick, Arm Raise, Use when setting or calling for picks

Watch My Back, Illegal Procedure (in football), Use when fronting a Post Player

Throw Into the Lane, Head Nod with Eye Contact, The “Pick Your Man” trick

Vertical Leap Exercises

How to Jump Higher

Don't do jumping exercises 7 days a week. Four or five days per week is enough. If you do it every day, you may give up after a week or two. Also, if necessary, you would want to allow for healing time. The idea is to keep exercising for months, or years, consistently.

WARMING UP:

Before starting the exercises, warm up your muscles. Stretch properly, and jog around for a few minutes.

Push-ups --- Properly done push-ups will help increase your upper body strength; which will, ultimately, increase your leaping abilities. Do them often - perhaps for 50 reps twice a day.

You should jump rope for about 2 minutes during your warm-up. You will do more rope jumping later on during your main routine. Jumping rope definitely helps your conditioning. You can either use this as a quick warm-up or a full exercise.

Running up and down stairs for a while is very useful as a warm-up, or a full exercise. Don't do too much or else you may wear your legs. You can either use this as a quick warm-up or a full exercise.

JUMPING EXERCISES:

Deep Knee Bends --- Be standing. Slowly bend at the knees while keeping your back straight. Slowly crouch down as low as possible (it shouldn't hurt) and slowly rise back up. Do this 15 times. Over time, increase to 20, 30, etc.

Deep Knee Bend Jumps --- Be standing. Crouch down as described above but fairly quickly, almost touching your bottom to the ground, then explode upwards as high as you can. The moment you land, immediately crouch and launch back up again. Do this 15 times, and when you can, increase to 20, 30, etc.

Calf/Toe Raises --- Stand regularly, then raise up onto the tips of your toes; lower back down. Don't just rock up and down, do it slowly (not too slowly) but steadily. Repeat 30-50 times.

Calf/Toe Raises with Weights --- If you have any sort of weights, holding/wearing them while doing these toe raises will help. Use small weights (5 or 10 pounds are fine) and work your way up.

Jumping Rope --- Jumping rope definitely helps your vertical leap. This is the most important exercise you can do to improve your leaping ability. Make it a habit. It’s important that you pace yourself. You will jump rope during warm-up and during your main exercise routine. Also keep in mind that jumping rope, when done correctly, increases your upper body strength, which ultimately, aids in your leaping ability. Begin by jumping for 10 minutes then increase to 15, 20, etc.

In conclusion, just as anything you want to accomplish, increasing your leaping ability requires commitment. The question you will need to ask yourself is, “How committed am I ?”. Also, I’ve seen people who call themselves having a workout yet I never see them sweat. You will get out of this, whatever you put into it. Don’t short yourself.

Things that make an offense work

by Coach Tilden

1.) Have it in your mind that you’re going to MAKE the offense work. BE PATIENT.

2.) Don’t make it easy to figure out. Be able to improvise.

a. Read the defense (Overplaying, Sagging, etc).

b. Don’t be predictable (Don’t telegraph passes or movements). Use deceptive movements like V-cuts. Be deceptive in everything you do. Always misdirect.)

3.) Execute quick and think quicker.

a. Always stay 1 or 2 steps ahead of your opponent.

b. Begin the offense or play immediately

4.) Communicate

a. Call out or signal what the defense is doing. (The type of defense, half or full court pressure, etc. )

b. Verbal and Non-verbal signals like: backdoor, setting a pick, calling for a pick, come through, head nods

5.) Be Aggressive

a. Don’t do what your opponent wants you to do, but rather do what you want to do. (This applies to Posting up, Flashing, Cutting, Passing (Without forcing), etc

b. Fight for position

c. Attack opponents weaknesses

6.) Focus, Execute, and be Creative

a. Know the offense to perfection and utilize all its various options. (See Options Below)

b. Ask questions.

c. While keeping with the basis of the offense, be creative.

d. Discuss with the coach any ideas you may have that will improve the offense.

e. Relax, Focus, and Execute.

f. Don’t be hesitant in your movements or passes; as he who hesitates is LOST!

7.) Relax and Have Fun

a. If you’re having fun then you’re more relaxed and will execute better.

b. Bring chewing gum to games and practices. It’s proven that chewing gum relaxes a person.

c. Talk or sing to yourself (In your head if you are not vocally gifted)

d. Talk to your teammates

e. Get yourself pumped beginning at warm-up time

f. Clap when a person makes a bucket or plays great defense

g. PG should call out the Extreme Pound when everyone’s set in their defense.