PG Skills - Day 3

Point GuardPG: Skills

Jan 4

Stationary dribbling, head up, 30 sec per move, then switch hands
- High pounds - R/L hand
- Low pounds - R/L hand
- Crossover - Wide/Narrow
- V dribble - side to side, forward-back w/ R/L hand
- Hang/hesi/pocket dribble
Dribbling while walking forward to half-court
- Crossover, BTL combo
- Cross, BTB combo
- Cross, BTL, BTB comdination

Elite point guards are great passers. These are the skills that are needed to become a great passer:

Court vision - not only do you need to dribble with your head up, but you also need to be able to see the whole court, not just the defender in front of you.
Understanding of your offense - the PG often sets up or resets the offense, and the great PGs can find good matchups.
Ability to pass quickly and accurately off the dribble with either hand - two-handed passes are safer but take longer, which is why you see great passers, dropping dimes with either hand off the bounce.
High basketball IQ - read the defense and know when to shoot, drive, or pass and when and where to get teammates the ball to score.

Simulating game-like passing situations in drills is difficult, especially if you’re training alone.

That being said you can improve your eye-hand coordination and quickness with these drills that you can do alone or with another player/coach:

Do these drills passing to yourself off a wall or passing to another player.

Stand with a player or the wall 10’ to your left. Make a 2-handed chest pass after the following stationary dribble moves:
- Crossover x2, pass; cross x3, pass; cross x4, pass; cross x5, pass
- BTL x2 , pass; BTL x3, pass; BTL x4, pass; BTL x5, pass
- BTB x2 , pass; BTB x3, pass; BTB x4, pass; BTB x5, pass
- Do the same passing to the right
Stand with a player or the wall 6-10’ in front of you. Make a 1-handed bounce pass after the same stationary dribble moves:
- Crossover x2, pass; cross x3, pass; cross x4, pass; cross x5, pass
- BTL x2 , pass; BTL x3, pass; BTL x4, pass; BTL x5, pass
- BTB x2 , pass; BTB x3, pass; BTB x4, pass; BTB x5, pass

With another person, you can also start honing your decision-making skills with this drill.

Start with the ball on the R elbow, while your partner/defender is at the L elbow.
Slap the ball and drive to the basket.
On the slap of the ball, the player at the opposite elbow either runs to defend your lay-up or cuts to the hoop for a pass.
The player with the ball has to decide to finish over the defense or pass depending on what the other player decides.
Switch sides to drive or pass from the L elbow with the other player starting on the R.

One-hand finishes - dribble around the key from L block to L elbow to R elbow to R lay-up all with R-hand. Do the opposite with L-hand.
Mikan and reverse Mikan drill
Goofy/awkward lay-ups - R and L-hand
- Wrong foot
- Inside hand
- High-off-glass
- Scoop lay-up
- Middle finish reaching to the side
Finishing against a defender (if possible), start at R elbow - make 2 in a row
- Outside foot, outside hand w/ defender on hip
- Swerve finish - bump defender towards middle then finish on both sides
- Runner - one-foot jump
- Circle under the hoop reverse lay-up
- Repeat from the opposite elbow