Tips for Basketball Players

• Every player can be part junkyard dog.
• Be your team’s best practice player; it will pay dividends.
• Don’t specialize yourself so much that you become a situational player only.
• Be a student of the game; sometimes only one tip can “turn on the lights”.
• Don’t be satisfied; stay humble and hungry.
• Great skill- playing hard. Possible for everyone.
• Have a short memory: forget the last play.
• Playing time needs to be earned; it’s not a right.
• Pouting about one’s playing time usually guarantees more time on the bench.
• Missed steals and missed blocks are really bad plays.
• Every defender can be good off the ball.
• Make the man with with the ball so uncomfortable, he has to put it on the floor and then so uncomfortable he has to pick up his dribble.
• Don’t miss perimeter shots left or right; the great shooters are long or short but always on line.​
• You must master dribbling and finishing with both hands.
• Attack under control.  Hard to do but the real secret.
• Practice “seeing the floor”.
• Don’t be the player who messes up your team spacing.
• Don’t let the ball stagnate at you.
• Most plays are routine.  The highlight plays are exceptions.
• Create a play; finish a play.  Be very good at one and good at the other.
• You can add value to every possession even when you don’t score or get the assist.
• Be efficient; good assist/turnover ratio and good 2pt and 3pt FG %’s.