Basketball Training Syllabus

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The Complete Basketballer Roadmap was uniquely crafted to provide an objective-based and quantifiable training program for all our students.

Each stage in the roadmap serves as a “target badge” for the players.

It paves the way for our students to visualize the “player they are going to become” during each phase. More importantly, it also creates an easier pathway to role specializing and creates thinking sportsmen that can excel in other sports.

This roadmap not only serves as a target for all trainees, it also serves as a motivation for them to focus on a certain set of skills during their own time. Competing against their personalized training plan set by their private basketball coaches, students are pushed to complete the different stages as soon as possible to achieve the “target badges”.

From the time of signing up with our private basketball lessons, a complete beginner can expect to progress upwards through different stages of competency.

Stage 1: The Ball Handler

Stationary Dribble
Protecting the ball
Changing direction with the ball
Basic Pivoting
3 Basic Passes

The most important trait in a complete beginner would be to learn how to handle the ball.

This includes being able to dribble, pass and catch, stationary and in motion. Being adept at ball control allows one to have better ball control when executing any of the more advanced skills in the future.

This is also the phase where players are taught the basic footwork needed when handling a ball, to shield and protect their positioning in game.

Stage 2: Bucket Getter

Lay Up
Stationary Shot Under Basket
Mid Range Shot
Post Move
Footwork for getting past helpside defense (Euro Step, Veer Step, Power Lay up)
Scoring Move For transition Offense

The name of the game here is learning how to score.

This is probably the most fun aspect of the game, where a player learns the different techniques used to score a basket.

Players are not only expected to learn these skills, but would also be expected to perform them in timed challenges and defensive pressure set out by the coaches.

Stage 3: The Grinder

Rebounding
Defensive Sliding
Scoring off an Offensive Rebound
Transiting from a Defensive Rebound to Offence
Defensive Positioning
Drawing Charge
Block and Steal

Defensive work and hustling work are one of the most neglected aspects of a game, but definitely aspects which many coaches look out for as the basis for competitive sports.

This genre of skills teaches our students defensive skills and positioning, and also how to place themselves in intelligent positions to aid the team.

Physical training which strengthens the players are also emphasized in this phase, as it is a necessary component for them to build basic strength for the skills needed in this segment.

Stage 4: Off-Ball mover

How to Set On and Off Ball Screens
Backdoor Cuts
FastBreak Lanes
Flaring to Shooting Positions
How to use Off Ball Screen (Flare, Curl, Flex, UCLA)

The earlier 3 stages emphasize on individual skills during direct game play. Thus, many players often do not work on their skills during indirect game play.

For instance, how should one move without the ball to create space, shooting opportunities, or to set up screens for their teammates. When to move, how to move, where to move, are traits that more often than not differentiate between the skillful basketballer and the competitive team basketballer.

A player who has strong individual skills mastered in the earlier 3 stages thus may not be able to compete competitively without learning the skills in indirect game play.

This is because basketball is still by and large a team game, and understanding how the game is played when one is away from the ball is as important, if not even more important than when one is with the ball.

Stage 5: The All Rounder

A. Fast Break Transition (2 on 1 , 3 on 2)
B. Zone Defense Rotation
C. Finding and Exploiting a Mismatch
D. Anticipate how a defender will rotate
E. Expanding Court Vision

The All Rounder stage of training emphasizes on intelligent decision making whilst utilizing the skills learnt in the above 4 stages.

In this stage, all the skills in the above 4 stages would be combined together and put to the test in realistic playing situations.

Players would be expected to analyze, think, and practice intelligent decision making skills in respect of which skills to execute in what situation.

Many players possess adept skills, yet are unable to raise themselves to the highest level. The issue thereby lies in their inability to make appropriate decision makings under competitive elements.

This stage not only trains an all rounded player, but it also creates an intelligent sportsman under pressure, which allows them to utilize these concepts in other genres in life.

Each stage of training is broken down into numerous segments by itself, which would be illustrated later in the page. Inside each segment by itself, there would be numerous skills the player would have to pick up before progressing on to the next segment/stage.

More importantly, the training program allows our students to understand and learn the varying amount of skills needed to perform competently in a basketball game.

Instead of the usual fundamental skills the layman basketballer would do, the Complete Basketballer Roadmap would enable these players to learn the varying skills needed to excel in differing roles in a game.

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Basketball Training Syllabus

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