Basketball pre game

This quick video below demonstrates a few pre-game warm up drills, including drive-and-kick for layups and baseline curl shot sequences.

This video provides an extended look at additional basketball pre-game warm up drills. A solid defensive sequence involves 3-on-3 close outs. It focuses on help-side responsibilities on defense and attacking the basket on offense.

You must be logged in to post a comment. Addition Pre-Game Warm Up Sequences This quick video below demonstrates a few pre-game warm up drills, including drive-and-kick for layups and baseline curl shot sequences.

If you are playing in a weekend tournament you might have a game at noon, based on what you read above you should get up by 8AM. I always start the day with a glass of greens first , but after that, in this situation, breakfast is perfect. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Our training is intelligent and intense. We make athletes that are skilled, run fast, jump high, are mentally strong, with a high basketball IQ.

Basketball Training Intelligent and intense basketball training. Email Facebook Twitter YouTube. Home About Blog Contact Us. May 21, by Joe Lucas Leave a Comment. Read on to learn the different facets of these routines and how a variety of elite basketball players use them. Routines are a series of thoughts and actions related to the task at hand, which help a player systematically get into the right mindset for whatever performance is needed.

Using a routine allows an athlete to focus on the task at hand and be dialed into the game. Of course, we know hoopers have been using pre-game routines see: nap taking for years. What helps is to consider, with some detail, just what some high level collegiate and professional ballers and coaches do to get their minds right. Some may not want to share their routines, for personal or competitive reasons.

It puts me in my happy place. Do this then, do that, then, boppity-bop-bop-bop. But Sue! What are some of those specifics that an elite athlete like Sue Bird gets into to put themselves in a ready state to compete?

Across the board, basketball players report using a mid-day nap as part of their pre-game routines. While some pro hoopers have the luxury of a full 90 minute nap, even minutes of shut eye can be hugely valuable for athletic performance, improving your ability to focus, mood, reaction time and, yes, how well you shoot a basketball.

Music is a great way to modulate your energy up or down as needed to prepare for what lies ahead. Need to relax? Try some smooth jazz or classical. Need to get hype? Get your hip-hop mix together.

Depending on the energy level you want to arrive at, different playlists featuring songs with different beats per minute can help you do just that. Former overseas pro hooper Milani Malik-Richardson says the right music was essential in her career. Players report doing different activities that are personally meaningful to them that help get them into a performance-ready mindset. These sorts of actions can help a player pre-game or during the game again, think free-throw routines. While to some this may seem like a random series of things to do, or even superstition, for Kateri, who uses these actions to honor a cousin who was murdered when Kateri was a Freshman in High School, these actions go way deeper.

I have a piece of gum that I chew before I go on the court, and then when I warm up I throw it out.