Here is a drill for all perimeter players to work on. There are three parts to it. At Jackson Community College we like to call these ‘Jet Turnouts’.
Catch and Shoot
1-Start under the basket with the ball. Coach is at the top of the key. Player with ball passes to coach and sprints out to the wing coming around a chair or a cone which is set up on the wing. Player catches and shoots. Be sure to square up on the catch. Eyes, shoulders, nose, knees, and feet all face the basket.
Catch and Go
2-Same as the first move but on the catch the player pushes the ball out in front of them and uses two dribbles to get away from the defender who is trailing. Keep your dribble low and keep it out in front of you.
Catch and Sweep
3-Player makes the same turnout as the first move but this time after the catch, the player squares up and sweeps the ball low and drives to the baseline for a pull-up jump shot. You can also rip the ball through. When sweeping low, stay down!
There are many more moves to this simple turnout series. When you don’t have the ball, you have to get open. Don’t stand around and watch. Come off screens hard.
Do 10 reps for each move and be sure to use both sides of the floor. Make sure you are sprinting out to the top. Simulate a game situation. Feel the defender on your hip riding you out.
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4 learned the game from his father, 3. Acie works hard and Acie watched over him. Dallas Morning News has the story.
“People used to say I worked him too hard,” his father said. “They didn’t think he would amount to much. I was going to break his spirit. I always knew for him to be what he wanted to be … he told me, ‘Dad, I want to play in the NBA.’ I knew from that, he had to work harder than anybody else for him to have that dream come true.”
Can’t you just hear all the grownups saying, ‘let the kids have fun, let them run up and down the court playing sloppy and not pass the ball’.
Those long hours of dribbling around cones in the yard, of taking dozens of jumpers, of heading to the Mountain View College fields to run sprints – they couldn’t have happened if not for Little Acie’s passion for the game, his father insisted. “It never would’ve worked out,” he said. “It wasn’t something I forced on him. He wanted it.”
Said Little Acie, “Basketball’s always been my joy, my first love.”
His grandfather cut the bottom out of a milk crate and nailed it to a telephone pole for a makeshift basket. Little Acie made such a racket shooting hoops for hours that the neighbors took it down while he was at school. His family put it right back up.
PLAY THE RIGHT WAY
