Advanced Basketball Techniques ft. Ganon Baker

Ganon Baker is regarded as one of the premier basketball skill trainers in the World.

Ganon trains players from the NBA, NCAA, high school, and middle school levels. His relentless passion, work ethic, and competency for the game have the respect of players and coaches all over the World. Since June 2001, Baker has been traveling all over the Globe impacting the game of basketball. He has been to 45 countries and counting working with players and coaches on their games.

NBA/WNBA players crave his knowledge and energy to get them better. Ganon has worked with and shared the court with Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Chris Paul, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Brittney Griner, Maya Moore, Lindsay Whalen, Tamika Catchings, Skylar Diggins, the Minnesota Lynx Team, and many more.

As Baker is part of a Hoopsking family, we are bringing you a portion of a basketball training that he does with his players, and in the next few drills we are going to analyze what is he trying to accomplish by doing them.

Before we start, we must point out that this is not a basic basketball stuff. Instead, this is just the part of training that is done with the players that are on an envious level of basketball and are in need of some corrections or they want to add a move or two to their skill set.

1. Ball Handling Training

Drum dribble drill is done if we want to make the hands faster with the ball and it can be used for the injured players in order to keep their hands occupied during the recovery process. The second benefit of doing this drill is the fact that your fingers are getting more powerful. 99% of the both players and coaches seems to neglect this aspect of the player's development program. By dribbling the ball with less and less fingers, your muscle memory will learn how to control the ball with different portions of your hand. In time as you develop a stronger hand, you will notice the change in the ball grip feeling.

2. Super Fast Figure 8

Super Fast Figure 8 drill is done in a way that you are in a stance as you are dribbling the ball between your legs but instead of bumping the ball off of the floor, you are handing it off from hand to hand. This drill is going to make your legs stronger and more explosive but in a way that next time you want to do the between-the-legs dribble it will be automatic and faster then you are used to. The faster you manage to do this drill the more your eye-ball coordination is better and your reaction time is quicker.

3. Jab Step like Melo

As everybody already knows, Melo has the best Jab Step pull-up jumper, but over the course of his career, the problems with efficacy are getting bigger and bigger. His Jab step is still a thing of basketball art. The jab step , when done in an East-West way is used to move your defender in the chosen direction. The part that most players never use is the Jab step that goes towards the player, and as a result, we have a frozen defender.

A jab step is used in situations when we want to move our defender in a particular way so we can have the opportunity to drive by him, and that Jab step toward the defender will make him freeze, and that will give you some time and space to take a simple jumper or to fade away a bit.

4. How to create separation on the one dribble pull up

5. Pick and Pop Basketball

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