The Importance of the Fundamentals
In our last blog posting about our experience at the FastPitch competition, we talked about the importance of young basketball players establishing correct habits early on in the learning process. Making a 3-point shot with defense on you, when the score is close, and in the final moments of a game is tough enough to do with GOOD mechanics developed correctly over years and years. Trying to change poor mechanics that are already engrained in a player’s memory is a difficult challenge for both the mind and the body.
With our training videos, Pure Shooter’s Report Card, and our Aim High Hoops shooting clinics, we provide a crystal clear picture for players who want to become great shooters, and we plan on offering equally beneficial resources for dribbling and advanced shooting techniques, thus giving players all they need to maximize their individual offensive basketball potential.
If you are still skeptical about the idea of an hour of mechanics drills every day, listen to what the greatest player ever to play basketball, Michael Jordan said: “You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down first and the level of everything you do will rise.”
Jordan was known for practicing, practicing, and then practicing some more, to keep his fundamentals at the highest level possible at all times. Only in those circumstances, he believed, could he reach his maximum potential as a basketball player. His career illustrates that “at his best” was the only acceptable level for Jordan, but the only reason he was able to get there and stay there was because he laid a very strong foundation in the fundamentals of the game at a very early age.
Our mission at Aim High Hoops is to help players learn both basic and advanced basketball fundamentals, using high-quality resources and customer service. We look forward to helping players of all ages and skill levels reach their highest levels possible and stay there.
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Billy Lewis & Jonathan Schneiderman
Aim High Hoops, Inc.