Off Season Workouts

Another very enthusiastic crowd of rising sixth graders today at the Common. About twenty youngsters came on a very warm day to participate in drills, specialty work, and scrimmaging.

Workouts run from about 5 PM to 7 PM and include a variety of fundamental and specialty work. After the initial ball-handling drills, the coaches broke into positional (post and perimeter player) groups.

Visiting assistant coach Karen Sen showed the interior players proper technique for establishing and defending the post position, drop step, and up and under moves. We added some demonstration of the mid-range step back jump shot.  We look forward to having additional visits from alumni and current players to establish the traditional bond so important to Lady Raider basketball.

We had enough players for two full teams of red and white, with round robin scrimmage play, with special emphasis on:

• Transition offense
• Moving without the ball and 4s and 5s playing off each other
• Spacing

Here's an interesting video demonstrating one coach's approach for running motion against the zone.