1-3-1: My HB elite drill of the week, how we should experiment for success, and why teaching builds mastery
By Trevor Huffman | 3 Minute Read | February 2022
1-Basketball Training Drill of the Week
3- Basketball Training Ideas
I. Offseasons are for experimenting, in-seasons aren’t.
Why? For starters, there’s really nothing on the line if you fail in the offseason other than ego.
The offseason is the time to work on unexplored parts of your game, improve new footwork, finishes, or dribble moves, hire a skill, mental, or sports performance trainer that grows different parts of your mind, body, and game. If you’re a coach, try new sets, zones, full-court press packages, run your best player at the point or in most actions, and develop the parts of the whole you’ll need for success against the best next season.
Elite Basketball Training Tip: Before I became All-State in high school, I knew I couldn’t shoot very well off the dribble, so I forced myself to score in pick-up games, or 1v1, 1v2, and 3x3 from outside the lane off the dribble.
The cost of experimenting and failing during the season when the lights are on is expensive. If you lose a conference championship, a district title, a good seed for the tourney, or have a terrible game when a college watches you play real competition, may not be worth the experiment.
II. You learn more from teaching youth basketball than playing it.
Youth to pro players usually don’t teach what skills or concepts are trying to learn, and therefore, don’t fully master the game as completely or quickly as they could.
Email me, if you want to start with our online HB Elite Training community on Zoom (again) as seasons come to end. And yes, sometimes we make kids teach and demo our drills for the other players.
III. One of the most valuable life lessons in getting to the top 1% of NBA, college, and overseas basketball is that constantly choosing to be the highest version of yourself pays dividends in health, wealth, and happiness eventually.
On the other hand, by merely accepting life happening to you, not choosing to be your bests elf, and doing the bare minimum, you become a person that life happens to. You live in debt to society, to banks, and to your body.
If there is something you really want, do it.
Don’t wait. Be, make, do, struggle, create, teach, and grow towards the thing you value most. Plus, it’s so fun to live aligned with what you most value becoming.
1- Huffman Basketball Question: Do I know how to teach or show people how to do the very skills I wish to acquire?
Good luck training and coaching, please share, like, send questions, or your training videos of youth players doing the HB drill of the week at thuffman24@gmail.com,
Trevor Huffman