Friday, 7 October 2016

Spruce up Your Skills of Basketball with D1 United STL

Do you want to hold the basketball with precision? Although, handling a basketball at the beginning is hard nut to crack, but nothing is impossible in the world. “Practice makes a man perfect”, so a continuous practice can improve your game of basketball.  But, firstly you have to improve your ball handling ability and this is only possible with practice. Keeping this thing in mind, D1 United STL is here; with this program our mission is to improve the basket ability, aspirations, basketball IQ, and andommitment to the personal success of the youth sports in our programs.


Basketball is an enormous sport to play and mainly considered it as youth sports. They show great interest in the basketball court that is why; they can easily learn how to control the basketball and get success. There are many youth basketball players who can dribble the basketball very well, but struggle to control it in tight situations. The main reason behind this lack of interest, although there are plenty of reasons as to why someone may struggle with handling the basketball with control.

Larry Hughes is a former basketball player of Philadelphia and is now the head coach and CEO at D1 United STL. He is the best active coach in the game today. His main is to provide skill training, basketball education, and leadership opportunities for all children. Here, children are given opportunities to maximize their talent, grow within the sport of basketball, and develop leadership qualities for success both on and off the court. D1 United STL, time-to-time organized a youth basketball tournament to encourage and to sharp their player’s skill.
Larry Hughes generally focuses on one of the most important skills while playing a basketball is the technique of passing a ball to other players. There are many basketball passing drills you can use to help your team. All of them are aimed to enhance your player’s proficiency in a completing passes, catching the ball safely, or to enhance their anticipation. But there are two basic fundamental passes; a diagonal pass and a line pass. One can play the game by learning just these two passing styles.  
Diagonal Passes
This is one of the basketball passing drills to help get your teamed warmed up and ready for the next sets of drills. It also enhances their speed, passing, and catching.
Have a group of three to five players stand along the free throw circle or half-court circle. Then instruct them to pass the ball diagonally to the players across them. Instruct them from time to time to use a particular passing technique before changing it. This is a fast-paced drill, so make sure they pass them quickly right after receiving the ball.
Line Passing
Have your team create two lines parallel to the half-court line. The first person in each line must face each other.

Give the ball to the first player in the first line, and then have him pass the ball using the two-handed chest pass to the first player in the second line. After the ball is passed, have the first passer run to the end of the SECOND line. When the first player on the SECOND line passes the ball to the second person in the first line, he too needs to run towards the back of the FIRST line.
When the drill is completed, have your team move back 10 feet away and repeat the drill process. After this is completed, have them move ten feet away again and repeat the cycle.
After you have completed the set of three drills, go back to the first distance (ten feet) and redo the drill using another passing technique. Keep performing the drills until your team has covered two-handed bounce passes and two-handed overhead passes. Don't forget to move 10 feet back after completing each set.


These basketball passing drills are great yet effectively simple, and D1 United STL attains these two passing techniques in their game. If you also want to join our academy or want to play our upcoming youth basketball tournaments enroll yourself today!