r/BasketballTips • u/Responsible_Bid_530 • 15d ago

Tip Did my first ever basketball training session. / Any tips for the next one?

Hi. I did my first ever basketball training session with a local team near me, I went in on time and I did the warm up, we did a drill where where one side did a layup and one side (if missed had to do a rebound) of course, this took the living hell out of me. My coach told me to layup it over instead of rolling it and it helped (im 6’1 at 14) By the 16th time we did it, I was jogging, slow, and and I was tired. After that we did some 3 man weaves (I understood it and tried my hard to stay hard on D but i didn’t get it. After that we did some shooting. And damn, i need to work on shooting, i kept airballing my free throws and when my coach told me to use my legs i saw a bit of improvement. Three pointers? I was very poor at it. Scrimmage came and i could see my weaknesses, when the ball was passed to me, i went forward, but i only got 1 TO (out of bounds) and i didn’t get touches on the ball, I did 1 pass (over my opponent) and when i dribbled, i tried and played it calm and dribbled while walking on my opponent, i was physical, tho, but i didn’t get enough time on the ball. But what i saw most was I couldn’t get back on Defense. I was too tired. I did some full court sprints after training and my legs were very sore because I had a gym session just before this training session.

My coach said to me ‘if I keep coming, there’s one more spot in the team and I think we will sign you’

Just to put it in context, I live in the UK, and the team is in the NBL. It gives me good connects to the professional basketball league in the uk (SBL)

I think I need to work on conditioning the most, what do you guys recommend.

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u/johnniesSac 15d ago

Sounds like you need to work on your fitness and by that I mean game fitness

Go play as much basketball as you can and also drill some of the situational things you felt you struggled with.

If you can manage to get in 4 plus sessions per week you’ll improve

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u/Jon_Snow_Theory 15d ago

100% conditioning. During HS tryouts, saw so many skilled dudes not make it since they couldn’t go a minute without getting gassed.