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Teaching the Pick and Roll With No Video
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Show notes
The screen, taught on concrete
The pick and roll is the most common play in basketball and the hardest to teach to kids. Jerome lays out a four-week progression using chalk on concrete, water bottles as cones, and questions instead of commands. Former PBA guard Marlon Reyes joins to talk about reading the defence and the mistake he made for ten years.
- Week one, setting a screen that is legal and still
- Week two, the ball handler's two choices
- Week three, the roll and the pop
- Week four, defending it with a switch or a hedge
- Marlon Reyes on the read he learned too late
Coaches, send your practice problems to the Witspeak channel and Jerome will work through them.
Transcript
Welcome back to Barangay Hoops, I am Jerome Villanueva. This week is for the coaches, especially the ones running a team of twelve-year-olds with no video, no clipboard and a court with one working rim. We are teaching the pick and roll. I have a four-week plan that uses chalk on the concrete, water bottles for cones, and questions rather than shouting, because a kid who figures out the read will keep it forever. Then I have Marlon Reyes, who played guard in the PBA for eleven seasons, on the one read he made wrong for a decade and how a coach finally fixed it. If you are a player, listen too. You will hear what your coach is trying to say. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Grab the chalk.
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