Basketball and Politics?

Yesterday, it was a woeful day in Ankara, Turkey. There was an accident that makes basketball no longer "world games". In the Eurocup match between Turk Telekom from Turkey against Bnei Hasharon from Israel, the supporters did embarrassing thing. They threw coins to the Bnei Hasharon's players and terror them. They said that it was a humanity movement to show their sympaty to the Palestina people. They do not like Israel's agression.

In the end, Bnei Hasharon do not want to continue the match. The Turkey's police did well to control the situation and get rid of fans who make the incident. However, Bnei Hasharon insist to not to continue the game, even the game was held without any fans after the incident.

There was nothing wrong about their opinion. I mean, yes, every people in the world hates Israel. No one like wars. However, their method to show their sympaty was totally wrong. Basketball is a game of world. It teach about brotherhood and also there was no border. Yes, basketball without border is the main thing that people need to understand. Clearly, the fans who make coins incident were definitely do not understand about its concept.

Basketball Traditional Physical Exercise

Basketball is a game of physic. It is all about hard move, crush, and high tempo game. It is why all of the basketball players need better physical strength than other athlete. Basketball needs high level of physical training. Many professional players spend about an hour in gym to train their physic. However, if you cannot afford money to pay monthly membership in gym, you can simply do the traditional physical training of basketball. Here are basketball tips to discuss about them.

1. Hill Running.
What else is better than hill running in early morning? The last year rookie of the year, Kevin Durant, always do it everyday since he is high school. It is why Durant has superior physical ability and stamina even his body is small. Find about 400 meters hills around your location. Do 20 hill runs with 2 minutes break in every run. You will get better physical strength than before.
2. Suicide.
It is what every coach love. In every basketball team, in every level, suicide run always be done. Do you know that New Orleans Hornets do suicide in their physical day? New Orleans Hornets do 20 suicide runs in 20 minutes. It makes them really quick and has more stamina than the other teams in NBA.
3. Push up.
Even a junior high players do this training. Yes, push-up, the most traditional training is used in many physical day in high school and NCAA teams. Do no less than hundred push up in less than 2 minutes and you will get better strength. You will able to increase your shooting range. This basketball tip is really good if you do it well.

Basketball Tips – How to defense?

Nowadays many kinds of sports are very popular in various countries. It is based on the amount of popularity and the exposure it have among the people. But while playing any game we need to follow some tips and techniques, in order to play a perfect game. Likewise my favorite game Basketball too is having many techniques and tips to be followed. One of the main areas in the basketball is defense position. It is one of the important areas to be concentrated, in order to stop the opposite team of scoring many goals.

Here we will see the most important 5 defensive tips at various positions that are helpful to play the basketball game, so wise…

Contesting shots

An opponent should not be allowed to shoot the ball uncontested. The problem, however, with players attempting to block shots is the tendency to commit fouls. Therefore, the proper way to contest a shot is to stay on your feet facing the shooter until the shooter leaves his or her feet, then attempt to get your hand on top of the basketball.

Cover Down

Whenever the ball penetrates on a pass or a dribble, all players should cover down to the level of the ball and force it back out. When the ball is dribbled toward the baseline, the nearest help side defender must quickly stop the ball before it reaches the lane. If the ball is passed to the post, we keep him from dribbling by quickly covering down. When, we cover down to the baseline from on top. When the ball is passed back out, all players recover to their man. Use the closest man to the ball rule on recovery.

Finishing the Defensive Trap

You begin by having two defensive players try to tie up the offense without fouling. Instead of having the defense flailing their arms, have the defense slowly move closer to the offense. You want to force the offense to give the ball to the defense by tying up a player for five seconds or causing a bad pass. The offense tries to pivot away from the defense. The drill lasts for six seconds. Have each player change positions twice in the drill.

Stance

The proper defensive stance is necessary in order to play good defense. On the ball, feet should be shoulder width apart, with the knees bent, and your butt down and back straight. Your hands should be outside your knees with the palms up. You should be low (your nose to your man´s chest) in "nose-chest" position. When you are low, you can change directions more quickly, which is a key for playing great defense.


Jump to the Ball

Any time the ball is passed you must jump to the ball. Make gradual, quick, immediate adjustments in your stance. You must be in position before the ball is caught. Jumping to the ball allows you to be in proper position to front cutters, avoid screens (be a moving target), and help teammates. Any time the ball is dribbled you must make the proper ball side or help side adjustments in positioning.

Thus I think that these defensive tips will be really helpful for you to play the basketball. So play your game clever and take down your opponents easily.

Basketball Tips – How to taste success on the court?

In each and every kind of things that we do some positives are there and negatives are there. It is not possible for us to predict what will happen in future. The only thing that we can do is we should be well prepared to meet the challenges that we face and to taste the success. But the success won’t come simply, in order to achieve it we should work hard and smart by following some tips and techniques in the place where we are implementing it. Likewise while playing the basketball too; if we want to taste the success on the court, then we should follow some tips. So in this article we will see about some of the tips about how to taste success on the court and so on.

Talk on Defense

The best defensive teams have players that continually talk on defense. There is always action on the court that requires communication between teammates. Specific terms should be developed so that players can communicate without any misunderstanding. Always communicate with teammates when playing defense, use a common language of terms or short phrases.

Pass the Ball Inside

Team success depends on scoring from inside the lane. These are often called "paint points" because the area inside the free throw lane is referred to as the paint. One way to generate points in the paint is to pass the ball inside to post players. Every point in the paint makes your opponent less aggressive and creates free throw shooting opportunities for your team.

Stop Dribble Penetration

Nothing hurts a team defense more than dribble penetration because it forces inside players to help and recover. To stop dribble penetration, a defender must maintain the proper spacing. The thing to remember when stopping dribble penetration is to contain the dribbler. Good defensive players can defend one dribble. Great defensive players can defend two dribbles.

Create Deflections

Deflections reflect defensive intensity. Whenever a defender touches the ball, there is a chance a teammate might steal it. Deflections create easy scoring opportunities and give the defense a psychological edge over the offense. Keys to creating deflections are to keep the hands and feet active, mirror the ball constantly with one hand, swarm the ball handler after the dribble is picked up and see the ball and overplay the next penetrating pass if you are defending a player off the ball.

Get to the Freethrow Line

Personal fouls play a significant role in determining the winning and losing teams in basketball. Winning teams generally shoot more free throws. They shoot more free throws because they are committed to inside play, dribble penetration, offensive rebounding and transition basketball.

Thus these tips will help you a lot to taste the success in a much easier way. Because tasting the success is not an easier one, but at the same time it is not impossible too.

Basketball Tips – Be mentally strong

While playing any games or doing any kind of work we have to be mentally strong as well as physically strong. Otherwise it is not possible to finish that thing successfully and on a high note. Especially in playing real games all the players in the team should be mentally prepared to face any challenges from the opponent team. During the progress of the game we may face some critical situations, so by that time we should be well prepared to come out of it. In this article we will how the players can get mentally stronger to play the game in a perfect way? Here I will list out some of the tips to be followed by the players to make themselves mentally stronger and fitter.

Believe

Always believe in yourself. If you think you can`t do it, you aren`t going to. When shooting, believe it’s going in and it will have a better a chance.

Nervousness

The main reason that players don´t perform well in games is nervousness and the main cause of nervousness is lack of self confidence. You have to believe that you can play with the people on the court and not get intimidated. Have a good attitude. Believe in yourself.

Confidence in Shooting

A shooter needs to have confidence. One good way to give yourself confidence is to remember that two balls will fit through the hoop at a time. This gives you a large margin of error to work with.

Proper Preparation

Pay attention to how you prepare for each game, especially when you play well. Follow the same pre-game routines, think about the same type of things, relax but focus on the game at hand. Most importantly, learn to visualize what you are going to do in the game, always seeing yourself being successful.

Mental Imagery

This is almost as important as practicing the action itself. The brain patterns during mental rehearsal of an action are the same as those when preparing for the action before the motor skill is selected, so the more you mentally rehearse a shot, the quicker and easier it will be to prepare to carry out the shot.

Advice

Please don´t shout advice to your player during the game. Shout encouragement? You bet. A steady stream of technique suggestions might have no value. Your insightful tips may conflict with the coach´s instruction.

Support the Coach

Please don´t talk bad about the coach at any place and at any cost. The worst thing is taking shots at the coach, criticizing decisions, and complaining about his leadership. Support the coach and stand behind his decisions. Instead of complaining about coach, take his points, understand it and implement it in the ground. Then surely you will get the benefits for it.

So irrespective of having very good match results, records, physically strong and so on. We should be mentally strong enough to face the future challenges in the match, otherwise no use of all these positives that we have. Self Confidence is far most important than anything else to achieve our goal. So before entering into anything try to be mentally strong, then you see the difference!!!