Archive for July, 2007
Monday 30 July 2007 @ 1:07 am
Friday 27 July 2007 @ 7:30 am
Tu5k15 asked:
a mix about my hometown team kauno zalgiris
Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 3:37 am
Improving your basketball skills depends on your own will to become better. It takes determination and patience in order to become a better player. As you learn how to improve your basketball skills, you should possess the following mindset and attitude in order to be successful at it.
First of all, you will need focus if you ever want to improve on your basketball skills. The ability to concentrate on becoming better on the type of basketball skill that you are working on is very important. As you go on with the process of learning how to improve your basketball skills, your focus will dictate how quickly you may be able to see the results of your efforts.
In relation to focus, you also need the burning desire to succeed as a more capable athlete. Hard work alone won’t get you far if you don’t have the passion of doing what you love. You will learn that if you have the desire to get better at basketball, it will be easier for you to make improvements on your basketball skills.
Having a positive attitude is also an important trait to have as you try to get better with your basketball skills. The positive attitude can affect not only as you try to improve on the skills of the game. It can also affect the people around you such as your teammates. Having a positive attitude can help you have enough to get going even if the going gets tough. So if you feel like nothing is going right, positive attitude will help you feel that you still can.
Self-confidence is essential as well. Believe in yourself that you have what it takes to get so much better at the game that you love.
And most of all, the key to improve your basketball skills is to never give up. Keep practicing even though you feel fatigued or think that you have reached what you think is your top-level game. The best players always know that they still have a lot to learn about the game.
There is still a long way to go if you wish to improve your basketball skills. The way to get better at it is having the determination, the proper motivation and the right amount of effort to excel at the game.
Tuesday 24 July 2007 @ 7:10 pm
Dear Baller,
As I am sure you are getting prepared for this up coming basketball Season, there are a lot of little easy things you can and should be doing to guarantee you will make the final cut. I have been receiving tons of emails lately asking if I have any tips or secrets on how to make a basketball team. Unfortunately, not every one is as talented as Lebron or Kobe,and it can be a pretty difficult challenge especially if you live in a big city or go to a big school. Here is one of the questions I recently received from a hard working baller:
“Hi,I am a serious baller and am trying out for my high school basketball team. I am in the tenth grade. The school I go to is huge and so the tryouts are jam packed. It is very hard to get noticed by the coach. I was wondering if you had any advice for me that would help me in making the team and pursuing my life long dream - the NBA. I am really looking forward to your advice. Thank You”
Since I have been getting so many emails on this topic, I have put together 5 Tips To help you get on any basketball team. Put these tips to use and you will be thanking me in a couple of weeks when you make your team! Lets get started….
Okay first things first. You have to realize why most coaches choose certain players. They are only concerned with a player that will help the team. And it necessary doesn’t always have to be talent or skill level. One of the great assets Steve Nash brings is the confidence he instills in his teammates. Every time one of them fall down, he runs to pick them up. When one of them makes a mistake he pats them on their shoulder and tells them not to worry about it. When they do something right, he is the first one to applaud them. Do you do these things? Do you make your teammates feel better when they play with you? I guarantee you if you can develop this kind of maturity, your coach will love you. Here are my 5 tips.
Tip # 1
Show up to the try-outs super early, already warmed up and stretched and ready to go.
Tip # 2
Look around to see what most of the other kids are good at, are there a lot of shooters, scores, ball handlers. Whatever there is a lot of, try to focus on what there isn’t A lot of. Like are there a lot of great defenders, hustlers? If there is not, make it your main focus to try as hard as you can on defense and bust your butt.
Tip # 3
Show the coach that you would be a great addition to his team, either by skill, intelligence, or being a team leader.
Tip # 4
Get to know the coach as much as possible. Develop a off the court relationship. Find out why they are coaching, and why they love the sport.
Tip # 5
Don’t be afraid, show confidence, show them you are willing to put in the time to improve, and most importantly, show them you love playing basketball.
These 5 tips are basic, but it could determine whether or not you make the team, or have to wait till next year to try out again.
Good luck,
Your # 1 Fan
Rali Todd
www.gobasketballpro.com
P.S.
Instead of worrying about making the team, how would you like to do this: **Two back-to-back 40 point games** “I just finished my high school basketball game where I finished with 40 points, last game I also finished with 40 points. I made school history with back-to-back 40 point games. This is really going to make it possible for me to pursue my career and play college basketball. I can not believe how perfect your system is, it is really remarkable. Every aspect of it is so right and you start to notice the things you were doing wrong when you get taught how to do them right. You are truly a genius. Thank you! Ben Chez, Dedicated Baller”
You can do the same with www.gobasketballpro.com
Monday 16 July 2007 @ 5:33 pm
How do you get massive exposure and get some of the top
college and pro recruits beating down your door and Filling
your mailbox full of scholarships and contracts?
Great question. And It’s not as hard as you think!
I have always said and believed that the Greatest basketball
player in the world will do nothing unless the right people, and I mean the right people know of him.
You see,one of the most important aspects of basketball
( exposure) has been completely neglected for centuries…
THEY ALWAYS SAY JUST GO play on a Travel Team and you will
get noticed…
you have a better shot at making a full court,
behind the back, with a blind fold shoot!
While travel teams will help, most of the scouts that
attend the games already have an idea of who they are looking for,
most of the time they are there because t hey know one or two
of the players and are just checking up on how there ” merchandise”
is doing.
I have a better, more productive way of getting massive exposure
and having your name spreading like wild fire to thousands of
coaches, scouts and teams.
Don’t believe me?
See what this baller had to say:
First A College Scholarship and Now a Pro Contract!
“Hey Rali,Judson Stubbs
Professional Basketball Player
Former Division 1 All star
I just wanted to say Thank you so much for Introducing
me to the Go Basketball Pro System and allowing for my
basketball Dreams To come True.
You First helped me get a Division 1 College Basketball
Scholarship to TCU which I can Not Thank you Enough. But
now You have Helped me Get A Pro Contact Over In Brazil.
Again Thank you so much….
Your basketball system is so pro found and effective I
can NOT BELIEVE you have even Shared the secrets you posse
and allow it to be so easy to get your remarkable system.
I know that I am well on my way to getting in the NBA and
to be honest I owe it all to you.
Without your knowledge and expertise I would Just Be
another regular average Basketball Player.
Hope you are having great success, I will see you in A
few Months when I Come back down to Miami.
Amazing Isn’t it!
This baller came form a No NAME Community College down in
Miami, and I helped Him get a D-1 Scholarship To TCU, and
then I Got him a Pro Contract Over In Brazil…
Now I know Brazil is not the NBA, But he is playing pro ball
and getting paid for something he loves…
Plus,now he has an opportunity to get his name out there
and Participate In NBA Workouts…
I know what your next question Is….
How Did I Do It? Whats my secret?
You Want to Know My secret?
Okay Here it is….
One of the easiest, but most effective ways you can get
scouts and recruits Knowing of you and attending all your
games is by contacting them…
That’s’ Right, contacting them.
But there is a system you have to follow…
Here is the system: First you have to really know what your game
is like, what you do great and what you do horrible…
What is your niche…
Ask your coach, other coaches, teammates, parents, get
as much info as you cane…
Then you need to do some research…
Go on the Web at start looking at different schools and teams, see what there roster is like, and see all the years the
players have been there…
This is a great way for you to secretively find out what
that team is looking for, and what they are interested in…
let’s use an example…
If you are a point guard, that is small, but has a lot of skills
like you can really shoot the ball, dribble under control and pressure
and have a low turnover to assist ratio, and you find a team
where their starting point guard is in his last year, and they
had a high average of turnovers last year, and their reserve point guard
isn’t all that good…
Then you found a Goldmine…
You are exactly what that team needs and is looking for!
But now if that team has three guards, that were High school
All Americans, and none of them are higher then sophomores..
Then you better move on… they already have your spot filled!
This is what I call being Pro Active… It is the difference between
PLAYING HARD AN PLAYING SMART…
It is also the difference between most of the players that get scholarships, and most of the ones that end up Sitting at home,
watching ESPN…
So now you know that that team need someone like you,
now you can begin contacting them.
Stay tuned for Part 2 Of this Course which
Will Be Next Week.
Start researching some teams, and start asking coaches,
trainers, players and parents what they think of you game
so you can get progress report
to use when researching those teams..
Your Coach
Rali Todd
www.gobasketballpro.com
Tuesday 10 July 2007 @ 8:10 pm
tlkr_11 asked:
I know each country has its own league, but roughly, when do they start the season? Also when does Euroleague start?
I know each country has its own league, but roughly, when do they start the season? Also when does Euroleague start?
Tuesday 10 July 2007 @ 1:49 pm
Writer Glen C. Brown author of `Secrets Of The Zone Press` writes from this extraordinary coaching and basketball skilled book.
`In the writing of a text on a coaching system for a major competitive sport, the author is immediately under suspicion that he has withheld his own `secret formula` for success.
So a coach, player or basketball fan who takes a serious interest in the game that was originated and has been perfected in the United States may greet this volume with some trepidation.
Such was my first reaction when asked by Glenn Brown to write an introduction to this volume on the art of basketball coaching.
This man has been a prep and college player, head coach of an outstanding U. S. Army team, coach at an Illinois high school of more than 2,000, coach at an Indiana high school with the largest high school field house in the world that seats 10,000. He is now a successful college coach and is far from leaving his chosen profession any time soon.
Likewise, he hasn`t changed his system or dropped it so he is willing to reveal the system he has been using all this time.
Here, the man who has compiled a 229-115 all-time basketball record as a coach of every age and type of player, has `bared` his basketball soul.
Most books of this type are highly technical, but Brown has, through careful diagrams and simple explanations, treated each phase of the game with simplicity.`
And what a book it is! Whether you are a coach, player or simply interested in basketball, this book is an absolute must have! There is not another more detailed script of game in any book on the planet! It is foundational, it is creative and genius! Yes, basketball players must be creative and genius in using feet, hands and brains! Please, don`t even question it! This is the manual you won`t want to share because it is so good that you want to keep it secret! Coaches, teachers, students, players and basketball lovers must get this book in their hands or downloaded onto their computers. Bar none, this book is diagramed, detailed and contains the works, study and experience that will `land you in the basketball zone`. You will feel like that 3-pointer ball that has just been `swished` and made by your favorite team in the last minute of the game.
If that isn`t exciting enough, then think of your `child` or `grandchild` receiving the book and excelling in an all time favorite sport! I love basketball, both playing and watching, but I especially enjoy learning about it and this book is a golden treasure for anyone to own! This book contains actual drills, in written words and diagrams and is easy to understand. I would not even hesitate, I would Jump up and grab this `basketball drill secret zone book`. You will be exceedingly ecstatic and on the court! I would recommend this book to my children, my children`s children and their children beyond! It`s a timelessly classic book that is universally effective!
Hoops anyone? `Got Game?`
You will now! Just get your hands on this incredible `Basketball Zone Book` and `Look out courts!`
The ball is about to hit the backstop! … Dunk!
























