Christopher Pickens

the Kid. Player Development. Coach. Staples HS BB⚒️. Ice Pick Training 🧊⛏️🚂. Ast Coach ZipEmUp TBT.

[Christopher Pickens @CPICK10]

Boys Basketball: Mustang Rising - The Kerr Report https://t.co/BMHandN7pj

[Isaiah Taveras @IsaiahTaveras]

7:00 of the best clutch time sets and actions from the 25-26 Euroleague season. If you’re a coach, this is a great study in late-game scenarios and execution.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Basketball Skill doesn’t just happen

It’s a product of hours and hours of hard work

Steve Nash’s routine

10x Jab & shoot
10x One dribble pull ups (Right/Left)
10x Hesitation pull ups
10x Step backs
10x Spins
10x Runner
10x High layups
50x 3's
FTs

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Really good stuff here from Jay Wright

“The most open you will ever be is when you first catch the ball….The habits of most players is to catch and dribble or catch and hold”

Great teaching point

(Via @Coach_PatCasey 🎥)

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Mike Brown Gold

“We have rules: Protect basket…declare ball…load paint…find most dangerous guy…last guy down weak side…We turn over etc…sprint back…high level next play speed…separates good teams from great"

(Via @NBA_NewYork 🎥)

[BC Men's Basketball @BCMBB]

🎤'd 🆙 with @CoachLukeMurray

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Not sure how quickly it will happen but if it’s possible to win at Boston College, this man will do it ✍️

[Pure Sweat @PureSweat]

Sean Sweeney on head coaching interviews, staff makeup, and how leaders think when building something.

Pure Basketball Experience gives you access to conversations most people never get.

Be in the room.

📍 July 13–14
🎟 https://t.co/bmSTsbPZDL

[Sean Strickland @Coach__Strick]

Drill I learned from state champ coach was “6 possessions”

1 min on clock. Goal for starters is to get 6 possessions in a min. Score as quickly as possible, then steal/foul. Shows them they are never out of it.

The mentality won us games, including this one down 6 with 50 sec😱

[Caden Hoffman @coachcadenhoff]

In Nash’s second MVP season he posted a 1.44 PPS on rim FGAs per Synergy.

Nash shot 69.6% on rim FGAs that season. The only other guard in the top 70 of rim FG% with at least 3 rim att/g that season was Tony Parker.

So how was Nash such an elite finisher at the rim?

First 2 Clips: Blow-by Layups.
Nash’s ability to generate wide open/high percentage layups through his ability to beat his defenders one-on-one. Nash was elite at the hang dribble that allowed him to freeze defenders and create blow-by advantages.

Second 2 Clips: Baiting defenders to reach
Similar to the first 2 clips, but in these two clips the ball screen defender swipes at the ball, Nash then immediately takes a quick kill dribble to get his feet outside the defender’s. The speed of the dribble allows his feet to move quicker. Can’t move fast with your dribble if the ball isn’t moving fast with you.

Last 2 clips: Driving through contact
Nash’s ability to keep his posture and height + power of his dribble through contact is what made him so elite on these types of drives. No bent over chest, no low dribbles. Just elite balance and control all the way through the drive.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

The 2025-26 NBA Coach of the Year

As good as it gets 🔥

[Caden Hoffman @coachcadenhoff]

From ’04-05 to ‘11-12 Steve Nash on off-the-dribble jumpers PPS via Synergy

04-05: 1.02 on 6.0 att/g
05-06: 1.06 on 5.8 att/g
06-07: 1.11 on 6.4 att/g
07-08: 1.110 on 7.2 att/g
08-09: 1.08 on 6.8 att/g
09-10: 1.11 on 6.9 att/g
10-11: 1.04 on 5.9 att/g
11-12: 1.08 on 5.3 att/g

20 years later and still some of the most elite footwork, base & balance, shot prep to grace the hardwood.

You can only hear snippets of Nash teaching, but talks about driving heels into and through the floor, working on driving + shooting on different planes, correlation between height of the ball and use of your legs

Hard to think of many players that have matched Nash’s versatility as a shotmaker off the dribble. Different angles, tempos, footwork patterns.

Also just really cool watching him drill the exact footwork and shot prep patterns that consistently showed up in his games.

Player Development Gold

[Nacho @nachomiranda14]

Mark Daigneault just explained why OKC is built different.

Problem solvers. Humble. Accountable. No finger pointing. Obsessed with improving. Rooted in service.

That’s championship mentality.

Young athletes: talent means nothing without character

[Fullcourtpass @Fullcourtpass]

Victor Wembanyama is not playing fair

[Dustin Aubert @dustinaubert]

MUST ADD ACTION

Spurs: Double Get

Another wrinkle to the one of the most popular Actions in basketball.

[Fullcourtpass @Fullcourtpass]

Victor Wembanyama dribbled a basketball up a dangerous mountain route in 4.5 hours (takes a normal person 7-8 hours to walk up it) while training with the monks, per @ramonashelburne

“One day he told Wembanyama to dribble a basketball up another dangerous mountain route to Sanhuangzhai, a monastery deep in the Song Mountains. The hike traversed cliffside plank paths, suspension bridges and ancient forests, and was five times as long as the one to Bodhidharma Cave. The trail forces you to climb roughly 2,500 feet in elevation across uneven ridges and stone.”

(https://t.co/oKV7aFsqup)

[Chris Steed @csteed]

INCREDIBLE action by Daigneault to send it OKC. Why?

By running an Iverson action into a stack out, there was no place on the floor Wemby could help, without guarding SGA himself or giving up a 1 pass away catch and shoot 3.

Predesigned action SPECIFICALLY designed for Wemby.

Thunder
Iverson | Stack Out

[Waubonsie Valley Hoops @Coach_Schweitz]

Excited to welcome Billy Pitcher to Waubonsie Valley Hoops!

Billy joins us as a Varsity Assistant and Defensive Coordinator. As a Head Coach at Lake Zurich and Lake Park, he compiled a 297-180 record with 6 Regional Titles and 1 Sectional Title.

Let’s get to work!

[Sam Dailey @SamDailey]

Love using weave action into ball screens to soften up the defense. Here’s Flordia doing it and adding a Spain wrinkle

Weave Miami Spain
Weave Miami

[Basketball Forever @bballforever_]

Tim Duncan has been in the gym with Gregg Popovich everyday as he rehabs from his stroke 🙏

Some things are bigger than basketball.

(via Jared Weiss)

[Kyrie Center @kyriecenterig]

Watching Kyrie’s highlights from the Rico Hines runs is a yearly routine