Sean Miller’s Skill Development School: Guard Workout – Basketball — Championship Productions, Inc.

with Sean Miller, University of Arizona Head Coach;
2011 Pac-10 Coach of the Year, 2011 Pac-10 Champions;
former Head Coach at Xavier, 3x A-10 champions; 2008 A-10 Coach of the Year

In Sean Miller’s system, the guards are the “throttle” of the team. Developing a well-conditioned guard with a total set of skills is a must in order to have success. In this DVD presentation, Coach Miller has put together one of the most comprehensive guard workouts that look to develop skill and condition players for a fast paced game.

Coach Miller divides his workout into two different segments: shooting and ball handling. He demonstrates six different shooting drills that will expand your guards’ shooting ability out of multiple situations. These drills will maximize your player’s number of shots, shooting on the move, shooting in transition, and shooting off the pick and roll. Coach Miller pushes his players to teach you how to incorporate conditioning within your shooting workouts. You will learn how to incorporate different moves and actions within your offense into a simple and challenging workout.

In the second stage of Coach Miller’s guard workout, he demonstrates how to build better ball handlers. Coach Miller uses four different segments to train his guards to be confident when they handle the basketball. In stationary two-ball drills, he works to develop basketball strength and game intensity as your players focus on the court in front of them. You will learn one-ball drills that work to control the basketball on the move. In the transition ball handling segment, you will learn two different ways to attack your defenders in the open court: glide dribble against a trap and power dribble to attack the basket for an open shot.

In Coach Miller’s fourth segment, he will teach you how to train your guards to be a throttle of your team’s execution coming off of ball screens. You will learn six different ways teams look to defend the ball screen and how you can score with the counters he uses in his guard workouts. Whether the defender drops, the screener slips or the ball handler must split the D, your guards will be much more prepared for the game by being able to recognize how the defense is going to guard your screen.

Get your guards ready to dominate the action with Sean Miller’s guard development workout. The drills he provides will train your perimeter players to attack any defense with high intensity and effective reads.

74 minutes. 2014.

Sean Miller’s Skill Development School: Wing Workout – Basketball — Championship Productions, Inc.

with Sean Miller, University of Arizona Head Coach;
2011 Pac-10 Coach of the Year, 2011 Pac-10 Champions;
former Head Coach at Xavier, 3x A-10 champions; 2008 A-10 Coach of the Year

The most versatile player on the court is the wing player and for that reason Sean Miller has put together a complete wing workout to help you develop their skills and help them get a better feel for the game. Coach Miller works on all phases of the wing’s game including post play, transition, cutting, screening, shooting, and ball handling. This is a comprehensive look at how you can develop your wing players to be the complete package on the court.

Coach Miller demonstrates four shooting drills that focus on the 1-2 step and shoot method. This simple 1-2 step routine gets his guys to be consistent with their balance and positioning on every shot. He shows you how to maximize your players time in the gym using seven spots on the court allowing your players to get up as many shots possible in a short amount of time. He teaches 2 pointers, 3 pointers, and shots on the move to simulate the actions your wings will take to score come game time.

A wing player must have the ability to catch and evaluate the scoring opportunity. Coach Miller has developed a wing segment called triple threat were players are learning to play off the catch in the half court. Catching the ball in the triple threat position give the wing player the best advantage possible. Coach Miller then uses this stance to work on different attacks. In order for your players to become a scoring threat, he teaches how to develop a dominant pivot foot leading into your cutting and scoring action. Using weak side, strong side, and catch and jab drives, your players will learn to attack any defender.

No wing player would be complete without the ability to come off screens and set screens in the half court. Coach Miller demonstrates every possible cutting action that your wing players will encounter in order to free themselves for an open shot. He teaches five basic screening actions in the curl, fade, pop, back cut, and button hook.

Once your players have mastered the cutting and scoring, they must be able to free their teammates for open looks too. Coach Miller teaches your wings how to read and set the perfect screen for teammates to get open. He also goes in detail into how the screener can get open after setting the screen creating a scoring threat using any type of screen. Several read and react actions such as slips, curls, change-of-directions, bumps, and button-hooks are all demonstrated as a means for a cutter to use the screen to create space for a score.

This is by far one of the best wing development DVD’s that any coach must have in their collection. Develop the most dangerous offensive player on the court by learning these essentials attack skills from the wing.

69 minutes. 2014.

Sean Miller’s Skill Development School: Post Workout – Basketball — Championship Productions, Inc.

with Sean Miller, University of Arizona Head Coach;
2011 Pac-10 Coach of the Year, 2011 Pac-10 Champions;
former Head Coach at Xavier, 3x A-10 champions; 2008 A-10 Coach of the Year

Become a dominant post player and learn to use those skill in game-like action with this terrific presentation from University of Arizona Head Coach, Sean Miller. In this great DVD, Coach Miller breaks down the individual workouts that he puts his post players through. Coach Miller uses on-court demonstrators to workout his players in four different shooting series, three 1-on-1 post moves series, three off the lane fade series drills, and three cutting series drills.

The shooting series will gradually build your players’ offensive repertoire from jump shots to put-backs to post moves and counter-moves. In every drill, Coach Miller conveys the important details of proper footwork, spacing, and angles. The drills incorporated in this video include:

• One Two Step Shooting – Players are forced to focus on the essential skill of getting your footwork right before you shoot. This emphasis on consistent footwork creates a great base to increase your player’s field goal percentage.
• Shooting on the Move – While around the basket skills are the basis for scoring for the bigs, becoming an effective shooter is just as important.
• Toughness Series – A set of 10 drills using a heavy basketball. These drills help with hand/eye coordination, give the players a better feel around the basket and develop the weak hand as well as put the players through a tough conditioning workout.

Coach Miller uses situational drills to teach concepts that players will use in the game. A transition series is taught that simulates the post sprinting down the court and getting in a scoring position early in the possession. During the catch and finish series, post players are put into positions were they can learn to cut and score. The emphasis in this series is not on the actual post move, but rather a feel for how the defense is playing and the proper footwork that goes with the cut. Your players will learn to develop counters in the post so they are able to score against any defender. Offensive rebounding is also covered, which allows the posts great opportunities to score easy buckets around the basket.

While most of the above drills focus on creating advantages and scoring off of them, Coach Miller doesn’t ignore the most common situations where his players will not have a significant advantage and must face the defender 1-on-1. In this set of drill coach teaches the players how to be effective scorers when they receive the ball on the low block as well as teaching them how to make a smart decision with the ball when help defense occurs. Finally a set of “Off the Lane” drills are taught. As the post player gets pushed off the lane, a strong face up move with an emphasis on “breaking the Knee” is taught to create good looks at the basket for the big guys.

Sean Miller’s School of Skill Development presentation does a tremendous job of addressing the essential skills necessary to turn your post players into tough, fundamentally sound scoring machines. By developing the ability to score in the lane, in the post and off the lane any player learning these drills will be dangerous come game time.

64 minutes. 2014.