Ganon Baker Mastering the Ball Screen – Pick & Roll Skills & Drills DVD Review by Wes Kosel

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March 4, 2014

Ganon Baker Mastering the Ball Screen – Pick & Roll Skills & Drills
DVD Review by Wes Kosel

Ganon Baker is a basketball entrepreneur, trainer, and motivational speaker. He pays enormous attention to detail, and this shows through in his instructional videos. In this DVD on mastering the ball screen, Ganon Baker simplifies the pick-and-roll game into tangible points that are easy to learn and teach. This DVD is great for players and coaches of all levels. It is a must have for any coach that runs a ball-screen offense. This DVD can help you teach your players how to read pick-and-roll or pick-and-pop situations. Ganon Baker demonstrates his drills at full speed and also includes coaching points. The drills are easy to implement and can be adapted to the attacking style of your offense. Ganon Baker gives catchy keywords that help coaches teach the pick and roll and helps players remember what to focus on. I enjoyed this DVD and look forward to implementing the pick & roll drills into my training and practice sessions.
Here is what you’ll find in the attached review:

Introduction:
• Why set ball-screens?
• What does the ball screen create for the offense?
• What do your players need to execute the pick-and-roll?

Ball Screen Location/Angles
• Sideline
• Step Up
• Straight
• High

Ganon Baker 2’s

Attack Skills
• Occupy
• Foot Fight
• Foot Fight Again
• Head Up
• Jump Shot
• Two Dribbles
• Get Low

Passing Skills
• Roller/Popper
• Low Block Duck In
• Weak Side Shooter
• Corners/Drift

Scoring Skills
• Floater
• Step Through
• Jump Shot
• Pull Up

Attacking Tips

Reading the Defense
• Soft Show
• Hard Show/Hedge
• Separated Show
• Under
• Trap/Double Team

Drills for Skills
• Lucas Cone Drill: Follow
• Lucas Cone Drill: Bump
• Cone Hedge Drill
• Cone Split Drill
• Pop Passing Drill
• Roller Passing Drill
• One Hand Passing Drill
• Read & React Passing Drill

Ganon Baker Five Concepts:
• Intensity
• Consistency
• Persistence
• Faith
• Love

Click on the pdf link to download the basketball coaching dvd notes: