Stepping down at C

[jdmara]

Originally Posted by Ch1town

Thanks! I learned this technique from an NBA clinician at one of the camps I attended this summer. His reasoning for this was:
1. the lead does not always rotate
2. diving down puts you in better posistion for rebounds
3. better view of contact on the shooter

I've been working on it since getting home & I like/dislike it for different reasons. I guess knowing your partners & teams tendencies would assist in what you should do in this situation.

I agree on all the reasons. The biggest bonus to this is that you're closer to all the action on rebounds. Yes, you might have to bust it back on a fast break the other way but that doesn't happen all that often.

Another tip that the clinicians were stressing on us is on a fast break and you're beat (with no chance of recovering), don't try to get to the baseline and beat them down court. Follow the play and call it from behind but with an angle. Their philosophy is that if you're beat on the play and running at 100% to "catch up", you have less of a chance of seeing the foul/violation/etc then if you're hustling but behind with a good angle.

This summer was a good series of camps.

-Josh