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By Jerry Rhoden Eastbay Team Services
Jeff Eakins literally grew up around
basketball. His father, Jumbo Jim Eakins,
played 10 seasons professionally in the ABA
and NBA.
It had a profound effect on the way I view
basketball, said the 39-year-old founder of
Maryland-based International Basketball
Academy, which teaches the fundamentals
of the game around the country.
My father, who was a 7-foot center,
wasnt the most athletic. He made his living
on fundamentals, on the fact that he was a
very accurate shooter within 15-18 feet. He
knew how to play defense and box out, and
he wasnt one who played above the rim.
His ability teaching me those types of
fundamentals and how to shoot the ball
correctly played into my ability to teach
those skills.
While in Germany from 1992-94, Eakins
discovered that 7-foot centers also could be
sharpshooters.
That underscored for Eakins that it was
balance and angles that made a player
quick. When Eakins worked as an assistant
coach for the Idaho Stampede, who won the
NBA Development League championship
in 2008, he realized there was a need for
development of fundamental basketball
skills in the Boise area and founded the
International Basketball Academy.
Following the 2008 season he moved his
fledgling academy to Frederick, Md. From
there hes helped spread the message of
basics to hundreds of players and coaches,
from the junior high through college levels,
across the country and back in Germany.
To contact Coach Jeff about instructions,
camps, or coaches clinics he can be
reached at coachjeff@shotdoctor.org or
www.shotdoctor.org.
Here are a few of Eakins big points:
I dont go after the most athletic and
best players in the county if I want to recruit
them to an AAU team of mine or invite them
to participate in one of my sessions. Im
looking for numbers 6 through 10 off the
bench, who are smart, who work hard, and
who are coachable. And I can take those
kids and turn them into fundamentally sound
players that just give those athletic kids fits.
They learn quickly that if I have the
correct angle, or if Im at the right spot
on the floor, then I can beat somebody
athletically. If I learn how to read what
theyre doing against me on defense, then
I can take advantage of those things. So
if coaches will help kids understand that
basketball is like a chess match, basketball
is a game of angles, and a game of being
under control and under balance, you can
really play with anybody.
If you can learn balance and angles,
thats what makes a player quick. I teach
there are 22 different points to a perfect
shot. We analyze that shot and help them
go through that shot, help them feel with
their body exactly what theyre doing right
and wrong. And if its in a game or practice
or out in their driveway, they can self-
analyze and fix that.
Read more tips and techniques from
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coachs corner
Basketball Fundamentals:
Balance and Angles
Jeff Eakins emphasizes
balance and angles
when coaching young
players.
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Eakins offers some training and practice tips he uses to help
young players focus on fundamentals.
Balance. The key to becoming a more accurate shooter
is balance. Ill set up cones, or one of those D-men that
looks like a guy blocking a shot. Ill have kids from the wing
come across, as if theyre coming to the elbow coming off
the screen, and Ill be on the far side and pass the ball to
the kid. Theyll catch it at the free-throw line and freeze
without shooting.
Well analyze their feet and if theyre drifting or theyre
standing tall. We teach them how to come off a screen on
balance and catch it to shoot.
Pass to Shoot, Catch to Score. If kids are taught to focus
on their passing, they get it to the player so they can
catch it and shoot, as opposed to a lazy pass going over the
shooters head.
In the pros, that pass has to be spot-on because you have a
fraction of a second before you have to get the shot off.
Kids line up across from each other, and theyll do chest
passes or off the ear passes to each other. The person throwing
the ball has to make a precise pass. The partner has to be
in shooting position and ready to go up hell step into that
pass and catch and freeze as if hes ready to shoot. Then hell
stop and make a chest pass back. Players are learning to pass
correctly and catch to shoot.
Five Against the Ball. In the D League, we had a sign in the
locker room: Five Against the Ball. That means that your
man cant score if he doesnt have the basketball.
I set up to have three defensive guys prevent five offensive
guys from scoring. That teaches them how to rotate and help
off the ball, not worry about their man on the far side until they
skip-pass to get the ball over there. We spread the offense out
in a five-out set, or four-out/one-in, and play five-on-three, to
teach them defensive rotations. Its a drill that really can get
intense. It promotes pride in defense and helps a coach find
his best defenders and toughest guys. I love to show it to high
school coaches because it promotes talking on defense and
not focusing on my man but focusing on the ball.
Passing, Defense Tips from Jeff Eakins
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