Youth Basketball Forward Skills: Posting Up

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Hi, this is Sean Hobson. What we're talking about right now is working with our power forwards down low when they decide to post up. You can also use your small forward to post up as well, if you get a mismatch. It doesn't matter who's posting up, you can even have your point guard posting up if he's big enough, if he uses the proper fundamental skills. So what we want to talk about when we most up. The first main thing when you post somebody up, you've got to have a lower center of gravity than they do. You cannot post somebody up standing straight up. It's never going to work. For one, that post player behind you is in the same area that you're in unless you create space. And how you create space is--show him. You're going to get down low, you're going to use your lower extremities, and you're going to have a good low base to you, you're going to try to use your rear to get as much separation as you can. Now, if he posts up this post player, you now see that when the ball comes to his hands, look how much difference there is between him and him. And that's because he's using his body to keep him out. The other major thing that we want our post players to do is if they're looking for the ball, they've got to have hands out, reaching out for the ball, not only so I know that he wants the pass, but also when the ball comes to him--we never want our post players to let the ball come to him, we want him to go and attack the ball. So, he's got to have his hands out, his butt down, getting separation, and that's the proper way to pose. Now, one other quick thing. When this guy is fighting around--here I'll show it, hold this for a second--if he's posting me up, and I fight around top side with my foot, he has to make sure that he maintains control of the area. So, what is he going to do? Good, he's going to fight back around, and then if I fight back up top, it's just a constant battle. This guy always wants to make sure that he has the front position, that he has the majority of the space in order to get the ball in the post.

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