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Better 1 On 1 Offense

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Highlights

Our newest and best DVD, Better 1 on 1 Offense may be the greatest sports improvement video ever created.
With nearly four hours of techniques, you really can't appreciate this thing until you see it for yourself.
The video details all the tools any player needs to build a perimeter scoring repertoire. This includes the basics from triple threat , a chapter on maximizing your quickness potential, working the ball screen, and learning to read and react to the defender whether you're working from a pivot, off the dribble, pressured tightly, or finishing at the goal. Plus, bonus sections from:
Sue Bird, who has won a championship in high school, college, the WNBA, and in the Olympics
Chauncey Billups, who has improved statistically every year he's been in the pros, and was the 2004 Finals MVP
And Hall-of-Famer Rick Barry, a man who has put 4 sons into pro basketball, and the only man to lead the NCAA, ABA, and NBA in scoring.

The Basics

3 hours, 44 minutes in length
Better 1 on 1 Offense lays all the groundwork for any young player, and then contains unmatched detail and groundbreaking techniques for the advanced player
The video contains 8 chapters, plus sections by Sue, Chauncey, and Rick Barry. There is a summary of each chapter below
The pictures below are still frames from the video. The text to the right of each picture explains the still
With fun graphics, footage from the pro level, cutting edge filmmaking, and demonstrations by dozens of players, this video will not only improve your game, it's fun to watch
Like all the Better Basketball videos, Better 1 on 1 Offense, Scoring from the Perimeter was written, filmed, and edited over ten months with the sole goal of helping players who have a true desire to do whatever it takes to take their game to the next level

CHAPTER 1: TRIPLE ATTACK TOOLS

Better 1 on 1 Offense starts with all the basics for even the youngest players just looking to build a solid foundation. For scoring from the perimeter, a player’s foundation revolves around the Triple Attack Position (a.k.a. triple threat). This stance, and more importantly your ability to quickly read the defense and then instinctively react with the perfect move out of it, is the key aspect for any player looking to score, regardless of level.

In the chapter, Coach Rick Torbett first explains the only two ways to get into triple attack. He then addresses whether a player should always use the same pivot foot or be able to use either foot as a pivot. Then you’ll also learn different fakes and moves out of Triple Attack. And as always, you’re not just going to learn the what, but more importantly the where, the how, and the why. Studying the Better Basketball videos will make you a smarter basketball player.

This still exemplifies the incredible detail packed into Better 1 on 1 Offense. Details and cutting edge concepts are the primary reason the Better Basketball videos are so special. The DVDs don’t just contain the same drills and skills that have been taught for decades. Better Basketball is about groundbreaking techniques, and giving you the absolute best chance to maximize your physical abilities and reach your potential. Here, Coach Torbett breaks down the proper shot fake, including what to do with the ball, your eyes, your legs, and more!

After the basics of triple attack have been taught in this chapter, Coach Torbett dives into four moves a player should be able to use from the Triple Attack Position. They include the Quickdraw, Shot Fake, and Drive Fake. The moves are covered in extreme detail, from the specifics of footwork and handwork, to how to read or bait your defender.

Chapter 2: FIRST STEP EXPLOSION

In this groundbreaking chapter, Better Basketball spends over 13 minutes just on maximizing your quickness potential in your first two steps. Let's be clear - the chapter is not about making your muscles stronger. It’s about making sure you avoid the movements that use your weakest muscles, and instead use the precise movements that allow you to utilize your most explosive, quickest muscles!

At all levels of basketball we see players who aren’t that physically quick, but get the job done in game situations. And the reason is often that they have perfect biomechanics. And proper biomechanics aren’t just about your feet! Did you realize that even the right ball movement can make you quicker? Just like a runner using their arms when they sprint, a basketball player can use the ball to speed up their initial explosion going to the basket! Find out how on Better 1 on 1 Offense.

Here we see a technique to increase quickness being used successfully by a player at the highest level of basketball. The clip is slightly zoomed in, played in slow motion, and contains an animated graphic to make it easy to see the movement. This detailed filmmaking not only makes the video fun to watch, it also makes it easy to understand and then apply the concepts.

Here, we see two players using proper footwork to maximize their physical abilities, and make their first two steps as quick as possible. The clips are frozen so that you can see the exact angle their foot hits the floor at with the help of a graphic. Stepping the proper length ensures that your second step uses your most powerful muscles (your glutes and quads) rather than your slowest muscles (your hamstrings). How and where do you step? You'll have to buy the video to find that out!

Chapter 3: READ AND REACT

Basketball is incredibly fast paced and exciting. The high intensity and speed is one of the reasons the sport has become so popular throughout the world.
A player doesn’t have time to catch the ball, look around, and figure out what to do. By that time, the help defense and your defender have set up and are ready to stop you! So you must quickly read and then instinctively react to the defense. Chapter 3 teaches these reads and reactions.

If the defender is in your shot pocket, should you drive? What direction? If the defender sags, daring you to shoot, what should you do? What if he’s found a middle distance? What part of his body should you be reading? Coach Torbett will take you through every scenario, giving you the confidence to score on any defender in any 1 on 1 situation.

Most coaches agree that if the defender plays off, you should shoot. And if the defender plays tight, you must attack him by driving. But what if the defender creeps into a middle distance that makes the read more difficult? Better Basketball tackles even these tricky situations, including this one in the clip to the left. We want to prepare you for every game situation, not just the obvious ones.

In this section of the chapter, you’ll be learning to read the defender in the quickest way possible. Most players are taught to attack a player’s lead foot. But this requires you to look down, away from the rest of the players on the court. Plus, looking down and then back up slows you down. So Coach Torbett gives you a groundbreaking alternative - a quicker read. "Attack your defender’s back." Want the details, buy the video!

Chapter 4: BEATING DEFENSIVE PRESSURE

What do you do when a defender gets up in your grill, and pressures you with extreme body-to-body pressure? He’s frustrating you, taking you out of your rhythm. Well, Most players simply pass, or dribble backwards, or even worse back up on their heels and lose their ability to attack. The result is often a turnover. And this is exactly what the defense wants.

But, as Coach Torbett says, you must not show fear. “You must meet pressure with aggression.” If the defense plays you this tight, you must make him pay by driving past him, straight to the goal. The question is how do you do it. How do you drive past a defender who won’t even allow you to get into the Triple Attack Position? That’s what chapter four is all about!

Here, we see a professional player pressured tightly. The rest of the court is darkened, helping viewers to focus solely on the offensive player and his defender. With Better 1 on Offense, you’re not just going to learn by watching a couple players talk or demonstrate techniques in a gym. You’re going to see real players in real games use these techniques, leaving no doubt that Coach Torbett’s system works, even at the game’s highest level!

This is the kind of intense, body-to-body pressure that chapter four deals with. But notice the offensive player isn’t backing up, he’s low and preparing to attack. Will he use a reverse pivot? Perhaps he’ll use a sweep? Either way, the chapter will prepare him for any type of pressure, whether it’s straight on, at an angle, or just with a hand in his shot pocket.

Chapter 5: THE MIDRANGE

The midrange pull-up jumper is a lost art. It’s perhaps the toughest shot to stop in all of basketball, but most players today are limited to a three pointer or finishing around the basket. By applying the reads and progressions in this chapter, you can add the pull-up jumper to your scoring repertoire. In fact, the pull-up jumper is a favorite weapon of Sue, Chauncey, and Rick Barry, and they all address it in their sections.

Coach Torbett addresses a plethora of techniques regarding the midrange. This includes utilizing the open step and cross step into the pull up, using a 1-2 or using a hop, making your pull-up as quick as possible, and developing the step back, side hop, and eventually the hop back.

This still comes from a fascinating section of Better 1 on 1 Offense. You’ll learn why an open step vs a cross step can determine the speed of your pull-up jumper and the amount of ground you cover. For many players, watching this section will make them finally realize why they’re quicker only going one direction, or why their shot gets blocked more often going the other. By the way, check out the red stopwatch timing the speed of this player's move.

Here, we see a female player utilizing the side hop pull up jumper. As Coach Torbett and Sue Bird discuss later in the video, males and females both have two arms, two legs, and the rules are the same. So why should players train any differently, or use different moves? Better Basketball’s techniques will work for all players - male or female, tall or short, young or old, regardless of level.

Chapter 6: Finishing

Here, we see a player easily finishing despite going against a taller, more athletic defender. He’s able to finish against this shot blocker by utilizing simple techniques, such as T-ing his shoulders to the defenders' shoulders, and putting the ball in his outside hand. In this split screen still, we also see an animated graphic to the right of the live clip.

But you can’t always jump into the shot blocker to draw the foul. Sometimes he’ll meet you outside the lane. What do you do then? Coach Torbett addresses this situation by explaining, in great detail, one of the more difficult finishing moves in basketball, but one that's nearly impossible to defend. And again, in this still from the DVD you'll see players demonstrating the move, and the move being used in a real game.

Chapter 7: DRIBBLE ATTACK

Chapter 7 addresses attacking with the dribble in real game situations. Coach Torbett breaks down these dribble moves and situations in the same mold as the rest of the video, examining reads and reactions, along with counters if the defense plays your first move perfectly.

What should you do if you receive a pass outside of your shooting range with a defender off you? Should you attack him or wait for him to come to you? Learn the six scoring options you have when you have room to face the D. Also, learn how a body fake can make the defender react without you giving anything up, so that you can read him and react with a jump shot or a drive to the basket. And what if the defender pressures you tightly while you're dribbling, leaving you with no space to face him? Learn five different moves out of a power dribble.

Here, we see just a sample of the entertaining filmmaking that helps to make this video so much fun to watch. Plus, you’re also going to see some great penetrators demonstrate the reads and dribble moves that Coach Torbett teaches.

In a real basketball game, what happens when a player dribbles too much? The defenders have time to get into the perfect defensive position, and get ready to stop the drive. This is why dribbling in one spot is so ineffective in real games. This was proven in the 2004 Olympics, as the US men were largely ineffective at penetrating compared to the teams that beat them. The USA guards took their time penetrating, giving the defenders time to set up. But the international teams penetrated as soon as they caught the ball, meaning the USA player guarding the ball didn't have time to get set, and the athletic USA big men didn't have time to set up inside and get ready to block the shot.

Chapter 8: THE BALL SCREEN

Chapter 8 teaches you how to utilize the pick and roll, whether you’re attacking from triple threat or off of the dribble. The chapter begins with the four principles you must apply to run an effective ball screen. And then the second half of the chapter details all of the primary ways a defenders can play the ball screen, and how you should react to their various defensive decisions.

Now keep in mind, this video is about attacking WITH the ball. So this chapter deals with the techniques, reads, reactions, and mindset of the ball handler. But what if you’re the one setting the screen? Well that’s Better Basketball’s next video, on playing WITHOUT the ball.

The number of ball screens set during international games is just staggering. It seems at times that every possession begins with pick and roll. So you’ll see all of Coach Torbett’s theories demonstrated again and again by these pros. Sometimes they followed Coach's principles and the result was a successful screen. But other times they didn't apply the principles, and the result was a failed screen.

There are four principles covered in this chapter, four keys to ensuring the screen will work. Here, a principle ensuring that the player with the ball runs his man into the screener is being discussed. By the way, Sue gave us some great thoughts on working the ball screen.

Every so often a player comes along who flat our WINS. Sue is the definition of that player, having won a national championship in high school, two in college, the WNBA Championship in 2004, and a Gold Medal in the 2004 Olympics. She was also the first pick in the 2002 WNBA draft.

On Better 1 on 1 Offense, Sue Bird discusses:

- What makes a winner

- Developing a winning mentality

- How she reads and reacts from triple threat

- Her dribble moves, reads, and counters

- Her off-season training and what motivates her

- How she runs the pick and roll

- And much more!

42 minutes, 50 seconds

Bonus Section #2
Chauncey Billups

The goal of Better Basketball is to help players with a desire to improve do just that: IMPROVE! And that, in a nutshell, is why we asked Chauncey to join the Better Basketball team. You see, Chauncey's first few years in the league were rocky. But he worked hard, studied the game and evaluated himself, and has managed to statistically improve every year he's been in the league. He's now one of the most respected players in the game, having been named NBA Finals MVP in 2004.

On Better 1 on 1 Offense, Chauncey reveals...

- How he has improved every year he's been in the league

- How he reads and reacts to defenders when attacking off the dribble

- How he reads and reacts when attacking from the triple attack position

- His off-season training regiment and self evaluation period

- How he's learned to deal with and please his numerous NBA coaches

- And much more!

30 minutes, 56 seconds

Bonus Section #3
Rick Barry

Rick Barry's list of accomplishments in the game of basketball is longer than we have space for, but here's a sample:

- The only man to lead the NBA, NCAA, and ABA in scoring.

- The 1975 NBA Finals MVP, and a 12 time All-Star

- And in 1987, inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame

On Better 1 on 1 Offense, this outspoken, intense, and wise student and teacher of the game preaches about:

- What makes and how to develop a scorer's mentality

- Running the pick and roll at the proper angle

- The state of basketball & the women's game

- How to avoid burnout (he had four sons played D1 college ball)

- His favorite move and how to attack from a pivot

- And much more!

63 minutes, 7 seconds

INTRODUCTION, CONCLUSION AND FINAL THOUGHTS

In addition to the video's eight chapters and the sections by Sue Bird, Chauncey Billups, and Rick Barry, the DVD begins with an 8 minute, 30 second intro in which Coach Torbett explains how to get the video's techniques into your game and runs down the contents of the video. And then the tape ends with a short conclusion. So the total running time of Better 1 on 1 Offense is over 3 hours, 44 minutes, 48 seconds. And oh yeah, the DVD version even features a five part menu screen, making the video very easy to navigate through!

We've already showed this brand new DVD to a few people who know a thing or two about basketball and improvement videos, and they were simply blown away. Never before has such a detailed and entertaining video ever been created. Most importantly, we stuck to our motto - doing whatever it takes to stay true to the game, and doing whatever it takes to help players who truly have that burning desire to improve. That's why it took us nearly 10 months to complete this DVD. Spending that much time was the only way to make it perfect.

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