In this video, we are going to share how to get more playing time. There’s a lot of players and parents who approach me and ask me, “Man, if I just get some more playing time, I could really do something.” I’m going to share with you how you can get more playing time…
How to Get More Playing Time?
I hear this a lot of time from players… who want more playing time. Either on an organization/ club team, high school team, middle school team and they’re say, “Man, I want to get more playing time, because if I get more playing time, then the coach can see me score more.” It’s always geared towards more scoring. That’s what people are looking at, scoring.
That is a wrong mindset, rather you are in college and your team is scoring 80 points a game and you have 12 players on the team where eight players are getting the majority of the time. You’ve got to understand that everybody on that team’s is not going to score 20 points, that’ll be 160 points if everybody could score 20. And that’s just not realistic.
Staying on the Basketball Court
It starts with your effort, and on the defensive end. If you are able to guard the best player, stop the best player or maintain the best player, that’s going to get you more playing time.
If you can guard the best player and stop or slow down the best player, that will add one, two, three, five minutes per game.
Number two is rebound the basketball. Whether you are getting offensive rebounds to get extra possessions for your team or getting defensive rebounds and limiting the possessions for the other team.
That goes into number one which is the effort. So if you’re able to rebound the basketball, that’s going get you more playing time.
Then passing the basketball, if you start doing that, you’re going to get more time. This will lead to more scoring.
If you are on the court more and you become more valuable to your team by getting effort, stops, and rebounds. If you are getting those offensive rebounds, putting them back in.
Now you are getting more points because you are getting more time. Once you get more time, that’s going to lead to more time
You have to be able to do the intangibles, not just what shows up on the stats sheet. That’s guarding the best player, making sure they are shooting a low percentage, grabbing defensive rebound, boxing out, being a team player.
Those things right there are going to get you a lot more playing time rather than adding five points to your average when you don’t have the ability to score yet OR you have the ability to score, but that’s all you value on the court and are hurting your team.
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Jay Warren
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