In your basketball training, you need to work on skills beyond the basics (shooting, ball handling, etc.).  As a player, particularly as a guard, and especially as a point guard, you need to have different gears and constantly change speeds.  Just like a baseball pitcher mixes fastballs, curveballs, and change-ups to keep the batter off balance and guessing, a basketball player needs to change speeds to continuously keep defenders guessing.

With the movie "Moneyball" recently coming out, Michael Lewis is a relatively well known guy these days.  He is best-known in the sports world for his book “Moneyball” in which he dissects Billy Beane’s strategy for finding undervalued and underappreciated players using advanced statistical analysis and player evaluation.  Billy took this and strategy and built a very successful Oakland A’s team in the early part of this decade.  In a 2009 New York Times article, Lewis examines how the Houston Rockets and their general manager Daryl Morey are using comparable

There are a number of different fast break scenarious you encounter as a player.  Today I am going to cover, what you shoul do on a 3-on-1 fastbreak.

I see too many players dribble straight down the middle of the court with players on either side of them filling the lanes.  This is exactly what you don't want to do.  This actually makes it easier for a defender to guard all three players since the distance between each player is minimized.  What you want to do on a 3-on-1 is to actually change the scenarious into a 2-on-1. 

I will forever speak to the extreme importance of the bench of any high school or college team.  This doesn’t mean just the few guys who get meaningful game minutes; this extends all the way down to the last man on the bench.