POSTING UP ISSUE NO. 1
MISTAKES TO CORRECT IN THE POST by George Galiotos, Director of Player Development Rick Mahorn Big Man Camp Recently I attended a college game, where I was particularly interested in the play of the bigs, having myself handled post assignments for top clubs in Greece for a dozen years. What I saw was athletic guys running up and down the court ... but failing to seal the player under the basket. Their positioning didn't allow the guards to feed the post so in this particular game I noticed 6 or 7 times a player posted up but only on one of those times did he score. The other times the ball was turned over because the player either had faulty footwork or when the player went up and under, he brought the ball down low rather than keeping it up high, resulting in a turnover. I also saw that when the big got open he didn't get the ball because he needed to be more vocal and let teammates know he was ready to get the ball. If a big is inactive just outside the paint