SKILLS AND DRILLS

Mikan Drill Progressions: What is your kids skill level RIGHT NOW?

The Mikan Drill is regarded as the game’s most important skill drill. Identify where your son/daughter is in this progression to determine their level of skill. This is a college player (over 200 X attending Basics) executing both the Mikan and Reverse Mikan correctly.

One minute drill (1:00), count the makes. The player MUST USE both hands independently or the make does NOT COUNT.

Please see other important drills below the Mikan Drill progression charts.

CLICK on each chart to see AVERAGE, ABOVE AVERAGE, EXCELLENT and what the RECORDS are by age and gender.

Book excerpts here from Coach McGannon’s text in progress – “Youth Sports in America: Think for yourself. Question authority. Do your best.” We know factually and using empirical data that the number your child gets in this 1 drill will predict with a nearly 100% certainty his or her competitiveness. The higher the number, the more competitive the player. Yet STUNNINGLY a large % of players do not do the drill. Some of that is their fault, and much of that is the coaches fault. It’s not rocket science. DO THE DRILL! If you want to know why LeBron has the best weak hand since Larry Bird, here’s why…

LeBron James: “I did the drill all the time as a kid. I still warm up with it. It’s the most important drill in basketball.”

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