Breakthrough Basketball

Breakthrough Basketball provides skill development camps across the country for Kindergarten through 12th grade boys & girls. Skill levels, grade, and genders are separated.

Essential Skills Camp is for players in grades 3rd – 8th.


What will players get out of the camp?
• You will learn the techniques and skill needed to become a great shooter.
• You will learn the essential skills to becoming a great ball handler… no fluff.
• You will learn how to make more lay ups.
• You will learn how to become a defensive stopper and rebounding machine.
• You will learn the critical components of basketball IQ required to become a great offensive player from an individual and team aspect.
We will teach you all of the critical skills and concepts that coaches love and help players excel.

Ball Handling
• Stationary ball handling routine that improve rhythm, feel, and coordination with the basketball.
• Dribbles move to help you blow by the defense at will.
• Critical progressions to ensure that your dribble moves are effective and explosive.

Shooting
• How to position your feet and align your body to increase the chance of shooting the ball straight.
• A form shooting routine that almost every great shooter has utilized that can be done at home.
• Proper footwork and how to develop a quick release.
• How to shoot game shots from game spots at game speeds.

Lay Ups / Finishing
• Finishing techniques used to reduce turnovers and make more shots.
• 1 on 1 finishing drills that ingrain good habits while competing in a fun way.

Offense
• How to cut and get open. You will learn v-cuts, basket cuts, l-cuts, backdoor cuts, and more.
• How to attack down screens, back screens, and more.

Defense and Rebounding
• How to improve quickness and play better on-ball defense.
• How to improve speed with hip-turns, push step, and better movement fundamentals.
• 5 fundamental keys to effective close-outs.
• How position away from the ball and be a great team defensive player.
• How to effectively box out your man every time.

Footwork
• How to use your feet to gain a better position to score from almost anywhere on the floor.
• How to utilize front pivots, reverse pivots, step throughs, sweeps, drop steps, and hops to make you an elite player.

Passing
• Improve hand eye-coordination and passing skills with the Steve Nash passing series.
• Competitive passing drills to develop game-like passing with head and pass fakes.


Click through to our website to read much more about what the athletes will experience in this camp!