Youth Basketball Shooting Guard: Penetrate and Pass

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Sean Hobson, and what we're talking about right now is working with our shooting guards, getting them open in the offense, being able to create their own shots, but this time creating shots for one of our other players. What we're going to use right now is some guard penetration to get a shot for our post player. We've been trying to feed the ball from the wing to our post and we're having no success getting the ball to the post. One thing that we can do with our shooting guards is, because they're such a threat to shoot, we can bring them inside and get them to penetrate the inside of the defense, which is going to--what's going to happen is, the guy that was guard this post player--go ahead and shot like you're going to penetrate in. Once he penetrates, now I have to become concerned about this guy, because we know he's a good shooter. What's going to happen then is our post player is going to relocate out, which is going to make him open. He can go ahead and feed the shot to him, and it's hard for the post player to close on him fast enough, and it's going to get this guy a shot. So one thing we can do with a good shooting guard is not only to let him shoot, but we can use him within the offense to penetrate inside and get shots for our post players or for our other guards on the back side. So it's important to use guard penetration in your offense."