Better 1 On 1 Offense
- Details all the tools needed to build a perimeter scoring repertoire.
- Integrates footage from the highest levels of international professional basketball – see the skills in live game situations.
- 3 hours and 44 minutes.
- Bonus sections with Chauncey Billups, Sue Bird, and Hall-of-Famer Rick Barry.
- Learn to read your defender and react appropriately.
- A chapter on maximizing your quickness potential.
Scoring From the Perimeter DVD – Key Facts
- Better 1 on 1 Offense details all the tools any player needs to build a perimeter scoring repertoire. This includes the basics from triple threat, a chapter on maximizing your quickness potential, working the ball screen, and learning to read and react to the defender whether you're working from a pivot, off the dribble, pressured tightly, or finishing at the goal.
- Plus, bonus sections from:
Sue Bird, who has won a championship in high school, college, the WNBA, and in the Olympics.
Chauncey Billups, who has improved statistically every year he's been in the pros, and was the 2004 Finals MVP.
And Hall-of-Famer Rick Barry, a man who has put 4 sons into pro basketball, and the only man to lead the NCAA, ABA, and NBA in scoring. - With nearly four hours of techniques, you really can't appreciate this thing until you see it for yourself.
3 hours & 44 minutes – What’s on the DVD?
- Better 1 on 1 Offense lays all the groundwork for any young player, and then contains unmatched detail and groundbreaking techniques for the advanced player.
- The video contains 8 chapters, plus sections by Sue, Chauncey, and Rick Barry.
- With fun graphics, footage from international professional basketball, cutting edge filmmaking, and demonstrations of the basketball moves by dozens of players, this video will not only improve your game, it's fun to watch.
- Like all the Better Basketball videos, Better 1 on 1 Offense, aka Scoring from the Perimeter, was written, filmed, and edited with the sole goal of helping players who have a true desire to do whatever is necessary to take their game to the next level.
Chapter 1: TRIPLE ATTACK TOOLS
Better 1 on 1 Offense starts with all the basics to ensure that even inexperienced players can build a solid foundation. For scoring from the perimeter, a player's foundation revolves around the Triple Attack Position (a.k.a. triple threat). This stance is the key building block for any player's scoring repertoire. You must be able to quickly read the defense and then instinctively react with the best move. 15 minutes, 10 seconds
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This still exemplifies the incredible detail on Better 1 on Offense. Details and cutting-edge basketball techniques are the foremost reasons the Better Basketball videos lead the industry. These DVDs contain much more than the same drills and skills that have been taught for decades. Better Basketball is about groundbreaking techniques, and giving players the absolute best chance to maximize their physical abilities. Here, Coach Torbett breaks down a key basketball move - the proper shot fake. The detail includes how to move the ball, your eyes, your legs, and more! After the basics of triple attack have been taught in this chapter, Coach Torbett dives into four basketball moves a player should be able to use from the Triple Attack Position. They include the Quickdraw, Shot Fake, and Drive Fake. These basketball moves are covered in extreme detail, from the specifics of footwork and handwork, to how to read or bait your defender. |
Chapter 2: FIRST STEP EXPLOSION
In this groundbreaking chapter, Better Basketball spends over 13 minutes just on maximizing your quickness potential in your first two steps. Let's be clear: the chapter is not about making your muscles stronger. It’s about making sure you avoid the movements that use your weakest muscles, and instead use the precise movements that allow you to utilize your most explosive, quickest muscles! 13 minutes, 16 seconds
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Here we see a technique to increase quickness being used successfully by a player at the highest level of basketball. The clip is slightly zoomed in, played in slow motion, and contains an animated graphic to make it easy to see the movement. This detailed filmmaking not only makes the video fun to watch, it also makes it easy to understand and then apply the concepts. Here, we see two players using proper footwork to maximize their physical abilities, and make their first two steps as quick as possible. The clips are frozen so that you can see the exact angle their foot hits the floor at with the help of a graphic. Stepping the proper length ensures that your second step uses your most powerful muscles (your glutes and quads) rather than your slowest muscles (your hamstrings). How and where do you step? Buy the video to find out! |
Chapter 3: READ AND REACT
Basketball is fast paced and exciting. The high intensity and speed is one of the reasons the sport has become so popular throughout the world. 5 minutes, 14 seconds
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Most coaches agree that if the defender plays off you, you should shoot. And if the defender plays tight, you must make him pay by attacking the hole. But what if the defender creeps into a middle distance that makes the read more difficult? Better Basketball tackles even these tricky situations, including this one in the clip to the left. We want to prepare you for every game situation, not just the obvious ones. In this section of the chapter, you'll be learning to read the defender in the quickest way possible. Most players are taught to attack a player's lead foot. But this requires you to look down, away from the rest of the players on the court. Plus, looking down and then back up is an extra step and slows you down. So Coach Torbett gives you a groundbreaking alternative - a quicker read. "Attack your defender’s back." Want the details, you can get them on the DVD! |
Chapter 4: BEATING DEFENSIVE PRESSURE
What do you do when a defender gets up in your grill, and pressures you with extreme body-to-body pressure? He's frustrating you, taking you out of your rhythm and ability to square up to the goal. For some players, their best basketball moves simply won't work in this situation. So most players just pass, or dribble backwards, or even worse back up on their heels and lose their ability to attack. The result is often a turnover. And this is exactly what the defense wants. 6 minutes, 12 seconds |
Here, we see a professional player pressured tightly. The rest of the court is darkened, helping viewers to focus solely on the offensive player and his defender. With Better 1 on Offense, you’re not just going to learn by watching a couple players talk or demonstrate techniques in a gym. You’re going to see real players in real games use these techniques, leaving no doubt that Coach Torbett’s system works, even at the game’s highest level! This is the kind of intense, body-to-body pressure that chapter four deals with. But notice the offensive player isn’t backing up, he’s low and preparing to attack. Will he use a reverse pivot? Perhaps he’ll use a sweep? Either way, the chapter will prepare him for any type of pressure, whether the pressure is straight on, at an angle, or just with a hand in the shot pocket. |
Chapter 5: THE MIDRANGE
The midrange pull-up jumper is a lost art. But why? It’s perhaps the toughest shot to stop in all of basketball, yet most players today limit themselves to a three pointer or finishing around the basket. If that's your game, you don't have a full repertoire of basketball moves. But by applying the reads and progressions in this chapter, you can add the pull-up jumper to your scoring repertoire. In fact, the pull-up jumper is a favorite weapon of Sue, Chauncey, and Rick Barry, and they all address it in their bonus sections on this DVD. Coach Torbett addresses a plethora of techniques and moves regarding the midrange. This includes utilizing the open step and cross step into the pull-up, using a 1-2 or using a hop, making your pull-up as quick as possible, and developing the step back, side hop, and eventually the hop back. 9 minutes, 52 seconds |
This still comes from a fascinating section of Better 1 on 1 Offense. You’ll learn why an open step vs a cross step can determine the speed of your pull-up jumper and the amount of ground you cover. For many players, watching this section will make them finally realize why they’re quicker in one direction, or why their shot gets blocked more often going the other. By the way, check out the red stopwatch in the bottom left of the screen, timing the speed of this player's pull-up J. Here, we see a female player utilizing the side hop pull up jumper. As Coach Torbett and Sue Bird discuss later in the video, males and females both have two arms, two legs, and the rules are the same. So why should players train any differently, or use different basketball moves? Better Basketball's techniques will work for all players - male or female, tall or short, young or old, regardless of level. |
Chapter 6: FINISHING
The first four chapters of the video break down how to beat your man. Then, chapter 5 dealt with shooting in the midrange. Now, in chapter 6, you've driven past your defender and you’ll learn to deal with help defenders, when you’re finishing near the goal. There has unfortunately been very little teaching done on this area of the game, making this a unique and groundbreaking chapter of Better 1 on 1 Offense. The fact is, you can improve your ability to finish, just like every other area of the game! 8 minute, 49 seconds |
Here, we see a player easily finishing despite going against a taller, more athletic defender. He’s able to finish against this shot blocker by utilizing simple techniques, such as T-ing his shoulders to the defender's shoulders, and putting the ball in his outside hand. In this split screen still, we also see an animated graphic to the right of the live clip. But you can’t always jump into the shot blocker to draw the foul. Sometimes he’ll meet you outside the lane. What do you do then? Coach Torbett addresses this situation by explaining, in great detail, one of the more difficult finishing moves in basketball, but one that's nearly impossible to defend. And again, in this still from the DVD you'll see players demonstrating the basketball move, and the move being used in a real Euroleague game. |
Chapter 7: WORKOUTS AND DRILLS
Chapter 7 addresses attacking with the dribble in real game situations. Coach Torbett breaks down these basketball dribble moves and basketball situations in the same mold as the rest of the video, examining reads and reactions, along with counters if the defense is able to play your first move perfectly. 9 minutes, 27 seconds |
Here, we see just a sample of the entertaining filmmaking that helps make this video fun to watch. Plus, you're also going to see some great penetrators demonstrate the reads and dribble moves that Coach Torbett teaches. In a real basketball game, what happens when a player dribbles too much? The other 4 defenders have time to get into the perfect defensive position, and get ready to stop the drive. This is why dribbling in one spot is so ineffective in real games. This was proven in the 2004 Olympics, as the US men were largely ineffective at penetrating compared to the teams that beat them. The USA guards took their time penetrating, giving the other four defenders time to set up. But the international teams penetrated as soon as they caught the ball, meaning the USA player guarding the ball didn't have time to get set, and the athletic USA big men didn't have time to set up inside and get ready to block the shot. |
Chapter 8: THE BALL SCREEN
Chapter 8 teaches you how to utilize the pick and roll whether you're attacking from triple threat or off of the dribble. The chapter begins with the four principles you must apply to run an effective ball screen. And then the second half of the chapter details all of the primary ways defenders can play the ball screen, and how you should react to their various defensive decisions. 8 minutes, 38 seconds |
The number of ball screens set during international games is just mind blowing. It seems at times that every possession begins with pick and roll. So you'll see all of Coach Torbet's principles demonstrated again and again by Euroleague pros. Sometimes they followed Coach's principles and the result was a successful screen. But other times they didn't apply the principles, and the result was often a turnover. There are four principles covered in this chapter - four keys to ensuring the screen will work. Here, a principle ensuring that the player with the ball runs his man into the screener is being discussed. By the way, Sue Bird, one of the smartest players in the WNBA, gave us some great thoughts on working the ball screen... |
INTRODUCTION, CONCLUSION, & FINAL THOUGHTS
In addition to the video's eight chapters and the sections by Sue Bird, Chauncey Billups, and Rick Barry, the DVD begins with an 8 minute, 30 second intro in which Coach Torbett explains how to get the video's techniques into your skill set. And he runs through the contents of the video. And then the tape ends with a short conclusion. So the total running time of Better 1 on 1 Offense is 3 hours, 44 minutes, 48 seconds. And oh yeah, the DVD version even features a five part menu screen, making the video very easy to navigate through!
When we released this video, we sent it to a few people who really know basketball. They were simply blown away. Never before has such a detailed, cutting-edge, and entertaining video been created. Most importantly, we stuck to our motto - doing whatever it takes to stay true to the game, and doing whatever it takes to help players who truly have that burning desire to improve. That's why it took us nearly 10 months to complete this DVD. Spending that much time was the only way to make it perfect. Better 1 on 1 Offense furthers the proud tradition set by Better Basketball's Better Shooting, Better Ball Handling, Better 1 on 1 Defense, Better Passing, and Better Post Play! We know you're going to love this DVD, and we thank you for being a part of the Better Basketball team.
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Bonus Section #1
Sue Bird Every so often a player comes along who flat out
WINS. Sue is the
definition of that player, having won a national championship in high school,
two in college, the WNBA Championship in 2004, and a Gold
Medal in the 2004 Olympics. She was also the very first
pick in the 2002 WNBA draft. |
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Bonus Section #2 Chauncey Billups The goal of Better Basketball is to help players with a desire to improve do just that: IMPROVE! And that, in a nutshell, is why we asked Chauncey to join the Better Basketball team. You see, Chauncey's first few years in the league were rocky. But he worked hard, studied the game and evaluated himself, and has managed to statistically improve every year he's been in the league. He's now one of the most respected players in the game, having been named NBA Finals MVP in 2004, and then was an MVP candidate in 2006. |
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Bonus Section #3 Rick Barry's list of accomplishments in the game of basketball is longer than we have space for, but here's a sample: |
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