- Hey, what's up GQ Sports?
This is Miles Bridges and this is Reel Talent.
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First up, we have Carter, who's number three.
Carter driving to the basket.
He's doing a good job pacing himself,
using his body and getting to the rim.
He could have used his left hand,
but that was still a good layup.
Should of been And one in my opinion.
He did a good job staying away from the sideline,
and just staying in the middle of the court
so he could give himself options,
that's the same thing I would've did.
And his pace was really good,
he didn't go too fast or too slow.
He went at the right pace
just to get to his spots on the court
and that was pretty good for me.
On the second part, we have Carter playing defense.
Okay, so I see he's playing the middle of the zone.
I used to hate playing again zones in high school
because I never knew how to figure it out
without good coaching, and I was always in the middle too,
so I had to make the right plays.
He made a pass to shift the defense,
then he went back to the middle.
Gave him a good up getup, that's good footwork.
I mean, I don't think I had that type of footwork
as a junior in high school
because I could just jump over everybody.
You could tell that he watched
a little bit of Kobe from that move
because that's the move that Kobe Bryant used all the time.
Especially when he's going against taller defenders,
he'd try to pump fake 'em
and just get them off the ground
just so he could get to the basket easier.
He did a great job of shifting the defense
by passing it first.
It was him showing the ball to the defender
and getting back to his right hand.
That's good for a junior, honestly.
Can we get him playing defense?
Yes, that's a good defense.
Good bounce pass.
If you play too close to a defender,
he could easily go pass you,
but he did a good job recovering
and stealing the ball from behind.
I used to do that when I was a little kid.
When somebody wasn't paying attention to me,
I'd try to come from behind him and steal the ball.
He did a good job telegraphing
where the ball handler was going.
On the offensive end and the fast break,
he does a great job with just pushing the pace
and throwing a good bounce pass.
I feel like if you just pass it as a chest pass,
then it would have been stolen.
And not too many people use the bounce pass anymore
or separate there in the screen and row,
usually not in the fast break.
He looks like a solid player.
He looks like he loves the game of basketball.
Using his fundamentals, he playing defense.
You don't see too many kids
in high school playing defense nowadays.
Now that just shows how dedicated somebody is
to the game of basketball.
So good job, Carter.
Next up we have Carter's teammate, Jayden.
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Oh, oh, dumb up, dunking the ball.
Yeah, he looks solid.
I mean, obviously because I'm so athletic,
I used to get these types of plays ran for me in high school
and in college, even today in NBA.
We see a team in the zone,
and I think it's a three, two zone, one, two, three, yeah.
Three, two zone, so the easiest play
is to screen that guy just so he could go for the lob,
they didn't even recognize it.
Even good advice for coaches to use.
The team is in the three, two
or one, three, one just screened the bad guy.
If you have an athletic guy on the team
and just throw the loud to him, usually it works.
Let's see, that was the first play of the game too.
Right here, seven driving to the basket.
No help come, so he's just able to dunk the ball.
For me, I just dunked the ball
just 'cause I have the ability to.
When defenders are around, it's more beneficial
for me to dunk the ball just so they won't block me,
but if I can't dunk the ball,
it would be easier to lay it up.
In that situation right here for Jayden,
it was easiest to dunk the ball.
I was in the eighth grade, no, seventh grade.
Seventh grade, I started dunking the ball,
not like off lobs or anything,
just me driving to the basket by myself and dunking it.
But I didn't start catching lobs until like eighth grade.
You have to have good timing, good hands.
It's more difficult than driving to the basket and knocking.
We have him in transition right here.
It looked like he could drive to the hole from right here.
The help defense, they get back,
and they're trying to protect the paint.
So Jayden hits him with a step back
and he sets his feet for the jump shot.
He looks like an all around player.
I mean, he's athletic, he could dribble the ball,
he could read the defense,
he does a good job of setting his feet.
Usually you don't have players
as a junior making these types of plays
and reading defense like that.
When he put it behind his back,
you can tell that he practices that a lot.
I mean, that's good for his age that he's doing that.
We have him driving to the hole.
He sees three defenders on him.
So he could either pass to the big man
or the guy in the corner but this defender right here
who's guarding him, he comes over and helps on a big man.
So this guy is gonna be open
and he sees that and he throws a bounce pass,
and he's just reading the defense.
Not so many kids at that age could do that.
Plan at his own pace and read the defense.
'Cause he could easily force up a bad shot
or a bad layup or turn the ball over right here
but he makes a great pass.
The guy was waiting for him to throw a chest pass
so you could steal it but instead he bounced passes it
to the guy in the corner, and he knocks down the shot.
That's good for Jayden for reading the defense.
Jayden and Carter keep doing a good job,
again, bear at basketball, keep watching film
and playing at your own pace.
If you continue to do that,
then you'll be in a division one college very soon.
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All right, next up we have Dejonice.
Oh, he's feisty on defense.
Good pass, dunk.
Okay, let's break down Dejonice's game.
Okay, so it looks like they're in a full court press.
I think two to one.
You have two defenders up here, two defenders right here
and then the center, that she just walks up to her
and takes it.
She has good hands and good passing vision.
That was a great pass.
You can't do a two to one in the NBA
because players are too smart.
That's usually done in high school,
and not even in college either
because the players are too smart,
but they do a great job of trapping the defender,
taking the ball from her.
And I don't even know how she seen the girl
running with her, she doesn't even look back.
That was a great pass.
Okay, speaking of defense, let's look at this next clip.
Oh yes, she's all over the defender right now.
You can tell when somebody is really like dedicated
to playing defense just by their emotion,
just her diving on the ball
and making sure that she stole the ball
and all that type of stuff.
You don't normally see this in high school.
They're doing a great job, making her throw a bad pass,
and then recovering to the bad pass
and not letting it go out of bounds by saving it.
My advice for her on jumpshot is probably just jump
because it was like, she just shot a set shot,
but she does a great job.
Just making a shot and staying locked in on defense.
Usually people don't make a shot and they celebrate,
but she's getting right in here
and stealing the ball from the inbound.
Keeping her foot work and scoring again.
Yeah, she did a great job, but by telegraphing that,
I like stealing the ball like that onto K,
but I'm gonna do that normally in real life.
The girl taking it out,
she should have been paying more attention.
It was like, she just was ready to throw the ball in
because Daisy needs to set a three on her.
And she did a good job of stealing the ball
and scoring against a bigger defender too.
Continue to play defense because it takes you a long way,
and I like watching players play defense.
So good job.
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Okay, let's check out PJ next.
Oh, whoa, he's dribbling the ball like that at 12,
cross over between, between, between, step back.
Yeah, I want to watch more clips of him.
He's just breaking down the defender, watching his feet
and seeing that the defender wasn't really guarding him
so he stepped back.
I mean, I feel like if PJ wasn't dribbling like he was,
then the defender would have been closer
but PJ is doing a great job
of keeping a defender on his toes
and just doing all these moves
'cause you never know where he's gonna go.
Like he thought he's gonna go to the room right there
off the crossover.
You don't see 12-year-olds doing this.
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He's in trouble right now because he lost the ball
but he gets the ball back.
He's guided, he's getting guarded by two people.
So obviously you could tell
he's probably the best player on his team
'cause he's getting almost triple team right now.
This is another guy behind him
and he spends between two on a good split.
So he's the bigger defender.
He could've passed it to him right here but it goes up,
probably was filed right there,
but he gets his own rebound, follows his shot.
He does a great job at following a shot and making a basket.
On a jump shot, I wouldn't say follow your shot
'cause a lot of people say, follow your shot on a jump shot
but on a layup, even like a floater or something,
you should follow your shot, that's what I do.
It was a good move for him getting out of that trap
but yeah, he could have dumped it off to his teammate
for easier layup.
He does a great job recovering though.
I really like your game, PJ.
Just try to find your teammates more and that's about it.
Other than that, everything was great.
Next we have Aamir Hurst.
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Now that gives me memories from when I was in high school.
When I was in Flint and people weren't used
to seeing freshmen dunk, so around that age,
I was dunking the ball.
So every time I had a fast break or something,
people would get up and cheer like that.
He looks like he has an old school type of game.
It's really a better feeling than this
than getting a fast break by yourself
and just being able to show off your athletic ability
and especially when you're in high school.
Look like you could tell how happy his teammates are form
and in the crowd, well, it looks like in a way crowd,
'cause they're not even getting up.
It's a good-looking dunk right there.
This is called a D.H.O dribble handoff
and he's catching these going downhill.
Makes a quick stop.
He really doesn't have to stop right here,
he could have kept going, probably Eurostep that guy
to get to his right hand.
So he goes all the way to the rim and this defender helps.
So he would just act like he's going left
and go to his right hand.
Then suddenly, he does a lot,
like he acts like he's going to his left
and then he acts like he's going towards right
and then it goes to his left
but right here, he could act like he was going to his left
and go to his right.
So Aamir you should have your step right there,
that'll look really nice.
Yeah, he sells for a pull up.
I mean, at that age in high school,
you could shoot at your chest
because he's getting the elevation on a shot by jumping.
Yeah, and any finishes up top.
Has a great job holding his fall through
but my advice for him
for like once he starts getting closer to college
and the competition gets better,
he should change his form to a little more over his head.
So guys can't block your shot.
It makes it easier for guys to block a shot
if you're shooting from your chest.
If that guy was a little bit taller
and he was playing more aggressive on defense,
he probably could have blocked it,
but he used to steal and then jump.
His teammate throws him a bad pass
so he has to recover the catch right here.
It looks like a big man closing out to him.
So he has a slower defender closing out to him.
He hits him with a good pump fake.
That's a good fundamental pump fake.
It looks like he can go to the rim.
Then he could've went to the rim.
Then he settles for a jump shot, that's why it opens.
Yeah, the defender got back in the picture.
He could've went all the way to the rim
and probably don't do it again.
I mean, you could tell that he works on that pump fake,
one dribble get to your mid-range.
I say not too many kids in high school at mid-range.
Usually, it's just threes and dunks
and you can tell by him walking away that he moves,
it was good.
Yeah, Aamir, you're doing a great job
on your fundamentals and your mid-range game.
I would like to see you get to the basket more
and show off your athletic ability.
But yeah, you're doing a good job.
Just take what the defense gives you.
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Next up we have Cole.
His freak though looks pretty good.
I mean, for me, I just spin the ball once
just so I could get the scene with the ball
and get a feel for the ball
and then I dribble it just one time.
It's just a technique for me.
Some people they dribble it twice,
I've seen this technique before.
He does a great job, bending his knees,
shooting the ball off his tippy toes,
for him, looks pretty good right here.
I have to say his hands should be more down
instead of straight forward.
You're at the free zone
when everybody's watching you shoot a shot.
So it can get nervous, especially in the fourth quarter
with if the game's tied or if you're down two
and you're going to the freedom line for two shots.
It gets a little nervous
but you can practice a Frito for your whole life
if you play basketball.
So it should come second nature to you.
Like he does the same routine, nothing changes.
A good job, Cole.
Just keep working on your fundamentals.
Last but not least, we have Tommy.
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Let's see what he's doing.
Which one is it?
Oh, whoa.
Is he the one with two basketballs?
It's a hard drill to do even for me nowadays.
Yeah, so obviously he's working
on his ball handling skills right here.
He's doing a great job.
He looks like he's more advanced than the other kids
because he's working out with two basketballs.
Yeah, this drill right here is just him keeping the defender
on his hip after he comes off the screen
just so he can open himself up some more
to get to the basket.
So that's it, that's a good drill.
He has a good trainer.
Final clip, let's see.
It's like he's shooting a jump shot.
One, is he gonna make all these consecutively?
Okay, he's shooting a high school three,
so this is pretty good too.
Usually little kids, they shoot from the chest.
So I don't have any criticism right now for him.
Three, the only kid I've seen that hasn't shot like that
from your chest was probably Jason Tatum.
When I played against him, he always shot above his head.
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Oh, he finally missed, hit five in a row.
What I see at the end is just when he missed his last shot,
he just, he got a little frustrated with himself.
I mean, he used to just look at the big picture.
He made five in a row.
It's not wrong to get mad at yourself.
Just try to keep it inside and not show it.
Tommy, you're doing a good job, not to make it at your age,
have that work ethic and that kind of mindset.
So just don't get upset with yourself,
continue to get better, and you'll be great.
I'm Miles Bridges from the Charlotte Hornets.
Thanks for watching everybody.