You're in a lack of motivation? Derrick Rose can definitively help you!

Like you know, the 2010 mvp Derrick Rose was out of the court for two years, he suffered a lot during this period, he wasn't able to play his favorite game, but he didn't up, he believed one day he could be back, and so we did. Here is a video representing his struggle to get back to game!
Every time I'm in need of motivation, I just watch this video. He inspires me every time to get up and work out. It may be the same for you! Here is the video I'm talking you about:

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The importance of the pass in basketball.

A month ago, my friends came to my place telling me that there was some great French players in town, it was their last week in town, so my friends planned for a street game against them. These guys were about to become professionals, at first sight, I tough it was an extraordinary opportunity to test our game compared to high level players, but then I realized that we might just get humiliated.

Sunday was the game day, when we got to that court, I saw three brown guys, one of them was over the two meters(more than six feet and a half). After we greeted them, I suggested that we warm up a little bit before the game. While we were warming up, I saw that guy dunking over and over, I must admit, I was scared.

As soon as we started our game, it was a big surprise, we totally dominated that game, they were just like a group of newbies that would all follow the ball with no system or nothing! But that wasn't really the reason they loose, they were missing a huge basketball fundamental.

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Is it required to dunk for being a good basketball player?

And here is one of the most popular questions about Basketball in the world. Can I be a good player without dunking?

The dunk, is the basic weapon of most of NBA stars, we almost can't see a game where Lebron James or Kobe Bryant doesn't dunk. That what makes us think that dunking is inevitable in order to get to the next level and be a great player.

If you look up for slam dunk on Google, you'll probably find out this answer:"Slam dunk is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air and manually powers the ball downward through the basket with one or both hands over the rim. The slam dunk is one of the highest percentage shots one can attempt in basketball as well as one of the most crowd-pleasing plays". This last sentence specially attracted my attention:"as well as one of the most crowd-pleasing plays". So, can you guess what? Don't worry, I'm telling you anyway.

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The easiest way to score in Basketball.

A lot of you must be asking themselves, what is the easiest way to score in Basketball? Well, some may have already recognize it, it's the layup.

When your shooting rate sucks or you can't dunk, you can always do an easy layup(mostly if you're in a steal).

So you might be asking, how to do a layup? It's really easy, you only need to run toward the rim dribbling the ball, once you get inside a circle of 5 meters(16 feet) around the panel(that distance can change from one to another, following your size and your level), you take the ball in your hands and you do two steps, at the end of the final step, you jump high taking the ball with only one hand.

At this point, there is two choices:

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How to become a good shooter.

How to be a good shooter? It's one of the most common questions in Basketball, yet, it is not that hard to have a good shooting r

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What is NBA?

The National Basketball Association (mostly known as NBA) is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world. It has thirty franchised member clubs (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada), and is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB), which is recognized by FIBA (also known as the International Basketball Federation) as the national

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