Individual Basketball Workouts with Noah Basketball!

We just added a new Individual Workout to the Basketball Shooting Drills on our website! This workout is centered around the top of the key and incorporates the Noah Basketball Shooting Aids into every shot. Try running this workout with the Noah to help players learn to control and build the correct Shooting arc and Shot Depth. Below is a short video of this workout along with a small snippet of the first two steps in the workout. Visit the newly added Individual Basketball Shooting Workouts page to read more. We would also like to thank Coach Mishler of Wawasee High School for sharing this workout with us! Enjoy!

Basketball Shooting Drills

As mentioned in previous blogs, shooting drills are important to build the necessary muscle memory in players. These muscle movements can be relied upon in the heat of the game and can be the difference between a basket or a brick. Unfortunately not everyone understands that if you practice shooting with the wrong arc and depth, players will see little to no improvement in their shooting percentages.

Basketball Shooting Tips from Gary Boren:

We here at Noah Basketball would like to give our readers these great basketball shooting tips from Gary Boren, Dallas Mavericks Free-Throw Shooting Coach:

What IS a Free Noah Basketball Shooting Clinic?

Before I was a distributor for Noah, I asked the same question.  Sure I was skeptical.  As a coach and athletic director at an Oregon High School, these emails hit my inbox on an daily basis.  It's nearly impossible to know what is worth a second look.  What caught my eye, admittedly, was "FREE"  I figured it was worth a look as I had nothing to lose.  To say I was blown away by the technology that the Noah provides would be an understatement. 

Noah Basketball adds Rep in Canada

Noah Basketball is excited to add Steve Ong to the Noah Team. Steve is our very first representative outside of the United States and will be conducting basketball clinics in and around Toronto, Canada! Steve is a computer science graduate and has been working in the Information Technology Sector in a variety of roles over the last 20 years, but don’t let this computer talk fool you.  A die hard Toronto Raptors fan and a sucker for the March Madness Tournaments, Steve has been passionate about basketball since Kindergarten thanks to his older brother. Growing up in the Philippines, there was always a basket around the block made of any material you can think of. Combined with the many basketball goals around the house, ranging from the small triangular door hinge baskets to the mini-baskets in their covered patio and the full sized goal hanging from their terraced roof, Steve always had plenty of opportunities to play and let his love for the game grow.

Noah Basketball Adds New Rep in Pennsylvania

We would like to properly welcome Paul Petcavage to the Noah Team! Paul is our newest Noah representative and will serve prospects and customers in the Pennsylvania area.  Previously, Paul worked as an Assistant District Attorney for Lycoming County but most recently went back working as a private practice attorney. Paul also coaches for St. John Neumann Regional Academy, the same school he attended as a child.  A fan of The Celtics and growing up with idols like Larry Bird and Pistol Pete Maravich, Paul has always loved the game of basketball.

 Noah Attends ICBA Coaches Clinic!

We recently attended a coach’s clinic with the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association that had around 800 - 1000 coaches in attendance.  The IBCA was extremely hospitable and their Executive Secretary, a gentleman named Don Logan, did a terrific job organizing the clinic. We can honestly say it was one of the best Coach Clinics we have ever been too. Our Sales Manager Rick Turk was lucky enough to hold a Noah Presentation for over 600 coaches, the same presentation we give for high schools around the United States.  

Basketball Shooting Drills with Noah Basketball

Everyone knows the importance of practicing and perfecting basketball drills. It is a terrific way to practice and improve as a player and as a team. The constant, rigorous and sometime tedious drills can help develop muscle memory, hone basketball fundamentals, build team work and trust, and cultivate reflexes. Although practicing basketball shooting drills can improve you and your team as shooters, can they help you reach the next level as a player? Can they help you reach your full potential as a shooter?

Basketball Clinics the Noah Way

Noah Basketball is now scheduling basketball clinics all across the United States for the fall of 2012. This year has been bigger than ever as floods of clinic request have started filling our calendars. We are so excited to get on the courts and share what we have learned about basketball shooting with all these great teams.  But before we get deeper into this blog Noah Basketball would like to thank every coach and school that has taken the time to request a shooting clinic with us. We know you will enjoy the clinic just as much as we will.

Free Throw Shooting Master

I enjoyed spending a day last week with Dallas Mavericks Free Throw Shooting Coach Gary Boren.  I have known Gary for many years and have always admired the job he has done with the Mavericks.  Surprisingly, he is the only Free Throw Shooting Coach in the NBA and has now been with the team for 13 seasons.  Even though he continues to work with lots of new faces from one season to the next, the Mavericks have finished either 1^st or 2^nd in the NBA in Free Throw Shooting Percentage 9 of his 16 seasons with the team.  And during his tenure, three of the Mavericks teams have finished in the top 10 Team Free Throw percentage of all time in NBA history.  That is pretty heady stuff!