Clutch Basketball Training provides personalized basketball training for children and teens in Bergen County, New Jersey. With our basketball training program, your child will be trained by Justin Iton, a former collegiate and professional basketball player with a history of both coaching young players and working as an educator in Bergen County. Justin will impart the same fundamental skills that helped him reach collegiate and professional levels. By organizing players in small groups and one-on-one sessions, Justin is able to provide attention to each player, developing the skills they need, and using feedback to identify areas for growth and improvement
For more information on our youth basketball training, call or text Justin at 551-275-1185. You can also learn about our rates or book a basketball training session online through our website.
Young Players Who Receive One-on-One Basketball Training Improve Faster
From young players to professionals, it is important to have solid fundamental skills to be able to perform effectively on the basketball court. Footwork, dribbling, shooting, and passing are basic fundamentals young players learn, and even professional NBA players hone as part of their practice regimen. Although different positions on the court may emphasize certain skills, the fundamentals of basketball remain consistent and crucial no matter what position players are placed in.
The bottom line is that the more well-rounded a player becomes as a result of individualized basketball training, the better he or she is prepared to excel and contribute to the success of his or her team.
Justin trains teens and young players in the fundamentals of the game, providing them with the drills, tools, and advice to make the right decisions, work on areas that need improvement, and grow as players. Basketball requires creativity, spontaneity, split-second decision-making, and spatial awareness. The skills that Justin trains are designed to expand the dimensionality of a player’s game.
As the number one goal in basketball is to score a basket, the emphasis of our basketball training is on:
- Ball handling: Players become adept at in-and-out dribbles, jab steps, and the triple threat stance. Advanced players master behind-the-back spin moves, hesitation moves, and more. Ball handling drills like the 2-on-1 drill, reaction ball drill, and 4 corners drill, push players beyond their comfort zone to improve their effectiveness on the court.
- Shooting: As a basketball shooting coach, Justin uses one-on-one drills to improve players’ jump shots, pull-ups, step backs, catch and shoots, 5-step pump fakes, mid-range shots, and three-point shooting.
- Finishing: Players learn to finish through contact and the art of finishing in traffic, becoming proficient at scoring even in the face of physical challenges. A variety of basketball finishing drills, including perfecting layups and floaters, and for more advanced players, Eurosteps, touch shots, reverse layups, crossovers, and stepbacks, boosts players’ ability and confidence.
- Defense: Basketball defense training focuses on agility ladder drills, defensive slides, and elements of defense, challenging players’ bodies to adapt quickly to changing directions, building footwork speed, and improving defensive awareness.
- Free throws: Our basketball training also includes the development of physical techniques and mental focus through cues, mental notes, and rituals to help a young player master free throw shooting. All of this, combined with free throw shooting drills will improve the young player’s game.
Justin trains students from grade school through high school seniors. He also assists select high school student basketball players with the college basketball recruitment process, utilizing his contacts with Northeast Division II and Division III basketball coaches.
Book a Training Session in Bergen County, New Jersey
Clutch Basketball Training nurtures your child’s innate abilities to help them realize their potential. If you wish to learn more about Justin or our rates, please call us at 551-275-1185 or book a training session online.
