 Four, three, two, oh, two, oh. Yo, what's going on everybody? Welcome to a very special episode of NBA Signature Moves Training Edition. Yo, Nell, you know that we love following the NBA all the highlights and watching all the amazing plays and usually in NBA Signature Moves, we're reenacting them. But in this video, we are gonna be showing you guys the drills that NBA players are actually doing so that they can make those amazing plays happen. And all these NBA players train a lot and you can follow the workouts through, you know, Instagram, you know, with the trainers. And today we're gonna show you some of those workouts so you can say that you don't know how to train like an NBA player because we're gonna show you guys. All right, everybody. So I'm here with Nelson Chan from Hooping Life. Yo, what up? And I'm here with our professional basketball trainer friend Coach T. Lam from 1424 Basketball Training. Yeah, what up? All right, so Coach Lam, you had actually worked on my jumper earlier this year. Is it safe to say my jumper got better? You can attest to this. Twice as good as you were before. Give me more, give me 10. So what are we gonna be doing today? I'm gonna walk you through some of these drills NBA players are doing right now. I'm gonna show you how to set it up, walk you through it. And then I'm gonna have Nelson and Andrew compete and show you guys how it's done. All right, everybody. This is NBA Signature Moves Training Edition. Let's go. All right, so our first drill that we're doing, yo, I saw this one from Victor Oladipo. He's using a chair and cones. What is he doing? He's working on a two dribble drag, using cones to work his offhand. What is working the offhand do? Offhand is really important. When you get real grabby defenders, you gotta be able to knock their hands off. So grabbing a cone simulates offhand activation. Our hand gets caught underneath or it just falls asleep. We don't use it because it's not the hand we dribbling with, so it just hangs out there. So activate the arm, activate the offhand. Okay, now you played a lot of ball in your life. Have you ever done this drill? Honestly said, I have not. I, too many people surprise, have not either. Grabbing that cone is simulating, kind of pushing off the defender a little bit, using your off-arm, activating it and making it useful. The two dribble drag, when you're doing it, you wanna imagine that you're pushing somebody right here where the refs can't see, and then you kick sense and then you come back. What are some other items that they can use instead of a cone or a chair? Like, let's say they want a cone or a chair. I mean, maybe you have a chair, maybe you could use a water bottle as a cone. Oh, a water bottle, water bottle, yeah. I've used my thermo class all the time, my hydro class, I just put it down. It's the exact same thing as a cone. If you can pick it up, it's good. You guys do not need to get cones for this, okay? All right, I'm gonna try to do it as quickly as I can. Victor Oladipo, recovering from an injury. So we'll see how fast he can do it. Nelson like this, the great hoop in life. All right, so shout out to Victor Oladipo, very improved player, I hope he recovers. But this off-season, I saw him getting chased down with a foam roller. It looked goofy, what's going on though? Foam rollers look crazy for Instagram, but the purpose, the real purpose, is to mimic a seven foot or six, 10 athlete, that us trainers, we just six feet tall, so we can't mimic those elite athletes, so we gotta use the help of a foam roller. Foam roller, oh, yes, you're the higher than that. I'm seven feet, hold up. All right, so if you don't have a foam roller, Coach, what else can you use? You gotta find a friend that's six, 10, but yeah, brooms foam rollers. I got pool noodles here, anything. All right, you heard it, let's go. Finishing over a six, 10 guy feels real good right now. I know it's Nelson with a foam roller, but I got scared. It is so different once you get full length on you, so if you've never played against someone with a length, you don't know how to react, so that's the purpose of the foam roller. It's intimidating, all right, let me try to make it. Nelson, go hard at me, all right? Five, that's why us trainers don't play no defense anymore. That's what I'm saying. We don't play defense anymore, it's just dummy defense, so the players can get the reeds. It is hard, it is hard. Yeah, that's what I do to six to 10 guys, so I'm saying, you big man, you wanna come challenge me. I challenge others, you step on their foot, you push them down, and then you finish the layup afterwards. So this next workout is where CJ McCullum works out with Chris Brickley. CJ McCullum is known to have some of the most moves in the NBA. He has a lot of combos, and he's filthy with the handle. Okay, so with this three balls, he's gonna dribble one ball on one rhythm, and he's gonna take the other two and dribble both with one hand like this, and he has to keep two different rhythms. It works your hand-eye coordination like crazy, and it confuses your brain because you have to balance multiple rhythms. Once I show them this, we're gonna have them compete, see who could get the most dribbles in, and see who dribbles the longest. All right, so let's see the drill. Let's see if you can do it. Yo, that's looks incredibly hard right now. So you can adjust to it, you gotta control your tap here. They gotta be four right now. Four dribbles on the right. Okay. Now it's getting called with the carry on this one. All right. Eight! Make your bet. How long do you think I can do it successfully? Five seconds. Five? Maybe four dribbles. Don't know what that is. You gotta be real light with them for your tips. Gentle touch, something I need to work on. Let me try one more time, let's go. On that drill. Dogged. All right, coach them. I gotta ask something. When they do these drills, how good is the trainer? Because I think a lot of people think, oh, this person's training an NBA player. They've gotta be better than the NBA player or not necessarily. NBA skills trainers, they don't have the athleticism as these guys. They might have more skill because skill takes a long time to develop. Would it kind of be like that old saying where those who can't do teach? Like these guys can't make it to the NBA, but they can teach the NBA players. Now, I wouldn't say that. It's a different skill to teach versus do some of the greatest players can't teach. So, Kobe, Magic, Jordan, these guys can't teach because they're so good. It usually takes somebody that's had to rise up, rise up, learn all the skills the hard way for them to teach somebody. All right, so on this next drill, of course, one of the most famous off-season training videos ever, we are gonna be copying Hoodie Mello. They've continued to extend it more and more. Oh, Carmelo's gonna take a shot. Smart decision, Mello. Which correction is not currently on the NBA team right now? Nelson, you've done these drills before. So, I expect you to be able to do it. Fair? All right. So, walk us through it. What are we gonna be doing? So, these guys are gonna dribble down, alternating dribbles, they're gonna go between their legs one time, pass to the corner, and I'm giving them the ball right back and they're gonna shoot that next one. So, it's gonna work on two ball dribbling, passing on the move, shooting off the dribble, and then shooting on the catch. How come Hoodie Mello is not in the NBA right now? Ooh, I think that's NBA politics, baby. He could get buckets. Let's do the Hoodie Mello drill. Hoodie Mello, let's go. So, it works on dribbling too and then throwing actually a good pass with the other hand. I'll take it. Why is that drill seems so hard? Or is it not hard? It's hard because you've never passed off the dribble with your last hand, with speed, underhand, shovel. All things you don't learn. That's not fundamental, but in the game, you need it. This next drill is Alonzo Trier working with Chris Brickley. It's a one dribble explosion to the rim. We're gonna see how many Andrew can make in 30 seconds. Coach Lam, I don't know if you knew this though, Alonzo Trier, part Asian. Oh, I did not know that. Nellie's out of this one, recovering from a hamstring. I'm the rebounder, I'm the rebounder. All right, so I'm gonna see how many I can make in 30 seconds. How many you got? How many you think you are gonna make in 30 seconds? That. We gotta keep it secret. I'm going, he can only get like eight, though. Eight? I feel like that's a lot of that. I mean, it's not that far. Look at him, look at him, he's warping up. All right, 10. I'll give him, I'll give him. I have some faith in him. I'm gonna say you can get 10. You can get 10. I know Andrew a little bit better. I know his skills. Do you guys believe in me or what, man? I do, I do. You better go hard. Man, you gotta make them. All right, Andrews, I have very high expectations for you, all right? I have a high number of made layups. So you better complete them. We have a lot on the line to win this game. All right, man. You ready? I believe in you. That's why I have so high expectations. I know you can do this. We're gonna win this game. You gonna hit the shots. You gonna be a star. Okay. I don't know how many layups you think I'm gonna make, but I'm gonna make that many. Coach Lam, you're gonna be counting and timing. Yep. I'm gonna be rebounding and passing. So we're gonna see how many I can make. I don't know what number you guys have in mind for me, but judging by your guys' reactions, I'm gonna know whether I hit your number or your number, all right? Okay. 30 seconds out of the clock. Ready? Hey, behind the line, cheater. Coaches are sticklers for the lines. I'm only five, nine. Coaches are sticklers for the lines. I'm only five, nine. My strides ain't that big. That's a long way for a little Asian. Ready? Ah! Just as slow as my dog. And she's like, just me. Do one more round. If you can go a little harder, I think you can do it. But you gotta go hard. Actually, I guess I had too much faith in you. I said you're gonna get 10. What did you say? I had eight. Hey, you wanna do it again? You wanna try to get eight? What'd I do? Hey, he didn't even get eight attempts up there. You got five and he got four. You got seven attempts. But I didn't even get eight attempts though. I feel like he's not going faster than that. That's a long way. That's a long way for a five, seven man. I don't know if I can do another one and then finish this video, guys. Nelly would have smoked him on that easy. Nelly would have got 10. A healthy Nelly. Two hamstring Nelly. Not a torn hamstring Nelly. All right, let me go one more time since y'all talking lopsop. You gotta take off from here so you don't over-camp it and you all the way over here. You gotta go, bam! And it got out of seven. Six out of seven. He's burning, he's burning. His hamstrings, his calves are probably burning. So this next drill is for Ennis Cantor's put backs. So he's gonna work on getting quick off the ground on the put backs or rebounds. He's gonna tip it twice on the backboard and then on the third one, he's gonna tip it in. We're gonna work on your jumping. So your plyometrics, you gotta jump up three times real quick. You gotta have soft hands and you're doing one handed because a lot of times when you rebound, the other hand's being held down. And you know, since sometimes when I play, I end up playing the four or five. So that's why this is important. Five, nine. He plays the four or the five. I do guard the five. All right, let's see how many attempts it takes to make two. Maybe now it's two for two. Maybe it's two for three, two for four. Oh, easy. There you go, do it with the left hand. Get it. I got that bounce like you did. There it is, get it. Get it. When you rebound and you don't want to drop your elbow too far, you want to keep it here, so you're just doing a short shoulder motion. Okay, so you gotta jump higher. Shoulder is. Ennis Cantor. That should answer it. That should answer how my off hand is. Yeah. Oh yeah. There you go. Y'all feel like that was in the final four, bro? You know how some of you, they missed those left. Last one. You got it. If I don't get it, I don't get it. You got it. You got it. You got it. You got it. Pass, pass. I never want to play Ennis Cantor anyway. Coach, I quit. I quit, man. I'm not gonna say that. I don't want to make this anymore. You can't taste them to quit. You cannot say the cute words. I believe in you. That's why I have so high expectations. I know you can do this. Why is it so hard, coach? It's so hard because, one, you had a shake. But two, you got to have a lot of bounce. Coach is straight forward. He's not left-handed. He doesn't work in his left hand. He's left-handed. He's left-handed. His left-hand shovel was a little tough. But it's all right. That identifies his weakness. So that's where we know where we can go to work. That was a very solid advice. A very solid play. All right, this last drill that we got was a really viral one of the USA team doing a one-on-one, two-dribble rollout. Okay, for this USA one-on-one drill, we're gonna have them start at the elbow and just basically play one-on-one. The only limitation here is two-dribbles max. So we use two-dribbles because usually on the first dribble, that's when coaches send double teams. Normally when a guy catches it, he has a live dribble. So you don't know when to send the double team. So when he goes to make a move, that's when you send the double team. Oh, they want you to score within two dribbles or less before a double team comes. Right. If you're taking two dribbles, by the time you take a second dribble, you're gonna get a help side. You're gonna get a rotation. You're gonna get guy sagging in. So you got to be efficient and quick with your two dribbles. Usually it's only one. You're gonna also gonna play some one-on-one USA team style. All right, everybody. So in the comments below, let me know if you guys learned a lot and also let me know what other moves or training drills you would like us to explain in a next episode of NBA Signature Moves because to be honest, I learned a lot from this too. And honestly, you guys cannot say you've never seen NBA drills now. Since I have a professional basketball and fitness coach right here, give three quick tips for anybody out there. What are three quick tips? You need to build a solid flexibility and mobility routine. That means when you go into the gym, you got to get your leg kicked, your quad grabs, your glutes. You got to hit the routine. Just like you have a shooting routine, a dribble routine, you got to have a flexibility and mobility routine. Tip number two, if you are serious about basketball, you have to, have to, have to do it every day. Every day the game is advancing, it's getting faster, it's getting more skilled. Everybody has to have guard skills because it's becoming positionless. So if you are not practicing every day, you are seriously falling behind, not just in the US, China and the world. And the last tip for all the young viewers, you got to recover. That means water and sleep. So water and sleep, most of you guys aren't sleeping enough and not even drinking enough water, you're gonna cramp. And if you're waking up sleepy, your muscles and your body's not gonna perform the way you want it to. Couple questions. You see a lot of training videos and training drills on Instagram. Are they for the most part legit? How can you tell and should you imitate them all? If you're watching Instagram for training videos, you got to understand the purpose of each drill. So if we bring foam rollers, it's to imitate seven-footers. If we bring in cones, it's to imitate or activate our offhand. You got to understand the purpose of every drill, don't just go do it. The what is more important than the how. And it doesn't matter if I'm teaching you, you guys are teaching any other trainer out there, the what is always more important than the how. Yo, big shout out to Coach T-Lam. T-Lam, real quick, can you explain your 14-24 basketball training? 14-24, that's 14 minutes, 24 seconds. That's exactly 1% of your day. So all I want you to do every single day is just take 1% of your day and get better every day. Where else can they find you? You can find me at 1424.com. You can DM me on Instagram at Coach T-Lam. I got groups running at Arcadia, seven to nine. If you want privates, let me know in the DM. All right, everybody, thanks for watching that video. Shout out to Nelson Champ from Hoop and Life. We're covering from a hamstring injury. Get well soon, Nelly. Thank you, thank you. Okay, great for Nelly. All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching that training episode of NBA Signature Moves. Hope you liked it. Give us a thumbs up. I know we haven't done an NBA video in a long time, but hey, we still got them coming. All right, everybody, until next time, we out. Peace.