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  • Ray: Alright Swoop.

  • Swoop: Yeah, I need some help bro, Ray. Now, I want to become a better power forward. I'm

  • pretty tall. Alright, and I'm just lacking some of the things I need to become a better

  • power forward. Can you help me out?

  • Ray: You need power

  • Swoop: What? Look at this muscle right here son. You see that right here?

  • Ray: You sure that's not like a nervous twitch?

  • Swoop: No man! It's honest work! I was just, that's like 17 push-ups a week.

  • Ray: That's involuntarily muscle movement. Alright Swoop, I'm going to show you how to

  • become a better power forward. We brought in

  • Ray and Swoop: The expert.

  • Swoop: Yes

  • Ray: DP, this is power right here.

  • Swoop: Oh OK.

  • Ray: This is six foot six inches of pure power.

  • Swoop: Wow.

  • Ray: First thing about the power forward position is that you gotta be able to rebound the basketball.

  • Swoop: Rebounding! That's important.

  • Ray: How do you go to rebound it? Like this?

  • Swoop: No, no, no, no ,no

  • Ray: You want to rebound the ball with two hands.

  • Swoop: Nice

  • Ray: And you want to do what's called chinning' it.

  • Swoop: Chinning' it.

  • Ray: So you keep the basketball close to your chin as the defense tries to smack it out.

  • They won’t be able to get it,

  • Swoop: Good Work

  • Ray: because you got that ball close, tucked in.

  • Swoop: OK so I'm going to get strong. Get Strong!

  • Ray: Now on the offensive end, you want to post up.

  • Swoop: Post up!

  • Ray: Get a good base on the post up.

  • Swoop: Right!

  • Ray: Show your hands and where you want the ball!

  • Swoop: Very Strong!

  • Ray: Yeah, now the guy on offense knows where to throw it and then you can operate!

  • Swoop: Nice!

  • Ray: You know about operating' right?

  • Swoop: Operating'! Yeah, I, I think I can!

  • Ray: You a smooth operator!

  • Swoop: No, I have the game operation! Out there, buzz, I got it wrong! Gets me every

  • time! You funny doe! It's right there, it's right there!

  • Ray: It's right there! So that's the, that's how you become a better power forward on the

  • offensive and on the defensive end. You wanna show a good post presence with good balance

  • on the offensive end and on the defensive end you wanna make sure your first thing is

  • you become a good rebounder, grabbing the ball with 2 hands and being able to start

  • that fast break and getting it to a guard.

Ray: Alright Swoop.

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