Basketball drill: cutting 2nd man gets the ball

Requirements:players must be able to make a lay up from the pass

Goal: learn therunning move to free another player + have the courage NOT to pass to the first man who moves

Organisation:

• 3 pawns
• fixed pair
• fixed passer in the corner of the field.
• adjust deep post
• cut in, ask for the ball and pass
• second incider gets the ball and makes the lay up
• catches it himself
• passes to the oulet
• and runs to the pawn on the other side of the free throw line
• in the meantime, the man with the ball dribbles to the next pawn
• passes to his regular teammate
• who passes to the regular passer in the corner
• cuts in and asks for the ball (but does not get it)
• when there are more than 10 men: make 5 free throws and then change with a fixed passer

Teaching Points:

• the first man to cut in must look at the passer and ask for the ball with his hands
• the passer must use pass fakes to keep his defender out of the pass line until the second man cuts in

Variations:

Left and right