Basketball drill: change hand and finish
Suitable for the following techniques: dribbling
Change hand and finish
Prerequisites:
master players crossover and behind the back
Objective:
to increase the speed of changing hands
Organization:
- Place 5 pawns in a straight line from three-point line crossing extended free throw line towards crossing sideline and center line. The pawns are placed less than 1 metre apart.
- players zigzag with a low crossover between the cones
- finish with lay up
- jump shot
- push off jump shot
- push off lay up
Teaching points:
- look over the ball and survey the field in front of you
- Leg on the side of the ball is in front
- Hand over the ball
- Crossover dribble is backwards in front of the body and low
- with an open step in the other direction
- always make a dribble in between
- The ball is low
- Bounce is flat and hard
Variations:
- start left and right
- Behind the back in position
- Pawns on the defensive half and a defender on the offensive half, directly over the halfway line. Pass the defender with one of the practised moves