Basketball drill: 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