2. Passing & Catching, Dribbling

See YouTube skills playlists (Passing, Dribbling).

Passing and Catching

• Basic
  • Coordination - passing, catching
  • Stationary (triple threat)
  • On the move, off the dribble
  • Chest, bounce, overhead
  • Push - with guide hand
  • Outlet pass
  • Catching - show both hands.
  • Shorten a pass - step into a pass, step to meet it.
• Intermediate
  • Pass fake
  • Dribble pass - one-hand pass off the dribble (snap pass)
  • Backdoor pass
  • Drive and kick, dish
    • Kick pass - sideways
  • Shovel - underhand pass, with one hand or two hands (rugby pass)
  • Post entry
  • High-low pass
  • Against pressure - pivot, sweep, rip, pass fake
  • Post catch - block and tuck
  • Shooter's catch - shooting hand behind the ball
• Advanced
  • Diagonal and lateral passes
    • flick pass (or push, off the shoulder), cross-body, hook, rugby (shovel), behind the back
  • Hook pass - e.g. behind a ballscreen, or a skip pass
  • Fake behind the back
  • Pocket pass - to the screener on a pick and roll (inside or outside hand)
  • No-look pass
  • Skip pass (overhead)
    • stationary
    • off the dribble
      • inside-outside jump pivot in the air
      • outside-inside stride stop, reverse pivot on the outside foot
  • Overhead bounce pass, e.g. an outlet pass
  • Baseball pass
  • Wrap pass (side-arm)
    • air pass, e.g. baseline drift pass
    • bounce pass, e.g. post entry
    • curl pass - post entry with sidespin
  • Flip - instead of passing with the weak hand (e.g. on a post entry), bring the dominant hand across to pass, the weak hand is a guide hand
  • Post entry - relocate, cut, screen away
  • Drop pass - from the post to a cutter

Dribbling

• Stationary ballhandling & dribbling
• Dribble while moving e.g. skip, backpedal
• From triple threat
• Speed dribble - dominant hand, weak hand, alternating hands
• Rhythm dribble - ball and inside foot hit at the same time (protect the ball)
• Drive and finish or pass
• Catch and go
• Shift speeds
• Turn the corner, cut off your defender, attack in a straight line
• Crossover moves
  • Switch hands
  • Basic cross - drive and step forward, cross the ball, step with the other foot
  • Push or roll crossover (throw cross)
  • Iverson cross - "big" crossover, ball and foot cross over, usually set up by a skip hesitation Counters
    • inside-out
    • inside-out cross
    • cross between
      • cross between
      • cross, float and run with the ball, between
    • cross stepback
      • no extra dribble
      • cross, float and run, stepback dribble
    • Durant double cross
      • hesi cross cross (big cross, small cross)
      • hesi cross hesi cross (big cross, big cross)
  • Cross spin (Tony Parker)
    • counter - cross to half-reverse layup
• Protect the ball
  • closed stance, arm bar
  • control dribble (crab) - defender on shoulder
  • back-down dribble - defender on hip
  • escape - retreat dribble, retreat crossover (or between), lateral dribble
    • retreat, hip swivel, attack or cross
• Inside-out moves
  • freeze pull-up
  • lateral separation - crossover step, shuffle
  • counters - inside-out cross, between, behind (wrap)
  • inside-out wrap - shuffle (lateral separation), shot, stepback
• Between the legs (scissor series)
  • scissor the feet to land in a split stance (lunge position), or step forward with the back foot, go thru
  • stop separation - jump stop ("hockey" stop), between
  • hesi scissor cross, scissor inside-out, scissor cross wrap, scissor wrap, scissor cross cross
  • scissor hesi, scissor cross (Hardaway), scissor hesi cross
  • scissor under, scissor under cross
• Pocket dribble - pull the ball back outside the hip
• Behind the back
  • sit on the ball (a V)
  • wrap around the back
  • Speed stop exchange - speed stop, behind the back (stop separation)
• Hesitation moves
  • Rise up - fast-slow-fast, stop and go, show shot
  • Stutter
  • Skip (inside foot)
    • load-up (scissor) move - skip, drop the inside foot back, push off (drop position)
  • Glide (shuffle, gallop step, kick step)
• Reverse dribble - change hands
  • fake reverse - baseline drive, reverse, reverse again, attack the basket
  • reverse dribble to drag move to drop position (then dribble step-thru to inverted drop, can reverse dribble again)
• Spin dribble
  • half spin - fake a spin dribble
• Other combo moves
  • e.g., behind-behind (Steve Nash)
• Primary-secondary moves
  •  e.g. inside-out cross, hesi between
• Dribble-jab moves
  • Nash dribble-jab and go - jab with the inside (non-dribble) foot
    • dribble-jab cross (jab inside, jab outside, cross; progression - Iverson cross)
      • counter - dribble-jab inside-out (Drew Hanlen)
  • Stutter and go (3 steps, jab-jab-jab, can be outside-inside-outside foot)
  • Drop cross (cross jab, switch-hand move) - switch hands, jab back the other way
    • counter - cross jab cross (or between)
  • Jab-crossover (pound cross) - pound dribble & jab with the outside (dribble) foot, crossover
    • jab between
• Push out (turn dribble)
  • mini inside-out and dribble-foot jab at the same time
  • shoot (freeze pull-up)
  • push-out cross
  • push-out stunt - push-out, jab opposite (fake cross), attack
• Throw-down dribble
  • throw the ball into the floor from one side to the other (avoid a travel on a same-side drive)
• Jamal Crawford shift cross
  • dribble behind or between, shift opposite, dribble behind (see Crawford finish)
• Closed-stance
  • Isaiah Thomas - pound and crossover step (get an angle), hesitate, attack