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Basketball - Passing Guide
Basic skills of passing are just like the basics of dribbling, shooting, and defense. Players must have touch, have vision, maintain balance, and awareness. Just like each of the traits mentioned before…they take practice to refine. Passing basics: Stance and Vision: Passing is required in a variety of scenarios depending on what position you play and circumstances you are confronted with; back to the basket in a post-up, while on the dribble, inbounds pass, facing the hoop in triple threat, and many more. Throwing a post-entry pass from the wing is much different than a full-court baseball pass on a buzzer beater inbounds, but a couple things are always constant: You need to try to always have their head up and stay balanced. Protect the ball: Learning to use your body and footwork to shield passes, and learning to use pass fakes are both required. If you don’t learn how to do these things, you will have turnovers and will sit the bench. Remember to keep your body between a defender and the ball when making a pass, step around a defender to make a pass, and use a pass fake in the opposite direction of where you actually intend to pass to get the defender out of your way. Make the easy pass: 99% of the passes you make in your career aren’t going to make any highlight reels. In fact, it is often the pass THAT LEADS to a pass that results in an easy basket. A solid passer can see that if they pass to the guy at the top of the key, he will be able to feed it into the post at a better angle (but if you, yourself, passed it directly to the post…the D might pick it off). Here is an easy rule of thumb…if you aren’t sure if the ball can fit through a gap, or you aren’t sure if they can catch the ball, DO NOT THROW IT. Note – we call these passes where you aren’t sure about the result “50-50 passes”. Shorter the better: Long passes are more easily defended. The longer the ball is in the air, the more time the defense has to react and make a play on it. Minimize the amount of long cross-court passes thrown, and be careful on long skip passes. If you need to, there is nothing wrong with taking one or two dribbles toward a teammate before passing. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Check out The World of Hoops for great basketball training: videos, guides, videos, and drills. |
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