Below, we have a sample video of the move used by Kevin Durant. You only have to watch to in the video. In the video above, Durant just steps out, but you can also cut out and use the same footwork as you can see in the workout video below.
It's very important that you step out and get ready to shoot as quickly as possible. If you are open and can consistently make the shot, you shoot the ball. If the defense takes away your shot, now you should take advantage of the defense closing out and blow by the defense.
You will see a series of shooting progressions below. Beginner - 5 shots attempted on each side of the court. Shoot 5 free throws. Intermediate - 5 shots made on each side of the court. Make 5 free throws. Advanced - 10 shots made on each side of the court. Make 10 Free throws. Random - Shoot a different shot each time. Shoot 2 free throws. Once you have developed consistency with your footwork and your shooting, this can be a great way to simulate games where you rarely get the same shot twice in a row.
It is also a great way to practice game-like free throw shooting with only 2 free throws at a time. For example, you might choose a series of 3 to 5 shots. If you take the drill above, here is a sample that you can do. Post Cut - Reverse Pivot - Shot.
Two Free Throws. You might look at this workout and think, "Duh. There isn't anything special there. Pro players incorporate these same drills and they probably use a lot of the same drills that you use, but what makes them great is HOW they execute the drills.
As long as you become effective with your step-out and reverse pivot in progression 1, this will force the defense to close out at full speed. If you have the defender closing out at full speed, this puts you at a huge advantage to drive by the defender because they have to sprint at full speed to stop your shot, then they have to stop, and then they go in the opposite direction to stop your dribble drive.
You have the advantage! Now, it's also important that you get to the basket in one dribble. This will get you to the basket quicker and put more pressure on the defense. If you don't, it allows recovery time for the defense to take away an easy basket that you could have had. Progression 3 is set up by being great at progression 1 and 2.
If you don't have the mentality to aggressively attack the basket progression 2 after somebody takes away your initial shot progression 1 , the jump shot will not be open.
In order to be effective, you need to create separation with the dribble. Otherwise, the dribble will not get you anywhere and the same defender who you initially had an advantage against can disrupt your pull up jump shot.
You see this often when the defender blocks the shooter from behind. Dribble hard at the chair, snap the ball below the knees and close to the body on the change of direction.
Make it game-like. Progression 4 is another counter to Progression 1 and 2. If the help defense slides over second chair , you can now change directions with the dribble and attack the rim. If you are not aggressive with your dribble, the defender can attack and control what you do. By being aggressive with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd dribble if needed to score the lay up , this puts the defense on their heels and gives the advantage back to you. In the video above, we used 3 dribbles because we were working on becoming effective with a low crossover with this player.
You can also perform the drill with 2 dribbles by using the push crossover which players like Dwyane Wade and Manu Ginobli are highly effective at. Progression 5 is a counter to Progression 1, 2, and 4.
Now the defense is sending everybody at you because you're destroying your man and even picking apart the first line of help defense. After you change directions at the first help defender second chair , the defense has sent everybody to the lane, so now you pull up for a jump shot. Just like on progression 3, you need to create separation with your dribble. So make sure to snap that change of direction dribble to cover lots of ground to open up space for your jumper.
Dribble hard at the third chair, you have to make the defender commit to open up the finish counter whether it's a drop step spin , step through up and under , a Rondo, side step Euro Step , or any other creative, effective finishing move.
This is a counter to progression 1, 2, and 4. If the help defense slides over to stop you after your change of direction dribble, you can use a finishing counter to attack the defense and get to the rim. However, this isn't effective if you don't perfect the details. If you dribble at the 2nd help defender 3rd chair hesitantly, they can easily cover your finishing counter move and disrupt your shot. It's vital that you dribble at the 3rd chair as aggressively as you can, this will get you in the habit of getting that help defender on their heels which will leave your finishing counter move wide open.
Now, you certainly don't need to perfect all of the progressions to be a good player. You should work on perfecting the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd progressions. Wanted to give a special thanks to Don Kelbick for being a huge influence on our training methods and making us better coaches which leads to better players. Also wanted to give a special thanks to Kyle Wolf who is the shooter in the video below. Hard work with an organized plan pays off.
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I will be sure to include this in my game. However, in the second part of the video, the teen that was demonstrating the moves was traveling.
He would get the ball, pivot, and then swing the other one around without dribbling. Any good ref would call that traveling. However, I get what they are trying to say, and it is a great idea!. Great video, I will be sure to work on this. All the best for all the player. Hi, all. I know this is two years after the discussion was had, but after reading all the comments, I disagree with Stepan's premise that it's impossible to direct drive for one dribble and then take two steps without traveling.
I break it down to my kids all the time and it goes like this: First of all, it is imperative that you teach your kids to explode off your pivot foot, not the stepping foot. When you put the weight on your stepping foot, your pivot foot naturally lifts off the ground. By putting your weight on the pivot foot and pushing off it while the ball is leaving your hand, you eliminate the traveling violation before the dribble.
So now the question becomes, can we make this move explosively without traveling after the dribble? The answer is yes, and it has to do with our footwork before we pick up the ball. If you think about it, we don't only take one step while we dribble. While we can do so, that's not commonly the case.
Try it right nowtake a basketball and do right-hand pounds while moving down the court at game speed. How many steps are you taking during each dribble? It's not 1, that would be awkward and constraining for the ballhandler. We naturally take two steps with each dribble. We can take more steps if we push the ball out, but the natural motion is a pair of steps on every dribble. So the same goes on a direct drive. The ball can leave our hand while the right foot is moving forward.
It can then hit the ground and come back into our hand as the left foot is moving forward. Stepan is right that many players do this move while traveling, but it is not impossible to do without traveling. It can be very difficult to learn how to do it, and then to learn how to do it explosively, but it can be done and I have done it with several of my players. While it's naturally easier to crossover drive for a one-dribble finish, the direct drive is a more complex move and also a more effective one because it allows you to cover more ground during the dribble.
After doing these drills, i felt that i had better shooting chances in a game. I can also impress others with these sweet moves. But if you just practice these drills, this can get you better shooting opportunities in a game. You beat me to that Joe I agree, the good players can do that. If not, you are limiting yourself to how you can finish. JMO 2 If you are a good basketball player, you should have the ability to finish with either hand and either leg from each side of the basket.
Parker, what do you do if you are finishing on the left side and the defense is on your left side? Do you still try to finish with your left hand and give the defense a better chance to block it or do you protect the ball from the defense and finish with your right?
If you are a good basketball player, you should have the ability to finish with either hand and either leg from each side of the basket.
Ken, it seems like your quick guy vs. You have a choice: to correct or to let him enjoy his ability to violate the rules. You chose to let him enjoy. Is it wrong, in my book? No way, it is not. But I see the crossroads here, and an obvious one. Ok, if I'm the head coach of the Celtics tomorrow I'm not gonna try to fix some of Kevin Garnett's bad habits in the post. But if you coach a younger player, and your responsibility is to develop his game There are all sorts of reasons for that, of course.
They range from the overseas ball she already played, the absence of other key WNBA stars, the kind shooting environment of the Wubble, and even physiological differences between genders. Stewart was also younger than Durant when she got hurt.
But the important point is that she still felt like Breanna Stewart to her opponents, both in terms of production and reputation. She still was an above-average marks wo man from each zone, and opponents treated her as such. How does KD shoot and make so many types of jump shots? Nobody can block his shot, ergo he gets a clean look every time from every spot.
Simple, right? Not exactly. He shoots higher and significantly faster, all because he has one of the best dips in the NBA. Your body naturally dips whenever you bend your knees to shoot, which is always if you are doing it correctly. What are your arms doing during this crucial moment in the shot?
For a while, coaches taught their players to keep them up at the point of release, even while their knees dropped down. Some still do, for some reason. Step away from the computer, bend your knees, and jump in the air. Pay attention to your arms. Does it feel natural to leave them above your shoulders as you drop your knees?
Are you even strong enough to keep them up there in the first place? Say you are. How high are you able to jump while keeping them raised? Better yet, try actively dropping them when you bend your knees and swooping them up as you leave your feet. Do you jump higher? Does it feel more natural? Of course it does.
Try it. So why would you ever try to control your arms during a jump? The same principle applies with jump shooting. The more the sport has moved to the perimeter, the more essential the dip has become.
Kevin Durant is no exception. Watch for the dip in these shots. Watch for the up and down motion once he catches the ball. He releases the ball around his forehead, which is at least 11 feet in the air by the time he reaches the apex of his jump.
He drops his arms to his shooting pocket and then back up to his head so easily, from almost any angle, on every shot. The ball goes down to his waist and then back up to his head in an instant. The same thing happens when shooting off the dribble. KD loves to let the ball hang up to his upper thigh and then snatch it there to go right into his shot.
Not KD. Because he naturally dips to his torso on catch-and-shoot situations, the high dribble essentially becomes his dip. Before the defense knows it, KD has accelerated his arms up to his head to shoot in rhythm. The speed and efficiency of that dip is the real reason KD always seems open when he shoots. Freeze the frame at the apex of the jump, and it can appear like the defender has a hand in his face and only misses the ball because KD is really tall.
Consider the distance KD somehow covers so fluidly when bringing the ball from his torso to his head. That arm motion creates a ton of power and precision independent of what happens below the waist. As long as KD still gets the ball down to his shooting pocket and back up above his head like he once did, he should be able to rise and fire accurately while altering his leg positions to better account for any leftover weakness in his right Achilles.
He gets plenty with his arm dip alone. That matters because Durant may have more trouble pushing off his right leg than before, both in the short and long term.
Most players today hop slightly when catching the ball to quickly generate the body acceleration necessary to get long shots off. It gives them a head start, especially when shooting on the move. Every time a player hops, they are leaving their feet, landing on their mid-foot, and then leap much higher in the air again. The weaker it is, the more difficult it is to land on balance and immediately jump again. Her hops were about 85 percent as stable with a surgically repaired Achilles tendon as they were before.
Mainly, though, we tend to associate crossovers with guys 6'8" or shorter, who can usually make defenders pay for biting or overcommitting on the crossover with their quick speed and reflexes.
It's especially scary for perimeter defenders, however, when the player able to cross you up is taller than Karl Malone. Durant's handle is better than just about any small forward in the Association, a realization made even more noteworthy because he's also taller than most of them. Because defenders have to respect Durant's shooting range which extends from feet, well beyond the margins of the three-point arc , they usually don't step back too much, which gives Durant some space to attack or take a floater.
Other times, the step back is enough for Durant to take his potent step-up jumper. The versatility and amount of potential problems this poses for overmatched defnders is the reason that this is near the top of the list. Durant himself according to his Signature Moves series, available on YouTube and well worth a view would call this move the Quite simply, however, it's a jumper which Durant uses time and time again in transition.
He can also utilize it, however, any time he's at the top of the key. This jumper is available to Durant whenever he has a chance to square his shoulders to the basket. For this reason, it's an easier version of No. Since Durant has the ability to push the ball up the court himself thanks to his handles, he is often able to get this shot off with lots of time remaining on the shot clock, which is conducive to the Thunder's quick, high-powered offense.
With Durant's teammate, Russell Westbrook, also shaping up to be a perennial All-Star, Durant can also create this shot for himself off the ball, if he is so inclined. Westbrook's skill and presence also limits the amount of double teams Durant faces imagine how many of these shots he was able to get off when he was teammates with James Harden!
Durant has many fantastic moves which are all pretty unstoppable. This move, however, seems to be his main go-to, and he can make it at will throughout the game. For those two reasons, this is Durant;s most dangerous move.
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