3 NBA Dribbling Moves to Beat Your Defender

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3 NBA Dribbling Moves to Beat Your Defender From my personal experience coaching, I ve found that one of the best ways to get a kid to want to practice a move endlessly,

John Wall 2. Derrick Rose 3. Kemba Walker To beat their defenders off the dribble and get into the rack zone to score.

John Wall The Move: Put them to Sleep combo crossover hesitation crossover 1. Wall comes down the court and sees the defense is set, so he doesn t rush in. 2.

1 3 NBA Dribbling Moves to Beat Your Defender From my personal experience coaching, I ve found that one of the best ways to get a kid to want to practice a move endlessly, until they perfect it, is by showing them that one of their favorite NBA players uses it in games. That s why this week I m showing you 3 NBA dribbling moves used by: 1. John Wall 2. Derrick Rose 3. Kemba Walker To beat their defenders off the dribble and get into the rack zone to score. If you coach the dribble drive motion offense, you ll know this is a must have skill for your ball handlers, so let s see how these elite players do! John Wall The Move: Put them to Sleep combo crossover hesitation crossover 1. Wall comes down the court and sees the defense is set, so he doesn t rush in. 2. He does a between the legs- behind the back combo dribble in one fluid motion. 3. Right off the behind the back he hesitates to freeze the defender. 4. He crosses over quickly and explodes, beating his defender and is on the way to the rim for a layup. Page 1 of 5

- Remember all those combo dribble moves (crossover-between-behind) that you practiced? That s the pace Wall dribbles at to set up his man.

- The hesitation is what gets Wall by his defender, noticed how he stands upright and brings his right hand across as if preparing to drive middle.

By his third step his left leg is in front of his defender to protect the ball. - Watch this for yourself here. He does this kind of move at least once a game.

2 - Remember all those combo dribble moves (crossover-between-behind) that you practiced? That s the pace Wall dribbles at to set up his man. Not lightning quick, but the key is it s in a constant rhythm to get the defender lulled to sleep. - The hesitation is what gets Wall by his defender, noticed how he stands upright and brings his right hand across as if preparing to drive middle. - What makes Wall so fast is his first two steps. Just take a look at them. The highest foot (left) pushes off, but then his right legs immediately plants and pushes too. By his third step his left leg is in front of his defender to protect the ball. - Watch this for yourself here. He does this kind of move at least once a game. Derrick Rose The Move: Snake dribble middle into floater 1. Rose pushes the ball down the court in semi transition and ends up on the wing being guarded by his man and shadowed by a big in the paint. 2. As the big is in position to help, he snake dribbles middle. What s a snake dribble? It s a crossover where the purpose isn t to get to the rim, but just to get back to the middle of the court where you can make a play. Page 2 of 5

3. Both defenders back off and Rose flips in one of his patented two foot bank floaters. - The snake dribble is just as effective in pick and roll situations.

- The move is a great example of Rose getting his body between his man and the ball. He does it throughout the snake dribble, and protects the ball going up for the floater as well.

3 3. Both defenders back off and Rose flips in one of his patented two foot bank floaters. - The snake dribble is just as effective in pick and roll situations. After using the screen, your ballhandler snake dribbles back to middle where he s in a better position to see the floor and make a play. - The move is a great example of Rose getting his body between his man and the ball. He does it throughout the snake dribble, and protects the ball going up for the floater as well. - Rose always takes one hard dribble and rises with it for the floater. The same applies if it s a pullup jumper as well. - Watch this for yourself here. He destroyed the Lakers that night with this move. Kemba Walker The Move: In & out into off footed finish 1. Kemba uses the screen and his man gets caught up in it. Now he just has the big to beat. Page 3 of 5

- What really makes this move is Kemba s

4 2. With a hop step, Kemba does an in & out dribble to fake driving middle. 3. He then pushes the ball out in front of his body, to the rim, and finishes with a one step quick finish to beat the big man s recovery. Smooth! - What really makes this move is Kemba s great footwork. First, he uses the hop step to make the defender think he s going middle. The defender is watching his body, not the Page 4 of 5

5 ball and doesn t see the in & out. Then, his one step finish catches his defender by surprise. - The other thing that really sells the in & out his Kemba s head fake. He s looking middle the entire time, up until he pushes the ball out in front of him. - Watch this clip for yourself here. Page 5 of 5

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