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Teach Your Team To Get Open: Use This Drill
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Jan 26, 2025
In this video, we break down a dynamic drill designed to help basketball players learn how to get open using a screener and read defensive movements. Starting with a post player at the free throw line, we emphasize how to avoid leaving gaps and create space for a shot. As we add a defender, players will practice reacting to different defensive situations—like sagging defenders—and learn when to pop out for an open shot. We then add a second line for a one-on-one scenario and finally a third line to create a two-on-one situation. This drill is great for both offensive and defensive players, helping them improve their decision-making and ability to execute in game-like situations.
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hey everyone um are you looking for some
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drills to teach your players how to get
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open um to make them a little bit more
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effective during basketball games well
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if you are I got a great drill that you
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can do um I'm going to go through it
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step by step I'm going to throw in um
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kind of how I set it up you know at
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practice and the different Evolutions
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that I go through to add some creativ to
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this thing um this drill is not only a
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good way for you to teach your players
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how to get open but there's also some
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other uh things that you can throw in as
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they get a little bit better so you can
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work on other individual skills like
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passing and defense and and driving and
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passing and shooting um but so just stay
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tuned throughout the whole video and
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you'll be able to you know catch on to
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some of the little pro pro tips that I'm
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going to talk
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about but if uh if this is something
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that you like this is something that you
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need this is something that um you need
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to be able to incorporate into your
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comments in there it really helps me out
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so jumping right into this you know the
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the objective of this video today is
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just to teach you a you know a drill or
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give you a drill that you can run at
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practice super easy and effective at
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teaching your players how to get open
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during basketball games so um as you can
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see I have you know my team kind of
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lined up over
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here and you'll have to wait for the uh
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the uh program to do their
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ads sorry about
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that okay so the team's all lined up um
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and I've got the coach up here at the
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top so that would be you and then he's
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got a couple basketballs just to keep
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this thing going if you got an assistant
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coach I like to throw them out there as
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well um you don't necessarily need a
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defend uh a Defender buddy here um but
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it is very helpful to have this thing
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I'll put a uh link if you want to look
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at maybe buying one of these I'll put a
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link to uh to the um to the product in
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the description box below but if you
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don't have one of these use a chair um
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cones are okay but not not super great
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you can also just use another person
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and just have them stand there and
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essentially what we're going to do is
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we're going to have a player who's up on
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deck and they're going to you know Dart
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in they're going to basically do like a
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little uh you know a little curl cut
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right and you really want to emphasize
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here that as they're coming up to use
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this screener they want to get as close
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as they can right like they want to they
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don't they don't want to be any you
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don't want to have any distance in
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between the screener and the cutter and
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I'll show you why uh a little bit later
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in this this drill when we start adding
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some different layers to it they want to
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make sure that they you know touch you
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know waist to uh um you know their legs
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they want to they want to they want to
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have a lot of no uh no Gap in between
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this and and basically what I'll do is
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I'll just pass them the ball I might
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actually do this a couple times for the
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younger teams just to make sure their
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screen looks good without a basketball
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but then I'll start working it with a
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basketball I'll pass the ball to them as
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they come around and I emphasize here
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you know their eyes should be on me
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where the ball is I should be on the
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ball hands should be up ready to receive
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the ball and then that way they're not
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getting you know punched in the face
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with a basketball or missing a pass and
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I give them a good solid pass and I make
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my passes nice and crisp so that so that
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they they believe that they need to keep
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those eyes up and those hands up and
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then they come in and then they can you
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know make a quick
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layup and I'll do that you know for for
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all the players I'll give them a little
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bit of time to you know come up remember
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they're you know they're staying super
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focused here they're staying nice and
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close to the screener they're curl
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cutting around as they get the pass
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whoops and they're driving in for the
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layup all good to go there okay now as
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they start getting you know this concept
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down and it looks good and remember I'm
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watching for that Gap because they're
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going to mess this up you've got to
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correct this quick otherwise as we start
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moving into the other um layers of this
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drill they're going to have a problem so
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what I will do um is I
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will set up you know I'll just split the
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team
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up split them in the two lines an
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offense and a defense now if you don't
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have a lot of players or you got a bunch
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of uh you know players that like to
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clown around I'll have a coach be the
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defender here so that they can work this
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out
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right so um essentially what's going to
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happen is they're going to you know
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they're going to come up just like they
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were but now they're going to be
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defended and they're basically going to
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run their uh Defender into the the dman
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and you know then they're going to get
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the pass and now it's fair game now
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sometimes the problem with
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using a a Defender a player as a
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Defender is you know they'll make it
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very difficult for this player to really
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learn how to work this so that's why
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sometimes I'll use a coach ahead of
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time um but I will get the the uh the
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defensive players in there so that they
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get a little bit of practice of
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Defending and also seeing how this how
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this uh can can you know be worked out
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and then I my rotation is just to the
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other line so you know player number
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three is coming up you know he's he's
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he's getting close to the uh
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whoops so player three and player two
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are coming up
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he or she is getting close to the dman
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setting a screen which keeps the uh
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second player behind the
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defender I mean behind the uh screener
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they get the pass and they can curl cut
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around and go for the shot with the ball
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of
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course and then you know they rotate the
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ball back over they rotate
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spots the defender goes over here and
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that's kind of how they rotate now what
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you're going to see when you start using
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the defensive players or the players as
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your defense is you're going to see a
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bunch of crazy things right first you're
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probably going to see them trying to you
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know get in between that Gap and that's
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good because that's what they that's
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what you want them to do they're going
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to try and get in between that Gap um
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hopefully your offensive player and you
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can set up ways of you know if they let
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the player through the gap know they owe
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you 10 push-ups or a couple suicides
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whatever you want to do they will stop
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letting that player get to the Gap and
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this will be effective for
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you um but what you'll start seeing is
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you'll start seeing your players be very
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smart like they are and they will lag
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behind and let that player do their curl
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cut and be waiting for him here okay and
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that's okay because um you know that's
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that's real basketball right that's
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that's real basketball um this is where
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you got to start teaching your players
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that they've got to start making
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decisions um and and a lot of times what
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I'll do is when I start to see that they
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got it that they're not letting their
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players get out
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here then and they're
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sagging um I'll start
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adding I'll start adding a uh another
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line of
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players and I will have you know us an
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assistant come out another offensive
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player so that they are
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lagging actually I take that back first
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what I will do is if they're
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lagging inste uh instead of getting that
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screen I'll just have them pop up get
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the
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ball and shoot it right wide open and
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what that does is now you're
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adding more individual skills to your
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practice now you're you know you're
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teaching your defensive player how to
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react to a
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screen
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um you know do they try to cut through
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they can't so they they
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sag um when they figure out that the
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ball gets passed up to the top and
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they're going to go for a shot now
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they're now they're learning how to
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close out without fouling or they're
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fouling and they're getting you know um
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they're you know they're getting some
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education on proper closeouts
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and you know the player number one is
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getting a chance
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to um to shoot get some shooting um but
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there's a lot of things that can happen
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here I mean this player can do whatever
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they want they can they can pop out
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obviously coming here is better if the
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player is going to Sag but they can do
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different things later on what I'll do
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is I'll
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add other players in the mix so that
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let's just say that they do do the the
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curl cut and they get the pass to them
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and then they get stopped here now they
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can pass out they can kick out for a
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three or it can be a two-on-one
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situation where this guy drives in and
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this person pops out and a little bounce
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whoops a little bounce pass goes so it's
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like a two-on-one game and it gets to be
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a lot of
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fun but for for that so so I I basically
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just went over three different ways to
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run this drill the first you're just
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practicing using that screener the curl
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cut layup easy day all day long then
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you're adding in your
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defense and it's just a rotation right
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like everything's a rotation you're
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adding in your
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defense and you know the the defender
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getting a chance to either curl cut or
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or I mean I'm sorry uh to Sag or to try
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and get through the the the
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Gap you know whoops and close out when
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the ball gets past to
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them that's your you know your second
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way
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way and then of course after the
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offensive player either scores or you
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know loses the ball that person rotates
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here this person rotates there and then
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the Third Way is you know you've got
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three
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lines you got you know defense line over
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here and you have offense over here and
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you have uh your second offensive player
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over here and then also one thing I
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forgot to mention I I would also add in
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a uh a nice sturdy pass from the
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offensive line so maybe get all the
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balls over here you know when you when
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your team starts to get this drill it's
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going to be a lot of fun for them and
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they're going to um they're going to be
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moving so now you can add in
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passing and you got your
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Defender little pass
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here a drive let's the defenser pops up
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here the offense would automatically
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come out boom shoot the
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ball now he's driving this guy's
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defending and we have a little
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two-on-one situation so so that's so
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there's three so three different ways to
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do this drill and and the way that I do
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it is I started off nice and easy with
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the uh with just the one line I add the
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second line I go to the third line and
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then once my team is comfortable with
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this after doing this for for several
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weeks at practice we just go right into
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right into just doing three lines maybe
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four um a lot of uh you know a lot of
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good you know a lot of good individual
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skills are trained and repped out in
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this drill and at the end of the day you
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know we talked about it the problem that
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we're trying to solve here is how to get
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open in basketball and this is a great
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drill it gives you an opportunity to
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learn how to read
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and react to whatever the you know the
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screener for the defensive player and
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the offensive player reacting to
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whatever the defense gives them so if
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you're looking for a way to get open in
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basketball games or get your team member
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or your team your players open in
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basketball games this is the drill that
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I challenge you to incorporate in your
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practice listen if this is content that
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run this in practice let me know how it
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goes in the comments below I would
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really appreciate to hear your feedback
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