Basketball Drills: Bounce Pass

Video Transcript

"Okay this next drill is called the is the bounce pass the bounce pass with both right hand and left hand, overhand, and basically we will just keep them short, the fundamentals of it, as a pro basketball player, it is essential to be fundamentally sound, I will do it slow motion, you want to step though and pass step over, pass, let it go, step over, pass and let it go, and what I mean by step over, by stepping over your opponents foot, for example someone playing defense on you, he has his foot there, he's up close on you, pass the ball with a bounce pass, step over, pass, step over his foot, pass and you extend, left side as well okay same thing defense is up you step and you pass same thing steps up pass okay and also with the bounce pass, over head pass single hand as well so you dribbling you come to a stop your guide gives you a target hand pass you just simply give it to him, as you can see, I'm balanced it's almost like pitching step back and you pitch right, so you dribbling you get over, okay not hard not too hard just enough, to give him a good pass, so he can catch it again, left hand same thing you dribbling you pick up your dribble, ok throw it right to his target, you pick up your dribble right to the target, pick up your dribble right to the target, and from the left side if you pick up your dribble, you kind of get one of those, ok this is what I call a roll bounce, you just kind of give him a little punk fake, and put it down from the right side, same thing give it a little punk fake roll, comes right back to you, punk fake, roll right, give him a punk fake, rolls right back to you, same thing, again fundamentally sound, you just looking at defense you stepping over, your throwing a good bounce pass, again looking over throwing him a good target pass, and that is single hand passing a fundamental passing, a pro basketball passing."