Youth Point Guard Skills: Passing to Post Players

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Sean Hobson, and what we're doing right now is working with our point guards on feeding the post. It is very critical for our guards to be able to feed the post properly. To be able to read the defense, and to be able to also read the post player. It's partially the responsibility of the post player to tell the point guard where to pass to. He's either got to show him with his bottom that he wants the ball on the bottom hand, or he's going to show him with the top hand that he wants it fed it up to the top. Or if the post player doesn't think that he can get it from this angle, sometimes the post player will tell him to kick the ball to the top, then the post player can relocate himself to get the ball there. So, once that post player then starts to tell the point guard where to go, then it's the point guards responsibility to figure out whether we need to throw a chest pass. If the post is playing behind--go ahead--if he's playing behind and the post can get his hands out there ready, then the point guard can probably fake--always want to fake first--then step and feed the post on a chest pass. Go ahead and show them what that looks like. Good. Now give it back. Now, go ahead and spin up to the top side, Ben. If he's guarding his top side, then the post is going to post to the bottom. This guy has to be able to fake it--you see how he stepped around through, sealed the defender out, and dropped the ball down to the baseline. And then we'll show him--go ahead and guard him on his bottom side--and then we'll him where he's feeding the ball to the top side, and he can go ahead and give it to him that way. One other one I'm going to show you is a very difficult one. Go ahead and get it back. This time I want you to front the post. If there's a man that's fronting the post, what we want our post players to do to is to walk this guy up, and to point straight up in the air. This is the hardest pass to throw for a point guard. He's got to be able to fake his guy down, and get that defender down, and then he's going to lob it. But when he lobs it, he can't throw it straight up. He's got to throw it over the post's head so that he can go get the ball and finish. And it's going to look something like this. Good. There was no way this post player can get to that pass because he threw it over his head. Those are some good ways that our point guard can feed the post."