Youth Basketball Shooting Guard: Fake and Drive

Video Transcript

"Hi. This is Sean Hobson, and right now, we're working with our shooting guards. One thing we want our shooting guards to be able to do is, one of the best setup shooting methods is the shot fake and drive. That's going to create him some space, and that's one of the ways he's going to use in the offense to create a shot for himself. So one thing that he's going to do is once he receives a shot, his defender is going to jump out on him. We're going to teach you how to read the way that the defender closes out. Obviously, when he catches, he gets himself ready for the shot. Now this guy, the defender, is going to come running out at him. As a shooter, he's got to read. If this guy closes out to the left side; close out hard to the left side; if he closes out hard to the left side, what this guy has got to read is: he's got to keep his feet set, shot fake, and then he's going to bring the ball to this side because if he brings the ball to the other side, the defender is already on that side, and he's going to run into him. So he's got to shot fake and he's got to bring the ball low and he's got to clear it on this side. Left hand dribble, taking it to the basket, and he's going to pull up for a jump shot. Now, if he closes to the other side; go ahead and close to the other side; if he closes out to the other side, now he's got to bring the ball low this way. Right hand dribble, take it to the basket, and shoot it. We're going to show you what this looks like at full speed. So I'll pass it out, and then we'll show them a shot fake and drive. Here we go. Good, shot fake, steps up, knocks down the shot. That's the way it's done. Shot fake, keep your feet set so you don't get called for a travel. That's going to make you a much better shooting guard."