How to Reverse Dribble a Basketball

Video Transcript

"This is Travis on behalf of Expert Village. What we're going to talk about now is the reverse dribble. The reverse dribble is effective. You're going to keep your defender away from the ball when they're being close to you. Most often, you'll see the reverse dribble on the position of the court where you're off to the sides of the court and not so much towards the middle. What it is is most often if you're being closely guided by a defender, you're not bringing the ball straight down like this. The ball is out in front of you. They're going to swat at that. Usually what you'll notice is in games people dribble off in an angle. It can be a sharp angle. It can be a not so sharp angle, but what they're doing is utilizing part of their body to defend against the defender and move in one direction. You're coming at an angle. You've got your body in front of you. The reverse is when you turn your back and switch directions and switching hands. What's not likeable about that particular one is for a brief moment, you turn your back to the defender and turn your back to your other teammates. Sometimes it's necessary. The reverse as we come down to our right, plant our left foot, and then we're switching hands, turning our back, and spinning and moving the other direction."