The Pump Fake in Basketball

Video Transcript

"Ok, let's talk about the pump fake. Very effective, and can be used almost anywhere on the court. More often then not, you'll see your post up players using the pump fake. When they're underneath, they're fighting for rebounds. They've got real close defenders, cause the closer you get to the basket, you know, the harder your defensive team is gonna go after ya. Just because it's easier to make closer shots when you're further out, you know, They don't guard you as close. They wanna go ahead and prove to them that you're gonna make that shot. But the pump fake can be used anywhere on the floor, and very effective, especially if you've got a defender who likes to jump a lot. And you can do it by doing a couple of things...effectively, and those effective things are going to be: being in your ready position, in your balance position with your knees bent, and and you're ready. You can pass, you can shoot, you can dribble. So the start of it is is you're in that ready position, and you're gonna, you're gonna throw your arms up like you're going up, you know, almost your whole body. You wanna. A lot of people look at the top of your basket. They're not watching your legs when they're close to you, so you can give em' one of these, not fully extended, maybe three quarters, and you're, you're throwing your head up, and making it look like you're going to jump up and shoot that ball immediately. A lot of times people will, will jump just to bother your shot, not necessarily to block your shot, but to just to bother it, to throw you off just a little bit. Let me just show you..coming in, towards the middle and giving a pump fake on an imaginary defender, and then shooting the ball. We're coming in. So we're, we're coming in. Imaginary defender, he's tough today, and we're coming in, and we ...move, use your feet. That's the other nice thing about the pump fake is the... when you come around, and you square up no matter where you're at, and you pump fake, depending on where your pivot foot is you know you can move around, and once you get em' in the air you can step into em' a little bit, get em' to fall on ya, so you're coming up.... and that's your basic pump fake."