Avoid Telegraphing Your Basketball Pass

Video Transcript

"TRAVIS WAACK: Okay, let's talk a little bit about where we want to look when we're passing the ball, otherwise known as telegraphing your pass, because you're really sending a signal to your--to the opponents where you're going to throw that ball. If you're sitting there looking and looking and looking, and then that's where you're going to throw to, well good people are going to pick that ball off, steal it and go down and score at the other end. So we want to avoid throwing exactly where we're looking. So ideally, when you get good when you practice it, you want to throw in an opposite direction of where you're looking, right? That's going to throw people off because most people that they play against probably do look where they're passing. So if you can look this way and throw that way, then that's what you're going to want to do. And you're going to accomplish good passing technique by looking one direction, throwing in the other direction and using your peripheral vision. Your peripheral vision is what you can see on the sides of either side of you without actually looking at it. So if you take your hand and you move your hand around out here, I can wave to myself. I can see my hand that's my peripheral vision. And what you want to do is maybe--if you're at the courts and you've got some friends, have them stay in there. And when you're practicing your passing, look not at your friends but look over a different direction and pass the opposite of where you're looking and get used to doing that because you're going to have a better sense of where they are. So when you are practicing passing using your peripheral, looking one direction and passing another direction, you're going to be that much better of a passer."