Finishing Layups After Contact

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Sean Hobson, and what I'm talking about right now is how to finish a layup. How to make and use the proper mechanics to make a good layup when drawing contact. One of the most important things that we see happen all the time is, when guys are coming in to shoot a layup, either they shy away from the contact, or they're unable to finish against the contact. And this is just something you need to work on in practice. A lot of times what we do is when we're doing our line layups, I'll either stand underneath with a pad and hit the guys as they're going up for their shot, or we'll use a situation where they'll pass and then they'll come and defend them, and we'll have them back them a little bit. But you've got to become good at finishing layups with contact. And the way you do that is a): you use a power layup. When Zack's coming down, if he's going to draw contact right here, he's got to be able to come down and seal himself and become strong here, and take that contact to the inside, and and store that ball up, and be able to finish it on the outside. That's one way. The other way, we've got to make sure not to do, is to have this guy fade away. We don't want him to come down and fade away from the contact. For one, he's not going to get a good shot off, for two, he's not going to draw a foul. So he's got to make sure and take it to this player, draw the contact, then make the shot and finish it. Let's see what it looks like. Okay, he got a foul, and that's what we want. There's going to be two things that happen when you take it in strong--either you're going to make the shot, or you're going to draw a foul. But the one thing he did was he took it to the basket, he didn't fade away, because if he would have faded away and missed the shot, we get no foul, we get nothing about of it. So it's important to try to finish the layup and go up strong against the defender."