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Shooting
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Ontario Basketball

1)

1 sprints to the rim, opens up to see the floor, exits to either wing, gets to a cone and fish hooks back to the ball showing the outside hand as a target, 2 passes on time and on target, 1 takes a crossover-step baseline pull-up jump shot (i.e. inside pivot foot).

All catches are outside the 3-point line.

(Progressions)
 
- start with power layups
- catch and shoot 15-footers, 3s (wings or corners)

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2
2 sprints to the rim and exits to the other wing for a pass and crossover-step baseline pull-up.

Continue, shooters rebound and go to the back of the line.
 
See Shooting - Downscreens, Rip Hamilton.

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3
Progressions

a) plant the outside foot, catch a pass to the inside hand (outside the arc), attack middle for a pull-up jump shot (shown),

b) coach is a defender, players read if they should curl middle (coach trails) or attack baseline (coach extends to take away middle).

See Shooting - Pasquali reaction, Footwork - Pasquali pivoting, also Shooting - Basic 4, Ten fingers, Pass and move, Pitino v-cut, 1 on 1 - Ryan Goodson, Pasquali corner-wing cuts, Dave Malowski.

(Variation - catch with a hop pivot facing the basket, square in the air, crossover step)
 
For other footwork options (e.g. inside-foot front pivot), see Layups - Blast cuts, Shooting - Pop-out, 5star foul-line flash, Mike Procopio wing, Tom Crean fill cuts, Chair drills, Flare-wing, Blasone, Footwork - Jay Wright jab-swing series, 5star cutting.

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4
2) Corner feed

Every second player has a ball, there is a second cutter.

1 sprints to the rim and exits for a pass from 2.

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5
2 sprints and exits to the corner for a pass from 1.

a) Give and go

1 cuts to the basket for a give-and-go.

3 and 4 go next, to the other side.

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b) Shot and rebound

2 shoots from the corner, 1 sprints to the weakside rebounding hot spot, both players rebound and put back any miss before the ball hits the floor.up

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