Shooting Borg
| 1 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) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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| 6 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.
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