Shooting Fill cuts
| 1 Options - balls in one line only - coach stands under the basket, one arm up means shoot, pointing to the floor on one side means drive that side - coach stands below the foul line, shoot if coach steps back, or if coach has one foot forward, drive that side - replace coach with a defender, go live (shooter can cut backdoor). See Dribbling - Chair drill, Make-a-move, Pasquali reaction (option d). Ian MacKinnon - four players use two balls, work on a sweep series. Chris Mooney - three balls on one side, players from the other line shoot 3s from the top of the key. |
| 2 To get shots off more quickly, cutters should not get in the way of the next cutter or the next passer. Here there is a line of players low on one side, perimeter players there can pretend to use a screen and fade, curl or pop for a pass, post players can make an inside move or turnaround shot, or get a pass at the short corner or high post.
See Shooting - Jenkins fill cuts, 5star foul-line flash, Post play - 5star post flash. |
| 3 Kevin Bellamy - one line comes high (e.g., using a staggered screen), the other line drifts to the corner. One team at each basket, score 2 points for a make beyond the three-point line and 1 point inside, first team to 15 points. |
| 4 Put one line in the corner and the other up top. Options include catch and shoot, drive middle or baseline for a layup or pull-up, with a sweep, shot fake or jab step. See Shooting - 2 line make 7, Pop-out.
If the top line is in the middle, the players can go over the top for the shot or under for a curl-in jumper or post-up.
Bob Hurley - 2 wide shooting - use 5 balls, corner players blast cut for a catch and shoot, players at the top of the key step toward the wing then flash backdoor for a pass. Rebound your own shot and dribble out to the other line (where the pass came from). |
| 5 Putting players in one corner and the opposite wing can be used to shoot off ballcuts from the weakside, or zone attack post x-cuts (see post hoop cuts). Also see Shooting - 6-spot, Pistons bust-up.
When players are on both sides of the floor, players go to either side of the passing line to get different shots. |
| 6 Put one line near the basket to work on square-up or high-post shooting (or they can move out to the short corner for a pass, or L-cut for a pass on the wing). Note that if 3 did not move to get a pass, he would partly block 2's passing angle. |
| 7 Here there are lines on both wings, players cut to the corner for a skip pass.
See Shooting - Team skip pass. |
| 8 Lines in both corners, players cut to the wings. |
| 9 Flarescreen shooting, lines in both slots. |
| 10 Bring the lines out to halfcourt to work on transition shooting (optionally cutters cross for passes, see Shooting - 5star X, Layups - Kiwi cutting).
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