Basketball conditioning drills that are focused on fine-tuning your cutting can be invaluable. Tighten up your cutting game by incorporating these drills and tips!
Inside Out
The first basketball conditioning drill we’ll talk about is the inside out, which is a great catch and shoot drill.
After we’ve dribbled with the pass a little bit, we’ll dribble it up in and you’ll make a hard pass to make that cut. We want to make it game-like.
Then change your angle. Now you’re going to dribble it harder, then throw it to your partner, following up with a cut off, and then go right and do the same thing.
Run for 4 to 5 minutes, working on different cuts.
Back Door
When you work on the back door, the whole emphasis is to get a one-two count in your mind. Try to get a one-two count, step up into it, force the other player to come up into the passing lane, and then back door by showing your hands and cutting hard to the basket.
TIP! When you work on the back door, you’re trying to come up. A great suggestion is to use a football pad to allow you to put more emphasis on it.
Hand Off
Your partner starts dribbling, and says “hand-off”. You are going to take the ball, put it out in front and score in the lane.
Pick & Roll
Start dribbling the ball, and follow up by setting the screen on your opponent. Then you’re going to come off.
TIP! The only rule with a pick and roll, is a minimum of two dribbles off the pick and roll. If you can get two dribbles off the pick and roll, especially by coming off it on a naked pick and roll, you’ve got a very good chance to get a great shot or a great pass for somebody else.
I’m not big on the whole “come off the pick and roll, pull back, and shoot the 3 behind the line”. But with that said, the other thing you want to do is create space, and create spacing for everybody else by those two dribbles. When you watch NBA point guards and great point guards in college, they understand this. It’s important that you can create that space. It gets you a better opportunity to shoot and gets your teammate a better opportunity for a shot.
For more great Cutting practice drills, be sure to check out our previous posts on Man to Man Defense and 4 on 1 and Man to Man!
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