Scoring against a defender is all about forcing them to make a decision, then reacting according to what the defender decides. Pay attention to your defender’s feet, hands, and nose: their positions can indicate how you should handle the ball and give you opportunities to create space using jabs, jab steps, and crossovers. Use your shoulder against your defender’s chest to leverage more space, making your body a shield between your defender and the ball.
A pull dribble is a simple tool for making defenders react, so you can read them and counter. If, when you pull dribble, your defender doesn’t guard you tightly enough, you can use a plyo step to explode past them. If the defender squares you up, you can step back into space to shoot. If the defender overcommits, you can counter and beat him or her in the opposite direction. When creating space from a tight defender, Stephen has three main goals: disrupt their balance, protect the ball, and create a driving lane to the basket.
TRAINING: PHASE
your daily training should look like this:
• Warm-up and stretching
• Stationary ball-handling circuit (3 minutes total)
• Form shooting progression: 100 total shots
• Four-way form shooting: 25 total shots
• Moving ball-handling circuit
• Angled ball-handling circuit
• Pickup shooting (at the free-throw line): 20 total shots
• Pickup shooting + ball-handling concepts (at
free-throw line): 10 total shots
• Four-way pickup shooting (at free-throw line/top of
key): 40 total shots
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