Written by Rick Torbett on August 7, 2009 – 9:56 PM (No Comments)
Q: Consider a 4 OUT set. The ball at strong side left corner. The strong corner drives baseline; the post slides up to the left side elbow to become the 90 degree pass; the right corner drops to the right low corner to become the Natural Pitch; the left point rotates to the left corner [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on May 29, 2009 – 8:13 PM (1 Comment)
Q: My girls varsity team is having trouble distinguishing between a speed dribble and penetration dribble, especially if the ball handler is trying to penetrate and goes somewhat North-South, but ends up tailing or quickly going East-West. Is there a definite read on how to distinguish between the two?
A: I have a couple of [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on February 12, 2009 – 10:25 PM (No Comments)
Q: In a 3 OUT, 2 IN set, one of the perimeter players is at the point and the other two are on the wings. When the ball is driven N/S to the basket from one of the wings, what do the other two players do? I’m mainly wondering who becomes the safety valve in [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on January 30, 2009 – 3:52 PM (2 Comments)
Q: If a player takes 1 dribble and then crosses the dribble over to the other hand, thus changing directions, which direction should the offense turn?
A: My first answer to this change of direction by the ballhandler is that it doesn’t happen very often when the one-on-one move is made from somewhere near the arc.
However, [...]