Drill: Fake, Rip & Go

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Coaching Objective

Skill Level: Advanced, Skill Development: Layups, Fake & Shooting. Improve your evasiveness by adding a fake pass or fake shot to your Rip & Go. The fake helps you become unpredictable to the defender to help shift your defender to a position which creates more space for you to drive to the basket. Master this drill by practicing shot fakes and pass fakes like you mean it. Keep the ball low on the rip and protect the ball from the defender. Be Explosive!

Drill Instruction

Start with a Right Side layup:

  1. Facing the basket, start in a triple threat position on the right side/wing of the basket from a distance similar to the 3 point line.
  2. Fake pass to the side you will begin to Rip the ball from i.e. when you Fake to the Left side, start the Rip from the Left and Finish your Rip to your Right.
  3. Fake Pass to the Left and turn the Fake into a Rip. Rip the ball down to your shoe laces and quickly step your left leg forward and wide across your body to the right.
  4. Bounce the ball with a push of the ball with your right hand and prepare to layup.
  5. Complete a right handed layup.
  6. Rebound the ball and now repeat the drill from the left side/wing.

Start with a Left Side layup:

  1. Facing the basket, start in a triple threat position on the left side/wing of the basket from a distance similar to the 3 point line.
  2. Fake pass to the side you will begin to Rip the ball from i.e. when you Fake on to the Right, start the Rip from the Right and Finish your Rip to your Left.
  3. Fake Pass to the Right and turn the Fake into a Rip. Rip the ball down to your shoe laces and quickly step your right leg forward and wide across your body to the left.
  4. Bounce the ball with a push of the ball with your left hand and prepare to layup.
  5. Complete a left handed layup.
  6. Rebound the ball and now repeat the drill from the right side/wing.
  7. Repeat from the right and left sides until you complete 10 each side.

Coaching Messages

  1. A fake pass should look real. A quick action will do the job. Make it look like a real pass.
  2. Get to the basket quickly. Try and get to the basket in as few dribbles as possible.
  3. Try a Fake Shot and Rip from either side.
  4. Make your fake a good one…Be Awesome!

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