{"id":84,"date":"2009-04-28T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-05-05T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T18:47:06","slug":"handling-ball-screens-like-steve-nash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/handling-ball-screens-like-steve-nash\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling Ball Screens Like Steve Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"

While watching game 4 of the Bulls-Celtics series, Jeff Van Gundy stated that Derrick Rose needed to handle the switches on ball screens more like Steve Nash.<\/p>\n

Towards the beginning of the game, the Celtics were switching on ball screens leaving a bigger, slower post player guarding Rose. Rose was settling for the jump shot or he would try to attack when he was already too close to the hoop to take advantage of his quickness.<\/p>\n

When Steve Nash gets a big player switched onto him, he takes a couple of dribbles backwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This does a few things:<\/p>\n

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  1. Lures the bigger player out further away from the hoop.<\/li>\n
  2. Allows the offensive player to gain momentum while dribbling towards the\u00a0player which makes it easier to blow by the\u00a0defender or change directions if\u00a0needed.<\/li>\n
  3. Gives\u00a0teammates an extra second to space the floor properly. This spreads the defense out which gives the player\u00a0with the ball more room to penetrate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    \nAfter you draw out the defender, how should you attack the defender?<\/strong><\/p>\n