Practice today!! Yeah, time to strap it on one more time. But this post is about a narrow specific dribble skill that you should be teaching - but probably are not. We have had 6 practices so far. Not very many, but with school ball starting soon and busy schedules, that's all we could do. During those 6 practices we have worked primarily on dribble skills and 1 on 1 moves.

Wait! - we do this great drill called the ankle breaker drill. More on that later, more than any other drill this but it has done more to improve the confidence of our kids.

So today we are going to introduce the double tap dribble. This dribble is critical if your players are ever going to pull off a quick, shifty crossover. You know the one, used a lot coming off ball screens, you get the defender leaning one way, then freeze them with a double tap and pull it to the other side lightning fast and  explode to the basket. The defense will be standing there wondering what in the world just happened.

We will start by having the players double tap on one side then pull it over to the other as quick as possible. Right to left for a minute, then left to right for two minutes. The key here is that the players need to have basic dribble skills already: staying low, pounding the ball, doing a simple crossover. This is that next step kind of dribble.

By the way, we teach a crossover only because their school coach will want to see it. We never use a crossover in live action. We always go between the legs or  behind the back. You're probably wondering why.....  Stay tuned.