That Basketball Life

Now that we have covered what V-cuts, L-cuts, and pin downs are we should look into some drills which allow you to practice these crucial cuts in practice.

When playing against a man to man defense it is important that the offense you are running doesn't get bogged down.  There are some tendencies that keep occurring over and over again when facing a tough man to man which denies passes to the wings and ruins offensive flow.  The first one is that the wing player is forced to catch the ball too far up the floor.  This ruins angles for effective entry passes into the post, and it takes you out of triple threat position.  The next thing a good defense can do is ruin your timing.  A good offense is about rhythm and timing and a good denial of the first pass can destroy it.  To combat a good deny defense there are 3 ways your players can use to get the offense started.  The first is running your wings through screens, the second is have your point guard dribble to the spot he/she would ideally want to pass to, and the third one is having the wings run one of 3 perimeter cuts to get open.  The 3 cuts we a...

This is a nice video explaining 3 ways you can have your perimeter players get open.

One of our mottoes here at That Basket Life is take nothing for granted.  This is why we spend a lot of time covering topics like pivots, and close-outs and all sorts of topics related to footwork and screening.  They may be boring on the surface but if you master the details you will become a better more efficient basketball player.  In this post's discussion we are covering another one of these boring yet important topics.  Specifically, we will be discussing some of the more popular cuts involved in basketball.  Cuts are very important in basketball.  So important that in order to stand a chance to challenge a defense, any offense should have at least some sort of cutting action in it. Some of the cuts we'll be covering below are: Basic Cut V-Cut L-Cut Flash Cut Backdoor Cut Curl Cut Loop Cut UCLA Cut Flare Cut Laker Cut