Ethan Khoza leads a 20-minute ball-handling workout covering wide V dribbles, crossovers, scissors, behind-the-back moves, and in-and-outs. Each drill builds speed and control with rep counts and short rest breaks between sets.
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June 14, 2020
About 20 minutes ("20ish minutes")
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Yo, what's up, everybody? Ian, good to see you. Maxwell, what's happening? Shout out. Long beach. Coming on here. Hop into it soon. A lot of ball control today, being able to shift our weight from side to side, being able to move the ball side to side as well. So some stuff that's really going to help you feel a little more shifty with the ball again. Really trying to push the speed on the crossovers that we're using. So I think today will be a good one. It's awesome. Ian, what's good? Lisa, Kaliology, what's up? Get going. About 30 seconds, guys. About 30 seconds, we'll get started. Five, yo, about 10 seconds. All right, guys, grab that ball. Let's get going. Grab that ball. All right, so right now we're gonna work on going side to side with these dribbles, all right? So all we're gonna do is we're gonna be right here with the ball and we're going to go wide V dribbles. All right? So that means when I do my V dribble, I'm getting this ball to my knee or outside of it. So I'm here there on that, making that V dribble nice and wide. All right, so you see that pace I'm going with? All right, we're going to go 12 per. Okay, 12 with the right hand switch. Go 12 with the left of them. Let me know when you're done. Here we go. Workout's gonna be about 20ish minutes. All right. Set two. Same exact thing. Going 12 again. 12 with the right, 12 to the left. And let me know when you're done. Here we go. Push that speed. Push that speed, guys. Come on. Good work. Good work, guys. All right, hop it into it. Gonna go with a V, then we're gonna go with a double crossover. Okay, so I'm here. Wide V. All right, Right there. Here we go. We're gonna go 10 with the right hand, 10 with the left hand. Here we go. You guys see me losing it? Push that speed here. Only way we get better controlling the ball is if we push that speed, go as hard as we can every single rep. Good job, Maxwell. Good work. Good work. All right. Hopping into the next one. Gonna go with a double between now, actually, we're gonna go with the scissors. Look this.
So we're gonna go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
All right, same thing. 10 right hand, 10 left hand. Here we go.
It.
Good job, guys. Stick with it. Good job. All right, once we get done with that, now we're gonna go that V between behind. So we're here. One, two between. One, two between behind. All right, here we go. Ten per hand again. Let me know when you're done.
It.
Solid. Seven minutes in. Keep working. Good job, Ian. Lose that ball here. That's all right. Pushing it. Getting better. Good work, good work. All right, now we're going to switch up a little bit, okay? We're going to get a little bit more movement with our feet. So these V dribbles now are going to be a little bit more narrow, okay? So your typical like here. Be a lot closer to that.
Be going, boom, boom, boom, boom.
So you see me shifting my weight now there on that double crossover. So I'm here.
One, two, boom, boom.
Okay, so going little narrow V dribble into a double crossover. All right, Ball in your right hand to start. Let's go. 12 reps of right hand switch. You go 12 with the left hand. All right, let me know when you're done. Here we go.
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 5, 10.
Job, Maxwell. Ian. Good work, guys. Good work. It's a tough one. All right, gonna go set.
Two.
Going nine reps this time. Same thing. V dribble, double cross. Nine reps, right hand. Nine reps, left hand. Here we go.
O three, four, five, six.
Seven.
Eight, nine. One. IT.
Job, guys. Quick break, you guys. About 20 seconds. Get a quick water break if you need one. About halfway through. Keep working. Good job, guys. Lose that ball. Lose that ball. It's all right. Yo. About 15 seconds, we'll hop right back into it. All right, here's what we're doing now. Into that V dribble. Now we're going double between. So we're here.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
Same thing. Shifting my weight that way. All right, 10 reps, right hand. 10 reps, left hand. Let me know when you're done. Here we go. Good job, guys. Great work so far. Really make sure you're shifting your weight and selling that between. Now get that defender to shift. Good job, guys. All right, same thing. Nine reps now. Okay? V dribble, double between nine reps each hand. Let me know when you're done. Here we go.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
What's up, Enrique? Good job so far, guys. Good job. Good work. Got a couple more of these. Couple more of these. Good job, Ian. Good work, Maxwell. Good job. All right, that's about 10 seconds. Hop into the next one. About 10 more seconds. All right, here's the next one. So going V dribble.
Boom, boom.
Okay, V dribble between. So like a scissor dribble. All right, so I'm here. There. These should push you. Lose that ball as fast as you can. Go, go in nine reps, right here. Nine reps each hand. Here we go. Good job, Maxwell. Good work. Job, Ian. Good job, guys. On the next one. On the next one. Job, Ian. All right, here's our next. Now we're going into that V dribble double behind now. Okay, so we're here.
Boom, boom, boom.
Get that behind there.
Boom, boom.
Okay, still make sure we shift that weight when we come back on that behind. All right, Here we go. 10 reps each hand, 10 right, 10 left. Let me know when you're done. Here we go. Good work. A couple more. Gotta finish strong, guys. Gotta finish strong. Good job, Ian. The baller, Maxwell. Good job, guys. Good job. All right, now going back into it. I want eight reps, okay? Eight reps as a little behind the back. Eight right, eight left, and then we know you're done. Here we go.
It.
Good work, guys. Really feeling this one. That ability to be able to shift that defender on that first one, really going to allow you to open back up and get the other way. Especially when you go with those double betweens here where we're going.
Boom, boom.
He doesn't go. I go right back through there and go. And if he does, I'm switching and going. Those of you in the permanent score system know that move that between where we're here.
Boom, boom, boom.
And then we go. But you got to sell that first part every time. All right, here's what we're doing. So we're going in and out into different combos. All right, so we're here. We're going to go in and out, between, cross. All right, See me here. In and out, between, cross, between, cross. Okay, we need 10 per hand. 10 with the right, 10 with the left. Here we go. Yep, that double tweet into a drop right there. That's what I'm talking about, those doubles. Good work, guys. Good job. Maxwell. The ball. Good work. All right, couple more, guys. So what we're doing now, we're gonna go in and out, cross, between, cross. All right, so I'm here. In and out, cross, between, cross. In and out, cross, between, cross. All right, repeating. We got 16, 16. Let me know when you're done. Here we go. Good job, guys. All right, we got one more. We got one more. So now is a freestyle. You can do whatever you want out of this. In and out into some sort of combo move. Alright, it can be a double combo move. It can be three, it can be four if you want. I don't care. All right, in and out. Some sort of combo move. We have 20 total. 20 and then we're done. All right, push that speed right here. Here we go.
Sam.
Good work, everybody. Good work today. A little shorter than normal, but that was a tough one. Ball just went in the road. Same mind of its own. Good job, Maxwell. It'll work today. The ball a good job. Good job. That was a good workout. That one's tough right there. You don't always have to go for a long time, but it's about what you're doing in that time that you're working right there. For sure, Ian. All right, so we got a podcast dropping on tomorrow. Tomorrow, I guess. Questions for that, let me know. Actually, it'll be on next week, so you have any questions. Always. DM me, follow me on Instagram, all that sort of stuff. And ball of great work, for sure, Ian. See you later. I'll see you guys. Make sure you check out the podcast tomorrow and we'll be back on Wednesday, probably with another workout. Make sure you follow me on Instagram so you know exactly when it's going to be. See you guys later.
