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The Best Way To Work On Finishing!

Name: The Best Way To Work On Finishing!
Uploaded: 2022-08-12T16:28:32+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Ethan Khoza
Description: A short coaching segment from a YouTube video by Ethan Khoza describing a finishing drill that forces perception→decision→action on every rep. Coach…

12 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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A short coaching segment from a YouTube video by Ethan Khoza describing a finishing drill that forces perception→decision→action on every rep. Coach places the ball on the defender’s back; when the ball is removed the offensive player must immediately commit to a drive toward the rim (no jab steps), with an instruction that when unsure the player should "take another dribble." The drill’s purpose is to build players who can make quick finishing decisions and still score at the rim under varying defensive reactions.

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I'm starting ball on your back. As soon as I remove the ball from his back, you have to drive. Like, you can't be, like, messing around and jabbing and all that. You're picking one way to go as soon as that happens. Jon, you're defending me. I have to get to the room and score. Has to be someone at the rim. I don't care if it's one foot, two foot, doesn't matter. But we're playing right off of that. Jon's playing defense. Hey, I'm going to say one thing to you guys before I go into any detail with it. When in doubt, take another dribble.
This is one of my favorite ways to work on finishing because we're forcing that perception, decision, then action sequence to occur on every single rep. So every rep is going to be a little bit different. And these guys really have to figure it out with the added constraint that they have to score at the rim. They have to be able to figure it out if they get cut off early, if the defender plays in a certain sort of way. So it really is a great way to build good decision makers and players who are able to figure it out when they need to.