How To Play Basketball: Defensive Slide & Box Out
Now, the next drill that we are going to take you through is V defensive slide drill. You are going to slide to go half speed for me Frank to the foul line area quickly. Then you will drop step. So, you are working on your fundamentals. You slide down to this block. When you hit that block, it is like a wall that will project you back the other way. You see and go back the other way, drop step. When it gets down to this block, he is going to yell shot blocks and go get the ball. That is one repetition. He is going to do five repetitions. Let us take him through that.
Stay low, stay on balance, and be quick. Hit the wall, be quick, and get back up. Go get it there is one, go get it. Stay low, be quick. Hit the wall, push. If you get a little fatigued you have to learn to focus. Make some noise on the way up. Go get it, stay low. Now comes the hard part. Once you get tired, you have played three quarters of the game, you have to learn to concentrate and have the habits to rebound. One more repetition, one more, be quick, you get tired? You got to learn to stay low, nice job.