How To Play Basketball: The Cross Court Pass
One thing that is important for us to do right now is to define exactly what a cross court pass really is. Many people believe that a cross court pass can occur from the top where the point guard is to a wing or to the corner. In reality when you go from the rim to the top of the key or the three point line where wall is, you have 19 feet 9 inches if coach Kaplan is correct. All we want to do is we want to throw not 19 feet nine inches to the right or 19 feet nine inches to the left. What we wanted to be able to do is not throw 20 feet; we want to force our offensive team to throw 40 feet. So a true cross court pass is all the way across the court, not only does it have to go twice the distance, it will take twice as long. So what we want to make sure we do after we can get the ball to the wing or to the corner, even if it is on the wing is now we want to tighten our grip and force all the cross court passes that we can. The players that you see on this video today is the first time today that they have been introduced to this so they are trying to show you the mechanics to doing an excellent job. Understand the cross court pass is not 20 feet, it has to be 40 feet, you have to explain this to your players, and this creates the tide box as you look through this. We have good angle, we can put ball, or pressure on the ball and we can alleviate pressure if as we go to the other side, go across, everybody moves, we are on the ball, if we take away this pass, and the point guard goes high three or four feet, we are going to leave him because he will not hurt us from here. So he has created his own dilemma, he can not shoot from here, we are still protecting our passing lanes, we still have our extra defender on the three point line and we are going to reinforce them into cross court pass.