Now, the second move of that triple threat situation is called the crossover. And the crossover is strictly just a change of direction. Let me show you exactly the way it should be done.
In protecting the basketball, you are jabbing with your right foot and the defense sometimes react that way and you want to change your direction, this is what most people do that is going to get called for traveling. In jabbing with this right foot, it gets so quick it goes this way. I am moving the left foot which is your pivot foot, that is traveling in any league.
So, the correct way to do it is when you jab, now you are going to pick up the same foot that jabbed with and change directions and in putting the ball down. In good defensive players, if you put the ball out here and have long enough arms, Scottie Pippen for one, can slap it and your momentum is going this way and the ball is going that way. Do away to correct that because when you jab, now you change, ff you put the ball here you got protection from your right leg.
Your hands should be here protecting the basketball anyway. So, now the only the defense can get to that ball is to go your arms or go to your legs nine times out of 10 is going to be a foul. I say nine times out of 10 because I can get away with it, but I do not play anymore so you do not have to worry about that.
So, jab step and change of direction this way, putting the ball inside your leg. Now, the good thing about offensive player is, you got to be able to go both ways. You go one way, now you are limiting your options. The defense is going to read that and they become more, I guess have the advantage in trying to limit your options. As an offensive player, you never want to limit your options. So, when you are working on that move to do it this way, also do it that way so now you can have two options.
If a man is taking a defensive stance, the thing that I am looking at right now is that he is playing parallel. So now, he is playing me to go either way which is good. Also to me it means, all that I had to do is give him a nice little fake this way, he is going to think and feel that is where the way that I am going but my change of direction is a little bit better to use when you see a guy with the parallel stance, mainly because he do not know where you are going. So now that you have so many options, try to use as many options as you can.
Now, if he had his right foot forward, that to me is saying; now he wants you to go this way. Last thing I want to do is go with the defense wants me to go. I want to go opposite. Now, he takes a step that way, the change of direction means that he is going to pick up this foot and open then slide to keep up the view as an offensive player. That takes more time than you taking a crossover and driving to the hole so you have that advantage in that sense.
Now if he has his other foot up, this is what I was telling you about being able to go both ways. Now, you can do the same thing and attack it this way. You see what I mean. So now, he cannot limit your options so you should look before you take your stance. Look how the defense is playing you and then decide which is; you pivot your right foot or your left foot and then attack.
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