Activities · practice · 12 min

3 players, 2 balls: hop stop catch & shoot

Cue

Hop stop in balance, power from the legs, finish long.

Principle
A good shot: caught in balance, powered from the legs, finished long, inside your range, not contested.

Threes per basket, two balls. One player always waits at a spot without a ball.

Pass to the waiting player, who hop-stops into the catch and shoots, takes their own rebound and passes to whoever is now waiting without a ball.

The passer calls "good shot" or "throw". Only good shots that go in count; first group to 10.

Where this fits

Layer 0Aware	Close in, throwing in all kinds of ways is fine.
Layer 1Control	Hop stop, power from the legs, finish long.
Layer 2Shape your own	At the edge of your range; the partner judges the form.
Layer 3Shape others	Catch a pass out of a drive.

Short and precise, coach-led, at most about 10 minutes. Then back to play.

One focus point, said out loudcompetence
The 2–3 correction points you watchcompetence
- hop stop: both feet together
- power from the legs
- finish long
Many good repetitions, no queuescompetence
An easier and a harder version readycompetence
Feedback names what you sawrelatedness

Autonomy is not the criterion here.

Close in, straight in front of the rim.

From straight in front, to the 45s, to further out, inside your range.

Which part of the good shot breaks first?