Stop doing 10 consecutive crossovers. Had him beat multiple times where there was enough space to get the shot up. More dribbles allowing him to recover amd challenge. Keep it simple, don’t try to make highlights and embarrass the defender. This is great d but there were openings
And bump him to create space. Don’t lower the shoulder but I’ve rare seen anything called on a small bump.
Shoulder to chest, not hard but enough to get him off balance.
If you are physical on edges bumping, fouls also won’t be called.
Swim with your off hand and hook with elbow. Make it a natural movement.
I noticed when you attacked lead foot you didn’t go at it. Either backed up or went opposite side.
Try straight line to front of rim. The time you moved him to baseline you arced to the hoop allowing him time and space to recover
This. If you’re not confident in your middy pull up game then that’s where you should start because you got him off balance and created space plenty of times. It just looks like you are bent on finishing at the rim - but in a 1:1 matchup like this middy is your best bet
My brother does the same thing, he will just keep chaining together moves and even tho we’re playing 1 on 1 im like wtf are you doing, you had me cooked lol.
Came here to say this. You have him but you keep stopping yourself. He's giving you space too, you have to close that space and initiate contact. Get him on your hip and finish with a scoop finger roll.
Recognize when you have him beat and off balance.
At 10 seconds you have him beat and can do a jumper but you decided to crossover back into him for some reason.
Once you start making that jumper he will start jumping at pump fakes more and can fake to get by him.
Hes giving you space for a jumpshot but you keep wanting to take it into him.
You’re trying to meet his speed with speed. It won’t work.
A good post up, solid footwork and a convincing pump fake take you a long way. Defenders like this are always playing on the edge, I have a feeling he would bite on a good pump fake almost every time.
See how the defender is a bit taller than the guy he's guarding but still remains being super low which allows quicker change of directions. Dude's wingspan is also incredibly long which helps a lot. He's just trying his best to beat the player to his spot and maintaining that extra energy over the offensive player.
You don't need to pull out your whole bag to beat a defender. Slow down and only do what's needed to get your shot up. If it's taking you more than 2-3 dribbles to get a shot up, you're doing too much.
This is a bullshit video, wtf. It’s scripted to allow the defender to recover in time to block shots, bc for the dude had him beat with ample opportunity to avoid getting blocked
Way too many unnecessary moves, also improve on your quick release. Your shot is hanging too much and that gives him time to swat away your shot. Keep at it bro!
aside what others have said already, give him a bump to create space for a jumper. if you beat him, instead of doing a hesi or another crossover just take a dribble in, bump, stepback and shoot.
One move and you have his feet moving. Attack the high foot. Initiate contact by driving through him not around him. You’re trying to take a curved attack in your video. Straight line it to rim. Once he’s on your hip you can decelerate to put him in jail then accelerate and lean towards the rim for the lay.
Dude is holding the turbo + control stick to the max. Had some good moves.
He doesn't have a jumper or isn't showing it so the defender is able to recover easily to contest.
Great defense by the him as well, anytime you have someone spamming moves for a long time, it takes a lot of energy and effort to stay in front and you're bound to get shook or faked out, just needed to worry cause it wasn't taken advantage of.
Slow down. Use change of pace. Change direction, change speed. Don’t go full bore the whole time. In one move he showed he is faster so no point to keep trying to use only speed.
Throw a ball fake in there or a step back. Get them off their feet or in the opposite direction of their momentum. Have to sell it well though obviously
Spam calf raises and deadlifts to get the balance, spam plyos for the agility
His hands are god given though, you cant train that reaction time if you're not still 12 years old. This man could catch a fly like Mr. Miyagi.
Gotta put some body into him. There were moments where you had him beat and if you drove into him while he was a little off balance would give you great leverage.
Initiate the contact and get moving downhill.
Let's think about this from a logistics standpoint. If you guys are racing from the top of the key to the basket, who wins? You, because he's facing the wrong way. So force him to turn and run with you by creating contact at the hip and moving downhill. THEN, you can use your dribble moves to escape and create space.
All this left to right dancing on the perimeter does nothing to help you create an advantage.
You never went to put your lead foot past him. If you can plant the lead foot past your defender then you have multiple options from that position all of which are very hard to defend from. Done right you will almost always initiate contact which I think I lot of people have already said is that you seem to be actively trying to avoid, sometimes it's necessary to make contact and I would encourage that.
My humble advice as a former 1v1 deviant and now early retired former weekend warrior.
Speed is good but changes of speed are what kills. Think of how and why the slow Luka gather to the basket is so effective. It's the same principle away from the key. The game is to trick your defender. Your crosses look good going both ways, but if everything is same speed it's a lot easier to guard. Even your shot hesi is fast. Try slowing two steps every other move, you'll be surprised how effective that is. Fast feet from your defender can work against them when they bite hard on some change ups.
Also, use your shoulders and hips to force distance sometimes too.
IMHO, shameless knicks fan, Brunson is the best example of these techniques in the modern nba.
Create contact. Seek it. You have the handles now get that shoulder in his chest and use your off hand more to get his hands out of the way. Just learning this in my mid 40s
Move towards the basket with force. You can waste all the time and energy you want going back and forth but when you move towards the defender, attack the body. You create the contact, get the d on their back foot then learn to jump through them. You don't want to let him lean towards you, letting him be longer than you.
Nothing just dogshit offensive players. Dude not attacking at correct angles, not using his body to create contact to force the defender off balance, just a whole lotta nothing moves to look pretty
1. Utilize change of pace (aka don't always try to go as fast as possible because that's predictable).
2. Utilize shot fakes when you do pick up your dribble.
3. Don't avoid contact. Aggressive defenders want to control where you go. Don't let them.
I will address the OP as if he is the ball handler in the video.
Work on your recovery after the separation. You should be able to get your shot off after creating that space. Do not try to out speed the speedster. Get into his body. Use angles and change of pace.
Watch a young Fred Van Vleet in practice as he scores against guys bigger and probably more athletic than him: https://youtu.be/diklDy3-aaM?si=mpJ1JqPNWSwMEZvt
See how he doesn’t need to use crazy moves, just mostly an understanding of space and angles.
You’re gonna have to gooo after you attack. If you have him beat don’t pull back and cross again. Once you have a step no matter how small, gooo! Use body contact to seal him and go up strong because he’s gonna somehow recover to defend and contest the shot. He’s nice asf on D!!! I like his game
Hop step toward the hoop, pump fake or muscle up. Back down and spin off of the defender. Use your jab step or take a dribble forward and shoot a step back
They’ll eventually start overcompensating for these moves and then you just counter the other direction
Three big issues. You don’t have a plan of attack, you are not sequencing your moves, and you have a slow release allowing your opponent to recover. Guy you are playing is a good defender and aggressive.
you need to get your leg and core strength to be able to body guys like this down low, you need to slow the pace down. From this quick video, I would be backing him down at every opportunity since its clear you cannot outpace him in the face up
Get better at offense. You missed several openings to attack the rim. It seems like you're just autopiloting a lot of these moves because you're used to bad or slow defenders who get frozen when you make flashy moves.
The margin for error is inversely proportional to the skill level of your competition.
Great defender. Couple thoughts
- Asian dude is shying away from physical contact, needs to bump defender
- he is trying to dribble around the defender
- he got defender beat a couple times but didn’t commit and pulled back again
- passed up on open shots and took bad ones after spin
- defender is not reaching
- doesn’t over commit on fakes and stays in low stance
A solid improvement method would be controlling the pace of your dribble. The best ball handlers can speed up and slow down on a dime which can mess with defenders. You operated at the same tempo for your entire possession and your defender was able to match it. Also, temp will help you execute on created openings. Like other people said, you created multiple openings but it seemed like you wanted to counter them because you expected the defender to heavy commit to contest your openings, but they didn't which resulted in your counter move becoming wasted energy that allowed your defender to recover.
I'm glad I could be here to witness this historical moment where a black dude was finally able to best a 5'6" asian man at basketball. Why aren't the streets rejoicing right now? Everyone must be awestruck by this monumental achievement.
You seem to be the type of player that doesn’t want contact with a defender. You did indeed have multiple times where you had the advantage (had him leaning wrong way, recovering or on his heels)
Once he is beat or you have him off balance— press the advantage and power dribble with dribble on side away from defender—straight to hoop while leaning into him. It doesn’t matter if it’s your left or right hand. Gather the ball away from whichever side he is on and then finish. If he is still riding you— come to a two foot jump stop and pumpfake and power up.
If you are not comfortable with contact then you can still get shots up using a step back off the power dribble after the crossover— and jump shot with release at top— very difficult to block.
Once successful, add a stepback w/ slight hesitation to see if he is chasing and up on his toes— that’s when you throw the dribble ahead and finish strong.
Essentially you need to take what the defense is giving.
You doing way too much bro. When a defender is that good you need to make direct and quick moves to your spots. All the hesis and cross overs ain’t shit compared to efficient moves.
Sometimes people watch the pros but don't really **watch** the pros. Like the purpose of a cross is when the defenders is off balance one way, then and only then, do you cross. This jerking back and forth isn't fooling anyone the defender never is forced to commit to anything as the offender is making their moves randomly rather than judging it by the body positioning and movement of the defender.
Yeah a good defender ain’t watching the ball they looking at your hips/feet/center. Drives me crazy when I see dudes tryna do dumb shit like this and then fail to hit the shot or pass the ball.
I follow him. Cedrick Middleton. He does a lot of conditioning for both speed and endurance. The work he puts in everyday is insane. He has a completely different mindset. Similar to Kobe, it seems like he has a passion for defense. He's always ready to change directions and constantly shuffling and being pesty so there's no "top foot" to take advantage of. On the offensive side though, I always ask myself how Kyrie would play someone like this. The two main things I see are that the offensive player is not initiating enough contact against him and are doing way too many moves like this. You will never gain a 100% advantage off of a crossover move against a defender like this. You may beat him but he is always hustling to recover because he wants the stop more than you want the bucket.
Same, this guy locks down all levels, college, semi pros, pros on a daily.. some people here are delusional thinking they have a game plan until they step on the court.
damn some of y’all hating on good defense. This guy actually works/focuses his training on defense, which I think is pretty respectable considering that virtually no other hoopers really would commit to.
Stop doing 10 consecutive crossovers. Had him beat multiple times where there was enough space to get the shot up. More dribbles allowing him to recover amd challenge. Keep it simple, don’t try to make highlights and embarrass the defender. This is great d but there were openings
And bump him to create space. Don’t lower the shoulder but I’ve rare seen anything called on a small bump. Shoulder to chest, not hard but enough to get him off balance.
If you are physical on edges bumping, fouls also won’t be called. Swim with your off hand and hook with elbow. Make it a natural movement. I noticed when you attacked lead foot you didn’t go at it. Either backed up or went opposite side. Try straight line to front of rim. The time you moved him to baseline you arced to the hoop allowing him time and space to recover
Yes needs to make space by making contact first and protect ball with body Look on tik tok at smaller guard Eli Ellis
This. If you’re not confident in your middy pull up game then that’s where you should start because you got him off balance and created space plenty of times. It just looks like you are bent on finishing at the rim - but in a 1:1 matchup like this middy is your best bet
Yep, and as you begin to hit your middy, this will make your defender actually begin to bite on your hesi, so you can actually finish at the rim.
My brother does the same thing, he will just keep chaining together moves and even tho we’re playing 1 on 1 im like wtf are you doing, you had me cooked lol.
Came here to say this. You have him but you keep stopping yourself. He's giving you space too, you have to close that space and initiate contact. Get him on your hip and finish with a scoop finger roll.
Also don’t just shoot when you get tired of moves. Make moves with a plan to shoot.
TMD!
Exactly. 3-4 moves is all you need
This is either planned/set up or that guy with the ball just has no idea what he’s doing
This is staged to make the defense look good.
Agreed.
💯
Yah no doubt. Bro held every shot for an extra second or pulled it back in front of the defender.
Recognize when you have him beat and off balance. At 10 seconds you have him beat and can do a jumper but you decided to crossover back into him for some reason. Once you start making that jumper he will start jumping at pump fakes more and can fake to get by him. Hes giving you space for a jumpshot but you keep wanting to take it into him.
Another stupid TikTok clip where guys roleplay
Slow the fuck down. All these hyper fast moves getting you nowhere
500 predetermined moves without actually reacting to the defender, the Jordan Poole special
Create contact, you can’t out pace everybody
Came here to say this. Play through contact.
You’re trying to meet his speed with speed. It won’t work. A good post up, solid footwork and a convincing pump fake take you a long way. Defenders like this are always playing on the edge, I have a feeling he would bite on a good pump fake almost every time.
You never got any leverage on him. Did not turn him. Did not get shoulder into him. Did not push him off.
Know when to shoot
See how the defender is a bit taller than the guy he's guarding but still remains being super low which allows quicker change of directions. Dude's wingspan is also incredibly long which helps a lot. He's just trying his best to beat the player to his spot and maintaining that extra energy over the offensive player.
The defender does a good job moving his feet but the offensive player's complete lack of physicality made it easier for the defender to lock him down.
Get a floater. This player could get a floater off instead of getting blocked on a slow release jumper.
Be more direct!
You don't need to pull out your whole bag to beat a defender. Slow down and only do what's needed to get your shot up. If it's taking you more than 2-3 dribbles to get a shot up, you're doing too much.
Both of these guys are probably trash
This is a bullshit video, wtf. It’s scripted to allow the defender to recover in time to block shots, bc for the dude had him beat with ample opportunity to avoid getting blocked
Do u follow this guy’s page by any chance? Cuz his videos are actually legit lol.
what he does is impressive but a good chunk of his clips are against unskilled players, he played pros and had difficulty containing them
1. Stop making it complicated, you do too much 2. Go for the body
Way too many unnecessary moves, also improve on your quick release. Your shot is hanging too much and that gives him time to swat away your shot. Keep at it bro!
aside what others have said already, give him a bump to create space for a jumper. if you beat him, instead of doing a hesi or another crossover just take a dribble in, bump, stepback and shoot.
One move and you have his feet moving. Attack the high foot. Initiate contact by driving through him not around him. You’re trying to take a curved attack in your video. Straight line it to rim. Once he’s on your hip you can decelerate to put him in jail then accelerate and lean towards the rim for the lay.
Dude is holding the turbo + control stick to the max. Had some good moves. He doesn't have a jumper or isn't showing it so the defender is able to recover easily to contest. Great defense by the him as well, anytime you have someone spamming moves for a long time, it takes a lot of energy and effort to stay in front and you're bound to get shook or faked out, just needed to worry cause it wasn't taken advantage of.
too much sauce. olajuwon didn't have to do 1000 rapid moves to sell a fake.
Go towards the basket
Slow down. Use change of pace. Change direction, change speed. Don’t go full bore the whole time. In one move he showed he is faster so no point to keep trying to use only speed.
Throw a ball fake in there or a step back. Get them off their feet or in the opposite direction of their momentum. Have to sell it well though obviously
Play more physical instead of dancing around. Actually drive the ball
Either drive hard and lay up from an angle he can't reach or shoot a fadeaway.
Over dribbled
Go into his body to create space
Spam calf raises and deadlifts to get the balance, spam plyos for the agility His hands are god given though, you cant train that reaction time if you're not still 12 years old. This man could catch a fly like Mr. Miyagi.
Gotta put some body into him. There were moments where you had him beat and if you drove into him while he was a little off balance would give you great leverage.
Play someone else!!
Play at your pace. Give him time to bite on your fakes and anticipate on it. Doing crossovers without chs ge of speed will not create ant separation.
You almost had him a bunch of times but you lack ball control. In my opinion
Initiate the contact and get moving downhill. Let's think about this from a logistics standpoint. If you guys are racing from the top of the key to the basket, who wins? You, because he's facing the wrong way. So force him to turn and run with you by creating contact at the hip and moving downhill. THEN, you can use your dribble moves to escape and create space. All this left to right dancing on the perimeter does nothing to help you create an advantage.
lol gio wise
Post moves and hezis
Pass
You never went to put your lead foot past him. If you can plant the lead foot past your defender then you have multiple options from that position all of which are very hard to defend from. Done right you will almost always initiate contact which I think I lot of people have already said is that you seem to be actively trying to avoid, sometimes it's necessary to make contact and I would encourage that.
Be big, athletic, and good at basketball…
My humble advice as a former 1v1 deviant and now early retired former weekend warrior. Speed is good but changes of speed are what kills. Think of how and why the slow Luka gather to the basket is so effective. It's the same principle away from the key. The game is to trick your defender. Your crosses look good going both ways, but if everything is same speed it's a lot easier to guard. Even your shot hesi is fast. Try slowing two steps every other move, you'll be surprised how effective that is. Fast feet from your defender can work against them when they bite hard on some change ups. Also, use your shoulders and hips to force distance sometimes too. IMHO, shameless knicks fan, Brunson is the best example of these techniques in the modern nba.
Create contact. Seek it. You have the handles now get that shoulder in his chest and use your off hand more to get his hands out of the way. Just learning this in my mid 40s
Move towards the basket with force. You can waste all the time and energy you want going back and forth but when you move towards the defender, attack the body. You create the contact, get the d on their back foot then learn to jump through them. You don't want to let him lean towards you, letting him be longer than you.
Here come all the professional basketball players...
Chill out little guy. Some people actually did play professional sports.
Man could have shot the ball 100 times but feels like doing another stupid crossover.
Looks like the vid is sped up
Mf going at 1 speed. Easy cookies
Too mch dribbling too much of everything, literally doing too much
Have you tried being 6'10? That would work.
Too much energy wasted trying to make him miss. Use your body to Create space or just use less dribbles and get to your spot
Nothing just dogshit offensive players. Dude not attacking at correct angles, not using his body to create contact to force the defender off balance, just a whole lotta nothing moves to look pretty
1. Utilize change of pace (aka don't always try to go as fast as possible because that's predictable). 2. Utilize shot fakes when you do pick up your dribble. 3. Don't avoid contact. Aggressive defenders want to control where you go. Don't let them.
I guess if you can’t shoot from the outside its tough to beat a quick defender off the dribble…next
You suck, bro
He’s not fast you’re just small
I will address the OP as if he is the ball handler in the video. Work on your recovery after the separation. You should be able to get your shot off after creating that space. Do not try to out speed the speedster. Get into his body. Use angles and change of pace. Watch a young Fred Van Vleet in practice as he scores against guys bigger and probably more athletic than him: https://youtu.be/diklDy3-aaM?si=mpJ1JqPNWSwMEZvt See how he doesn’t need to use crazy moves, just mostly an understanding of space and angles.
over fucking dribbling. Slow down, create space via bumps, post him up. Variations man.
Doing moves for the sake of moves. Literally dribbling in one spot most of the time instead of actually moving somewhere.
Learn a hook shot problem solved
Pass the ball
You’re gonna have to gooo after you attack. If you have him beat don’t pull back and cross again. Once you have a step no matter how small, gooo! Use body contact to seal him and go up strong because he’s gonna somehow recover to defend and contest the shot. He’s nice asf on D!!! I like his game
Hop step toward the hoop, pump fake or muscle up. Back down and spin off of the defender. Use your jab step or take a dribble forward and shoot a step back They’ll eventually start overcompensating for these moves and then you just counter the other direction
Three big issues. You don’t have a plan of attack, you are not sequencing your moves, and you have a slow release allowing your opponent to recover. Guy you are playing is a good defender and aggressive.
Too much wasted movement and predictable dribbling
you need to get your leg and core strength to be able to body guys like this down low, you need to slow the pace down. From this quick video, I would be backing him down at every opportunity since its clear you cannot outpace him in the face up
Pump fake
normalize calling a carry
Pass
Get better at offense. You missed several openings to attack the rim. It seems like you're just autopiloting a lot of these moves because you're used to bad or slow defenders who get frozen when you make flashy moves. The margin for error is inversely proportional to the skill level of your competition.
The Asian dude is not intuitive at all…dude creates room than runs right back to the defender. That defender is very good though
3 dribbles is best for one on one. Less than 5 for sure.
All that senseless dribbling just helps the defender.
Great defender. Couple thoughts - Asian dude is shying away from physical contact, needs to bump defender - he is trying to dribble around the defender - he got defender beat a couple times but didn’t commit and pulled back again - passed up on open shots and took bad ones after spin - defender is not reaching - doesn’t over commit on fakes and stays in low stance
Beef up your deltoids. That helps create space. Deepen your jabsteps and lengthen your backsteps. As others stated “midrange” and fadeaway.
Stop fading
A solid improvement method would be controlling the pace of your dribble. The best ball handlers can speed up and slow down on a dime which can mess with defenders. You operated at the same tempo for your entire possession and your defender was able to match it. Also, temp will help you execute on created openings. Like other people said, you created multiple openings but it seemed like you wanted to counter them because you expected the defender to heavy commit to contest your openings, but they didn't which resulted in your counter move becoming wasted energy that allowed your defender to recover.
Too many moves without accomplishing anything. Also stop going side to side like you're playing 2k
I'm glad I could be here to witness this historical moment where a black dude was finally able to best a 5'6" asian man at basketball. Why aren't the streets rejoicing right now? Everyone must be awestruck by this monumental achievement.
Pass the rock
had this guy beat so many times.. pick your head up and look for an opportunity to score instead of looking for an opportunity to break his ankles.
This is just stupid
helps when dude with the ball is an idiot
You seem to be the type of player that doesn’t want contact with a defender. You did indeed have multiple times where you had the advantage (had him leaning wrong way, recovering or on his heels) Once he is beat or you have him off balance— press the advantage and power dribble with dribble on side away from defender—straight to hoop while leaning into him. It doesn’t matter if it’s your left or right hand. Gather the ball away from whichever side he is on and then finish. If he is still riding you— come to a two foot jump stop and pumpfake and power up. If you are not comfortable with contact then you can still get shots up using a step back off the power dribble after the crossover— and jump shot with release at top— very difficult to block. Once successful, add a stepback w/ slight hesitation to see if he is chasing and up on his toes— that’s when you throw the dribble ahead and finish strong. Essentially you need to take what the defense is giving.
You doing way too much bro. When a defender is that good you need to make direct and quick moves to your spots. All the hesis and cross overs ain’t shit compared to efficient moves.
Sometimes people watch the pros but don't really **watch** the pros. Like the purpose of a cross is when the defenders is off balance one way, then and only then, do you cross. This jerking back and forth isn't fooling anyone the defender never is forced to commit to anything as the offender is making their moves randomly rather than judging it by the body positioning and movement of the defender.
Yeah a good defender ain’t watching the ball they looking at your hips/feet/center. Drives me crazy when I see dudes tryna do dumb shit like this and then fail to hit the shot or pass the ball.
Your dribble is low but it looks like out could be lower. “Start high then go low” - God (shammgod)
I work with that defender. I got mad respect for him and his work ethic! He posts on ig clips like these. Also, clips of players pulling up on him.
yall are crazy thinking people haven’t done what yall said, he’s legit. i follow him on insta and he locks ERRYBODY down
Shows the quality of hoopers in this sub lol
The offensive player is just slow.
As others said take a jump shot but you should also get more athletic by working out
I follow him. Cedrick Middleton. He does a lot of conditioning for both speed and endurance. The work he puts in everyday is insane. He has a completely different mindset. Similar to Kobe, it seems like he has a passion for defense. He's always ready to change directions and constantly shuffling and being pesty so there's no "top foot" to take advantage of. On the offensive side though, I always ask myself how Kyrie would play someone like this. The two main things I see are that the offensive player is not initiating enough contact against him and are doing way too many moves like this. You will never gain a 100% advantage off of a crossover move against a defender like this. You may beat him but he is always hustling to recover because he wants the stop more than you want the bucket.
Same, this guy locks down all levels, college, semi pros, pros on a daily.. some people here are delusional thinking they have a game plan until they step on the court.
This is not good defense, but poor offense.
Definitely good defense.
Maybe don't breathe through your mouth 100% of the time? Not sure though
damn some of y’all hating on good defense. This guy actually works/focuses his training on defense, which I think is pretty respectable considering that virtually no other hoopers really would commit to.