The Cookbook is your learning spot for moves that will help you breaking down the defender and get some easy buckets. Each month Devin will add a new move that you will spend the month trying to master.
Deron Williams had one of the nastiest crossover in the NBA at his prime, and just to prove it, here's the evidence.
The pump fake is one of the most lethal moves in basketball and you need to have it in your bag.
The key to a good pump fake is making it look identical to your shooting motion.
This tip might be a bit tricky, but if you get it, it will make your pump fake even more effective.
The Push Cross is a move used at all levels of basketball, from high school, to college, to the NBA, and some certain players have mastered it. In this series, Devin walks you through the basics of the push cross and helps you build this move from the ground up to add it to your bag.
In step 1 of the push cross series we’re working on the footwork. This move is one that, when mastered, will have you blowing by defenders like they're standing still. Devin walks us through getting the footwork down first, then we'll add in the rest in the later steps.
Here we are working on selling the drive by adding the stutter step to the footwork we learned in step 1. In order for this move to work, we have to sell the drive and get the defender in retreat.
D Will was a monster...and that's all I have to say.
This is an advanced move that you have seen many players use at the NBA and college level.
The rocker step is a deadly move, now let's add some spice to it.
Adding the step across can give you that small bit of extra space to get by the defense!
This is a deadly move that also has a ton of options to score out of.
IT had one of the deadliest quarter turns in the NBA for a stretch, so let's break it down.
Here is a move that you may not use often, but is very effective in the right situations!
In this section we're going through the basics of skipping and all the moves you can use with it!
Here is the first thing you need to master with skips, because you have to be an threat to attack.