How To Pass In Basketball Video

Passing the basketball is a key skill for playing basketball. Learn basketball skills like passing in this video basketball lesson.

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Passing is key
Step with foot
Practice chest, overhead & bounce pass
Use good fakes

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Quin is the current head coach of the Austin Toros NBA Developmental League Team. He began his playing career at Duke University where he was coached by Mike Kyrzewski and then coached under him for four years. He then coached for six years as the head coach for Missouri University's NCAA team and is now happy to reside in Austin.

QUIN SNYDER: You saw when [PH] KP was shooting jump shots and [PH] Squeaky was passing the ball, and one of the most important things about being able to score is having accurate passes. There is a number of different passes that you can learn when you are first starting to play and as you get better and better, you will be able to pass with either hand. Let us just use the chest pass, Squeak. Two hands, you see him--go ahead. [PH] JB also, chest pass. They are stepping with their foot to give them strength and momentum and passing the ball with two hands right to the chest. Jump in here, [PH] Serge. All right. All of a sudden--Squeak, guard him. Serge, guard him. Now, we have got, now we have got a defender that is guarding Squeaky, so that chest pass is not going to work, is it? It is going to go right through him. So let us try an overhead pass. He is going to throw right over the top of him. Over the top of him. Let us throw it back right here. Okay, KP, why do not you guard JB? So we got a chest pass and an overhead pass. Squeak, overhead pass again. Right there, you see him fake, too, all right? JB, now, KP is being guarded by [PH] Justin Bowen. All right, Justin, instead of an overhead pass, let us demonstrate a bounce pass. We are going to step around and then throw a bounce pass. Good. A couple of things that we just saw. First...

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