How To Play Monkey In The Middle Video

The monkey in the middle drill helps sharpen basketball skills. Learn how to do the monkey in the middle basketball drill from a former college basketball player in this sports video.

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At least 3 players
Good decisions & passes
Work on fakes
Control ball

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Unique Anderson is a certified personal trainer and former college basketball player who is currently working on her master's degree in Exercise Physiology.

UNIQUE ANDERSON: Hello. My name is Unique Anderson and I'm a certified personal trainer. All right. Today, we're going to focus on the monkey in the middle drill. What it is doing is focusing on defense and offense. What you want to try to make happen is that you want the person that's in the middle to play defense on you, not to go too extremely fast but just to focus on changing directions and focus in on guarding on the ball. So this is how we're going to start it out. I want to have the ball. David is going to be in the middle. He's trying to take the ball from me. It's all about me making really good passes to fake him out to make him move. I'm doing an overhead pass because his defense is good. You don't want to play too tight. You want to play in the middle so that if it comes across, you can make it happen just like that. Excellent. Carlos, it's your turn. You want to make sure that everyone is getting the best benefit out of this. It is not just one person; it's the whole team. Go. That was low. He's got long hands. I couldn't get by that one. Go. Oh, come on. Don't do that again. Don't do that again. And that is your basic monkey in the middle drill.

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