Basketball Defense: Footwork

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This is the extended version of playing defense with your feet. Stay, keep your feet busy, keep them moving as we call them in basketball. Common mistakes while playing defense is staying in front of a player and playing with your, leaning towards the ball and keeping your feet planted. That's a no-no. What you need to do is when the ball moves, you move, alright. In moving, properly moving in basketball is moving your feet, alright. And that's the most important thing for defense. So he's going to shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, back. Now what we're going to do is plant your feet, he's going to, he stop dribbling, plant your feet, no get back down, come in, and a vision to jump shot. Okay. Now, he has a proper balance, if he does stop to defend, or defend against the pass and that all comes from proper feet technique, foot technique. We showed you before how to extend a defense by simply pointing your toes out towards the baseline or the outside line, okay. So move your feet. I does out, does in, out, does in, okay. Now what we didn't show you, or what we're going to show you in this clip is how to properly step, shuffle your feet if he's coming back or coming towards you. You step back, you keep it, keep it moving, keep it moving, always keep it this fast feet or what we call your moving feet in defense, okay. Now he's moving, he's keeping his feet moving and he's keeping his movement back, alright. There it is and we just showed you how to properly keep your feet moving while playing defense.

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