The handoff pass , enters into a category of passes ‘forgotten’.
Perhaps the main cause of that don’t like to teach it is because the idea of calling him a pass will be ‘short’ or no sense since the ball is not thrown. It is all backwards.
Find different various forms that change depending on the respective displacements between passer and receiver:
– Dribble Handoff Pass (DHO) with the player with the ball going and bringing the ball to the receiver (popularized with the 8 of Alexander Gomelsky).
– Handoff, in which the player with the ball waiting standing up to the receiver to go to him to collect the ball.
– Handoff that player with the ball goes bouncing towards the player who is to receive the ball.
Objectives for teaching
- Locate the target.
- Maintain a balanced stance.
- Hold the ball with one hand and away from your body to give to the attacking player to come pick you up (you can give with two hands, but would give back to the attacker and could steal the ball in a neglect.
- Already in field of attack, the player receiver of the pass in hand should come in such a way that the player who goes in hand is between the player and receiver ring.
Most common errors
- Do not locate the target.
- He loses his balance.
- Not holding up well to the ball, losing control or being slower. Has the ball next to his body and exposes the defender to steal it.
- Already in field of attack, the player receiver comes to pick up the pass in hand, standing between the player making the pass in hand and the basket, and is surrounded by defenders.
This type of pass is a way of introducing the Ball screen, both in attack options (continued towards the ring and opening) both defensively (change, crop, pursue, go through the middle, 2×1, flash).
As a last point, note that this pass is one of the great beneficiaries of the Zero Step. It is something which is particularly noticeable in the passes in Hand between foreign (see in the system 8 Gomelsky).
Exercises to practice the Handoff pass
Finally we leave a great clinic of Jota Cuspinera on the progression ‘Of the Hand to hand to the Ball screen’:
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
Entrenador Nacional de Baloncesto (CES 2014)
