Basketball Drills: Side Pick & Roll with Joe Abunassar

by Jeremy Rushing, on Oct 21, 2021 10:00:00 AM

IMPACT Basketball founder and top NBA trainer Joe Abunassar introduces a great Pick & Roll drill to work on being interchangeable as a screener or ball-handler in a game-like action.

Side Pick & roll

Ball-handler begins on wing, screener starts top of the key
Screener sets screen at the wing
Ball-handler comes off screen and attacks basket for layup or floater
Screener pops to corner for a three-pointer

"Try to get the defender leaning," says Abunassar. "That initial approach is very important, it can't just be 'start with the screen'. Play it game like."

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