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title: "Basketball Drills: Side Pick & Roll with Joe Abunassar"
description: IMPACT Basketball founder Joe Abunassar introduces the Side Pick and Roll drill!
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# [Basketball Drills: Side Pick & Roll with Joe Abunassar](https://blog.drdishbasketball.com/basketball-drills-side-pick-roll-with-joe-abunassar)

 Written by [Jeremy Rushing](https://blog.drdishbasketball.com/author/jeremy-rushing) | Oct 21, 2021

[IMPACT Basketball](https://impactbball.com/) founder and top NBA trainer [Joe Abunassar](https://blog.drdishbasketball.com/topic/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

1. Ball-handler begins on wing, screener starts top of the key
2. Screener sets screen at the wing
3. Ball-handler comes off screen and attacks basket for layup or floater
4. 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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