The Passer
Often, I say that passing is more difficult than shooting. When passing, you are trying to hit a moving target, you don’t solely depend on yourself but on the receiver of the pass, there is no goal tending when pass is intercepted, there are more decisions to be made in short time than when you decide to shoot, anticipation of the receiver movement is critical which is not the case when shooting the ball. I could go on and on. There are fewer good passers in NBA, and any other league, than shooters.
Yet, good passing is critical for success of a basketball team. Good passers make it easier for everybody else to score, and when scoring is spread out defense is in trouble.
The paradox is that I’ve never met a young player who is willing to work on his passing. As soon as kids are beyond 4th grade they start thinking that passing is too easy. The adopt the “everybody can pass, I wanna shoot” mentality. Then, you go see games and more than half of them are lost on bad passing and thus caused turnovers.
Tobin Anderson explains the mechanics of good passing
Credit: Five-Star Basketball
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