All the moves in the world don't mean a thing if you can't finish.
Through the legs, behind the back, no look trip to the rack.
Might look hot, but if you blow a layup, ain't nobody going to be cheering.
Street ball might be about showtime, but if you don't win, you don't stay on and you don't stay on without scoring.
The best players in the game know how to finish. If you want to be the king of the court, you better learn too.
I'm Wally Dixon, main event, and you're down with sports cool. Once you get past your opponent, you must know what to do.
Finish. The keys to finishing plays. You must stay focused. Don't concentrate too much on making the move, but finishing the move.
You must have strength. Once you get inside, I dare you, Wally. That's what I call it. I dare you, Wally, because I dare you to come down there.
That's where it's all getting down. That's where the nook and the grind is going down. The pushing, the bumping.
So if you don't have no strength, don't even come down there.
When you're on this court, this is sacred ground. Fear no man. If you're scared, don't even lace your shoes up.
Don't touch onto somebody else. Have no fear. Practice against the best. If you practice against the best, you will play like the best.
If you practice against people that's under your level, you're going to play like people under your level.
So practice against the best. Have no fear, strength, and focus. These are big keys to finishing plays.
Ballers can have all the scales in the world. You can have confidence, good court vision, a perfect shot.
But if you can't finish a play, we're only going to use it when practicing.
Let's go.
Pull up jump shot.
I faked my defending like I was going to drive to the basket. The third dribble, a hard dribble, but I pulled up and jumped it right in his face.
Two points for me.
Remember, opponents are competitors waiting for the chance to steal yours.
So once you dissect it, your defense, and he has no clue what you're going to do, if he's sticking you guarded straight up on you, there's no way you can just pull up and do the jump shot.
You want to create some type of space. Half of them thinking you're going to dribble hard to the basket and just stop.
Remember, the third dribble, you get your balance, a hard dribble. Hard, you get your balance, and get your thumb right, and get your feet set.
The lay-in. A good time to use the lay-in is when you get past your man, or anytime you get the ball inside the paint area.
It's a great time to use it. When you're taking your man one-on-one, and you see his body is out of whack, take advantage of that.
Whatever side he's leaning to, you take advantage of that. Right away. Don't think about it, right away. It's to come right to you.
So you keep an eye on your defender's feet, and his stance is very important.
He's trying to stop you, you're not trying to stop him.
But try and think how he would think to get past your defender.
Once you get past, rear that shoulder, and just lay it right there.
The lay-in. Get by the defense, put your body into his body, and get a little leverage, and lay it up.
If you're on the right side, lay it with your right hand. If you're on the left side, lay it with your left hand.
The teardrop. You probably used to watch when Tony Parker used it to his advantage.
A lot of guards love to do this move. The old teardrop.
Normally, you would use a teardrop against an opponent that's taller than you.
He's trying to punch your side out to ring. Definitely knock your ball off the park.
Block shot. No, no. So what you do is you set him up. You want to go and get that ball right at your peak, and just let off your fingertips.
He's going to jump high with his hand, and the ball will go right over his hand. Nice and sweet.
Defender either think you're going to drive to the basket, or drive, and pull a jump shot.
But in the teardrop, you want to have a little space between you and your defender.
You want to act like you're going to do one of those two.
You pull up jump shot, or the lay-up, but you're basically dribbling, and you're going to go right at the tip of your fingers.
Teardrop, right over the defender's hand.
Nice teardrop. Perfect when you're inside the paint. I studied my defender.
He had his hand slouched down. I'm giving him a perfect opportunity to dribble him down first as I can, and pull up.
I'm the one that's taking the shot, not him, so he can't react.
It's a quick shot off the dribble. Teardrop. Defender hand must be down.
The baby hook. It's a kill or nail. Kills him.
Outside the paint, y'all mean. Kills him.
The baby hook, a very good move, but you have to have some strength to get a defender on your back.
You have to have confidence, and the baby hook is either side you want to pick, get a little space.
Nice little hook.
Now you're inside the paint, you don't have nothing to do.
You can pass it, but nobody did a pass it to. So now you got to make something out of nothing before you get three-second count.
Little baby hook.
Another nice move is a finger roll.
Finger roll off the tip of your fingers. Nice and easy.
And once you really get it down packed, you better put a little flick to it, to make it look nice.
So the finger roll, to get it right over your defender. You're trying to block your shot, and you're up in the air, just letting it go.
Good old finger roll. Rather the defender's behind you, in front of you, you want to get it right over him, just let it go.
Let the fingers do the work.
The ultimate way to finish the play is to slam.
One hand versus the two hand. One hand, you see LeBron James, is more on the finesse.
Two hands is more when you're trying to tear down on the player.
You're trying to dunk on that defender, you want to come with all you got.
And more with two hand dunk.
The reason why you want to slam it, is because we went over different things.
The pull-up jump shot, the finger roll, the hook shot. Now the defender's saying, well I got him.
And this is when you bust his bubble.
Throw one down on him. Boom!
He's done. Trust me, he's done. Get a T.O.
One thing I love, and I'm known for, to this day, is to face you.
Face you. You jump with me, dunk and one. You know what I'm talking about?
You jump, you get dunked on, you got to go. Take a five minute break.
Slam. Very exciting play. Especially when it ends the game.
Now that you've learned how to finish the moves, keep watching Sports Cool, so you can show them off.
Y'all got to take it to the wreck, and finish with two.
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