E-MAILBuy yourself an extra second
To buy yourself some extra time with the ball, quickly fake a shot by throwing a small stick pump-fake. Often times, your defender will briefly tense up as he anticipates getting hit with the ball or the stick when you shoot. This move can give you some extra time to decide what you’d like to do with the ball, allowing you to pass, run around your defender, or use your defender as a screen and shoot the ball directly around him. The latter technique, briefly freezing your defender so you can step around him and use him as a screen, is sometimes referred to as the hitch shot.
