From low cone RED cuts to baseline and goes across the key to opposite side of the court RED performs a hard cut back to BLUE BLUE passes to RED RED performs proper pivot or landing to square to the basket and takes a shot from near elbow BLUE follows shot for the rebound immediately after the pass RED clears to fill at high cone on opposite side of the court from where they started BLUE gets rebound, passes to YELLOW (high cone on opposite side of the court from where they started) then fills at the low cone on that side of the court NOTE: GREY (Next player on the low cone opposite the ball now on the weak side) immediately cuts along baseline as soon as BLUE has secured the rebound.
Cutting hard through the key and then back to the ball Landing on two feet then performing inside foot pivot to square to the basket for a proper jump shot OR Performing mid air twist while receiving the ball to land already square to the basket for an immediate jump shot
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