drillmindhoops

There are tons of ways to get more steals playing defense so read this to understand stealing the ball better. The first thing you need to do is always poke the ball on its way down from the offensive players hand so that your hand can meet the ball and poke it away. The second thing you have to be doing is every time an offensive player goes up for a layup you have to try and poke the ball away, this is when they have to focus on going up and making the layup so take advantage of their focus being away from the ball. Another thing is crossovers which are easy to get steals on by either anticipating the crossover or poking right after the crossover is complete. Finally another easy way to get steals is after a player that you aren’t guarding does a spin move that is an easy opening to attack the ball. The key thing is just to always have active hands and go after that ball no matter what but still staying in your help position.