Being too right-handed offensively can produce poor spacing, too much offense from the side, and bad driving angles (makes using the backboard harder).
When opposing defenses understand help principles, we'll struggle even more.
How can we overcome this?
1. Skill development. Ballhandlers 'naturally' prefer staying "strong hand" with straight dribbles, hesitation, in-and-out dribble, and less commonly 'double crossovers'. We need to improve our PASSING and "transfers" skill, especially crossovers and spins.
Baby steps. We can learn from them.
Train to finish plays.
Eventually, we can advance to complex separate-and-finish drills, like right-handed drives with spin back to the middle.
2. Drill from the left-side of the basket (habit formation).
3. Play small-sided games (SSG) from the left side of the split (line bisecting the baskets).
4. Leverage strengths. Nurture and encourage existing strengths. Teach a few core skills, counters, and adequacy of non-dominant hand skills. The best player we ever had, WNBA draft choice, Shey Peddy, starring in Europe, seldom took more than two dribbles with her left hand.
5. Teach the middle way. Offenses run through the middle, e.g. 1-4 sets and horns have no "natural" help side.
Pick and pop
Heat double pick and slip.
DHO 15 screen
X cross 3 iso
GSW actions
