the Top 4 Kyrie Irving Finishing Moves. Alright so Kyrie Irving is one of the best finishers

in the NBA so today what we want to do is breakdown his four best finishes that he uses

once he gets into the paint to score with these crafty finishes. So the first one that

I like is the one hand finish, so as Kyrie gets the ball at the top of the key here and

as he's getting ready to dribble drive he has his man in front of him so it all starts

once he beats his man it could be with the pump fake it could be with the dribble whatever

it is he's getting by his man getting his hips into the paint just like this. Now with

the one hand finish its going to be a little bit different because you can extend it away

from the defender without having to gather and go up so what happens a lot of times with

younger players is they get in the paint with their man on their hip and they gather to

go up when doing this it enables the defender to go up and block it just like that. So what

the one hand finish what you can do is use your off arm to protect the ball pick it up

with one hand then finish out right here so now if the defender wants to block your shot

he has to come through my body to come get it. So the key here with the one hand finish

is not neccesarily to finish up as much as you are wanting to finish out right, if you

can just out and away from the defender it will make it that much easier. Now you want

to make sure you can finish with either hand because lets say on the drive maybe I come

this direction I want to be able to pick it up with my left hand and still hold him off

and still finish so if you can do that it's going to be a really easy way to get a bucket.

So next we have the up and under finish now this is one of Kyrie's signature finishes

and it great because you really don't have to be that athletic to use it. So it all starts

the exact same you can up fake shimmy whatever it i that is going to help you get by your

man and now you and now you are attacking the hoop now the up and under works great

if you are coming at it from a good angle if you are attacking at a flat angle little

more towards the baseline this is a great one. With the up and under we are looking

for a couple of keys number 1 you want to show the ball high so the idea is that if

you have shot blocker someone longer and more athletic guarding you is that they are going

to want to come and get the shot right? So what you do is show the ball high first and

then its going to make him want to go for it and then your wrapping the ball underneath

finishing with the reverse lay in on the other side. If I just show it by my chest it doesn't

look like I'm going up as much so I want to get it by my forehead if at all possible get

him to leave his feet. Now really athletic players can jump up and under while they are

in the air and finish for younger guys its a little bit harder so what I recommend you

do and what Kyrie Irving does a lot of the time is shows the ball while he is still on

one foot that way when he jumps he's already wrapping it up and under and it doesn't require

that much athleticism so once you get to the other side its perfect cause the rim and the

net are in the way of a shot blocker and they can't come across and get it and you basically

get a wide open look. So with this you want to work on finishing at different angles sometimes

your up and under might be really flat sometimes you might be coming along the baseline a little

bit sharper as you come across this way the key is to keep the defender behind you show

high and finish on the other side. Now the next finish is super similar to the one we

talked about earlier this one is the inside hand finish. So with this one you beat your

man but the idea with this one is that he is a little bit behind you so you want to

be able to finish with your inside hand at the basket growing up a lot of times we are

taught that you need to finish with your outside hand every time right? Your coaches tell you

there is a string between your knee and your elbow just like that, but that doesn't necessarily

always work especially for smaller players right if your a smaller player and you are

constantly finishing like this bigs will come out of no where and swat your shot a ton so

this inside hand pick up is nice because I can time it get it off early as the defender

is behind me and now my body is protecting the basketball Gibson can't come and get the

ball because I am extending out with my inside hand. Now if I come out with my outside hand

he has a much better chance at getting to it so it's kind of like the first one where

we extend out rather that up, but instead its with out inside hand and we are protecting

the ball with out shoulder on this back side if you can do that you will get a lot of easy

looks. Alright next we have the body contact finish this is a great finish if you are a

smaller guard or a shorter guard or maybe if you aren't as strong as some players it's

a great way to initiate contact and that way you can get an open look and sort of stun

the defender so it all starts the same you beat your man. So now lets say he's riding

your hip a little bit more and you don't have an open lane to the hoop instead the best

way that I like to do it and the way kyrie does it is getting contact high with his tri-cep

on the defenders chest or upper body. As soon as I come in I want to create the contact

high with this off arm so even if it gets knocked down it gets slapped I can still finish

with my right so the idea is to create the contact first before they are ready to jump

if gibson is getting ready timing his jump if I come in and try to create contact it's

going to be off balanced and I'm going to knock me kind of off balance a little bit

so what we want to do is the exact same thing but I want to create contact before I jump

and jump off of that contact right if you can create the contact first its going to

make it so he cant jump and your going to get an open look at the basket and possibly

an and 1 so from there all you have to do is create contact first boom jump off and

finish high off the glass for the easy finish again work on finishing with both hands. Because

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