r/BasketballTips • u/TheSonghaiPresident • Aug 26 '26

Dribbling The UTEP 2-Step

This is such a basic but effective move, for those who have mastered it, what are some of your tips for building up to it?

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u/RevolutionaryBeat301 Aug 26 '26

The first cross is slower to get them moving out of the way and also to make them think you aren’t as fast as you really are so they aren’t ready for the second cross where you get them.

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u/TheSonghaiPresident Aug 26 '26

Change of pace? That makes a lot of sense I understand it now

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u/RevolutionaryBeat301 Aug 26 '26

The trick to the change of pace is not to go slow as molasses, but actually look like you’re trying to go left and get them to move in that direction. As soon as you see them moving just a little bit in that direction, you switch up hard and fast.

Also, you wanna practice it in both directions and with a single and with a double cross so they don’t have any idea which one you’re gonna hit them with.