For
beginners, the most important teaching of use of the weak hand will be for
teaching dribbling. Teaching how to
shoot with the other hand, especially shooting the lay-up or other finishing
shots at the basket, will follow with age and experience.
In
teaching dribbling, the primary concern of the coach will be to make sure that whenever
a player is dribbling, anywhere on the floor, that the dribbler has his/her
body between the ball and the defender. This will require dribbling with the
left hand when moving to the dribbler’s left and dribbling with the right hand
when moving to the dribbler’s right.