Ganon Baker: 23 Ways to Destroy Your Defender

Learn essential fundamentals and practical moves you can use in the game to elevate your play. Expand your game to another level with these moves.

Break down the Allen Iverson killer cross, showing leverage, lower shoulders, and ball position to beat the defender. Illustrate slow-to-quick crossovers, two-dribble limits, two-second plays, and attacking straight lines.

Learn the Tony Parker move and its counter, featuring behind-the-back and quick crossovers, while keeping the ball below the knee to beat the defense by changing speed and direction.

Learn Chris Paul’s inside-out counter moves to break angles and change direction when you see the sternum. Practice the inside-out crawl and the inside-out behind-the-back to float and finish.

Demonstrates the Derrick Rose killer crossover with a counter, executing between-the-legs and behind-the-back moves to finish with a cross.

Master the Dirk Nowitzki step back counter, using crossovers, step-backs, and finish moves off closeouts to create separation and finish at the rim.

Describe the Darren Williams spin series: the inside-out spin, the between-the-legs counter, the spin to cross over and outside lay, plus the crossover step back, emphasizing absorbing contact.

Explore the Gracian Bouchet Quba stutter and the Gracin Bouchet counter, featuring low, hard dribbles, a freeze dribble, and the read of the sternum to change stance.

Master the Steve Nash jab and swivel to create space, change speeds to alter the defender’s stance, and execute a crossover, spin, or behind-the-back counter when the jab is denied.

Examine the Ginóbili jab dribble and the Ginóbili counter, teaching left-hand control, driving moves, footwork on the top foot, hip into defender contact, and finishing with a left-handed shot.

Master the Chauncy explosion and counter to outmaneuver defenders by changing direction and speed, using quick dribbles and ankle-breaking moves like between-the-legs crosses.

Execute the Ricky Rubio counter with a double behind-the-back, reading the defender's sternum, and finish between the legs. Drive in straight, north-south lines.

Master three off the dribble shooting moves from the triple threat, including Kobe starts, mid range finishes, and LeBron jab with sidestep and step-through to beat defenders.

Emphasizes intensity, work ethic, and consistent practice as the path to lasting improvement; embrace failure, sacrifice, faith, and love for the game to build durable skills and confidence.