How to Practice Blast Cuts in Youth Basketball Offense

At Transforming Basketball, we are a big believer in using blast cuts as a primary trigger for U12 and U14 youth teams. This is a great way to develop modern principles of play and lay the foundation for a conceptual offense.

If you’re not familiar with what a blast cut is, start with this segment of a coaching clinic with our founder, Alex Sarama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GomE8DNlQ 

 

Teaching Blast Cuts as a Principle of Play

When it comes to teaching this as a principle of play, we posed the question as a challenge to members in our community. We had such an amazing response from Tahj Holden (New Jersey) and Neil Houghton (Melbourne, Australia), that we had to share their answer. Their ideas are included below as a “masterclass” in bringing the blast cut to life with your youth team.