Kyrie Irving Crossover – How To: Basketball Crossover

This is the ultimate Kyrie Irving basketball crossover breakdown where I am going to not only teach you how to crossover, but will give you 3 simple steps that will make your crossover dribble deadly.

So many players these days have never really had a coach, trainer, or teammate tell them how to properly execute a crossover, and that is why I created this step by step tutorial that will demonstrate exactly how to crossover and will give you 3 tips that make this move very effective.

To be honest, there are much more than just one way to cross someone up, but to keep it simple this is how you execute it:

1. The dribble before the crossover is important because that is the dribble that is going to bring the ball out and begin the illusion that you are going in one direction when really you are crossing back over.
2. After you bring the ball you you need to hesitate for a half a second to freeze the defense.  With that hesitation you are putting the defense in a position where they will have to react to your next move.
3. After the hesitation you need to give a final fake that you are going in one direction by getting into the “Attack Position.”  (Watch video below to understand the “Attack Position”)
4. Finally, simply crossover and blow by the defense.  Remember, to keep the dribble low.

Allen Iverson Crossover Demonstration

How To Crossover

I hope you found some useful info in that video.  The crossover dribble is the most common and effective move you see in the game of basketball today.  Some players that have made an entire career off this move are Allen Iverson, Tim Hardaway, and now today Kyrie Irving has been making a name for himself crossing up players on the regular.  So lets take a look at some of these players and see what else we can learn from some of the greats.

The most famous Kyrie Irving crossover of all time had to be the one where he crossed up Brandon Knight and hit a step back jumper shot.  Lets take a quick look at that and then I’ll explain how he was able to do this.

Kyrie Irving Crossover On Brandon Knight

Now, there are a few things that made this crossover even more powerful and is actually a little a different type of crossover than the one I explained in the tutorial above, because this crossover is a double crossover with alot of setup dribbles.

Lets take a second to analyze what happened here:

• 0:01 Kyrie Irving is using crossovers to setup Brandon Knight and get him off balance
• 0:09 – Brandon Knight makes a mistake and repositions his footwork
• 0:12 – Kyrie Irving uses an “In N Out” dribble to give the illusion he’s going right
• 0:13 – Brandon Knight falls for the “In N Out”
• 0:14 – Kyrie crosses over and Knight thinks he’s going to the basket
• 0:16 – Kyrie steps back to create space and shooter the basketball
• 0:17 – Brandon Knight goes down in flames, lol

In summary there are three main factors that made this legendary play happen.

1. Brandon Knight repositioning his feet.
2. Kyrie Irving getting Knight off balance with that “In N Out” dribble
3. Kyrie’s good “Attack Position” on his crossover.

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