inbounding mechanics

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by tomegun

While I wouldn't want to put all of my ways on someone else, I think through almost everything and do things with some kind of logical thought.

1. I'm not in a hurry. This process slows things down.
2. Most of the time I bounce the ball with both hands and then raise my arm.
3. (heavily opinion based talking about myself) You know how something happens just as you are about to hand the ball to a player that keeps you from handing him/her the ball? It could be a sub, a partner isn't ready or anything that delays the inbounding. Yeah, I will not be that dufus holding his hand up the whole time OR having my hand up, lowering it because of the delay and then putting it back up.

I asked myself a long time ago, "Tom, what is the cleanest way to handle inbounding the ball?" And I answered, "Give the player the ball first, then raise your hand. It will look so much better."

When this was first talked about, I had to think about what I did and this is almost exactly my logic. I also bounce the ball with both hands and then when they have the ball, I raise my arm. I worked tonight and found myself trying to figure out what I actually did based on what we talked about on this site. I always found it a bit much to put my arm up the entire time. So if someone finds is odd that I do this, I would have to ask them why or what difference does it make? Again I think there are things that people do personally that really make no difference in the bigger picture. This makes absolutely no difference IMO.

Peace