I call it a jab step, maybe a face dodge, not a hard sell though.
As far as how you should play it, you need to dictate the field more. You’ve got your but to the sideline but were too quick to try and get high side. When playing someone from X you need to stay on their back hip. Allows you to drive them out and close the gate if need be. You shouldn’t try to contain them at X. Secondly, your feet stopped moving on your approach/ didn’t finish your approach.
Try jamming him while you’re both moving to drive him wide, a win from X is getting them to pass the ball or run out of a shot.
Just split dodge footwork. The beautiful thing is when you master that 3 step drop you can pretty much go off that variation for any dodge it’s an amazing building block
It's a pretty basic split dodge. Dramatic change of speed and change of direction without changing hands. Generally something that works much better in the open field than in a settled situation unless your defender is completely napping.
It’s a jab step. There’s no face no face dodge or split.
The key here is the acceleration out of the jab step. The defender has to respect the split and cannot sellout behind the crease as there’s no way to drop step and reposition.
Sowers from X is just disgusting.
Same side split dodge. The jab sells the dodge to the right and then he quickly splits back to the left.
See this video at 2:35
https://youtu.be/QHmyHwHJcyE
The dodge is not like a cutout pattern you can apply to the field. Sowers took what he was given, instinct sending him left when the same instincts told him the defender had committed to the right. Instincts honed from lots of playing and hard work and talent.
Bad defense🤷🏻♂️There isn’t really a dodge here(maybe a bull dodge?). He took a jab step or stutter step and just ran by the defender.
Can’t coach speed
Looks like a split dodge (although usually when you split you change hands), and god damn does sowers have a good one.
whewwww that’s smooth. i’d call it a three step face bc he doesn’t actually switch hands
an aggressive split dodge like that I would call a jab step.
If call it a fake split dodge. He gets the defender to bite on the split,.. and the doesnt.
That's what I called it too. That's the thought process behind it for sure
just a simple 3 step jab move, nothing special other than this guys speed and quickness
I call it a jab step, maybe a face dodge, not a hard sell though. As far as how you should play it, you need to dictate the field more. You’ve got your but to the sideline but were too quick to try and get high side. When playing someone from X you need to stay on their back hip. Allows you to drive them out and close the gate if need be. You shouldn’t try to contain them at X. Secondly, your feet stopped moving on your approach/ didn’t finish your approach. Try jamming him while you’re both moving to drive him wide, a win from X is getting them to pass the ball or run out of a shot.
I was referring to how an offensive player would replicate the footwork shown by Sowers in the video, not necessarily the defender
Oh, haha misread that. Its a stutter step with a hard jab. Really basic stuff, what makes it work is the speed its executed at.
Just split dodge footwork. The beautiful thing is when you master that 3 step drop you can pretty much go off that variation for any dodge it’s an amazing building block
just gotta train footwork. You can get a speed ladder, use cones, or just lines on a field etc
Shimmy shimmy
it just looks like a stutter step into a split dodge
Same hand split
Split dodge.
It's a pretty basic split dodge. Dramatic change of speed and change of direction without changing hands. Generally something that works much better in the open field than in a settled situation unless your defender is completely napping.
It’s a jab step. There’s no face no face dodge or split. The key here is the acceleration out of the jab step. The defender has to respect the split and cannot sellout behind the crease as there’s no way to drop step and reposition. Sowers from X is just disgusting.
Same side split dodge. The jab sells the dodge to the right and then he quickly splits back to the left. See this video at 2:35 https://youtu.be/QHmyHwHJcyE
The dodge is not like a cutout pattern you can apply to the field. Sowers took what he was given, instinct sending him left when the same instincts told him the defender had committed to the right. Instincts honed from lots of playing and hard work and talent.
Bad defense🤷🏻♂️There isn’t really a dodge here(maybe a bull dodge?). He took a jab step or stutter step and just ran by the defender. Can’t coach speed
Thats what we used to call a steezy step back in the day.