The Post Pass

The Post Pass is sort of a lost art maybe because a stationary post player is no longer an ideal matchup situation.  For this reason we like to keep our post player moving from the Low Post to maybe the elbow area and even to the top of the key which we call the High Post.  Moving the post player causes a defender to move from denial to help to strong side to weak side to half front and full fronts.

But when we pass from the wing to the post we want as little deception as possible.  We want the post player to hold off the defender on the side he is being guarded and we want him to provide a target to the passer away from the defensive pressure.  We want our wing passer to put some air under the ball and just 'drop it down' into the post.

What we don't want to do is a bunch of pivoting and protecting with faking high and low and crouching down and making ourselves small.  Just give a little look and pass away from the defense.  If the post is open pass him the ball and if he's not open then pass to the top or dribble away from the pressure.