Work on a drop step where you don't actually face up completely. This requires the dunk to have a bit of turn, so it's a drop step spin and the dunk has about a 80 degree spin in it. This allows you to protect the ball and even use your lead hand to fight off the defender (and even push off slightly for a boost). If you have a trainer parter it's best to practice w them - practice your spin, gather, protect and push off w your lead arm on their shoulder... hard to get this perfect but when you do you can get truly nasty dunks...
Sounds v. interesting!!! When I practiced a spin into a drop step I found I had to do the spin real slow to get good groove into the plant for a jump. But I will practice what you've described, it seems subtly different from that. I find hte biggest challenge is not breaking the rules (travelling) while setting up for the dunk.
This is exactly why you don't want to do the spin move slow! If you execute it quickly and get a dunk nobody will notice your traveling... There is sort of an unwritten rule here that if a short guy drop steps on somebody.... nobody dares call travel... The only leagues that do are the same ones which will give you a technical foul for dunking - you don't want to play in those leagues anyway...
lol .. ok this is a game changer. does it help or nah if you receive the entry pass into the post into a jump stop in selling the travel. i dont think i pass for short in our leagues very much, sometimes but not often. i think i get none of hte benefit of the doubt from refs for being 'big' tho im usually and probably one of the lightest on the court .. smh. for now..
Well you don't have to be the lightest guy on the court lol.
I think as far as selling the travel a bit - it comes down to personal preference and ability.
For me I can spin really quickly from left to right - if I take a "crab dribble" and slip in an extra step to rise up and dunk the ball NOBODY notices. Another easy time to drop step dunk is off a rebound - very hard to see if you actually traveling when you grab the rebound, bounce it once, take a couple steps and dunk.
I think it's mostly about small spaces. I have gotten *one* dunk in my life that I can remember in an actual competitive game where I drove past my man from the three point line, accelerated to the hoop and dunked the ball. It was a day I felt really bouncy and I was in denver (maybe altitude lol?). Besides, that I just can't get my steps right when I build up that much speed - I often "feel" high enough to dunk but when I actually go for it it's really likely I will do an obvious travel. The solutions to this are (a) dunk with my left hand and (b) use small spaces to dunk in games - cutting baseline, drop steps, etc. They allow you to have a step pattern drilled and they allow you to be a little more fast and loose with the traveling rules IMO.
While I am admitting that what I am advising is almost surely a travel.... and I have been very likely guilty of this crime myself.... I hold out a tiny benefit of the doubt that maybe it's not really.... I mean who is to say when your steps begin on a gather, corralling a rebound, receiving a pass, etc... It's not just getting away with cheating - it's relying on ambiguity. On the other hand if you drive by your man down the key and blow by him EVERYONE can see that third step you took to show off and dunk and they will call it....
