Basketball Tips: How To Do The Up And Under

Former Bowdoin center and CoachUp coach Mark Phillips shows how to do the up and under move. It is a great post move used to try and deke your defender.

Mark Phillips: Hi, I’m Mark Phillips, former Bowdoin center and CoachUp coach. And this is the up and under. As a post player, it’s important to incorporate fakes into your moves. Today we’re gonna work on Matia’s favorite, the up and under. Drop step up the paint to give yourself space. Draw your defender away from the basket. Go. Rip the ball across your face, step through, and go up for a layup. Go.

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