quare up to the basket by jumping behind the ball or pivoting on your inside foot (the foot closest to the basket). Pick the ball up in front of your shooting-side knee with your shooting hand on top of the ball and with your nonshooting hand under the ball. When your shooting hand is on top of the ball, your shooting hand will face the target when you raise the ball to shoot. By picking the ball up at your shooting-side knee, you are able to change sideward momentum to upward momentum and jump straight up 