It dips quickly – Unlike a floating lob, the topspin makes the ball drop faster, making it harder to track and smash. It’s deceptive – A well-disguised topspin lob looks just like a ...

I teach the lob serve consistently in my classes ... Note: Be sure you contact the ball below your waist. Piston your legs, get low, and start your paddle pointing down to the ground, to get ...

Here, we’ll assume this is a deep ball, over the top of the defense ... including a struggle to throw lob or touch passes. To make sure we’re on the same page, a lob pass is a high, arcing ...

To do so, the player whom the lob was hit over turns, shuffles back, jumps and gives the ball a “high five”—using a punching motion—to put the ball back deep. This is essentially a ...

LaMelo Ball would serve as a capable lob thrower and ball handler alongside big men Anthony Davis and Dereck Lively II. Both centers play far better when they have a playmaking guard capable of ...

During the Hornets’ game against the Miami Heat on Monday, LaMelo Ball found Miles Bridges for an alley-oop dunk off a lob Ball threw from near half-court. In what has been a common theme with ...