Black - Give and go with shooter receiving across his/her body to eliminate defender with receive and trying to limit touches on the ball keeping it down to one and then a shot if possible. Yellow/Red - Follows blacks shot. The shooter then leads around the blue cone and drives towards the cage inorder to make contact with the ball fed in from the player from the opposite channel.
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