--4 chest pass to 1.
--Run up court.
--1 chest pass back to 4.
--Bounce pass to 2.
--Run.
--2 bounce pass back to 4.
--Chest or bounce pass to 3.
--Run.
--3 pass back to 4.
--4 shoot the lay up and rebound ball.
--Overhead pass to 7.
--9 cut to basket.
--7 baseball pass to 9.
--9 lay up, rebound, join back of line.
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