key: Straight arrows indicate passes (trjectory of ball) colour of that arrow indicates the player passing that ball e.g. first pass is made by blue player in the middle therfore the line is blue.
sqwiggly line represents player movement (in that direction) and the colour of that line is respective of the player moving. e.g. after blue player makes initial pass he follows that pass behind the red player he is passing to.
to make this usefull for weak hand training you can make this competive by giving 2 points for an assisted basket 1 point for sucessfully preventing a basket and 2 points for scoring and 4 points for scoring with the weak hand. the first player to reach 11 points wins.
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