General step-by-step guide to doing a tear drop

• back up your defender with dribbling skills and moves.

• Drive towards the basketball hoop with speed

• Take a step and a half or do a powerhop to further back the defender up

• Suddenly leap forward when you have just stepped into the paint

• Your defender should still be standing on the ground

• Keep an eye out for help defense and unguarded teammates

• shoot the ball with an arc over your defender into the basketball hoop

• use the backboard if necessary

The floater gives point guards on the penetration a lot of flexibility in that when they have backed up their defenders, only help defense can come over to contest the floater basketball shot. This create the opportunity to dish the basketball to the teammate left unguarded. Alternately, if no one decides to contest the shot, you can unleash a floater at the very last minute. Hence, this basketball shooting technique gives point guards room for creativity.