Practical Basketball moves

The same key is not the same move in both hands. C is a right-hand hesitation and a left-hand crossover. Z is the mirror. That single rule fixes more “why did I get the wrong animation” questions than any tier list. The charts below come from TechWiser and Gamepur, which agree on the PC inputs. Timing notes come from written guides. I do not have frame data, so I will not tell you to press on frame 12.

Four groups

• Finishing: layup, floater, euro, hop, spin gather, driving dunk, standing dunk, self lob.
• Playmaking: five pass types, screens, alley-oops.
• Dribbling: hesi, crossover, tween, behind the back, spin, shammgod.
• Post: post up, dropstep, post hook, post fade.

Open one move

• Spin move — V for a half spin, C X Z or Z X C for a full spin.
• Hesi — C or Z when the defender leans.
• Self lob — F with momentum, then finish. Some people write Shift+F.
• Dribbling — short changes of direction beat holding sprint.
• Defense — body position. No public chart lists a steal key or a block key.

Controller players flick the right stick for spins and use the d-pad for standing hesis. The full button chart is on the controls page. Builds decide whether the animation you called is even in your package: an 81 handle is the Curry Slide line in the do-it-all guide, and a 25 standing dunk means the hold-Space dunk is not your tool.

Edited 2026-11-02. Related: status · codes · how to play.