{"id":1210,"date":"2026-10-29T06:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:36:59","slug":"attack-reads-line-when-they-crowd-hip-when-they-sit-bh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Attack Reads: Line When They Crowd, Hip When They Sit BH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stop Guessing Where to Attack! \ud83c\udfaf\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iGJNXgAmO0E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Richard Pickleball says stop guessing \u2014 your opponent\u2019s shape tells you where to attack.<\/p>\n<p>When they get big and crowd the middle, go down the line before they recover. When they\u2019re parked on the backhand, drive the crossbody ball through the middle at the far hip so they\u2019re jammed. And when the crosscourt player cheats in to help middle, roll the dink behind them into the open space they just gave up.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Crowd middle \u2192 attack the open line<\/li>\n<li>Sitting BH \u2192 crossbody through middle \/ opposite hip<\/li>\n<li>Helper cheats middle \u2192 roll dink behind them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Partner feeds: call \u201cline \/ hip \/ behind\u201d before each attack based on their shade<\/li>\n<li>Film one game: note every free DTL or behind-dink you missed when they crowded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tdd-newsletter\">\n<p><strong>Get the 5 best pickleball tips every week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com\/v3\/loader.js\" data-beehiiv-form=\"0e5f3fe0-e4d3-4036-8d7f-c33b311980b2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Pickleball says stop guessing \u2014 your opponent\u2019s shape tells you where to attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,598,220,3,200],"tags":[1275,378,731,100,225],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attacks","category-counters","category-dinks","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-attack-targets","tag-down-the-line","tag-middle","tag-richard-pickleball","tag-speed-ups"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08-forehand-drive-sunlight-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}