{"id":1309,"date":"2026-11-06T11:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:42:30","slug":"7-eleven-transition-game-kitchen-to-11-baseline-to-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"7-Eleven Transition Game: Kitchen to 11, Baseline to 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Add This Game to Your Next Pickleball Drilling Session (with Dekel Bar)\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/deam0zf52bU?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>Pickleball360 with Dekel Bar: the 7-Eleven game skews scoring because the baseline starter is disadvantaged (play to 7 vs kitchen to 11).<\/p>\n<p>Kitchen player feeds and hunts fourths that pin feet or keep them behind the baseline \u2014 not automatic \u201cnice drop, let\u2019s dink.\u201d Baseline player practices real transition under score pressure.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Asymmetric scoring mirrors transition disadvantage<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen side: hunt fourths that keep them back<\/li>\n<li>Baseline side: earn your way in under pressure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Add 7-Eleven for 15 minutes in your next drill session, then switch roles<\/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>Pickleball360 with Dekel Bar: the 7-Eleven game skews scoring because the baseline starter is disadvantaged (play to 7 vs kitchen to 11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730,"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":[600,602,20],"tags":[1261,305,1058,1262,37],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drills","category-practice","category-transition","tag-dekel-bar","tag-drill","tag-fourth-shot","tag-pickleball360","tag-transition"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/03-low-dink-at-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}