1.   Actually, the Knicks were sometimes three or four steps behind the Lakers, who seemed to be running a layup drill.

2.   Dressed in a black and blue Converse warmup suit, Chris Ford tells his fifth-graders to form two lines for the obligatory layup drill.

3.   First, he slipped and fell face first during a full-court layup drill.

4.   He tried to go through layup drills during practice yesterday but was unable to run at even half-speed.

5.   He was the second player on the floor and smiled all the way through early stretching exercises and layup drills.

6.   In Anchorage, we shot layup drills off that all night.

7.   Jokingly, he would glance at it between layup drills as, tick-tick-tick, the trading deadline approached.

8.   That tended to limit practices to two-line layup drills, three-man weaves and shooting free throws.

9.   The crowd at Market Square Arena roared during layup drills.

10.   The Tigers probably never shot that well in layup drills.