The phrase "a drop step" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in sports contexts, particularly in basketball or football, to describe a specific movement or technique.
Example: "To create space for your shot, practice executing a drop step to pivot away from your defender."
Alternatives: "a pivot step" or "a lateral step".
Camby was asked because it was no secret that he could use a few low-post lessons, develop a baby hook, a drop step, anything resembling a go-to move.
Sullinger's father, Satch, is a high school coach and taught his son a drop step at age 2 and the proper free-throw shooting form when he was 3. Sullinger also had two older brothers who played in college: J. J. at Ohio State and Julian at Kent State.
So sometimes that doesn't work so I do an open drop and I normally do a stick shot instead of a drop step into a hook shot.
There was a dunk off a missed shot by Gary Payton, a drop-step, lean-in bank shot over Marcus Camby.
A 22-year-old travels halfway across the world, braves annoying team doctors pulling on his limbs, hits a bevy of jump shots and shows he has a bit of a drop-step move, and we say, "Now go home".
He used a more compact delivery in which he shortened the drop step of his left foot, lowered his hands and tried to be quicker to the plate.
Cameron had the quickest route to the entry pass, but his drop step just before it was played allowed Garcia to get a running start at him.
For Troy Murphy, the baseline was a launching pad for a feathery left-handed turnaround jumper, the lane was a Twister game mat for a variety of nifty drop steps.
A simple and reproducible way used to prepare hybrid inorganic-organic composite electrode materials based on polyhemin and graphene oxide (GO), consists in a drop-casting step of GO dispersed in TRIS solution on graphite followed by the simultaneously reduction of GO (rGO) and electropolymerization of hemin (polyHm).
The American prison system is a jaw-dropping, Steps reunion-sized failure of an institution, even by its own warped logic, having been repeatedly proven to actually increase crime.
As the game wore on, he showcased his full collection of drop steps and slip screens.
