Basketball drill: 1 against 1 backwards
1 against 1 backwards
- Centers + Guards + Forwards
- from U14
- 2 or more players
- 1 ball per pair
- two baskets
Prerequisites:
- players must be able to dribble a layup run
Objective:
- to increase offensive creativity in 1v1
Organization:
- player 1 passes the ball to 3 and gets it back immediately
- 3 moves backwards
- 1 dribbles straight at 3 and has to close the distance between both players
- Unbalance and pass the defender
- Full speed to the basket
- Loser will defend, winner will attack
- Play up to the 3 to keep the intensity high.
Teaching Points:
- attacker must aggressively close the gap
- Dribble straight at the defender.
- throw the defender off balance with a feint.
- Attacker should be unpredictable.
- only choose which side to pass on at the last moment
- Use feints in the dribble
- after passing at full speed towards the basket cut off the defender by dribbling ON the line of the defender
- basket
- after the pass, the defender has to sprint at full speed to pressure the lay up