Basketball drill: close out
Close out
Setup:
- 1 group baseline
- 1 group left wing
- 1 group right wing
- Ball baseline
- Ball left wing -first player has no ball.
Exercise:
- Player baseline passes to wing and does close out and dribbles past.
- Player wing dribbles past it with 2 dribbles towards middle and passes to other winger who rotates more.
- Player who rotates and receives ball does a three point shot.
- Player who cuts and passes comes back up and plays 1 v 0.
- Receives pass from player who will rotate later.
- Therefore, first player here has no ball.
- Own rebound
- Variant:
- Player who rotates and catches ball does a layup.
- Player who cut does a drive and then a step-back sweater.