Basketball drill: footwork and posture
Suitable for the following techniques: defense
Footwork and posture
Requirements:
players must know what the correct defensive posture is have
Goal:
- reinforce good habits regarding defensive position
- To increase speed and flexibility of footwork
Organisation:
- do as circuit, 1 minute each time
- player 1 jumps sideways with 2 feet left and right of the line
- player 2 does that forwards and backwards.
- players jump with 2 feet forward wide - narrow - wide. With a jump in the air they do a 180 degree jump and start over again.
- player 4 passes the ball through the wall to himself and goes with slides to the position where he catches it again. Makes it more and more difficult for himself by increasing the distance.
- player 5 defends the mid post and chooses every time another position (behind, swim over - full front - swim over low and back again)
- player 7 makes a square with jumps on 1 foot (feather by landing) always 2x with right, then 2x with left. First left, then right etc.
Teaching points:
- knees bent
- head above the