Basketball drill: practicing slides
Suitable for the following techniques: defense
Practicing slides
Prerequisites:
players must know what the correct defensive stance is
Goal:
- to reinforce good habits regarding defensive position
- To increase speed and flexibility of footwork
Organisation:
- always 3 minutes
- back over the backline with sprint to the basket and then slides to the sideline facing the centre circle.
- facing each other slowly - wax on wax off
- faster - hold both hands
- only the back hand
- follower holds the leader's shirt
- leader tries to get free by changing speed
- follower tries to keep his head in front of the chest of the leader
Teaching points:
- knees bent
- shoulders above the feet
- front foot pointing in the direction
- hands: wax on - wax off