Basketball drills for technique attack / offense

• Starting 2 player on baseline
• Spurts to the cone and do step slide to next cone
• The first player to take the ball does speed dribble to the other side to score. 
• The other player becomes defender

Requirements

• Basket insight into positional play, knowledge of feint movements

Target

• learn to move in attack and fill the free spot

Organisation

• 5 spots
• 1 player / spot (U10 4 players, U12 5 players)
  • Position 1 passes to position 2, 
  • Feint and cut through towards the basket. 
  • Meanwhile position 3 takes the place of position 1 and position 5 takes the place of position 3. 
  • Cutting player takes place of position 5 (= spot released). 
  • Perform automatically 5 passes and then score via lay-up or jump-shot.

Teaching Points

• Good chest/bounce pass, 
• Quick cut with feint (angular), 
• Open spot fill up, 
• Get ball = in shooting position watch basket first before passing.

Set up 3x3. Ball in the middle, no dribbles. 

• Player with ball must pivot and protect ball. 
• Players without ball must run free, 
• Defenders splitvision to intercept the ball
• Pay attention to a good fit

• Set up players: 
  • 1 with ball on the head (pos 1/white), 
  • 1 in position 2 or 3 (blue), 
  • The rest on 4 or 5 (same side as the forward, red). 
  • A defender or pilon somewhere around the free throw line or closer to 1 (is the defender of 1)
• White passes to blue and immediately makes a cutting movement. 
  • Feint to the left and cut across the defender
• Blue passes the ball to white in its movement and takes position 1. 
  • First of red fills in the position of blue.
• White scores with the ball and the ball goes back to the new player in position 1. 
  • White follows red and becomes the last player in the red row.
• The exercise starts again.

Requirements:

Players must be able to perform a layout from a bounce pass

Aim:

Learn how to create forward scoring opportunities for yourself

Organization:

4 players / quarter field, other players wait in center circle. Move over: offence becomes defence, defence goes out + new offence

The helpline is out: you can play with two groups of four on a basket and force the players not to use the space where the help is in the game.

(first perform the exercise several times without defense)

• guard dribbles up from the center circle
• at the same time, 2 makes a V-cut
• if 2 gets free, pass and 1 v 1
• if defender overshoots 4, then continue the V-cut to at least a meter
• above the three-point line and sprint backwards for the backdoor pass 
• and play 1 v 1
• All score out of:
  • backdoor
  • 1 v 1 from the wing

Mtm offense

• If you don't manage to pass to 2, 2 will sprint to the centre circle and get the pass of 1. 
• The cycle then starts again from the front, but now with 1 at the forward position.

Teaching Points:

• if you can see your defender's shoulder in the pass line at the V-cut, then there is overplay.
• and you have to take the defender up to at least a metre above the three-point line towards the sideline
• sprint at full speed as you go backdoor
• the backdoor pass is mostly one-handed, from the dribble with a flat bounce

• Two rows on the side at the height of the center line. 
• Ball is on one side, attacker decides when he leaves and runs to the middle line, which he must cross all the way. 
• The defender also departs but only has to touch the centre circle. 
• Aim of the exercise is to come in front of the attacker as a defender. 
• When a goal is made, 3 push-ups for the defender, a miss is 3 push-ups for the attacker.

• With 3 men on the back line and the middle one has a ball.
• The middle one passes to a man and chases the ball.
• The receiver keeps the ball behind him and the one who passed first takes the ball and passes on.
• The person who has the ball behind his back runs behind the ball, picks it up at the receiver and passes on to the other side.
• They do this while running to the basket on the other side.
• If someone is close enough to the basket, the man plays a lay-up.
• Make variations on the passing lines

• Consider the pilons as the defense (players can also be used for this). 
• Player 1 (white runs) towards player blue. 
• Halfway through the run, player blue runs behind his defender and asks for the ball. 
• Player white passes to blue. 
• As soon as player blue catches the ball, player red sprints away behind his defender. 
• As soon as player red catches the ball player 2 sprints away from white behind his defender. 
• The makes the circle go round. This is an active exercise in which timing, passing and catching are a crucial part. 
• Because everyone is busy, this is also conditionally a good drill. 
• With younger players the distance between pilons is shorter. 

  
  

1. The players dribble to the pole and pass it with a cross over.

2. Then the player dribbles towards the bucket. 

3. The player finishes with a Euro step, passing the pilons. 

4. Possibly a defender can run in from the baseline, the attacker has to pass the defender.

• Centers + Guards + Forwards - starting from U12
• 2 or more players
• 1 ball per pair
• two baskets

Requirements: 

• Performing a layup while running and receiving a pass

Aim:

• Speed dribble along the sideline because it is the shortest route to the other side
• pass and catch at speed 

Organization:

• player shoots a free throw and takes the rebound
• catch the ball as high as possible
• 3 sprints to the outlet position and calls
• passes with an overhead pass to the outlet
• the man with the ball dribbles along the sideline as fast as possible 
• the man with the ball passes to the one who shot
• gets the pass at full speed
• and makes the layup without a dribble

Teaching Points:

• Sprinting
• communication
• correct dribble start
• pushing the ball at speed dribble
• dribbler should see where the flyer is
• pass timing
• shooter catches his own ball
• Player that passes the ball sprints under the circle to the outlet on the other side
• calls
• gets the ball at the outlet position with an overhead pass
• Both players walk the same 2 to 0 break as on the way there
• but now on the other half of the field 

Variation:

• Put 1 defender at each basket
• Defender catches the ball and gives outlet pass
• and becomes a flyer
• shooter becomes defender

• Two rows at the three-point line, extended freethrow line. 
• 1 row with ball(s). Player row 1 makes quick cut through the bucket.
• Pass row 2 to player row 1. 
• Jump stop just past the ring. 
• About 1m of basket. Fakeshot. 
• Pivoting and reverse lay-up. 
• Turn pivot foot around defender. (Keep the defender in the back). 1 shot attempt. 
• On 2 baskets at the same time depending on the number of players.

• 2 baskets, minimum 5 players per basket needed.
• 1 player left sideline (A) extended free throw line. 1 right (B) same but with ball.
• 1/2 (C) players under the basket. 1 player C sets up on free throw line. Helpside defense stands.
• This player defends striker coming in from left (A) to get ball from passer (B) right.
• Stealing ball, 1 v 1. Attacker scores, back to A. If they do not score, back to B.
• B joins C after passing.