Basketball drills for technique condition
- Starting lineup:
- Use whole court
- 2 players stand right on the center line ready to do lay-up
- 2 players stand on the left center line ready to lay-up
- 3 players stand on the right sideline, level with the free throw line
- 3 players stand to the left on the sideline, level with the free throw line
- Progression:
- Players at the center line start their lay-up
- After the lay-up they take their own rebound and give an outlet pass to the waiting player on the sideline
- Then they join the sideline, at the level of the free throw line
- Lay-up, bob cousy, power lay-up, lay-back, jump stop
- Progression:
- Change of direction at the level of the three-point line
- Crossover, behind the back, reverse dribble at the center line
- Coach defends, attacker adjusts
- After lay-up, stay on defense
- Regression:
- Take shot instead of lay-up
![drawing Lay-ups with outlet](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/81986af4323ba8299e853bd09a1b2fe568385ef2dae0f.jpg)
- Blue makes a board pass to the right of the hoop and sprints left around the pillon to the opposite side.
- White catches the ball in the air and makes a board pass, sprints right around the pillon and sprints toward the center line.
- Red catches the board pass, turns up the right side already in the air, makes an outlet pass to White and sprints across.
- White makes a long pass to blue and sprints across.
- Blue makes a layup and sprints across the right side to the other side.
- White sprints past the left pillon and sprints across again.
- Red grabs the rebound and makes another outlet pass to white.
- White passes to blue again.
- Blue makes a layup... etc, etc
- High tempo.
- Try to execute this drill without a dribble.
- Clearly call Outlet.
- How many times can you score without letting the ball touch the ground?
![drawing 3 man Fast break -> Transition](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/81585cba66069d7a2f3c480a6894e8244f2f9fbe24376.jpg)
- 3 Rows on the baseline.
- The middle player has the ball and starts the weave with the 2 outer players.
- On the other baseline are 2 players with a ball.
- The middle man makes a lay up and the outside players get the ball from the players on the baseline and take a shot.
- The player who ran the lay up runs the weave back with them.
![drawing Weaving with shot](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/81251a705cc03d86f89eded6985422e144c4474d9fd3e.jpg)
- Player 1 sets up under the board with a ball.
- Player 1 jumps 3 times and taps the board with the ball after which he finishes.
- Player 2 takes the rebound and passes to player 3.
- At the same time player 1 runs to player 3 where he pulls the ball out of his hands -giving resistance- and immediately goes to the hoop to score.
- He takes his own rebound and repeats the exercise.
![drawing Big guy jump - finish](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/81250a77e36d755fb8dd2b7e01e3b0d3e77c06ec6fc78.jpg)
- Starting position:
- 1 group near the center line, right
- 1 group a few meters behind the center line, middle
- Ball in the middle
- Progression:
- Player 1 dribbles up to the three-point line
- Player 1 passes to player 2 who runs along
- Player 2 does a lay-up
- Player 1 takes the rebound and makes an outlet pass to player 2 who runs through
- Player 2 connects in the middle
- Player 1 connects on the right
- Progression:
- Player 1 dribbles in 3 dribbles to the three-point line
- Player 1 dribbles in 2 dribbles to the three-point line
- Extra defender under goal
- Score 10 layups in a row or as many as there are players
- Player 2 does another layup on the other side of the court
- Player 2 does several more ball handling drills before reconnecting
- Regression:
- Reduce distance to three-point line
![drawing Lay-up warm up drill](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/80918236b91878dcd623889f9b8564a93c63ef6b07191.jpg)
- Starting position:
- 1 group near the center line, right
- 1 group a few meters behind the center line, middle
- Ball in the middle
- Progression:
- Player 1 dribbles in 2 dribbles to the three-point line
- Player 1 passes to player 2 who runs along
- Player 2 does a layup
- Player 1 takes the rebound and makes an outlet pass to player 2 who runs through
- Player 2 connects in the middle
- Player 1 connects on the right
- Progression:
- Extra defender under goal
- Score 10 layups in a row (or as many as there are players)
- Regression:
- Reduce distance to three-point line
![drawing Lay-up warm up drill](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/805205f4a5ec1b67266423bea1587696a24be97befae4.jpg)
- Blue stands behind the free throw line.
- Red stands with his back to blue with the ball.
- On the starting signal, blue sprints to the baseline and sprints back to defend
- Red sprints to the center line and back to attack.
- Always score.
![drawing 1 vs. 1](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/79984a13d5ee472fa8e90901edc7f1ff1a193d9423da0.jpg)
- Outward, the classic weave is run.
- Back, the weave is run up to the center line.
- The next 3 players ready to run the weave catch the current 3 players half court and a 3 versus 3 situation is created from which a score must always be scored.
- After the score, the newest 3 players run the weave and the next 3 will catch these players half court for a 3 versus 3.
![drawing Weave with 3 Versus 3 situation](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/7998379f1987539463542d206b367ec1cc72b1f7830b2.jpg)
- Starting position:
- 1 group near the center line, right
- 1 group a few meters behind the center line, middle
- Ball in the middle
- Progression:
- Player 1 dribbles in 2 dribbles to the three-point line
- Player 1 passes to player 2 who runs along
- Player 2 does a layup
- Player 1 takes the rebound and makes an outlet pass to player 2 who runs through
- Player 2 connects in the middle
- Player 1 connects on the right
- Progression:
- Extra defender under goal
- Regression:
- Reduce distance to three-point line
![drawing Lay-up warm up drill](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/7972266156e6f10646e7ce2175cfe9f1c1106d41f1120.jpg)
- Teams of 2 people
- 5 hats on one side of the bucketline
- Make slides to hat, pick up hat and bring hat to other bucketline with slides
- When a player has brought all hats from one side to the other, the next player can bring the hats back to the other side with slides.
- Team that first has all hats back to the starting position wins
- Losers 10 push ups.
- Variation: run, slides and run
![drawing Slides](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/797034e8807a10248ce19730690fbc13327bdeec5b8a7.jpg)
- Blue sprints to the center circle
- Slides to corner
- Sprint to center line
- Slides across center line
- Blue grabs a ball from one of the 2 hoops and makes a lay up
- Sprint to corner
- Tipping ball overhead on fingers and putting ball back into one of the hoops
- Sprint to baseline -starting position-
- Variation: With jumpshot; 15 hit
![drawing Step slide lay up drill](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/79702b73471a0b7543da25ca62bb618a3d3815c63aead.jpg)
- Starting lineup:
- 2 players defense on each side of the court
- 2 players at the height of the extension of the free throw line on each side of the court
- 3 players on offense
- Conduct:
- 3 players play 3-on-2
- The rebounder gives an outlet pass to a player on the side of the court
- The rebounder joins in offense to the other side of the court
- Progression:
- AFTER
- Regression:
- NA
![drawing 11 man drill](https://www.yoursportplanner.com/en/uploads/dt_images/786187041cba928476baaddd6ed65bf8195a4521f2532.jpg)